Network Engineer

Northrop Grumman

Confirmed live yesterday High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
San Diego, CA
Salary
$101,000–$151,400 / yr
Posted
35 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

Market check

Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $159k
This role $126k
$91k most similar roles pay here $198k

This role pays less than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $130,577–$187,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $126k versus about $159k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense technology company providing systems in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, space, strike, and logistics. Industry: Aerospace & Defense

Northrop Grumman currently has 367 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $114,900–$176,300 across 353 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Northrop Grumman

At a glance

TL;DR · Network Engineer

Network Engineer As part of the Northrop Grumman Mission Systems team, the Network Engineer will contribute to an enterprise-wide digital transformation focused on delivering critical national defense products for the warfighter. The role involves performing hardware and software installation, configuration, and maintenance while ensuring compliance with cyber requirements such as antivirus and logging. Day-to-day responsibilities include implementing system enhancements, monitoring performance, and solving complex problems within Agile and Software environments. Candidates must possess expertise in OSPF multi-area deployments, IS-IS, BGP route policies, and both Cisco IOS and Junos CLI. Technical skills required include administering RHEL-family Linux systems, capturing packets to validate L2 and L3 behavior, and utilizing GNS3 or EVE-NG for change validation. The role addresses the challenge of providing mission-enabling solutions through advanced networking technologies and automated infrastructure in a high-stakes defense context.

What does a Network Engineer earn?

Median $147000 from 81 postings across 20 companies.

See salary data

What you'll do

  • Perform hardware and software installation, configuration, and maintenance for network systems.
  • Comply with cyber requirements including antivirus checks, logging, and monitoring network system services.
  • Implement approved system enhancements to improve performance through patching, upgrading, and configuration management.
  • Solve complex technical problems across Agile, Networking, and Software environments.
  • Capture and analyze packets on routers, switches, and hosts to validate L2 and L3 behavior.
  • Manage and configure multi-vendor network topologies using Cisco IOS and Junos CLI.
  • Administer RHEL-family Linux systems including networking and other administrative functions.
  • Travel for system installations, test support, and customer demonstrations.

What we're looking for

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, or related field with 2 years of experience, or a Master's degree with 0 years of experience.
  • An additional 4 years of relevant experience can be considered in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.
  • Experience configuring and operating OSPF in multi-area deployments and working knowledge of IS-IS.
  • Working BGP knowledge including iBGP, eBGP, route policy, and multi-site interconnect.
  • Ability to operate fluently in both Cisco IOS and Junos CLI under time-bound conditions.
  • Experience administering RHEL-family Linux systems and capturing/analyzing packets on routers, switches, and hosts.
  • Ability to build and operate multi-vendor topologies in GNS3 and EVE-NG (preferred).
  • Ability to articulate end-to-end packet flow across L2 and L3 boundaries including filter and ARP behavior (preferred).

More like this

Similar roles

Network Engineer

Leidos

Beavercreek, OH 7 days ago $92,300$166,850
Networking Cisco VMware Linux Active Directory DNS DHCP BGP OSPF SD-WAN VLANs Firewalls Routers Switches VPN Fiber Networking NTP PTP COMSEC Information Assurance
8+ yrs exp

Network Engineer

Leidos

Lorton, VA 31 days ago $92,300$166,850
Cisco ISE Cisco Juniper TCP/IP OSPF VLANs 802.1X Wireshark Splunk Active Directory PKI COMSEC Solar Winds Network Automation Firewalls Routers Switches LAN
8+ yrs exp

Network Engineer

General Dynamics

Vienna, VA 11 days ago $81,349$103,500
WAN Routing Switching OSPF BGP MPLS LDP STIG Wireless Voice Video Technical Documentation CCNA Security+ CySA+ GSEC Check Point
3+ yrs exp Hybrid

Network Engineer

General Dynamics

Raleigh, NC 10 days ago $83,300$112,700
Bluecoat Proxy TCP/IP UDP/IP DNS DHCP HTTP/s SSL PKI HSM VPN SNMP Syslog Splunk Python Perl JavaScript Symantec Web Security Services
8+ yrs exp Hybrid

Network Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management

London, United Kingdom 3 days ago
Prometheus Grafana Telegraf Cisco Telemetry gNMI YANG Zabbix LibreNMS SNMP Netbox Ansible Jinja Python Git NETCONF RESTCONF Temporal Terraform AWS BGP OSPF PIM IGMP Cisco CUCM WebEx Calling Cloud9 Cisco ISE Meraki

Network Engineer

F5 Inc

Remote (Reston, VA) 45 days ago $152,200$228,400
BGP OSPF Python Ansible AWX Git CI/CD AWS Azure GCP JunOS EOS NX-OS IOS-XE TCP/IP VPN Firewalls Netcat Packet Capture FedRAMP
7+ yrs exp Remote