Sr. Principal Software & Application Lead Security Clearance

Position: Sr. Principal Software & Application Lead with Security Clearance
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
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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.

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and secure technological solutions to enable strategic objectives. We're looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we will support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field or an industry thought leader.

At Northrop Grumman, you will have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career. Northrop Grumman's Chief Information & Digital Office (CIDO) organization is seeking a well-qualified Senior Systems Administrator with expertise in Software/Application Lifecycle Management, to join its dynamic Classified Solutions team of technical professionals in Linthicum, MD. The selected candidate will be required to work on-site, full-time, at our Linthicum, MD campus - this is not a remote work opportunity.

Roles and responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:
* Serve as the Business Unit (BU) Software & Application Lead with primary responsibility for overseeing the effective standardization of software delivery efforts (i.e., Core Packaging & Deployment, Engineering & Infrastructure, and Management & Strategy) across all organizational units (OU) within the business unit (BU).

* Serve as a Senior Systems Administrator with shared responsibility for the effective maintenance and operational activities of the entire IT infrastructure including Servers (Windows & Linux), Workstations (Windows & Linux), Networking equipment, and Net App storage systems.

* VMware Architecture & Operations - Assist with the design, deployment, and management of a multi-site VMware vSphere environment (vCenter, ESXi, DRS, HA, vMotion, vSAN, NSX-T/SD-WAN), capacity-planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle management of clusters (patching, upgrading, host roll-out, licensing), building and maintenance of automation pipelines using Power

CLI, vRealize Automation, Terraform, or Ansible.

* Storage Integration & Management - Collaborate with the Storage Administrator to provision LUNs, NFS, SMB, and object-store volumes for VMFS, vSAN, and hybrid workloads; assist with the implementation of Snap Mirror, Snap Vault, and Snapshot policies to meet RPO/RTO goals and support disaster-recovery testing. Ensure storage tiering, de-duplication, and compression for virtual workloads are optimized; monitor latency and IOPS trends.

* Data Protection & Security
-Collaborate in the definition and enforcement of backup and recovery strategies for VMs (using Backup Exec, Net App Snap Protect, or native tools), and the implementation of storage-level encryption, access controls, and compliance reporting (in accordance with JSIG requirements).

* Incident & Problem Management
-Own root-cause analysis for software delivery related incidents; act as the escalation point for Tier-2/3 tickets; develop runbooks, health-checks, and proactive alerts (using tools such as vRealize Operations, Net App Active IQ, Splunk, etc.).

* Collaboration & Leadership
-Partner with network, security, storage and virtualization teams to design end-to-end software delivery solutions (e.g., software delivery via Windows Software Center, Operating System In-Place Upgrades, Third-Party Software Patching, etc.); mentor junior system administrators and provide technical guidance during on-call rotations; lead or co-lead cross-functional projects such as cloud migrations, hyper-converged roll-outs, and virtualization of legacy workloads.

* Documentation & Continuous Learning - Keep architecture diagrams, SOPs, and change-control records current in Confluence/SharePoint; evaluate emerging technologies (AI and Machine Learning, Git Ops, Dev Sec Ops , Feature Management, Platform Engineering, Chaos Engineering, Policy-as-Code, Low-Code/No-Code…