• Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Type: Contract
• Job #3431

Network Engineer
Colorado Springs, CO
Active TS/SCI
Compensation Range: $130,000 – $175,000

Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government.  Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission.  Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems.  If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Program Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is seeking an Experienced Network Engineer with a strong background in DoD network security and testing complex environments. The engineer will be supporting different cloud computing environments (AWS GovCloud, DoD Cloud/VMWare NSX, and physical environments) working with teams implementing and verifying network settings across the program, including testing, and assisting with maintenance of network devices.
 
The program is developing a new Global Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) Ground System that will manage transmission of protected tactical waveform – a type of secure, anti-jam communication – over proprietary-built Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites and terminals.

As a member of the team, you will be involved in the entire software development life cycle, from idea creation and development, all the way through to maintenance and support of the customer’s delivered system. These positions will place you in roles where you can make an impact on the results of our project. The team offers a collaborative mentoring environment where you could learn from or lead others.

Job Responsibilities:

• Define and integrate the end-end communications and networking systems architecture for a space system.
• Provide technical flow down of systems requirements to several spacecraft and ground subsystems.
• Own end-end analyses for the end-end communications link.
• Partner with customers on system of systems solutions.
• Support a team of Systems Engineers for the development requirements for innovative projects, use cases and sequence diagrams and Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for complex space and ground architectures.
• Support planning for and execution of subsystem and vehicle-level integration and test campaign.
• Work closely with other engineering disciplines in an integrated team environment to develop system architecture in compliance with interface definitions and system/subsystem requirements.
• Support stakeholder needs through analysis, technical performance measures (TPM) definition, requirements analysis, and allocation & definition for subcontractors, utilizing MBSE Enterprise Architect, JIRA and Confluence
• Integrate security principles into the development and deployment of software/hardware solutions.
• Support Network Integration with both software and hardware teams.
• Risk Management Framework (RMF): Designs and facilitates implementation of security controls IAW NIST SP 800-53 and SP 800-171. Documents hardware, software, system components, and data flow as required to complete RMF System Security Plans. Develop and maintain training plans, records, and training.
• Travel to support installation and testing of new network site connections.
• Additional duties, as assigned

Required Skills:

• Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to dive deep into troubleshooting a problem.
• 5+ years of experienced with General Networking experience (e.g., debugging, packet captures with Wireshark, Routing, VLAN, firewall rules).
• 5+ years of experience with Switches, Routers and Firewalls (Cisco & FortiGate)  
• 5+ years of experience with Ixia Network Traffic Generator.
• 5+ years of experience with QoS and traffic policing.
• 5+ years of experience with IPSEC tunnels.
• 3+ years of experience working with JIRA, confluence, bitbucket.

Desired Skills:

• 7+ years of experience in Network Engineering on aerospace platforms or similar highly regulated products.
• 5+ years of experience with requirements development, verification, validation, ICDs, risk, issues and opportunities management and trade studies.

• Experience with spacecraft and/or space systems architecture.
• Experience utilizing Model Based Engineering (MBE or MBSE) tools such as Enterprise Architect.
• Familiarity with Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) desired.

Company Benefits:
Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs.  These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to:  A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.