Job Description

Description

Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. With us, you rsquo;ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today.

Do you want to work at an international company with endless opportunities for growth and advancement? Are you eager to join a trust-based, globally-connected team, where your contributions will define what rsquo;s possible?

We are looking for team members who want to solve interesting, complex problems, which protect our nation. Your talents and passion are most important to us. If you don rsquo;t know a language, program, or platform, we will teach you! Become a part of our enthusiastic teams where we have fun working together and take pride in our contributions to the nation rsquo;s safety.

Job Description:

* Works in an agile based team consisting of systems administrators, systems engineers, hardware engineers, and software engineers
* Builds large, integrated hardware systems from bare metal including racking, cabling, powering, initializing systems
* Supports the integration and test of hardware and software subsystems
* Recommends and implements system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system; including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration management.
* Mentors and trains junior systems administrators
* Updates Windows WSUS servers for monthly patching and virus scanning
* Creates and maintains administrator and user accounts through Windows Domain Controller
* Creates and maintains system documentation
* Performs tuning system performance,
* Installs system wide software and allocates mass storage space
* Performs backups and recovery as required

This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below

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Qualification

This requisition may be filled at either a Principal Level or a Sr. Principal Level.

Basic Qualifications:

* Principal Systems Administrator: Bachelor 39;s degree from an accredited college, with 6 years of related experience in systems administration; 4 years with a Master rsquo;s degree; 2 years with a PhD; 10 years of related experience in lieu of a degree
* Sr Principal Systems Administrator: Bachelor rsquo;s degree from an accredited college, with 10 years of related experience in systems administration; 8 years with a Master rsquo;s degree; 6 years with a PhD; 14 years of related experience in lieu of a degree.
* Experienced Linux System Administration for Red Hat/CentO
* with Red Hat Certified System Administrator or no less than 3 years rsquo; experience
* Demonstrated understanding of and experience with virtualization technologies, including VMware within a virtualized environment.
* Good communication skills
* Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain and SCI and CI polygraph
* Must be able to obtain and maintain a polygraph

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience with satellite ground station hardware system administration
* Experience with NetApp storage solutions
* Experience with installing and configuring Docker containers
* Experience with Kubernetes

Salary range for a Principal Systems Administrator: $87,780-$131,670

Salary range for a Sr Principal Systems Administrator: $108,864-$163,296