Title: Systems Administrator
Location: Virginia
*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.
 

Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S) is expanding our System Administration team.  We are seeking a highly skilled System Administrator/Cloud Engineer to enhance our existing technical team supporting the advancement of AI/ML/Data Science technologies, in Herndon, VA.

The successful candidate will be a self-motivated, innovative, cloud engineer to join in and contribute to a team environment. The candidate will be part of a team that supports the cloud infrastructure for an enterprise environment. This position requires a broad knowledge of system administration, knowledge of automation technologies, and scripting. This position also requires a knowledge of security and accreditation practices and procedures the ability to work with several enterprise resources and teams in the operation of an enterprise digitization infrastructure.
 

1. • Must have hands-on experience with AWS and Linux in a production environment.
2. • Experience patching and maintaining system's databases, to include RDS, MySQL, and Oracle
3. • Proven experience troubleshooting and solving technical problems
4. • Knowledge of Federated Identity, RBAC, authentication & authorization solution, etc.
5. • Understanding of secure-cloud configuration, (e.g., CloudTrail, AWS Config), cloud-security technologies (e.g., VPC, Security Groups) and Access Control (IAM).
6. • Experience with configuration management (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.)
7. • Experience with security, such as NGFW, WAF, SIEM, endpoint security.
8. • Ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment
9. • Bachelor's Degree in IT related field or equivalency in related work experience
10. • Demonstrated on-the-job experience working and solving technical problems independently as a system administrator.
11. • Experience using a scripting language.
12. • Demonstrated ability to monitor and troubleshoot enterprise workflow applications, to include: installing, starting, and stopping background processes, analyzing log and event files, and patching and troubleshooting.
13. • Demonstrated ability creating and managing a virtual infrastructure, such as AWS, Azure, Hyper-V, or VMWare.

 

Title: S/W Q.A. Spec./App Tester
Location: Virginia
*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.
 

Raytheon Technologies has an opening for an Automated tester who will work as part of a small test team supporting multiple software applications in varying stages of deployment (from emerging technologies to legacy systems). This position requires knowledge of modern automated testing methodologies and technologies. The person in this role will be responsible for manual testing when the coding of an automated solution is impractical or not desirable.  As the technology stack expands and grows, our team of testers may be required to work with the application developers to support performance/load testing to fully evaluate the application capabilities.

This position requires a TS/SCI with Polygraph on day one and is located in the Herndon area.
 

1. Minimum of 11 Years of relevant experience or 8 years with a Bachelors Degree – this is a MANDATORY REQUIREMENT and is not optional.
2. Experience with API testing through Swagger
3. Experience with SQL queries for data validation (Oracle, Postgres)
4. Expert in Selenium WebDriver as well as other automated testing technologies such as Katalon Studio and Cucumber
5. Emphasis of experience must be in the area of writing automated code (Java) as opposed to simply click and record
6. Must be able to evaluate developer assignments, independently understand requirements, and engineer tests to evaluate best path scenario as well as probe for possible failure conditions
7. Must know to use an IDE to code (ex – IntelliJ, Eclipse, NetBeans)
8. Experience with interacting in a Linux environment (ex – Bash scripting, VI)
9. Expertise in writing test plans, cases, procedures, scripts, and scenarios
10. Demonstrated history with manual and automated test processes
11. Ability to work well in a constantly evolving work environment
12. Ensure the QA and testing approach references all known vulnerabilities and best practices
13. Conduct and report testing using a repeatable process based on industry best practices
14. Maintain and update the test environment
15. Must have development skills, as automated testing is a lot of writing code.
16. Solid hands-on experience testing experience with testing tools such as JMeter, Cypress, and /or Selenium.
17. This position requires a TS/SCI with Polygraph on day one and is located in the Herndon area.

 

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Title: Special Access Control Officer
Location: Virginia
*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.
 

If an acceptance offer is given, proof of vaccination is required or the appropriate exception process must be followed.

Raytheon is looking for a Special Access Control Officer. The successful candidate will implement policy and regulations governing Restricted Data management in accordance with Atomic Energy Act 1954, and other applicable federal regulations, including providing information support services to facilitate access to and protect critical intelligence information. This includes functioning as a control officer for materials from external agencies.

Duties include:
• Monitors the appropriate database(s) to receive requests, and reviews/processes requests in a timely manner in accordance with program standards.
• Enters requests into sponsor or IC databases for coordination and final approval.
• Provides guidance pertaining to the request and approval process and periodic updates pertaining to the status of existing requests.
• Provide support to the sponsor as needed for other tasks regarding the program
• Compile, collate, and organize data when directed to by staff. Data may be presented in a spreadsheet or binder form depending on the needs of the staff.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills when responding to requests or queries.
• Ability to appropriately prioritize and manage competing priorities.
• Professional discretion – officer will be required to work in an environment where extremely sensitive, disconcerting, and sensationalist information may be present. Professional discretion and conduct is imperative.
• Knowledge of Sponsor organizational structure, AORs, and operational responsibilities
• Knowledge of Sponsor relationship to other agencies
• Exceptional organizational skills
 

1. Strong multitasking ability and scheduling skills.
2. Extensive knowledge in the use of MS Office, the Internet, and other internal applications necessary to complete routine and moderately complex tasks.
3. Excellent working knowledge of computer software to include search capability.
4. Strong interpersonal skills to maintain effective working relationships with team members and customers.
5. Ability to manage own activities and office workflow under tight deadlines.
6. Bachelor degree from an accredited institution plus at least four years professional experience in Intelligence Community.
7. Candidates resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position mentioned above.
8. Minimum years experience providing executive level administrative support.
9. Work experience can be considered in lieu of degree
10. Basic understanding of IT systems and IT systems development processes and procedures.

Title: Scrum Master
Location: Virginia
*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.

The Scrum master will assist the Program Manger and various team members with designing, developing, integrating and maintaining enterprise web applications to support challenging and demanding high profile customers.

The Scrum Master will take on a coaching role and help implement agile methodologies within the project teams.  The Scrum Master will be responsible for identifying best practices for repeating and standardizing workflows and providing guidance on how to best approach new technology integration.  The Scrum Master shall possess strong analytical and project management skills, how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements and lead a team through agile sprints to develop/test/integrate and deploy applications.  The Scrum Master will be involved in recording and evaluating requirements; tracking multiple teams' progress through a succession of agile methodologies; coordination of multiple project schedules against larger office-level schedules; and spearheading/driving technology advancements and improvements for existing capabilities.

1. • Possess strong understanding of project management process and/or project management framework
2. • Demonstrated experience of agile methodology and Scrum and Kanban processes, and principles (facilitating daily scrum sessions as the Scrum Master; facilitating sprint planning; driving the team to meet their incremental deliveries)
3. • Effective PM skills and provides end to end lifecycle support
4. • Assess, document and track new requirements, manage sprint backlog and facilitate/schedule follow-on technical exchange meetings with customers (as needed)
5. • Plan and coordinate program management process activities such as Program Reviews and Control Gate Reviews including scheduling of meetings and preparation of briefings/presentations.
6. • Strong working knowledge of Project Management software tools and have the ability to build work breakdown structures, project schedules, risk registers and other programmatic artifacts.
7. • Excellent analytic and communication skills to help build and document processes, policies, and job aids
8. • Demonstrated experience working in a collaborative, fast paced environment with a willingness to assist and support the team with evolving requirements and objectives
9. • Attentive listener, cooperative colleague and is willing to help others to achieve the organization’s goals

 

 

Title: Scanning Technician
Location: Virginia
*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.
 

Raytheon is seeking a Contractor Support Administrator to work in a dynamic office environment.  The ideal candidate will have knowledge of and demonstrate experience in using Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word and Excel, as well as familiarization with Acrobat Adobe.  The candidate must be competent in manipulating computer files, links and saving documents into various formats for processing.  The candidate must have excellent computer and office skills.  The ideal candidate will, also, have strong customer service skills and will enjoy working in a ‘public’ facing role. He/She will be the face of the registry, processing incoming and outgoing mail in accordance with client policies and procedures. He/She will perform case management taskings including but not limited to entering information into the client systems; document scanning; and case tracking.

Other duties as assigned may include providing support to other areas of the contract in times of surge requirements.
 

1. Provide mail-processing support for the onsite client registry Monday through Friday between 7am and 4 pm;
2. Strong computer and customer service skills
3. Knowledge of and experience in using Microsoft Office Suite, especially, Word and Excel
4. Knowledge of Adobe and understanding file conversions.
5. Knowledge of client guidelines for physical distribution of mailings; courier deliveries; etc.
6. Ability to follow standard operating procedures, think independently, and use sound judgement, but know when to ask questions.

Title: Project Integrator
Location: Virginia
*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.

Raytheon Technologies is seeking a Project Integrator/Project Manager in the Herndon area who is knowledgeable in project management, software development, requirements management, and government procedures. This right candidate should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a creatively diverse group. Acting as a liaison between developers and the customer. This position requires the applicant to possess in-depth hands-on experience as a program integrator in an area where cooperation, communication, and continual trade-craft improvements are the norm. The ability to aptly respond to, translate, and oversee the progress of business requirements is a must. This position is a critical component of a larger integration team which includes Configuration Managers, Scrum Masters, Software Testers, and others all of which are focused on long-range planning, assuring organizational success, and consistently delivering value for our customer.  
 
•Plan and coordinate program management process activities including scheduling of meetings and preparation of briefings/presentations.
• Ability to organize and track complex requirements to understand what does the customer needs
• Assist PMO in assessing, documenting, tracking, and forecasting new program requirements and follow-on technical exchange meetings (TEMs).
• Support the Program Manager in resource leveling planning and analysis.
• Manage project in the enterprise requirements management tool to include input of new requirements, refinement of requirements, movement of requirements, and creation and maintenance of boards and reports.
• Create and maintain reporting from enterprise requirements management tool.
• Coordinate project schedules, including participation in meetings; documentation and distribution of minutes and action items; and tracing action items for successful completion.
• Assist in the preparation of management plans and reports.
• Support task requiring the collecting, compiling, evaluating, and publishing of information and statistical data in documents, records, forms, reports, plans, policies, and regulations.
• Maintain PMO documentation.
• Provide support such as technical writing, technical editing of documents, integration of various sources into a cohesive product which may be delivered as computer based magnetic media, preparation of graphical and narrative presentation material.
• Compose technical documents including user's manuals, training materials, installation guides, proposals, and reports.
• Edit functional descriptions, system specifications, user's manuals, special reports, or any other customer deliverables and documents
• Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment.

• Project Management Certification
• Candidates must have a Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of six (6) years of experience
• Candidates resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position mentioned above, experience can be considered in lieu of a degree
 

1. • Proficiency in Atlassian suite of products (Confluence, JIRA)
2. • Expert in the area of IT project management (ability to lead a team, inspire cooperation, maintain system and develop new applications within given constraints)
3. • Demonstrated ability to document meeting notes, outcomes to drive solutions
4. • Expert in breaking down work to be evaluated and then develop an estimated LOE (whether in JIRA or Excel or other means)
5. • Expert in managing personnel across several teams, working with PM’s overseeing  work progress, and adjusting process and procedures to help teams achieve a high level of productivity
6. • Demonstrated ability to create and maintain project plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures
7. • Proven ability to work with various stakeholders both internal and external and help negotiate solutions across a variety of systems and platforms and products
8. • Ability to work well in a constantly evolving work environment.

 

 

1. MANDATORY SKILLS
2. Demonstrated skills in creating dashboards using Tableau to support business analytics and visibility into workflow.
3. Demonstrated skills in providing data analytics support, including, but not limited to, metrics, metadata, batch tracking and data validation.
4. Demonstrated experience with managing, inputting, monitoring, updating, and validating the status automated systems.
5. Experience with data research and operational metrics queries
6. Demonstrated skills with time management and meeting demanding and dynamic deadlines with accuracy.
7. Experience with special projects, such as studies and/or special initiatives.
8. Demonstrated experience developing and providing presentations and delivering briefings.
9. Demonstrated experience working with senior leadership to assist in understand key data reporting requirements and key opportunities to leverage analysis of key data points to enable effective and efficient business decisions to meet organization goals.
10. Ability to work well with others.
11. Ability to work well under pressure and changing demands.
12. Must be proficient using multiple Microsoft applications to include but not limited to Excel.

Title: Information Review and Release Analyst
Location: Virginia
*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.
 

Raytheon Company is looking to fill an Information Review and Release Analyst, flexible work schedule, located in the Herndon, VA area, in support of a dynamic fast paced business office on our program. This position require for the individual to oversee process of the declassification of documents related to litigation cases, such as civil or criminal cases. Must be detail oriented to record the chronological order of events from beginning to end process. These cases are sensitive in nature and must be handle with strict confident. The criteria of Executive Order (EO) 13526, or as amended, the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act laws. Organize documents in preparation for legal counsel to review must be properly recorded with accuracy. Act as a liaison for Other Government Agency (OGA) involved in the process. Conduct desktop research analyze results to determine the relevance of a new search or whether the requested records have been previously declassified and/or released. The individual will provide the rationale for redaction actions on the electronic version of the documents using codes provided in the Sponsors declassification guidance; provide recommendations regarding the release of the documents for Sponsor approval; and record decisions in the Sponsors automated systems. The individual will determine if a record contains Other Government Agency equities and requires external referral or if the record requires non-routine handling. In addition, managing the referral process. Organize documents in in preparation for declassification review and correctly assign these items to the proper equity holder. Research previous declassification/release decisions as necessary to ensure accuracy and consistency and provide feedback to the customer.
 

1. Strong analytical, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.
2. Must have excellent communications and interpersonal skills, as well as experience working in a team environment.
3. Knowledge of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Privacy Act (PA), and Executive Order Mandatory Declassification Review (EOMDR) programs and Executive Order (EO) 13526 directive; strong knowledge of the intelligence community with analytical skills background
4. Knowledge of legal terminology, such as in the area of police enforcement, security or court systems
5. Strong work ethic
6. Organizational and time management skills.
7. Strong proficiency in on-line tools such as Word, Excel, and Access, and other required systems to be able to perform the requirements.
8. Strong multitasking ability, adaptable, and flexible skills.

 

Title: Applications Developer
Location: Virginia
*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.
 

Raytheon Technologies is looking to support a Full Stack Applications Developer to develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise / departmental IT systems.  This position requires in-depth hands-on experience developing software in a team environment where customer focus, cooperation, communication, and continual tradecraft improvements are the norm.  Must have excellent debugging skills, work independently, think outside the box, and interact well with others.
 

1. • Demonstrated experience dealing with customers
2. • Proficient in Java
3. • Experience with JavaScript / Typescript
4. • Experience with application frameworks (Spring Boot, NodeJS-NestJS); Experience developing applications with the Node.js framework
5. • Experience with Python
6. • Must know how to use an IDE to code (ex – IntelliJ, Eclipse, NetBeans)
7. • Hands on experience with cloud technology (AWS / C2S)
8. • Experience with web services (REST) and service oriented architecture (SOA) – Spring Boot, Tomcat
9. • Experience with relational databases (ex – Oracle / Postgres)
10. • Experience with interacting in a Linux environment (ex – Bash scripting, VI)
11. • Ability to work well with others as well as independently
12. • Ability to work well in a constantly evolving, fast paced work environment
13. • BS/BA in Software Engineering, Science, Mathematics, or similar OR equivalent combination of education and experience

 

 

Title: Administrative Technician
Location: Virginia
*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.
 

Raytheon Technologies is looking to fill a full-time Support Executive Assistant/Support Administrator located in the Herndon, VA area, in support of a dynamic fast-paced intelligence community business office.  The right candidate will provide administrative support to the executive staffs in an IC business front office.  This position requires exceptional attention to detail and the ability to adapt to changing work requirements and priorities.  Hours of support are until 5:00pm.  

1. Provide calendar and email management support to executive-level staff. 
2. Support Sponsor meetings including but not limited to development of presentation slides, templates, agendas, minutes, and associated documentation. 
3. Provide event planning support for Sponsor hosted/sponsored meetings/activities to include but not limited to program management, logistics/scheduling, etc. 
4. Create requests for supplies and small purchases, physical and data accesses and email groups
5. Process account administration access requests.
6. Duty (TDY) travel support, open/close vaults and conference rooms.
 

1. All candidates must be able to:
2. Maintain confidentiality and discretion of all information.
3. Communicate clearly and effectively, both written and orally
4. Maintain effective working relationships at all customer levels as well as the ability to develop good rapport with outside liaisons.
5. Work in a team environment and build a partnership and strong rapport with people at all levels to include adaptability to changing work requirements.
6. Use MS office tools effectively to support business needs including Advanced Excel skills
7. Learn customer specific applications, tools, databases, and processes necessary to complete routine and moderately complex administrative tasks.
8. Effectively manage deadlines and competing priorities.
9. Facilities and Logistics Coordination including:
10. Coordinating facility renovations, office moves, and hot seat assignments
11. Manage vault access
12. Manage Accountable Property and reporting

 

 

 

Title: Target Digital Network Analyst
Location: Options available in MD, HI, and CO
*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.

Qualification Requirements  
Relevant TDNA experience includes:

Education, Training, and Certifications
Liberal Arts field (e.g., English, History, Communications, Languages and Cultures, International Relations, and Political Science) are preferred, but a degree in any field is acceptable. 

Relevant certs / training would include (but not limited to):  Sec+, Net+, CEH, JCAC course.  Don’t include mandatory annual NCS compliance training or short (less than 1 week) NCS courses.
 

 

Title: Computer Network Defense Analyst
Location: Hawaii
*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.

Qualification Requirements  

CNDA experience includes:

CNDAs:

 

Education, Training, and Certifications
Requires a degree in Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (e.g., General Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Forensics, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Information Assurance, or Computer Security).

Up to 18 semester hours of military training/coursework in networking, computer science, or cyber topics may be equivalent to an Associate degree.  If not credited toward education requirements, completion of military training in a relevant area such as JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course), Undgergraduate Cyber Training (UCT), Network Warfare Bridge Course (NWBC)/Intermediate Network Warfare Training (INWT), Cyber Defense Operations will be considered towards relevant experience requirement (i.e., 20-24 week courses will count as 6 months of experience, 10-14 weeks will count as 3 months of experience).
Relevant Certs or Specialized Training would include (but not limited to): JCAC graduate, CEH, CFR, CySA+, GCIH, CNDSP

Foreign Language may count toward experience requirements.  Recent Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scores are required to substantiate proficiency level (e.g. Russian, L 2+ / R3)

Title: Exploitation Analyst
Location: Opportunities available in MD, HI, GA, and TX

*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.
 

Qualification Requirements  
Relevant EA experience must be in:

  • Computer or information systems design/development/analysis roles 
  • In addition, it may also include engineering hardware and/or software, programming, computer/network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, systems engineering, and/or network and systems administration
  • EA’s apply deep understanding of adversary networks, network defenses, and cyber network operational capabilities to develop exploitation plans and make operational adjustments as plans are executed
  • Completion of military training in a relevant area such as JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course) may be considered towards the relevant experience requirement (i.e., 24-week JCAC course may count as 6 months of experience). In some cases, foreign language proficiency may also be used to satisfy experience requirements; recent Interagency language Roundtable (ILR) scores are required to substantiate your proficiency level. The total of all experience equivalencies is capped at half of the required years of experience.

Education, Training, and Certifications
Requires a degree in Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (e.g., General Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Forensics, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Information Assurance, or Computer Security).
Note that 18 semester hours of military training/coursework in networking, computer science, or cyber topics may be equivalent to an Associate degree.

Relevant certs / training would include (but not limited to):  Sec+, Net+, CEH, JCAC course.  Don’t include mandatory annual NCS compliance training or short (less than 1 week) NCS courses.
 

Title: Information System Security Engineer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Twenty (20) years experience as an ISSE on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity within the Federal Government is required. A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or related discipline may be substituted for two (2) years of experience, reducing the requirement to eighteen (18) years of experience. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional ISSE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. DoD 8570 compliance with IASAE Level 3 is required. Both CISSP and either ISSEP or ISSAP certifications are required.

The ISSE is responsible for conducting information system security engineering activities that capture and refine information security requirements and ensures their integration into information systems through purposeful design and configuration. Specific duties include:
• Leading a small team of ISSEs.
• Validating and verifying system security requirements, conducting security control assessments, and establishing system security designs for cloud-based and hybrid systems.
• Identifying and implementing appropriate information security architectures and configurations to ensure compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards and regulations.
• Recommending and developing technical solutions based on current and desired system security architecture.
• Proposing, assessing, coordinating, implementing, and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies.
• Assessing and mitigating system security threats and risks throughout the system life cycle.
• Analyzing and assessing system implementation against multiple security compliance policies, identifying points of vulnerability and non-compliance, and recommending and implementing mitigation strategies.
• Evaluating the impact of new development on the operational security posture of the system and formulating security compliance requirements for new system features.
• Auditing and assessing system security configuration settings using common methodologies and tools.
• Leading and/or contributing to the security planning, assessment, and authorization activities for various systems and networks spanning multiple enclaves and with differing data protection/classification requirements.
• Supporting risk assessment, risk management, continuous monitoring, incident response, and other IA program support functions.
• Working closely with system owners and developers to ensure that systems and services successfully implement appropriate security controls and meet security requirements for processing classified information.
• Serving as a subject matter expert in security architecture, to include providing advice and guidance to Program Managers and internal program teams.
Required Skills:
• Knowledge of and experience with common security tools (such as Nessus and Splunk), communication protocols, and encryption techniques/tools.
• Knowledge of and experience with NIST and CNSS control documentation, the RMF, STIG compliance, and the DoD Assessment & Authorization process
• Knowledge of and experience with Windows and Linux Operating Systems
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
Desired Skills:
• Knowledge of and experience with securing cloud-based systems
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification
• Scripting knowledge
• Understanding of regular expressions

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Title: Help Desk Specialist 
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Three (3) years of Help Desk experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in a Business, Technical or Math related field. Five (5) years with an Associate’s Degree or seven (7) years’ experience may be substituted for the Bachelor’s Degree.

Provides 365 days, 4 days a week, 10 hour a day shift (0600 – 2200)  Help Desk support as defined by first response/Tier 1 and 2 support.
Work with a small team providing service availability monitoring and help desk support for internet-like collaboration services hosted on a government intranet for a large and diverse community of users
• Provide health and status monitoring, and taking appropriate measures when a service outage occurs. Utilize SOPs to perform basic troubleshooting steps to identify the problem, then restart service and/or servers to resolve the issue.
• Document and communicate outage information to co-workers and customers
• Provide tier 1 and 2 response to customer service requests received via phone, email, chat, and tickets.
• Document all communications in a ServiceNow ticket system, escalate tickets as needed
• Provide basic instructions on how to use services to both external and internal customers
• Troubleshoot customer accounts and users’ ability to logon to the collaboration environment
• Train and mentor junior members of the team
  IMPORTANT: DoD 8570 Compliance with IAT level 1 is required.

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Title: Search & Geo/Analytics Web Developer

Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Work in an environment where you can design the architecture and develop solutions to meet the organization’s needs while enhancing your skillset and advancing your career.  Looking for an innovative, and motivated individual to join a small, talented, and hardworking development team creating enterprise level web base services. This team designs, creates, maintains, and troubleshoots multiple web based applications that are deployed in both cloud and local on premise environments.
Required skills:
• Experience with/Exposure to one or more of the following:
          o Java
          o HTML
          o CSS
          o JavaScript
• Exposure to MariaDB, MS SQL, MySQL, or Oracle 
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Self-motivated and willing to learn new technologies
• Strong desire to learn and grow
Desired skills:
• Experience with AWS or Azure cloud environments
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
DoD 8570 Compliance with IAM level 1 is required.

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Title: ServiceNow Developer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

The ServiceNow candidate will configure/customize the ServiceNow system, including: creating workflows. Build service requests from customer requirements. Use scripting tools and ServiceNow functionality to create script to automate rote tasks being done in ServiceNow. Work with IT managers to generate views and reports as needed. Perform system and integration testing with sample and live data, and monitor health, usage and overall compliance of the application.

Mid level: Perform integrations and process automation using ServiceNow Orchestration. Gather specifications from the IT department and deliver a product/release that meets the needs presented. Create requirements definitions and technical specifications documentation plus load, manipulate and maintain data between Service-now and other systems. Asses existing ServiceNow usage and recommend forward evolution of ServiceNow capabilities to maximize their use within the development environment.

Work individually and as part of a team.  Utilize software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment. Train and mentor junior members of the team.

Required:
• JavaScript
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Self-motivated and willing to independently learn new technologies and skills
• Strong desire to learn and grow

DoD 8570 Compliance with IAM level 1 is required.

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Title: Subject Matter Expert
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

A Master’s Degree in a Technical, Computer or Math related field with five (5) years experience in the following: Domain Name Server (DNS), Network Time Protocol (NTP) and IP routing protocols. A Bachelor’s Degree with seven (7) years experience; an Associate’s Degree with ten (10) years of experience may be substituted for the Master’s Degree. No degree with 10 years of experience implementing information technology solutions is acceptable. Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, traffic management and cloud computing experience are desired.

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Title: System Engineer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Fourteen (14) years experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity within the Federal Government is required. Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

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Title: Database Administrator
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 
 

Ten (10) years experience as a DBA in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional DBA experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Title: System Administrator

Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

No demonstrated experience is required. Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of system administration experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

 

Title: Database Software Engineer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Description:
Federal Government – US Citizenship Required
Includes TopSecret/SCI with Full Scope Poly Required
Preferred Qualifications:

  1. 4 + years working with Database Design, Development and Administration
  2. Advanced experience with Oracle Database design 
  3. Advanced experience with SQL and SQL Tuning.
  4. Experience with PL/SQL
  5. Strong analytical troubleshooting and performance evaluation skills.
  6. Experience with JAVA is a plus
  7. Must be an effective team member with strong communications skills and the ability to follow-through, stay motivated, and collaborate with all team members.
  8. BS in CS or related course of study, or equivalent year’s experience.

Qualifications:

  1. Managing/Senior Principal Consultant designs and implements individual components of the Oracle products based on area of expertise. Analyzes detailed requirements and develops detailed design for a specific Oracle product or technology. Provides implementation services for a specific product to include extensions and additional configurations necessary to implement customer unique business processes and workflows. Performs routine health checks and optimizations of system performance, availability, access controls and security. Performs system optimization, performance tuning and assists in capacity planning. Performs proactive analysis of potential issues, risks and roadblocks during system implementation and operations.

Title: Software Engineer/Java Programmer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Description:
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – US Citizenship required
Includes TopSecret/SCI with Full Scope Poly Required
Required Qualifications:

  1. 6+ years of experience with all facets of Java Development:
    1. Expert experience of Java SE 8 technologies and APIs.
    2. Advanced experience developing enterprise solutions with Java EE and related technologies such as persistence frameworks, build tools, version control systems, and continuous integration tools.
      1. GIT/Maven
    3. Advanced experience with Spring MVC.
  2. 2+ years of experience:
    1. WebServices and XML/JSON.
    2. Oracle Database design and PL/SQL.
    3. Oracle VLDBs.
    4. Oracle Coherence

Professional skills:

  1. Effective communications skills & documentation skills
  2. Ability to work with large team of developers
  3. Ability to manage a small team of administrators
  4. Willingness to take direction
  5. Willingness to interact with customer watch facilities
  6. Understanding/appreciation of customer mission requirements
  7. Strong analytical troubleshooting and performance evaluation skills.
  8. Must be an effective team member with strong communications skills and the ability to follow-through, stay motivated, and collaborate with all team members.

Education:

  1. BS in CS or related course of study, or equivalent years’ experience.

Qualifications:

  1. Practice/Technical Manager leads experienced consulting teams and responsible for the day-to-day implementation and operations aspects of the system for high quality, integrated solutions within constraints of time and budget. Develops detailed design of Oracle IT capabilities which may involve integration with third party products and/or GOTS capabilities. This includes designing, implementing, testing, and deploying more complex extensions or configurations needed to address customer unique business processes and workflows. Works on substantive and unique issues that identifies risks and risk mitigations. Develops methods, techniques and evaluation criteria providing functional and technical experience on on-premise, cloud, and hybrid based solutions.

 

Title: Sr. Linux System Administrator – Technical Team Lead
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Description:
Contractor will be supporting an enterprise wide mission environment.  Minimum of 10 years experience as a Linux System Admin / Eng. This position will serve as the technical team lead. The candidate must have sufficient technical depth to lead a team of System Admins and DBAs deploying and maintaining data protection services. The team lead will need to establish and document processes to streamline/automate quarterly patches, STE/STN compliance, system upgrades, health system monitoring, and reporting and responding to event notifications. Will work closely with project manager to meet customer objectives and needs to have strong written and oral communication skills. The team lead will need to advise the customer and make technology recommendations.
Required: Linux – (CentOS/RHEL) Linux admin certification desired
Required:  Extensive experience installing, configuring, maintaining JBoss.
Required: VMWare VM creation, configuration, and operation experience
Required:  Security + 2 / IAT 2 certification
Highly Desire:  Experience with RH Ansible
Other Desired experience:

  1. Storage
    1. Management (ex LG, PV, LVM
    2. Protocols (ex NFS, SAMBA, ISCSI)
    3. SAN Storage configuration
    4. Understanding of network storage (ex. NAS and SAN)
  2. Networking
    1. Understanding of networking concepts and principles
    2. Routing, IPSec
  4. Security Compliance
    1. YUM Patching
    2. IAVA Remediation
    3. Server certificate management
    4. Automation (ex. Ansible, Puppet, SALT)
    5. SELinux
  6. Authentication
    1. Users and Group Management
    2. Understanding of Active Directory and DNS
    3. User certificate management
  8. Scripting: Shell, Python preferred
  9.  
  10. Physical Server Administration
  11.  

Other Desired Skills, Education, or familiarization

  1. Oracle Database and possibly some DBA experience
  2. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

Centrify
Work Location:  National Business Park, Annapolis Junction, Maryland.
Duty Hours:  Monday – Friday 0800 – 1700 (Flexible).  Note:  Project requires scheduled OCB's on Saturday evenings on an as needed basis.  Some after-hours call-in support may be needed, but no weekly rotations call-in.
Qualifications:

  1. Minimum General Experience: At least twelve (12) years developing and delivering IT Architectures or IT systems design/ engineering services or supported that activity with an organization.
  2. Functional Responsibility: Provides architecture and business consulting services. Functions as lead consultant and project manager on technically complex projects.
  3. Minimum Education: A MS in Computer Science, or related discipline, or equivalent years of experience.

 

Title: Data Engineer
Location: Reston, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Job Description: Develop complex data integration and manipulation issues, to include multi-INT sources and cross-domain solutions, as well as mentor more junior staff.
These back-end focused developers will also independently handle ETL Engineering challenges that come with building applications and tools of this caliber.

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Title: Software QA Specialist/Applications Tester
Location: McLean, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Work Requirement:
Introduction: The Sponsor has multiple application teams supporting a portfolio which is the central repository for all Sponsor’s created applications. The Sponsor provides state of the art systems on cloud and applications based on products such as AWS, Oracle, SharePoint, and other web-based solutions. The Sponsor requires support specializing in verifying developed software meets the specified requirements and produces the desired result combined with ensuring any defects are identified and documented.  The Sponsor needs polished skills in building test cases based on use case development mythologies as well as knowledge and experience with automated testing.  The portfolio contains, but is not a complete list of, the following:

A custom production application that has a central repository for the search and discovery of internal document sensitive data and associated artifacts.

A custom production application which provides workflow and research with the ability to review, disposition, build a profile and update or nominate candidates to other Partner organizations.

A targeting and knowledge management tool which stores products in a centralized repository making it easy for search and discovery.

Work Requirements: The Contractor shall work closely with the various application teams; however, the Sponsor project manager will manage the priorities. The Contractor shall develop, perform and support manual and automated integration and regression testing. The Contractor shall develop, perform and support post deployment validation of components. The Contractor shall develop and maintain test plans and scripts to identify software problems and causes. The Contractor shall provide analysis and recommendations for automation of test suites. The Contractor shall develop automated scripts to decrease the time needed to perform testing.

The Contractor shall develop automated scripts to decrease the likelihood of bugs or unplanned outages. The Contractor shall work with applications in a cloud environment. The Contractor shall work side by side with project teams on a daily basis to consult with the development and operations teams to test applications. The Contractor shall work in a team environment with contractors from multiple companies. The Contractor shall participate in formal and informal reviews at pre-determined points throughout the development cycle. The Contractor shall participate as a member of the agile development team. The Contractor shall write test cases and scenarios. 

The Contractor shall develop and execute test plans, procedures and scenarios for regression, performance, process, functional, system integration and Agile (deliverable) acceptance testing to ensure new applications and software modifications meet requirements and perform satisfactorily in the system environments. The Contractor shall document the successes and failures of all executed test procedures.

Mandatory Skills
1. Demonstrated experience with the development of test cases as part of an agile team. 
2. Demonstrated experience using a test automation framework. 
3. Demonstrated experience using test automation tools. 
4. Demonstrated experience with use of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for development and execution of test scripts.
5. Demonstrated experience with managing testing for multiple applications during the concurrent development cycles. 
6. Demonstrated experience with Regression, Integration, API, or Functional testing. 
7. Demonstrated experience developing and managing test plans and cases.  

Optional Skills
1. Demonstrated experience using JIRA, Confluence and SharePoint.
2. Demonstrated experience briefing technical topics to a non-technical audience. 
3. Demonstrated experience in strong oral and written communication skills.
4. Demonstrated experience in strong leadership ability and experience juggling competing priorities.

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Title: Systems Integrator
Location: Chantilly, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Mandatory Skills
1. Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining work plans and delivery roadmaps.
2. Demonstrated experience identifying and documenting technical risks.
3. Demonstrated experience performing governance and requirements activities such as requirements development and validation, collection and reporting of requirements metrics, or requirements test plan development.  
4. Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining Program Management Review (PMR) materials and (IDTs).
5. Demonstrated experience authoring minutes, managing agendas, and conducting coordination support activities. 
6. Demonstrated experience reporting on strategic initiatives for stakeholders.
7. Demonstrated experience supporting daily administration of project management and governance forums, including support activity coordination such as managing calendars and agendas, documenting meeting minutes or decisions. 
8. Demonstrated experience in software engineering and code delivery.
9. Demonstrated experience developing and supporting software solutions for large scale software environments
10. Demonstrated experience prototyping and developing new software functionality. 
11. Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining system and program documentation. 
12. Demonstrated experience in software capability analysis. 
13. Demonstrated experience working within an Agile IT engineering team leveraging commercially available DevOps tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
14. Demonstrated experience deploying software and applications across multi-domain environments for geographically dispersed teams.
15. Demonstrated experience with executing information security scanning process and using industry-standard scanning tools.
16. Demonstrated experience with modifying existing software to improve efficiencies.
17. Demonstrated experience with data analysis of system capabilities and requirements.
18. Demonstrated experience with data collection systems development, maintenance, and management.
19. Demonstrated experience with data analytics development, modification, and management.

Optional Skills
1. Demonstrated experience developing documentation in support of the Sponsor’s architectural and Authorization and Accreditation (A&A) processes.
2. Demonstrated experience supporting software and hardware design work for Sponsor solutions.
3. Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale Metadata categorizing tagging efforts.
4. Demonstrated experience contributing to the drafting of multi-domain security policies and or regulations.
5. Demonstrated experience drafting policies to protect individual company proprietary data or solutions.
6. Demonstrated experience advising, consulting or executing strategic or tactical security engineering solutions built for a large community consumption via standard data formats leveraging an industry standard API and or GUI.
7. Demonstrated experience facilitating cross-organizational system design requirements.
8. Demonstrated experience translating technical requirements into proposed draft policy solutions.
9. Demonstrated experience with Java, Python, C, C++, XML, JSON, XQuery, and HTML programming languages
10. Demonstrated experience with MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, Node.js, and ReactJS
11. Demonstrated experience with Github and Gitlab.
12. Demonstrated experience with HDFS.
13. Demonstrated experience with MapReduce.
14. Demonstrated experience with Solr or Spark.
15. Demonstrated experience with user-centric design, user experience (UX) engineering and software development of user-facing (“front end”) applications.
16. Demonstrated experience with Tableau or alternative data visualization platforms.
17. Demonstrated experience with software and security engineering for a continuous design and agile development 

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Title: Cloud Solutions Architect
Location: Herndon, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Work Requirement:
The Sponsor’s mission is to turn IT disruptions into enterprise opportunities. The Sponsor handles technology gaps that are outside the scope of other organizations. The Sponsor requires support specializing in systems engineering to assist in identifying technology solutions to address technology gaps such as in cellular and cloud services. Priorities will be managed by the Sponsor project manager.

Work Requirements: The Contractor shall elicit and document user requirements from the customer and create the technical requirements document. The Contractor shall help the Sponsor identify technology solutions to address requirements. The Contractor shall assist the Sponsor with prototyping technical solutions to address technology problems, gaps, and risks.

The Contractor shall ensure technical solutions are scalable to meet enterprise requirements. The Contractor shall identify technical and security risks and develop mitigation strategies to address risks. The Contractor shall evaluate technologies for suitability and applicability to address the Sponsor’s requirements. The Contractor shall evaluate process changes to sponsored business and mission requirements. The Contractor shall present recommendations in both oral and written forms. The Contractor shall develop use cases for the Sponsor’s business needs. The Contractor shall assist the Sponsor with testing products against use cases.

Mandatory Skills
1. Demonstrated hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
2. Demonstrated experience with other cloud service providers such as AWS and Google.
3. Demonstrated experience integrating solutions in a production environment.
4. Demonstrated experience with enterprise IT systems design and implementation.
5. Demonstrated experience with hypervisors and virtual technologies.
6. Demonstrated experience with networking devices and firewalls.
7. Demonstrated experience with security concepts related to DNS, routing, authentication, certificate authentication, and VPN tunneling.

Optional Skills
1. BA/BS degree in a technical discipline or an equivalent combination of training and experience. 
2. Demonstrated experience with cellular technologies.
3. Demonstrated experience with Android and iOS operating systems

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Title: Test Engineer
Location: Herndon, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Work Requirement:
The Sponsors Office is accountable for clearance processing of all individuals with access to Sponsor data and facilities. The office is charged with fulfilling requirements in the most timely and efficient manner possible. The Sponsors office has requirements to communicate with various partners and Industrial and Independent Contractors using unsecure means. The Sponsor seeks to gain efficiencies in communication and workflow processes by optimizing communication using cross domain network solutions (i.e., unsecure to secure network connections) in conjunction with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The Sponsor needs specialized support in IT Program Management, Software Engineering, Test Engineering, and Systems Engineering.

Work Requirement: The Contractor Team shall provide expertise and guidance in the procurement of cross domain solutions and maintain such solutions and systems for the Sponsor. The Contractor Team shall conduct research into all aspects of existing and future aspects of cross domain solutions the Sponsor currently or could potentially leverage such as AWS ProServe. The Contractor Team shall recommend and perform implementation and integration strategies for cross domain solutions into existing Sponsor business practices and systems. The Contractor Team shall conduct O&M on Sponsor cross domain platforms. The Contractor Team shall provide guidance to the Sponsor regarding past, current, and future business practices. The Contractor Team shall develop and maintain cross domain system documentation. The Contractor Team shall attend regular meetings to understand and suggest requirements and workflow enhancements. The Contractor Team shall document meeting discussions.

The Contractor Team shall build rapport with stakeholders and influence outcome of decisions on behalf of the Sponsor. The Contractor Team shall contribute to data collection and analysis discussions and realign priorities and collection strategies during evolving mission priorities. The Contractor Team shall provide expertise to implement and integrate the Sponsors OCR software. The Contractor Team shall engineer solutions with OCR and data capture technology such as IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture, version 22.0.1. The Contractor Team shall enable the Sponsors OCR efforts to ingest multiple form types such as .pdf. The Contractor Team shall map their data fields to other forms of varying types, such as JSON. The Contractor Team shall store and send all files to appropriate storage or destruction/deletion locations as necessary. The Contractor Team shall conduct full system development lifecycle analysis to include requirements, activities, and design. The Contractor Team shall code, test and deploy a cross domain scheduling solution. The Contractor Team shall enable the Sponsors scheduling of tests between secure systems and unsecure systems. The Contractor Team shall provide written reports, spreadsheets, briefings and briefing material, technical solutions presentations, technical papers, analysis by specified timelines as directed by the Sponsor on a case-by-case basis, within the contract period. The Contractor Team shall document and gather requirements and track/document progress accordingly.

Mandatory Skills
1. Demonstrated experience understanding various security systems, including as but not limited to: ARES (Oracle), INSPIRE, PSARS, COGNOS.
2. Demonstrated experience in AWS ProServe, IaC (Infrastructur-as-code), and AWS cloud services.
3. Demonstrated experience with software engineering, DevOps, Cross domain transfer, and O&M.
4. Demonstrated experience with OCR, including data extraction and restructuring into other formats, particularly with IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture, version 22.0.1.
5. Demonstrated experience in the field of AGILE software.  
6. Demonstrated experience supporting the development of metrics and visualization tools.
7. Demonstrated experience eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis.
8. Demonstrated experience integrating information from multiple sources.
9. Demonstrated experience with JIRA and Confluence.
10. Demonstrated experience documenting and gathering requirements, and tracking their progress accordingly.
11. Demonstrated experience with SharePoint and document control management.
12. Demonstrated experience analyzing and designing business processes.
13. Demonstrated experience implementing management reporting workflows.
14. Demonstrated experience exhibiting oral and written communication skills
15. Demonstrated experience working independently and interacting regularly with government and non-government stakeholders.

Optional Skills
1. Demonstrated experience having a basic understanding of the Sponsors overall community security processes and industry best practices.
2. Demonstrated experience obtaining full understanding of the personnel security process with expectations of reviewing and analyzing current trends for improvement of security processing systems. 

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Title: Systems Engineer
Location: Chantilly, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Work Requirement:
The Sponsor relies on a variety of software capabilities to perform its duties. The Sponsor requires support specializing in SharePoint administration to manage day-to-day activities of the Sponsor’s SharePoint infrastructure. Work will include performing SharePoint administration, enhancements, Maintenance and Operations (O&M) tasks, and providing ad-hoc user support. Project priorities shall be managed by the Sponsor’s Information Technology (IT) Leader or designate.

Work Requirement: The Contractor shall work closely with the Sponsor for work prioritization. The Contractor shall execute SharePoint tasks as necessary to maintain the Sponsor’s environment in accordance with overall enterprise support. The Contractor shall comply with Sponsor requirements or IT best practices. The Contractor shall provide a full range of SharePoint support assistance. The Contractor shall perform SharePoint administration and system upgrade duties as needed. The Contractor shall interact with end users to troubleshoot issues, gather and elucidate requirements, explaining end user procedures and techniques either in person or over the phone to users. The Contractor shall interact with Sponsor’s staff and contractors, and participate in vendor support meetings in order to resolve issues. The Contractor shall comply with IT enterprise oversight requirements. The Contractor shall perform all necessary functions required to maintain the Sponsor’s SharePoint application.

Mandatory Skills
1. Demonstrated experience managing a SharePoint environment.
2. Demonstrated experience as a SharePoint Site Collection Administrator (SCA) and the ability to obtain within the Sponsor’s organization.
3. Demonstrated experience working with users to identify, validate, and prioritize SharePoint site issues and requirements.
4. Demonstrated experience assigning, editing and maintaining user roles and permissions.
5. Demonstrated experience making SharePoint configuration changes required to resolve issues to comply with industry standards.
6. Demonstrated experience making SharePoint configuration changes required to resolve issues, or to comply with requirements or IT best practices.
7. Demonstrated experience working with an enterprise team to ensure the health and safety of SharePoint.
8. Demonstrated experience creating and enhancing workflow architectures in SharePoint.
9. Demonstrated experience migrating, configuring, and developing SharePoint sites with improved functionality.
10. Demonstrated experience improving performance, stability, and optimization of SharePoint sites.
11. Demonstrated experience performing Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) operations using the Representational State Transfer (REST) interface provided by SharePoint.
12. Demonstrated experience creating and managing document libraries.
13. Demonstrated experience maintaining SharePoint sites, custom lists, content types, and workflows.
14. Demonstrated experience using PowerShell scripts for systems automation and creating administrative tasks in SharePoint.
15. Demonstrated experience working with developers to perform system tests and deployments of a SharePoint environment.
16. Demonstrated experience conducting quality assurance on SharePoint.
17. Demonstrated experience communicating technical and non-technical recommendations for improving user interfaces.
18. Demonstrated experience training users.
19. Demonstrated experience updating user documents and libraries.
20. Demonstrated experience creating user manuals.

Optional Skills
1. Demonstrated experience in creating graphical user interface pages tailored to user needs.
2. Demonstrated experience creating and managing document libraries using SharePoint Online to enhance user collaboration and communication.
3. Demonstrated experience using SharePoint InfoPath Forms.
4. Demonstrated experience using Power BI
5. Demonstrated experience with HTML5.
6. Demonstrated experience with SQL.
7. Demonstrated experience with .NET.
8. Demonstrated experience with C#.
9. Demonstrated experience with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS v3 or higher).
10. Demonstrated experience using JavaScript programming including jQuery.

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Title: Web Developer
Location: Chantilly, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Work Requirement:
The Sponsor provides basic, advanced, leadership, and specialized tradecraft training to students around the world.  The Sponsor is responsible for designing activities, online tools, courses, and course materials for a community-wide client base.  The Sponsor designs, supports, and implements superior learning programs intended to foster greater understanding and cooperation across the organization and complimentary groups. Priorities will be managed by the Sponsor’s Project Manager (PM), Deputy PM, and GTM.  The Contractor Team will interface directly with the Sponsor’s PM, Deputy PM, and GTM.

Scope: The Sponsor requires an integrated web development team that will design, develop, and produce media elements and interactions that support clear communication and learner interaction and assessment related to adult learning solutions.  Learning solutions may include but are not limited to: graphics, websites, web-tools, online courses, Web-Based Trainings (WBTs), and other artifacts to support online, blended, and face-to-face training.  Development efforts will facilitate the Sponsor’s mission to support training.

Mandatory Skills
1. Demonstrated experience working in a training environment
2. Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
3. Demonstrated experience using Joomla site design and site administration
4. Demonstrated experience developing WBTs, online training courses, websites, or other e-learning solutions
5. Demonstrated experience with the Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop as well as Dreamweaver, After Effects, or other similar software products
6. Demonstrated experience with Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
7. Demonstrated experience with JavaScript (JS)
8. Demonstrated experience with HTML5
9. Demonstrated experience solving complex application development problems
10. Demonstrated experience providing advice and recommendations on product design
11. Demonstrated experience incorporating considerations into media design plans such as budgets, equipment, performance requirements, or legal issues including accessibility and privacy
12. Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining websites
13. Demonstrated experience with graphic design including animation and 3D animation
14. Demonstrated experience creating print products such as posters, books, and presentation materials
15. Demonstrated experience using the following authoring and scripting languages: Joomla, CSS and HTML
16. Demonstrated experience using content creation and management tools for web design, web development, programming, graphic design, animation, videography, photography and audio recording, editing and distribution.
17. Demonstrated experience using JIRA or other IT ticket or work tracking system

Optional Skills
1. Demonstrated experience with web-based collaboration and document management platforms; task management tools that provide browser-based access for team document libraries, calendars, task lists, alerts, and schedules such as SharePoint or other similar software products
2. Demonstrated experience with Sponsor cloud technology networks and systems
3. Demonstrated experience creating motion graphic products
4. Demonstrated experience working with specialists to build training products
5. Demonstrated experience with general photography
6. Demonstrated experience with video production or experience in a video production support role
7. Degree(s): Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Graphic Design, Multimedia Development, Online Learning, or other related field from an accredited institution
8. Certification(s): UX/UI Ability Certification from an accredited institution

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Title: Systems Engineering
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

The Level 1 System Engineer (SE) shall possess the following capabilities:

Qualifications:

Seven (7) years' experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Position Description
The System Engineer shall be responsible for creating, sustaining, and troubleshooting complex operational data flows including data storage, data transport, data management, data security, data compliance, and knowledge store management.
Additional tasking includes working with the mission customer to perform exploratory data analysis on raw data to clean, enrich, transform and convert the raw data into the required formats. The contractor shall also be responsible for devising methods to improve existing operational data flow processing, distribution, and reliability.
Position Required Skills

Position Desired Skills

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Title: Systems Engineering
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

Description: Analyzes user's requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities. Guides users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies. Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology. Incorporates new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations. Develops technical documentation. Develops system Architecture and system design documentation. Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans. Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts. Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility. Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.

The Level 3 System Engineer (SE) shall possess the following capabilities:

Qualifications:
Twenty (20) years' experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts is required. Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Position Description
The System Engineer shall provide technical leadership for creating, tracking, and managing the integration of system requirements, software design, and various technology stacks into a scalable/sustainable/highly available mission solution. The System Engineer shall be responsible for the technical integrity of the work performed and deliverables associated with the System Engineering area of responsibility. The System Engineer shall also communicate with other program personnel, government stakeholders, and senior executives. In addition, the System Engineer shall provide Agile SCRUM Master leadership for one or more software development teams.
Position Required Skills

Position Desired Skills

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Title  System Administrator
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

The Level 3 System Administrator (SA) shall possess the following capabilities:

Qualifications:
Fifteen (15) years' experience as a SA in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional SA experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Position Description
The System Administrator shall be responsible for providing network management and systems administration to maintain the Agency’s High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure and HPC development environment. The Systems Administrator shall require SYS1 access and must have the Security+ certification.
Position Required Skills

Position Desired Skills

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Title: Test Engineer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

LCAT Description: Tester Engineer analyzes system requirements and concept of operations documents, acquisition plans, and system descriptions to develop evaluation and test plans and procedures, prepare for and conduct the data collection and analysis, and report status and results.  Supports the development of Government test and evaluation documentation e.g., Test & Evaluation (T&E) Strategy, Test & Evaluation Master Plan, Event Test Plans, Test Readiness Assessments, and T&E Reports. Works with other test organizations to support T&E program integration. Provides specialized T&E capabilities tailored to system functions, level, maturity, and performance areas.

The Level 3 Test Engineer (TE) shall possess the following capabilities:

Qualifications:  Eight (8) years’ experience as a TE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor’s degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management, or related discipline form an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional TE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Position Description
The Test Engineer shall be responsible for the testing and integration of support services, including the testing and evaluation of the software performance and capability of next-generation HPCs and SPDs.
Position Required Skills

Position Desired Skills

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Title: Test Engineer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

LCAT Description: Tester Engineer analyzes system requirements and concept of operations documents, acquisition plans, and system descriptions to develop evaluation and test plans and procedures, prepare for and conduct the data collection and analysis, and report status and results.  Supports the development of Government test and evaluation documentation e.g., Test & Evaluation (T&E) Strategy, Test & Evaluation Master Plan, Event Test Plans, Test Readiness Assessments, and T&E Reports. Works with other test organizations to support T&E program integration. Provides specialized T&E capabilities tailored to system functions, level, maturity, and performance areas.

The Level 3 Test Engineer (TE) shall possess the following capabilities:

Qualifications:  Eight (8) years’ experience as a TE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor’s degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management, or related discipline form an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional TE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Task Description
The Senior Test Engineer shall be responsible for leading test engineers in developing, executing, and maintaining integration test plans/test suites for integrated software modules of a large complex enterprise management and monitoring suite of solutions.
Task Required Skills

Task Desired Skills

 

Title: Test Engineer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

LCAT Description: Tester Engineer analyzes system requirements and concept of operations documents, acquisition plans, and system descriptions to develop evaluation and test plans and procedures, prepare for and conduct the data collection and analysis, and report status and results.  Supports the development of Government test and evaluation documentation e.g., Test & Evaluation (T&E) Strategy, Test & Evaluation Master Plan, Event Test Plans, Test Readiness Assessments, and T&E Reports. Works with other test organizations to support T&E program integration. Provides specialized T&E capabilities tailored to system functions, level, maturity, and performance areas.

The Level 2 Test Engineer (TE) shall possess the following capabilities:

Qualifications:  Five (5) years’ experience as a TE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor’s degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management, or related discipline form an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional TE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Task Description
The Test Engineer shall be responsible for the development, execution, and sustainment of test plans/test suites for the testing and evaluation of user interface visualization software solutions against documented requirements and established QA metrics.
 Task Required Skills

Task Desired Skills

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Title: Test Engineer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

LCAT Description: Tester Engineer analyzes system requirements and concept of operations documents, acquisition plans, and system descriptions to develop evaluation and test plans and procedures, prepare for and conduct the data collection and analysis, and report status and results.  Supports the development of Government test and evaluation documentation e.g., Test & Evaluation (T&E) Strategy, Test & Evaluation Master Plan, Event Test Plans, Test Readiness Assessments, and T&E Reports. Works with other test organizations to support T&E program integration. Provides specialized T&E capabilities tailored to system functions, level, maturity, and performance areas.

The Level 2 Test Engineer (TE) shall possess the following capabilities:

Qualifications:  Five (5) years’ experience as a TE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor’s degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management, or related discipline form an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional TE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Task Description
The Test Engineer shall be responsible for the development, execution, and sustainment of test plans including the testing, evaluation, and validation of REST APIs. Additional tasking shall include designing and implementing automated test frameworks.
Task Required Skills

Task Desired Skills

 

Title: Systems Engineer Full Performance
Location: Herndon, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

• System requirements capture, analysis, decomposition, and design.

• Analysis, design, development, deployment, and lifecycle support for innovative hardware systems and applications.
• Requirements generation, and independent verification and validation tools
• Systems engineering tools (DOORS, JAMA, JIRA, etc.)
• Identification of technical trends in information technology, awareness on-going IT projects, and business unit requirements
• Applying project management model (e.g. Agile, Spiral, Waterfall) for a given development effort
• Model Based System Engineering principles
• Enterprise Architecture frameworks and principles
• Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) support
• Use of Digital Twin to enable virtual designs
• Ensuring developed systems comply with the enterprise technical architecture
• Assisting in keeping senior management apprised of project or program status
• Assisting project and program teams in preparing for program management reviews
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Preferred:

* IT system automation to include artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)
• Experience with automated testing
• Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Automation tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, etc.)
• Knowledge of Security Development Operations (SecDevOps) on iterative development projects
• Cloud design, implementation, and configuration
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code
• Knowledge of Agile development principles.
• Knowledge of modern software languages (e.g. Java, C, C++, C#, Python, Perl, etc.)

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Title: Network Engineer Expert
Location: Herndon, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview: 
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies.  Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks. 

​System requirements capture, analysis, decomposition, and design.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills :
We are actively seeking Systems Engineers with a minimum of 11 years' experience.  Bachelor's or Master’s Degrees are preferred in one or more of the disciplines described below where specific skills may include the following…
System requirements capture, analysis, decomposition, and design.
Analysis, design, development, deployment, and lifecycle support for innovative hardware systems and applications.
Requirements generation, and independent verification and validation tools
Systems engineering tools (DOORS, JAMA, JIRA, etc.)
Identification of technical trends in information technology, awareness on-going IT projects, and business unit requirements
Applying project management model (e.g. Agile, Spiral, Waterfall) for a given development effort
Model Based System Engineering principles
Enterprise Architecture frameworks and principles
Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) support
Use of Digital Twin to enable virtual designs
Ensuring developed systems comply with the enterprise technical architecture
Assisting in keeping senior management apprised of project or program status
Assisting project and program teams in preparing for program management reviews
Experience with the customer's A&A process
Minimum 3 years' experience with video and voice technologies
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills :
IT system automation to include artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)
Experience with automated testing
Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
Automation tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, etc.)
Knowledge of Security Development Operations (SecDevOps) on iterative development projects
Cloud design, implementation, and configuration
Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code
Knowledge of Agile development principles.
Knowledge of modern software languages (e.g. Java, C, C++, C#, Python, Perl, etc.)​​

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