• Location: Chantilly
  • Type: Contract
  • Job #2731

Title: Software Engineer

Location: Chantilly, VA

 

*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

 

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.

Senior Software Engineer to join an agile development team creating the next generation ETL Platform that supports operations vital to our customer’s mission to produce outstanding intelligence analysis for our nation’s policy makers.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with your Agile development team to design and implement, test and deploy the next generation Extract Transform and Load Platform that supports vital operational and analytical missions. The ETL Platform will process petabytes of data annually to extract data from a myriad of formats including structured, unstructured, binary and text. You will use best of breed open source and commercial technologies such as Apache NiFi, Kafka, and AWS to implement your team’s solution against systems requirements. You will develop features in the data workflow that extracts embedded objects such as video and audio recordings to enrich the content of data available to operators and analysis. You will create interfaces to various analysis tools as well as to other content enhancement applications such as language translators. In short, you will build the future! 

Required Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI w/ poly
  • BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Information Systems, Science, Engineering or Technology field
  • BA/BS and 12-15 years of total experience or Masters and 10+ years of experience; additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
  • Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in software development
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience with AWS
  • Demonstrable experience with Java, Python, C++, or C#
  • Active TS/SCI with polygraph level clearance is required
  1. Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Apache NiFi
  • Experience with DevSecOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
  • Experience with AWS SQS and Apache Kafka
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies
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