Staff Cybersecurity Systems Engineer

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 position description does not represent a current opening but may be used to identify candidates with skills and experience for positions within Northrop Grumman that frequently become available. Candidates who express an interest may be considered for future positions at Northrop Grumman. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Mission Defense Cyber Team has an opening for a Staff Cybersecurity Systems Engineer (CSSE) supporting the Sentinel program from one of our various Northrop Grumman locations. A Cybersecurity Systems Engineer (CSSE) assess/evaluates the customers’/stakeholders’ cybersecurity requirements to decompose, derive, and refine with clarity the system’s cybersecurity requirements to drive the built-in cybersecurity protections to the architecture and design. The CSSE also guides/supports the security layout / architecture and influences the security tools selection and development. The CSSE evaluates/assess the proposed and realized implementation to identify security risks and verify the cybersecurity protections from the design are realized and integrated. The CSSE guides/supports the development of verification efforts to ensure the cybersecurity protections / capabilities are functional, effective, and complete. A CSSE supports the definition of security governance, and risk management. As a Staff Cyber Systems Engineer on this team, you will have the following responsibilities: Author and review requirement decomposition, derivation, and flow down Implement and review traceability of requirements throughout a spec tree architecture Support the architecture and design of baked in cybersecurity requirements and protections Document and review traceability of requirements to the design & its models Implement and review the application of cybersecurity profile stereotypes to a Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) Architecture Provide cybersecurity system engineering implementation guidance and oversight to technical teams/implementers Review and Assess stakeholder security objectives, protection needs and concerns, security requirements, and associated verification/validation methods Implement, review and assess cybersecurity system requirements verification/validation methods Identify and/or assess vulnerabilities and susceptibility to life cycle disruptions, hazards, and threats Provide security considerations to inform systems engineering efforts with the objective to reduce errors, flaws, and weakness that may constitute security vulnerability leading to unacceptable asset loss and consequences Identify, quantify, and evaluate the costs/benefits of security functions and considerations to inform analysis of alternatives, engineering trade-offs, and risk treatment decisions Author, support and maintain cybersecurity program documentation & RMF package documentation: Cybersecurity Strategies, System Security Plans, Continuous Monitoring Plans, Risk Assessment Report, Security Control Traceability Matrix, Plan Of Actions & Milestones, etc.