Senior Principal Application Security Engr DevSecOps – TS/SCI - Dulles

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

This Senior Principal Application Security Engineer position is for DevSecOps on a Ground Segment -focused space program where the engineer will provide Subject Matter Expertise for a new mission.  The core goal is architecting, designing, and building security features into ground segment subsystems, components, and particularly ground Mission-Unique Software.  This position requires extensive experience with software security assurance, application security, secure coding best practices, establishing security quality metrics, remediation of software weaknesses, and secure deployment of application software into customer cloud computing environments.  Prior knowledge and experience applying Cyber / Systems Security Engineering (Cyber/SSE) principles to complex systems in the early system development phase of the lifecycle is important.  The Senior Principal position is responsible for internal technical leadership for a small team.  Additionally, this security professional may coordinate activities or perform ISSM, ISSE, and ISSO roles.  This engineer has primary oversight of Cyber CDRL development and Static and Dynamic security scanning of Ground Mission Unique Software.  Implementing SECURITY into a DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline is part of the hands-on skills required for this position.  

Additional Responsibilities for the application security lead:

• Working as a small team leader to prioritize application security requirements within the CI/CD pipeline.
• Negotiating security responsibilities with external IAAS & PAAS providers for every layer of the technology stack between hardware and application layer.
• Deep understanding of virtualization technologies with emphasis on cloud computing environments, particularly AWS and/or OpenStack.  Knowledge and/or professional certifications in Cloud Security Architectures is a plus.
• Developing security-focused assessment procedures for application containers and container orchestration environments, such as Kubernetes is essential.
• Connecting systems and subsystems having different security classification levels using approved Cross Domain Solutions and/or Data Diodes.  Coordinating the roles of the CDS supplier technical personnel, operational cyber staff, SCA & CDSE stakeholders is essential in fielding an approvable solution.
• Leading Cyber/SSE element technical presentations during engineering milestone reviews – SRR, PDR, CDR, and PSR in accordance with our internal, NG Cyber Systems Engineering Standards document.
• Execute Cyber/Software Security Assurance processes to include ensuring Static Code Analysis (SCA) tools (e.g. Fortify, SonarQube) are integrated into ground software development environments; triage tool findings to prioritize remediation activities; allocate low priority findings as technical debt in the SwDLC backlog.

• Defining programmatic Cyber guidance to shepherd software development scrum teams on secure coding practices, security-focused engineering trade studies, and other security best practices for our mission unique software development efforts.
• Ensuring the multi-disciplinary team are remediating security tool findings by working with software developers, systems engineers, and other engineering disciplines to resolve technical and programmatic cybersecurity concerns.  A demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and productively with others is an essential skill, as well as distilling and communicating technical cyber backlog (POA&Ms) to internal & external leaders.
• Understanding of Space/Ground interface control documents and security-relevant connectivity considerations at physical, electrical, and logical layers.
• Leading other Cyber/SSE personnel in the development of program CDRLs:

• RMF SSP including SCTM, RAR, POAMs and relevant artifacts (Incident Response Plan, Contingency Plan, ConMon Plan, as appropriate).  

• Ensuring systems are operated, maintained, and disposed of in accordance with security policies and procedures as outlined in the system security authorization package (SSP, RAR, SCTM, ConMon Plan).
• Championing automation efforts across all DevSecOps disciplines to routinely accomplish SCAP compliance scans, vulnerability scans, container scans, developing and running security control Verification Procedures and automating manual STIG check lists.

Basic Qualifications:

Degree in STEM field

9 years IT security (Cybersecurity) experience in support of USG

Must have U.S. Citizenship, with active TS/SCI clearance

CISSP Certification

Familiarity with Systems Engineering processes and milestones; understanding of the requirements analysis, decomposition, and allocation process.

Must have a commitment to working on-site, inside restricted office spaces.
  
 

Preferred Qualifications:

7 years Cyber/SSE experience in the Defense Aerospace Industry

CSSLP certification                                                                             

Experience working within restricted program areas

Demonstrated engineering leadership experience participating in Systems Engineering milestone reviews, as the Application Security focal.

Salary Range: $0.00 - $0.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.