Northrop Grumman is seeking a Systems Test Engineer/Principal Systems Test Engineer to maintain servers, radios, communication equipment, and software for NASA Range Hawk ground control stations, ensuring the smooth operation and troubleshooting of all ground control station aspects, including software upgrades and hardware/software maintenance.
Requirements
- excellent understanding of networking administrative principles, including switches, routers, encryptors, LANs, WANs, and/or network security
- able to perform computer system and network troubleshooting, and/or network administrator activities to include creation of network accounts, resetting passwords, data management, system patching, etc
- Network + certification
- Security + certification
Responsibilities
- maintenance of all servers, radios, communication equipment and software of the NASA Range Hawk ground control stations
- manage the operation and troubleshooting involved in all operational aspects of the Ground Control Station, including software upgrades, troubleshooting and daily maintenance of all related hardware and software
- specify and maintain air vehicle system configurations
- coordinate ground and flight test planning activities with test operations, instrumentation, and project engineers
- upgrade the GCSs, as required, to include installation of new or rebuilt servers including Virtual Machine servers, and configuring hardware systems, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc., in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements
- maintaining strict configuration management of the Ground Control Station components that reside at flight test locations
- Participate in post-test data evaluation and discrepancy resolution
Other
- Must have an active DoD Secret clearance or higher (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (PAR) within a reasonable period, as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
- Must have availability for occasional short-term travel to off-site locations.
- Interact with NASA responsible engineers to coordinate, requirements, training, schedules, supplies, etc., needed to support upcoming events
- Apply professional conflict resolution techniques when interacting with team members, subcontractors, and external stakeholders.
