Cornerstone Defense | Technically Innovative Solutions

Location: McLean, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3494

Title: Data Scientist/Data Architect
Location: McLean, VA
Compensation Range: Approximately $180K
*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.

Benefits Overview:
Cornerstone Defense offers a very comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to: Medical, Dental and Vision Plans * Generous PTO Policy * 401(k) * HSA and FSA options * Life and Disability Insurance * Tuition Reimbursement and Training * Perks at Work Discount Program * Referral Program * Leads Generation Program * CollegeAmerica 529 * Fitness Reimbursement Program * Travel Assistance * Norton Lifelock Benefit Solutions * Life Planning Financial & Legal Services *

We are seeking a Data Scientist to support our customer. This position will work directly with a Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) to support a fast-paced, dynamic environment and work closely with government customer and IT developers to validate customer's data and data analytics requirements.

This position will also be responsible for the following:

Establish Data Environments, and serve as the data visualization subject matter expert.
Create and translate trend, time-series, and predictive analyses, and facilitate stakeholder decision-making technical exchange meetings.
Participate in hands on work on data science for data modeling, design, model training, and implementation to meet enterprise requirements.
Establishing the system environment for large data sets, considering aspects such as data capture, storage, extraction, process and analysis.
Using data visualization tools to create roadmaps, placemats and process flows; and creatively displaying data to facilitate customer decision-making processes.
Applying data wrangling and exploration techniques.
Manipulating data to gather insights from large structured and unstructured data sets and developing trend analyses.
Developing algorithms to facilitate data analysis, support identification of data errors, and developing pattern analysis from multiple disparate data sources.
Providing input on software implementation for analytics.
Validating customer requirements and determining feasibility of solutions and alternative options.
Contributing to and collaborating on executive-level briefings for the CDAO.
Provide excellent organizational, analytical, data science abilities, and compile and organize statistical information retrieved and present findings to management.
Strong math, coding and analytical skills are essential to complete job requirements successfully.
Qualifications

Current TS/SCI with Poly is required.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant STEM field.
10+ years of total professional experience in a technical setting; with at least 5 of those years as a Data Scientist, or related role.
Ability to implement effective data solutions to ingest, curate, store and retrieve agency mission, business and IC data.
Ability to establish a system environment for large data sets, considering aspects such as data capture, storage, extraction, process and analysis.
Experience using data visualization tools to create roadmaps, placemats and process flows; and the ability to creatively display data to facilitate customer decision-making processes.
Ability to manipulate data from disparate structured and unstructured sources to develop models and other detailed analysis that provide meaningful data insights.
Experience with Programming languages like Python, Java, SQL and Cloud technologies.
Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced mission environment which requires balancing competing priorities and schedules.
Desired Skills:

Have a depth of experience in data science, to include demonstrated experience with programming languages (e.g. Python, SQL), statistical programs (e.g. R and MS Excel), and data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, QlikView).
Data scientist certification from AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, or etc.
Demonstrated experience with data modeling tools to include or similar to ER/Studio, Erwin or Lucid Chart.
Deep understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence for logical applications and techniques.
Have experience working in Agile and DevOps environments.

Location: McLean, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3493

Title: Data Scientist/Data Architect
Location: McLean, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Compensation Range: $210k approximately
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.

This position will also be responsible for the following:

Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3492

Title: IT PMO Analyst
Location: Bethesda, MD
Compensation Range: $180k approximately
*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.

We are seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented IT PMO Analyst to join our team at Bethesda, MD, to provide unparalleled support to our customer and to begin an exciting and rewarding career. This position provides support to an SAIC intelligence community customer. The successful candidate will support the direction of the program, develop, guide and monitor all aspects of schedule, administration and performance. They will also be responsible for coordination and collaboration with Government officials, to keep them informed and up to date on the program status.

Duties include:

Performs as a project lead, experience in managing project schedule and performance.
Directly contributes to project definition, requirements development and/or enhancement efforts including cost management/avoidance, schedule estimation and tracking, contract performance management, risk management, requirements analysis, and quality assurance activities.
Performs analysis of business and user needs, requirements, documentation of requirements, and translation into proper requirements specifications.
Ensures proper performance of tasks necessary and the ability to block and tackle issues to achieve the most efficient and effective execution of the project objectives.
Utilizes expert communication skills needed to direct the skilled technical resources and report on the technical progress, issues, and problem areas, as well as write and review technical documents.
Communicates status, requirements, metrics with leadership and customers.
Maintain focus on organizing and managing time and resources for the program deliverables.
Specifically support the following activities/functional areas:
Prepare Project status reviews and other formal reviews to be presented to the Government
Communicate issues and solutions to the Government PM in a timely and transparent manner
Ensure compliance with all regulatory and administrative requirements imposed by the contract in coordination with the Contractor's contracts staff
Develop/streamline processes to ensure mission accomplishment and program deliverables.
Assist the SAIC PM by providing input to customer deliverable reports
Qualifications

Active TS/SCI with poly is required
Minimum Education: B.S. or relevant experience in Program Management.
10+ years of related experience in program and project management and or business process analysis / PMO Analyst type of role
Experience using Agile Scrum Methodology and working knowledge of JIRA
Ability to work with minimal supervision
IT knowledge and experience
Familiarity with Cloud technology desirable
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
PMP preferred

Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3491

Title: VMWare Systems Admin
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
Compensation Range: $200 – $230k
*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.

Required Qualifications:

Candidates must be willing and able to perform Virtualization System Administration.
At least 6 years of hands on VMWare experience:
Implement/maintain/install VMWare ESXI instances
Installation/upgrading of VMWare EXSI instances from ESXI 4.4-8.0.3 and up to vSphere 8.0.3 with and without command line
Build/maintain clone vSphere VM templates up to Version 16
Automation with PowerCLI, vRealize, (vRA)Aria, Microsoft PowerShell and Batch
Install/Maintain/Manager Netapp technology with and without Netapp command line
Troubleshoot from layer 1

Professional skills:
Effective communications skills & documentation skills
Ability to work with large team of developers
Ability to manage a small team of administrators
Self starter and able to work without direction
Willingness to interact with customer watch facilities
Understanding/appreciation of customer mission requirements

Location: McLean, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3483

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

Experience with risk identification, prioritization, remediation, and monitoring
Experience with vulnerability and attack surface management
Experience with Elasticsearch and Splunk
Experience with databases (development, maintenance, and use)
Effective communication skills w/ an ability to convey information to different levels of management and techncial expertise)
Effective presentation skills to include taking data and quickly developing PowerPoint presentations)
Ability to be a team player, with an ability to function independently without step-by-step instructions
Ability to work core hours of 9am – 3pm

Location: Herndon, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3482

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

Demonstrated work experience in cyber security or related IT field
Experience with cyber security penetration testing
Experience leveraging adversarial tactics to conduct hands-on security testing
Experience applying computer attack methods and system exploitation techniques
Working knowledge of cyber security principles for Linux, Windows, and virtual platforms
Experience designing, testing, or implementing IT security architecture
Experience performing network security analysis
Experience analyzing network architectures
Experience using network management tools
Experience develping risk management methodologies
Experience analyzing test results to develop risk and threat mitigation plans
Experience testing or reviewing system configuration, development, and design, specirfically around enterprise systems and hypervisors
Expeience designing, testing, or implementing complex Windows installations
Certifications: Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), Global Information Assurance Certified Penetration Testing (GPEN)

Location: Herndon, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3481

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

Required Skills
• Conduct internal penetration testing and vulnerability assessment of servers, web applications, web services, and databases
• Manually exploit and compromise operating systems, web applications, and databases
• Examine results of web/OS scanners, scans and static source code analysis
• Identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance issues
• Write final reports, defend all findings to include the risk or vulnerability, mitigation strategies, and references
• Ability to meet and coordinate with various audiences to include developers, system administrators, project managers, and senior government stakeholders
• Provide security recommendations for developers, system administrators, project managers, and senior government stakeholders
• Report vulnerabilities identified during security assessments
• Write penetration testing Rules of Engagements (RoE), Test Plans, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
• Conduct security reviews, technical research, and provided reporting to increase security defense mechanisms
• Experience with NIST 800-53 and Risk Management Framework
Desired Skills
• Certifications: CEH – Certified Ethical Hacker Certification, CPT – Certified Penetration Tester
• Strong writing skills
• Experience with AWS Cloud Security

Location: McLean, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3465

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

CYBER SECURITY ANALYST

We are seeking a highly skilled cyber security analyst. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying, analyzing, and remediating vulnerabilities and weaknesses across networks and systems. This is a tactical role that requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with other cyber defense teams to maintain continuous situational awareness of current and emerging cyber threats.
Analyze data to identify and prioritize vulnerabilities and weaknesses in our systems and networks
Provided detailed remediation and mitigation plans, track via Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Conduct research on threat actors, malware, exploit methods, and vulnerabilities to stay up-to-date on current cyber threats.
Develop and maintain cyber threat reports and presentations for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Provide input on the implementation of processes, procedures, and technological solutions to mature our operational program and team cadence.
Respond to internal team and stakeholder inquires on vulnerabilities and related topics.
Collaborate with peers to identify and address cyber gaps and develop solutions to address cyber needs.
Conduct proactive data gathering to better understand the political, economic, and behavioral aspects of threats, cyber activities, and threat actors.
Assist with threat data enrichment, curation, automation, and dissemination within a threat intelligence platform.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or six additional years of relevant experience
8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, vulnerability management, or a related field
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
Strong understanding of types of vulnerabilities, network attacks, and current industry threats
Experience with data analysis and data-driven decision making
Familiarity with threat intelligence platforms and tools
Ability to travel locally and nationally as needed

Desired Qualifications:

Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field
Certifications in cybersecurity or related field (e.g. CISSP, CEH)
Experience with vulnerability management tools and platforms
Strong understanding or risk management principles and practices
Experience with process improvement and implementation
Experience with tools including: Confluence, ServiceNow, JIRA, Tableau, PowerBI, Excel

Location: Herndon, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3459

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

Daily support to service requests and attendance at CDS related TEMs
Lead efforts to conduct data collection for the creation/updating of the CDS inventory for the customer to meet compliance requirements.
Consult with projects and system owners on technologies, threats, and vulnerabilities and provide response support as appropriate.
Assist in the implementation of required government policies and procedures (i.e., NSM-8, CNSS, and other policies/procedures), and in making recommendations on process tailoring.
Support the file type review process and risk assessment reporting.
May serve as a team or task lead.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education: Technical Training, Certification(s) and/or Degree (Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, etc.)
Experience: 15+ years of related experience.
Required Technical Skills:
Demonstrated experience with systems engineering and architecture.
Demonstrated ability to provide triage effectively and independently, and problem resolution for technical issues.
Demonstrated experience in Governance, Risk, and Compliance management.
Demonstrated record of sound judgment and problem-solving skills necessary to make recommendations to customer management.
Working knowledge of information security policies/regulations, NSM-8 and supporting Operational/Emergency Directives, CNSS, and other information as required.
Excellent written and oral communication skills and a self-starter.
Experience with JIRA and Confluence.
Security Clearance Level: TS/SCI with Polygraph
Desired Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge of file type risks and vulnerabilities.
Experience supporting the customer’s Risk Management Framework.
Knowledge of the NIST 500-53 RMF and CNSS CDS overlay.
ISSM experience is a plus.
Six Sigma experience is a plus.
Visio experience is a plus.
Location: Herndon, VA – Customer Site

Location: Tysons, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3456

Title: UI/UX Designer

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

Collaborate to define a future customer experience-led vision for the business, and required capabilities to deliver it. Assess the impact and contribute to the business case. Conduct business analysis and opportunity modeling through stakeholder interviews and customer experience touchpoint design. Lead customer-centric strategy focused project streams and pitches. Ensure alignment with defined business goals throughout the service design process and the creation of services roadmaps. Interpret customer needs to effectively communicate and present service strategies. Inform Go To Market strategy for experiences to maximize value.
A creative problem solver and design leader, skilled in the team sport of crafting solutions that are smart, simple and lovable. You analyze the needs of the target users and how they perform tasks to create an optimized user experience. Expertly apply complex user interface & interaction design principles. Guide persona, archetype, or mindset development, user journey/flow creation, task analysis, and information architecture creation. Define & guide the planning, execution, & synthesis of user research and usability testing, and ensure research translates into meaningful ideation and actionable recommendations.

Required:
·   5-8+ years experience delivering interface design solutions for clients
·   5+ Years experience demonstrating proficiency or expertise in relevant professional design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (with an emphasis on XD), InVision, and more.
·   5+ years experience with user research and usability testing
·   Excellent written and oral presentation skills, including facilitation of small to large groups (5-30+ people)
·   Ability to provide clear, articulate rationale for design choices and approach
·   Expertise with Agile methodology and ability to work in iterative product design cycles
·   Bachelor’s degree
Desired:
·   Experience using scrappy design tools like paper and slides
·   Background in Software Engineering or familiarity with custom development practices to effectively communicate with a highly technical, multidisciplinary team
·   Experience delivering design products across multiple networks
·   Experience leading teams of designers/creatives (3-7+ people)
·   Ability to translate user research findings into design requirements and design deliverables

Location: Tysons, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3455

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

Description:

The Systems / Business Analyst supports an application delivery program by understanding and documenting requirements, dependencies and constraints. Acts as a liaison between clients, stakeholders, and the development team to ensure alignment and clear communication. Produces supporting documentation to include requirements, flow charts, technical and training documentation. Provides end-user support, including training, troubleshooting, and addressing any issues or concerns.

Required:
·   3+ years of capturing, validating, and refining business requirements for systems design and development.
·   Strong communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills in a client-facing capacity
·   Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
·   Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.
·   Ability to work across distributed teams.
·   Experience working within Agile software development environment.
·   Ability to support creation and maintenance of user support documentation.
·   Ability to support system quality and verification in collaboration with other team members.
Desired:
·   Previous consulting experience
·   Lean six sigma certification
·   Experience with the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence)
·   Requirements (intermediate)
·   Change Management &Communications (Intermediate)

Benefits Overview:
Cornerstone Defense offers a very comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to: Medical, Dental and Vision Plans * Generous PTO Policy * 401(k) * HSA and FSA options * Life and Disability Insurance * Tuition Reimbursement and Training * Perks at Work Discount Program * Referral Program * Leads Generation Program * CollegeAmerica 529 * Fitness Reimbursement Program * Travel Assistance * Norton Lifelock Benefit Solutions * Life Planning Financial & Legal Services *

Location: Tysons, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3454

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

Description:
The Full Stack Software Developer works with the Lead Engineer to deliver a completed software solution. Developers help with design and then implements all levels of the solution: data layer, application code, user interface. Working with Lead Engineer on Design and coding and delivering APIs and integrations with other software systems and databases. Developers will have experience in the following: Delivering the design and development of software applications. Programming/coding from the data layer through the application layer, through the user interface. Decomposing functional requirements into technical specifications and tasks. Software development and maintenance tools and languages such as Java, C#/.NET, SQL, JavaScript libraries, HTML, etc. Database and data management and analytics technologies, such as SQL, XML, Python, R, etc. Developing and maintaining unit test scripts. Developing APIs and web services for integration between system and data sets.

Required:
·   Application layer programming languages (e.g. Java, C#)
·   Database / data layer experience (e.g. SQL, unstructured data, Python, R, data management and analytics tools)
·   Front end development skills (e.g. modern javascript frameworks, HTML, CSS, bootstrap, etc.)
·   Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining systems on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
·   Experience in Agile / Scrum

Location: Herndon, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3414

Title: IT Program Manager
Location: Herndon, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

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

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience

Demonstrated experience with Sponsor tools and operations and Sponsor roles and missions
Demonstrated experience with requirements writing with Confluence and JIRA
Demonstrated experience gathering requirements, conducting analyses on processes, and proposing improvements to existing processes
Demonstrated experience facilitating technical exchange meetings with stakeholders to identify, collect, and establish coordinated technical business requirements
Demonstrated experience preparing and conducting technical business analyses, needs assessments, and requirements analysis and definition to align business systems, solutions and initiatives
Demonstrated experience preparing requirements and recommendations related to business systems
Demonstrated experience identifying and collecting mission user IT needs for both desktop and operational technical capabilities
Demonstrated experience developing and documenting current and future IT artifacts based on stakeholder feedback to understand associated technical details and make recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a Lean Agile environment
Demonstrated experience maintaining and capturing feedback in IT requirements library to ensure changes are captured from a traceability and documentation standpoint
Demonstrated experience providing IT stakeholder engagement for daily agile events that support and drive decision making at boards, committees, councils, and working groups

Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience

Demonstrated experience being ready to learn and the ability to identify potential business risks
Demonstrated experience working within a highly collaborative team environment
Demonstrated experience in problem resolution to include organizing and structuring solutions to complex problem sets
Demonstrated experience gathering, defining, and managing stakeholder requirements in support of technical capabilities in accordance with regulation and policy

Location: Herndon, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3413

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

Duties & Responsibilities:

Analyzes customer requirements and provides highly innovative technical expertise on cloud computing techniques and related cloud architectures.
Identifies the vulnerabilities and risks associated with Cloud misconfigurations, particularly with respect to systems processing extremely sensitive data.
Helps to define and update Cloud security standards/requirements necessary to minimize the risks associated with Cloud misconfigurations.
Assists with establishing an approach to monitoring compliance with specific Cloud security standards of systems in the Cloud.
Develops scripts, terraform files, and/or Cloud Development Kits (CDK) to assist project teams with an automated means to implement and validate Cloud configuration standards.
Reviews and analyzes Cloud configuration compliance data to inform risk remediation and/or risk mitigation strategies.
Maintains current and advanced knowledge of progressive and advancing technology as assigned.
Provides expert guidance and leadership to less experienced cloud development personnel.
May serve as a task or project leader. (Not a people manager)
May consult with executives and customers to deliver complex cloud development solutions.
Recognized as a subject matter expert in cloud technology.

Education: Technical training, Certification(s) and/or Degree (Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, etc.)
Required Experience: 15+ years of related experience.

Required Technical Skills:

Demonstrated experience with one or more Cloud vendors and their native services/environments (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and/or Oracle).
Demonstrated experience with enterprise cybersecurity management platforms.

Required Skills and Abilities:

Demonstrated experience engineering and deploying IT capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to provide triage effectively and independently, and problem resolution for technical issues.
Demonstrated record of sound judgment and problem-solving skills necessary to make recommendations to Customer management.
Demonstrated working knowledge of information security policies and regulations.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

Demonstrated experience with implementation and assessment of security controls that support authorization and accreditation processes.
Demonstrated experience supporting the NIST Risk Management Framework.
Demonstrated experience with Cross Domain Systems
Demonstrated project management experience.

Recommended Certifications:

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, CCSP, CCSK, CISSP

Location:

Customer Site (Herndon, VA)

Security Clearance Level:

TS/SCI w/poly

Location: Bethesda , Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3406

Title: Cloud Systems Engineer
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Compensation Range: $170,000 – $195,000

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

Work with a team of technical cloud computing professionals to rapidly build and deploy a demonstration capability, while simultaneously supporting the program office to specify, design and deploy the final system.
Development will take place in an iterative fashion using scrum techniques with inputs from multiple stakeholders. The development team will rapidly grow into a large scale, enterprise development effort.
Requires exceptional flexibility and technical skills.
Work will be done in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders and changing requirements.
Participation in iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements
Meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirements, user stories, and related artifacts to determine technical specifications for the system environments
Coordinating with technical teams responsible for the cloud hosting infrastructures in order to establish and maintain the environments used by the program for the development, test, and deployment of the demonstration capability and the final production system
Build, migrate and test AWS cloud environments and integrations
Develop templates or scripts to automate everyday developer or operations functions
Build new automation to expand and maintain Cloud hosting
Monitor and maintain multiple Cloud Infrastructure environments based on client requirements
Identify new tools and processes to improve the Cloud platforms
Collaborate with remote team members to build and maintain positive, productive team relationships
Developing, testing, and monitoring connections to interfacing systems such as data feeds from numerous organizations and user interactions from other Sponsor organizations
Working with other programs to coordinate the integration of enterprise services to be consumed/used by the Sponsor system
As this program matures, this role may require occasional on-call after-hours support
Development of technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by program management

Required Technical Skills:

Linux/Unix systems administration
Knowledge of physical server management, issue diagnosis and troubleshooting
Cloud application (AWS/Azure) architecture
AWS Cloud Formation
Large scale system integration
Scripting to automate developer or operations functions
Environment and Server layout and configuration maintenance to Industry standards and best practices
Developing enterprise and solution-level architectural designs
JIRA, Confluence and other project management tools
Review and Maintain environments at the latest security posture
Remediate app/package installations
Rapid prototyping to refine system requirements and technical specifications of the system and its operating environments
Experience in developing enterprise and solution-level architectural designs.
Knowledge of infrastructure as code design, management, and version control techniques.
Exposure to project management skills and/or project-based work structures, project lifecycle models, etc.
Knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
Strong communication and documentation skills

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

Location: Bethesda , Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3405

Title: Cyber Security Engineer
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Compensation Range: $175,000 – $195,000
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Position Description:
A successful candidate will work with others on program security team to provide for all aspects of security to include but not limited to the following:
• Work with others on program security team to provide for all aspects of security to include but not limited to the following Activities:
• Provide expert-level knowledge, both in context and execution with the Risk Management Framework to support a NIST SP 800-53 HHM systems through the A&A process.
• Construct thorough and complete security documentation to include, but not limited to, System Security Plans (SSPs), Plan of Actions and Milestones (POA&Ms), and any other artifacts to support the Body of Evidence (BOE), for sponsor's approval.
• Identify security controls and work with engineering, development and testing staff to construct proper test plans and procedures.
• Implement security audit reviews verifying that the audit records are collected and reviewed.
• Coordinate all security testing exercises, working with external assessment teams and technical staff.
• Configure and support various AWS services to protect the security posture of the system
Desired Skills:
• Demonstrated strong technical skills and analytic abilities, as well as experience performing system security analysis and risk management.
• Demonstrated experience with security in the Amazon Web Services environment.
• Demonstrated experience performing complex technical tasks in pursuit of overall goals with minimal direction.
• Demonstrated experience in translating an understanding of systems and applications into security test plans and perform hands on security testing.
• Demonstrated knowledge of risk management methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience to analyze test results and suggest mitigations for security problems.
• Demonstrated technical experiences with system configuration, development, and design specifically around enterprise systems and hypervisors.
• Demonstrated experience with Linux and virtual platforms.
• Documented working experience with public and private information security groups and organizations.
• Possesses experience with communicating vulnerability results and risk posture to senior executives.
• Possess a broad knowledge of Information Security policies and guidance, as well as the ability to assist in researching, evaluating, and developing relevant security policies and guidance.
Company Benefits:
Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.

Location: Bethesda , Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3404

Title: Cloud Migration Application Support
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Compensation Range: $170,000 – $200,000
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Position Description:

Work with a team of systems engineers and software developers to specify, design, develop, test and deploy the end-state system. Development will take place in an iterative fashion using scrum techniques with inputs from multiple stakeholders. The work will be done in a dynamic stakeholder environment within AWS. Communicate with team leads and senior leadership and rapidly adjust direction in support of new and/or changing requirements.
This effort will include a variety of activities, including:
Design, implement and maintain JAVA Microservices
Integrate data from one system to another via REST API
Become an expert on an AWS data workflow that includes Lambda, S3, and other such technologies
Ingest and normalize data from multiple data sources
Develop technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by program management
Working with other enterprise service programs to leverage their capabilities via web services integration
Coordinate and/or participate in system integration and/or user acceptance testing
Write unit and integration test
Monitor applications in production
Participate in code reviews

Technical skills:

Knowledge of standard ETL tools, such as Pentaho, AWS Glue, etc.
Understanding of JAVA Microservices
Understanding of REST API
Understanding of AWS data workflow that includes Lambda, S3, and other such technologies

Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3395

Title: Financial Resource Analyst
Compensation Range: $130-145k
Location: Bethesda, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ CI 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.

Job Description:

Coordinating with stakeholders on financial taskings
• Preparing and delivering executive level presentations to senior leadership on the program’s
financial status during program management reviews
• Providing input to leadership on business process improvements
• Developing spend plans and allocating and executing funds according to spending priorities
• Working closely with project managers to define requirements and justify financial needs
• Analyzing the program’s execution and tracking expenditures against available budget
• Providing regular status updates to leadership on the financial status and recommending
solutions and strategies
• Gathering information for, and tracking BCR packages and Economy Act Transfers
• Being actively involved in document and quality control”

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Type: Contract
Job #3371

FPGA Electronic Warfare Design Engineer
Salt Lake City, UT
Active Secret or Top Secret
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.

Cornerstone Defense is looking for a talented FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) design lead with industry experience in advanced signal processing techniques and/or Electronic Warfare techniques including Electronic Support and Electronic Attack. We design, develop, and test advanced electronic warfare and multi-function systems. This position would focus on the FPGA design and leading FPGA design teams in coding, simulation, synthesis, place and route, and verification testing aspects.

Job Responsibilities:
• Expertise in simulation, synthesis, and placement software tools such as ModelSim, Synplicity,
Xilinx Vivado / ISE and/or Altera Quartus development tool sets.
• Expertise in laboratory debug techniques using signal generators, digital oscilloscopes, logic
analyzers, BERTS, and other complex measurement devices.
• Expertise with timing closure in large FPGAs.
• Experience implementing Electronic Support or Attack signal processing.
• Experience implementing complex Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms in FPGA devices.

Required Skills:
• Bachelor’s (Master’s preferred) degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software
Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ years FPGA design experience on Digital Signal Processing designs.
• Experience with digital communications architectural design.
• Expertise in either VHDL (preferred) or Verilog hardware development languages.
• Experience implementing Electronic Warfare (EW) algorithms (either Electronic Sense (ES) or
Electronic Attack (EA)) in FPGAs in systems with Electronically steered antennas.
• Experience with systems in high doppler effects.

Desired Skills:
• Simulation, synthesis, and placement software tools such as ModelSim, Synplicity, Xilinx Vivado /
ISE and/or Altera Quartus development tool sets.
• Laboratory debug techniques using signal generators, digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers,
BERTS, and other complex measurement devices.
• Implementation of complex Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms in FPGA devices.
• Experience with timing closure in large FPGAs.
• Experience with signal detection and identification.
• Implementation of signal processing techniques.
• Generation of arbitrary waveform data files.
• Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git/Clearcase.
• Familiarity with C/C++/C# and Matlab/Simulink.

Location: San Diego, California
Type: Contract
Job #3370

Role: Network Technical Consultant (Tier 2 Location)
Location: San Diego, CA (local required)
Duration: ASAP – June 3, 2024 – December 20, 2024
Required: TS + SCI eligible clearance
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.

We are looking for a Network Switch Technical Consultant with extensive experience configuring, implementing, & deploying HPE Aruba Switches, Juniper SDWAN & Palo Alto firewalls onsite in San Diego, CA with TS + SCI eligible clearance. Resource must be available to perform all services on customer's premises in San Diego, CA. (with possibility for some remote work)

Required Skills:
– Active TS + SCI eligible clearance
– Expert experience with configuring, implementing, and deploying HPE Aruba Switches, Juniper SDWAN & Palo Alto firewalls.
– Master experience of Networking Infrastructure Concepts for seamless integration with existing infrastructure.
– Expert experience in Network Performance Optimization.

Desired Skill:
– Strong communications & organizational skills as resource will need to engage directly with various levels of customer and HPE teams.

Key Activities:
– Conduct an in-depth assessment of current infrastructure, including network architecture, hardware configurations, & performance metrics.
– Optimize configurations for performance, security, & scalability, leveraging best practices & industry standards.
– Develop a roadmap for integrating HPE Aruba switching technologies in the customer environment.
– Implement necessary technologies to prioritize critical applications and workloads.
– Provide knowledge transfer sessions to empower Customer IT staff with the skills & expertise needed to manage & maintain HPE Aruba Switching environments effectively.
– Fine-tune HPE Aruba switching configurations to maximize throughput, reduce latency, & enhance overall network performance.

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3365

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

Responsibilities:

Be able to provide support onsite, remotely, over the phone, or via email.
Develop solutions for systems & networks that support mission critical and mission essential infrastructure.
Analyze existing systems & networks and make proactive recommendations to drive change and create efficiencies.
Willing to perform minimal break – fix tasks
This position can be filled at either a level 4 or 5 based on the qualifications below.

Basic Qualifications:

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
8 years technical experience with a bachelor’s degree in an IT field; 5 years with a Master’s degree, and 3 years with a PhD Degree
Experience with Windows and/or Linux Server Operating Systems
Experience with Infrastructure Re-Architecture Support
Experience with Enterprise Security Assessment Support and A&A accreditation

Preferred Qualifications:

CCNA Certification
Experience with Juniper Firewalls
Knowledge of with Server Operating System MS 2019
Knowledge of Power Shell and Basic commands
Knowledge of MS patching process using WSUS
Knowledge of Active Directory
Knowledge of RMF and A&A accreditation process

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3363

Systems Administrator – Full Performance (Windows + Linux)
*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.

Responsibilities:

Be able to provide support onsite, remotely, over the phone, or via email.
Develop solutions for systems & networks that support mission critical and mission essential infrastructure.
Analyze existing systems & networks and make proactive recommendations to drive change and create efficiencies.
Willing to perform minimal break – fix tasks

Requirements:

Active Secret Clearance required to start with the ability to maintain
2 years with a bachelor’s degree in an IT field; 6 years' experience in lieu of a degree
Experience with Windows and/or Linux Server Operating Systems
Experience with Infrastructure Support

Preferred Qualifications:

Willingness to upgrade security clearance to TS/SCI with poly
Knowledge of Server Operating System MS 2019
Knowledge of Power Shell and Basic commands
Knowledge of MS patching process using WSUS
Knowledge of Active Directory
Knowledge of RMF and A&A accreditation process

Location: Warrenton, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3351

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

Key Role:

Provide engineering review, coordination, and oversight for operations, maintenance, repair, and construction work and oversee and coordinate activities with trade shops, including prioritizing work, reviewing ongoing projects, inspecting installed equipment, and overseeing and coordinating work orders, service orders, and projects. Plan, conduct, and direct projects or major phases of significant projects and coordinate the efforts of engineers and technical support staff. Manage project design or construction efforts, including scheduling, funding, and day-to-day project oversight, manage and evaluate construction contractor performance, integrate, and coordinate projects with field personnel, evaluate, validate, and manage project change requests, and provide official weekly project status reports. Assist the client's contracting officer (CO) and contracting officer's technical representative (COTR) with acquisition planning, execution, and administration, assist the CO and COTR with conducting pre-bid and pre-construction site visits with the COTR, provide invoice supporting information to the COTR for payment, and prepare and monitor project schedules and budgets, provide technical guidance and assistance on contracting and construction issues, direct design efforts, recommend construction documents for approval, and oversee any follow-on maintenance programs. Optimize performance, cost, and schedule by ensuring project objectives are achieved on schedule and at the lowest cost compatible with user requirements. Ensure timely input of all data, comments, and documentation into MAXIMO software project management tool. Ensure the integration of all systems, including information technology, telephone, security, electrical, HVAC, and plumbing.

Basic Qualifications:

10+ years of experience as a facilities professional
5+ years of experience in an assigned field, including high voltage power, mechanical systems, fire protection, or construction
Experience with the implementation or execution of design documents
Experience with reviewing design documentation and identifying deficiencies, inaccuracies, and noncompliance issues with the design intent
Knowledge of Unified Facilities Criteria (UFCs)
Ability to evaluate conditions and draft engineering memos that provide sounds engineering guidance consistent with industry best practices and all Federal, State, and Local codes
Ability to review and perform engineering calculations
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
HS diploma or GED

Additional Qualifications:

Experience with managing project design or construction efforts, including schedule, funding, and day-to-day project oversight
Experience with MAXIMO
Experience with new and existing building systems and site surveys and calculations
Knowledge of the ASHRAE standards, International Building Code, and pertinent NFPA publications related to mechanical systems
Knowledge of the CAD systems, AutoCAD, or REVIT
Ability to oversee and coordinate activities with the trade shops, including prioritization of work, review of ongoing projects, and inspection of installed equipment
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
Engineer in Training (EIT) Certification
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
Professional Engineer (PE) License

Mechanical Engineering Specialist, Senior

Key Role:

Basic Qualifications:

10+ years of experience as a facilities professional
5+ years of experience in an assigned field, including high voltage power, mechanical systems, fire protection, or construction
Experience with the implementation or execution of design documents
Experience with reviewing design documentation and identifying deficiencies, inaccuracies, and noncompliance issues with the design intent
Knowledge of Unified Facilities Criteria (UFCs)
Ability to evaluate conditions and draft engineering memos that provide sounds engineering guidance consistent with industry best practices and all Federal, State, and Local codes
Ability to review and perform engineering calculations
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
HS diploma or GED

Additional Qualifications:

Experience with managing project design or construction efforts, including schedule, funding, and day-to-day project oversight
Experience with MAXIMO
Experience with new and existing building systems and site surveys and calculations
Knowledge of the ASHRAE standards, International Building Code, and pertinent NFPA publications related to mechanical systems
Knowledge of the CAD systems, AutoCAD, or REVIT
Ability to oversee and coordinate activities with the trade shops, including prioritization of work, review of ongoing projects, and inspection of installed equipment
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
Engineer in Training (EIT) Certification
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
Professional Engineer (PE) License

Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3348

Title: PeopleSoft ELM Consultant:
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Compensation Range: $170k – $190k
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.

Seeking consultants with Oracle PeopleSoft application functional, development and/or administration experience to support a customer’s Education and Learning Management (ELM) PeopleSoft installation. The role provides PeopleSoft software/system functional and development consulting services at client location. Those who excel in this role are motivated self-starters who love to solve challenging problems and are comfortable working directly with customers and executive leadership. This role requires a strong functional knowledge of PeopleSoft ELM and its as well as the following diverse skill sets:
·               Excellent interpersonal skills to interact with customers, executive leaders, and team members.
·               Ability to assess the high-level architectural design, research potential implementation road maps, and conduct feasibility assessments.
·               Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills for design, creation and testing of software.
·               Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
·               Deep functional knowledge across HCM, Financials and Education applications. Specifically with the PeopleSoft ecosystem with strong experience to make recommendations for low cost and long-term maintenance.
·               Deep reporting background and expertise with understanding of various technologies spanning vendors. Understanding of data warehouse theory and concepts. Work with end users to generate reporting artifacts, as well as explain concepts and help users with little or no technical background.

Qualifications:
Required to be considered: Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph

Required Qualifications:
Minimum 8 years of technical experience relevant to this position
Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience preferred
Product or technical expertise in PeopleSoft ELM, HR and Financials
Ability to communicate effectively and build rapport with team members and clients
Project Management background managing small to medium size projects and project teams.
Experience with entire software development life cycle.
Passion for technology, the curiosity and willingness to constantly learn new skills, work with new tools and discover new and innovative approaches to solving complex technical challenges.
The ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and, vice versa, translate functional needs to technical solutions.

Desired Qualifications:
Strong in programming fundamentals and have good understanding of database concepts.
Strong experience in SQL.
Strong troubleshooting skills.
Exposure to Agile/SCRUM methodologies.
AWS experience.

Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3347

Title: Sr. Database Admin / Engineer – Exadata:
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Compensation Range: $175k – $195k
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.

Description:
Sr. Oracle Database Administrator with 10+ years Oracle database administration experience supporting large scale or enterprise level database services.
Required Skills:

10 + years experience administering to, and engineering solutions with Oracle’s database (10 – current). Extensive experience with database design and modeling; as well as, the collection and interpretation of customer requirements relevant to database migration, troubleshooting, performance observation and tuning.
Significant experience with the production and deployment of RAC, RMAN backup & recovery.
Experience with Oracle Exadata, DB security, Data Guard and / or DB Vault, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, label security, and data migration.
BS in CS or related course of study, or equivalent year’s experience.
Must be an independent worker with strong communications skills.

TS/SCI w/ FSP required.

Qualifications:

Senior Practice/Technical Director provides guidance and assistance in the analysis, design, implementation and optimization of enterprise wide complex IT architectures based on customer mission objectives and needs. The Senior Technical Director has extensive experience and background in implementing creative and innovative solutions with significant industry-wide impact. Analyzes customer missions and business needs to help ensure Oracle solution meets the customer¿s objectives by combining Oracle best practices, product knowledge, and business acumen. Recommends enhancements to meet highly complex customer needs.

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3346

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

JOB DESCRIPTION
The Data Engineer will manipulate data and data flows for both existing and new systems. Additionally, they will provide support in the areas of data extraction, transformation and load (ETL), data mapping, data extraction, analytical support, operational support, database support, and maintenance support of data and associated systems. As a member of the team, candidates will work in a multi-tasking, quick-paced, dynamic, process-improvement environment that requires experience with the principles of large-scale (terabytes) database development, large-scale file manipulation, data modeling, data mapping, data testing, data quality, and documentation preparation.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
8+ years of related software engineering and ETL experience.
Excellent organizational, coordination, interpersonal and team building skills.

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS

Experience with the following languages: Python, SQL, Elastic Search, XML, XQuery, XPath, HTML/XHTML, CSS, Shell Scripting, JSON, Java/J2EE
Experience developing and maintaining microservices in a docker/Kubernetes environment
Experience building and maintaining data flows in NiFi
Knowledge of servers operating systems: Linux, windows
Strong problem solving skills
Focus on continual process improvement with a proactive approach to problem solving
Ability to follow directions and finish task

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide support in the areas of data extraction, transformation and load (ETL), data mapping, data extraction, analytical support, operational support, database support, and maintenance support of data and associated systems
Troubleshoots complex problems and provides customer support for the ETL process
Develop complex data flows, or makes significant enhancements to existing pipelines.
Conducts investigations and tests of considerable complexity.
Researches emerging technologies to determine impact on application execution.
Provides input to staff involved in writing and updating technical documentation.
Prepares reports on analyses, findings, and project progress.
Provides guidance and work leadership to less-experienced software engineers.
May serve as a technical team or task leader.

Type: Contract
Job #3345

Computing System Administrator
Colorado Springs, CO
Active TS/SCI
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 Consultant will work entirely at the direction of the customer to assist in Compute System Administration support while serving as a member of the STARCOM team at the Customer’s location.

Job Responsibilities:
• The consultant shall support the Government Risk Management Framework (RMF) Process jointly with the Government-provided Platform-as-a-service and host application capabilities of other directed contractors. Working together the contractors shall jointly obtain an ATO for the CUI HPC that emulates the environment of TS, or TS+ capabilities.
• Consultant shall provide dedicated SME/System Administrator to support optimization tuning and administration of the HPC capability.
• Consultant services include hardware patching and system protection and ensuring no end-of-life (EOL) capabilities.
• Supporting STARCOM HPC system administrators for HPC Superdome System Optimization, Tuning and Administration activities as defined below for CUI & TS/SCI classification levels:
• Optimization, Tuning and Administration of hardware layer for workloads and tasks
• Change management support for UEFI, BIOS, OS and network performance tuning
• Review of software stack components (compilers, configurations, operating systems & partitions)
• Support for resource planning during system expansion activities
• Review of system and software integration requirements
• Transfer of knowledge, continuity and data
• Primary point of contact for incidents & troubleshooting

Required Skills:
• Consultant to hold a Master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Computer systems, Information Technology Systems, or closely related degree from an appropriately accredited institution with 10-15 years of experience working in classified environments; or a Bachelor’s degree in the above fields, from an appropriately accredited institution and 10-15 years of experience in operations analysis and design, systems programming in classified environments.
• Experience working with applications that are AI enabled, require high amount of graphical processing units and visualization that can operate in a secure software defined environment.
• Expertise in Secure LINUX implementations and familiar with use of containers in cloud environments and HPC Hardware operations and configurations

Location: Herndon, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3337

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

We are looking for a driven candidate, who is passionate about the security of our country. This candidate will support the Cyber Forensics team as a Computer Forensics Specialist. The Computer Forensics Specialist will provide expertise in computer forensics, mobile device forensics, data and media recovery, reverse engineering, intrusion analysis and methodologies, and vulnerability assessments.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Conduct imaging of a variety of devices (i.e. – HDDs, mobile devices, etc.)

* Conduct forensic examinations to identify the root cause of cyber incidents

* Responsible for assessing and filling forensic gaps

* Interact with and establish relationships with customers

* Provide technical reporting in order to explain complex forensic examinations to a wide audience

* Perform risk analysis of software and provide mitigations for any identified risks

* Perform data recovery to maximize the amount of useable data

* Identify IOCs, TTPs and recommend appropriate counter measures

* Provide recommended remediation steps in the aftermath of a cyber incident

* Bachelor's Degree or 3 or more years of related experience

* Strong organizational, communications, and critical-thinking skills

* Knowledge of concepts and practices of processing digital forensics data

* Skill in preserving evidence integrity according to industry best practices

* Skill in using forensic tools (i.e. – Xways, Axiom, FTK, Autopsy, Zimmerman tools, etc.)

* Skill in conducting forensics analysis of multiple operating systems (i.e. – Windows, Linux/Unix, Android, MAC, iOS, etc.)

* Knowledge of data carving tools/techniques

* Skill in analyzing volatile data

* Experience in acquiring volatile data

* The ability to develop forensic tools in Python, C#, C++ or C

* Experience with analyzing malicious data

* Experience with analyzing software to identify risks/vulnerabilities

Location: Herndon, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3336

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

We are seeking a driven and highly technical Cybersecurity Engineer in Herndon, VA. The Cybersecurity Engineer will support the Cyber Investigations team as a reverse engineer/software engineer.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Automation of data acquisition, processing and scanning.

* Develop and maintain malware sandboxes and software plugins to enable malware investigations.

* Ability to reverse code to determine malicious behavior or uncover IOCs for detection.

* Automation/Scripting for cloud investigations (investigative methodology for response and opensource tooling)

* Isolate, review, analyze and reverse-engineer malicious binaries to determine functionality and capability.

* Analyze samples and provide written technical reports related to the scope, nature, and characteristics of the malicious code.

* 4+ years of experience in malware analysis, reverse engineering, digital forensics or related position

* Experience with Python

* Experience with Intel x86/x64 assembly

* Experience with Windows operating system & architecture

* Experience with static analysis tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra and Binary Ninja

* Experience with debugging tools such as x64Dbg and WinDbg

* Experience with virtualization, sandboxing, and emulation tools like VMware, KVM, QEMU and others

* Experience with programming languages such as C, C++, .NET, Java, etc.

* Active/Current TS/SCI with polygraph clearance

* Experience with additional operating systems such as Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, etc.

* Working knowledge of Computer Network Exploitation (CNE), Computer Network Attack (CNA) and Computer Network Defense (CND) tools and techniques

* Knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework

* Knowledge of common digital forensic techniques and practices

* Experience with additional architectures such as ARM/ARM32 and MIPS

* Experience with other operating system file formats, such as ELF

* Experience with development and/or scripting utilizing Python and/or other programming languages

* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity or similar technical field of study, or 6 additional years of experience in lieu of degre

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3333

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for an experienced Systems Software Engineer to join our team, interested in designing, developing and maintaining essential software systems. The optimal candidate will have demonstrated experience integrating solutions with graph databases, such as JanusGraph. They will also have a strong background in systems software development, experience with 3rd party system integration, expertise in ElasticSearch, and a solid understanding of data modeling concepts. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a challenging project that requires innovative solutions and collaborative problem-solving.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable and efficient software solutions
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize project requirements
Participate with code reviews and ensure high-quality, modular, and reusable code
Troubleshoot and debug issues in the application, including performance optimization and error handling
Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, applying this knowledge to improve our application
Design and implement data models that meet the needs of the application, ensuring data consistency and integrity

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
5+ years of related software development experience.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Extensive expertise in Python and NodeJS
5+ years of experience in systems software development in NodeJS or Python
Strong proficiency working with graph databases and graph query languages
Proven experience with 3rd party system integration using APIs, webhooks and other integration methods
Strong understanding of software design patterns, principles and best practices
Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment
Basic understanding of data modeling concepts, including entity-relationship, data normalization, and denormalization
Experience with Git workflows, including feature branching, pull requests and code reviews
Ability to work effectively in a Linux-based development environment

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Hands on experience with AWS Lambda, EventBridge and SQS
Experience with Node.js, Express and MongoDB
In-depth knowledge of ElasticSearch, including indexing, querying and aggregation
Knowledge of containerization leveraging Kubernetes
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI
Hands-on experience working with message brokers such as RabbitMQ or AWS SQS

Location: Reston, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3315

Business Intelligence/Data Reporting Analyst
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Location: Reston, Virginia
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.

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Seeking a Business Intelligence/Data Reporting Analyst responsible for working closely with Client Customer Engagement project teams to provide the customer with business analysis expertise, report creation, and dashboard design in a tactical capacity, evaluate internal and external client requirements, and implement effective solutions in a timely manner.
The selected candidate will gather, analyze, and document functional/reporting requirements (e.g., user stories using interviews, documentation analysis, site visits, use cases, and scenarios) and design, assemble, and deliver reports and dashboards for Client’s AEON Business Process Management platform in a manner consistent with client expectations.

Job Requirements:

Must have an Active TS/SCI with polygraph ONLY, all others need not apply.
Ability to consolidate, interpret, and present data in reports/dashboards for Executives, Team Leads, and Individual End Users focused on Acquisition and Financial Information.
Analytical mindset that allows you to look at the data available and drive into meaningful insights for the end user(s).
Ability to produce reports and dashboards using Microsoft Power BI, SSRS, and other data tools.
Experience using SQL to create queries and general knowledge of SQL database structure/relational databases
Ability to define and document customer business processes and report/dashboard content needs, including business process diagrams, data maps, and data modeling.
Consult with project team members and customer stakeholders to identify, define, and document business needs and objectives, current reporting capabilities, and challenges related to the business functions, such as those supporting the Federal Acquisition Lifecycle.
Collaborate with theproject manager, technical analysts, and customer end-users in the analysis, design, configuration, testing, and maintenance of the Business Intelligence module of AEON Business Process Management Platform to ensure desired operational performance and capabilities.
Track and document changes for functional and business specifications; write detailed universally understood procedures for testing use cases, knowledge capture, and training purposes.
Achieve proficiency in all major Reporting/Analytic products, including the AEON software suite: through internal staffing training, self-guided tutorials, and daily exposure to individual product feature sets.
Provide support for various meetings, demonstrations, and program activities related to Business Intelligence.
Test reports/dashboard projects following business and functional design following best practices for quality assurance.
Record and track defects uncovered during test execution and assist in defect resolution (troubleshooting and researching).
Comprehension of change management processes.
Other duties as assigned.

Experience and Skills
Required Experience.

3+ years prior business analyst experience.
Ability to work in a team-oriented environment for a matrixed organization.
Strong knowledge and experience with data reporting tools, including Microsoft Power BI, SSRS, Tableau, etc.
Strong knowledge of productivity tools like Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
Experience with Agile and SCRUM processes and methodologies.
Knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) practices, principles, and techniques as they apply to the Agile development process.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, proven ability to listen and relate to customers.
Ability to effectively collaborate with internal and external customers.
Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Proven ability to communicate technical details to a non-technical audience.
Excellent organizational and time management skills.
Strong team player willing to help other team members at all times.

Desired Experience:

Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience.
Knowledge of SQL Databases and Query Creation
Knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Lifecycle or commercial contracting.
Knowledge of Federal financial systems or commercial accounting.
Ability to develop training materials and conduct end-user training sessions.
Experience with Federal government contracting and/or program office organization's business processes.

Location: Reston, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3312

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

Position Summary
We are looking for an experienced ServiceNow developer with Agile project management expertise.
Job Description
The Sponsor’s office collects, exploits, and disseminates publicly available information in a timely, mission-impactful way. The Sponsor’s office environment is fast paced and requires specialized skills in cloud-based IT management, workflow automation, IT project management, innovative software development and integration of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) based applications. The Systems Engineer (SE) should have ServiceNow development skills including Service Portal, Service Catalog, Widget development, Record Producers, Scripting in the Portal space and UI16, Flow Designer, UI Policy, Client Script, UI Actions, Script Includes, importing data sources, etc. The SE will design, develop, and modify software systems; document and track vendor software roadmaps for software and patch version updates; unit test their software and perform code reviews; and modify and integrate commercial software into cloud environment. They should understand multi-cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, Google, and others and will provide the Sponsor estimated costs of deploying system components to the target environment. They will coordinate and collaborate across the appropriate groups within security, operations, testing and other teams to provide system information and technical support; create, manage, and update work tickets; ensure that applications and services that fall under their purview are running up to date software versions to include code libraries; and provide weekly status updates regarding schedule deliverables, risks, and dependencies. The Systems Engineer will also work with and follow change and configuration management process and tools, manage the progress of COTS product integration and development efforts, comply with the existing programmatic methodologies, and coordinate appropriately for problem resolution, task scheduling, new resource requirements, and task clarification. They will also coordinate IT program management activities including scheduling of meetings and preparation of briefings and presentations; create, maintain, and brief Project Management Review (PMR) slides for projects; and work in partnership with an integrated team of Sponsor staff and contractors.

Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3296

Title: Application Express (APEX) Developer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Compensation Range; $190k – $210k
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.

Preferred Qualifications:

6 + years working with Database Development.
Must have experience with with Oracle Database Design
Advanced experience of Oracle APEX and PL/SQL
Experience with SQL and SQL Tuning.
Experience with Javascript is helpful
Basic knowledge of Restful services
Must have strong communications skills and the ability to follow-through, stay motivated, and collaborate with all team members.
BS in CS or related course of study, or equivalent year’s experience.

Qualifications:

Six (6) years of business or related IT experience is required. Bachelor's degree in a business or related technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Two (2) years of additional business or related IT experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3293

Title: Test Engineer – Level 3
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Compensation Range: $175k – $195k
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.

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

Experience using the Linux CLI
Experience with scripting languages like Python or Shell scripting to automate repetitive tasks, deploy test environments, and execute test suites
Experience with software testing methodologies, including test planning, test case design, test execution, and test result analysis
Experience with creating clear and concise documentation for test plans, procedures, configurations, and troubleshooting guides
Effective communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams, report findings, discuss requirements, and present solutions
Experience with executing test plans and the evaluation of software and system level capabilities

Position Desired Skills

Familiar with parallel computing concepts, distributed systems, and cluster architectures
Familiar with Splunk for searching, monitoring, and analyzing data
Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite (JIRA, Confluence)
Experience with Git Source Control System

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3292

AWS CLOUD ENGINEER
JOB DESCRIPTION
The AWS Cloud Engineer will build, deploy, manage, and administer cloud infrastructure designed to deliver complex software products in a production environment. The ideal candidate is a hands-on Cloud engineering professional with significant experience in developing and deploying repeatable processes, tools, and cloud infrastructure that enable the delivery of software in and on-demand cadence. They must have strong, firsthand technical expertise in a variety of configuration automation, deployment, and continuous integration technologies and the proven ability to fashion robust solutions that can keep pace with software development. They must be at ease working in an agile environment with cross functional team. This person should embody a passion for continuous improvement and innovation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Work with a team to build, administer, and secure cloud environments, including hybrid environments, in a repeatable and reliable manner
Design, develop, test, debug, and deploy new cloud tooling and infrastructure that extend or replace existing capabilities
Collaborate with cross-functional team of software engineers, data scientists, analysts, project managers and other engineering groups
Provide ongoing maintenance, support, and enhancements introductions systems and platforms
Provide recommendations for continuous improvement
Write and update technical documentation such as system documentation, training materials, processes and procedures
Work alongside other engineers on the team to sustain and advance our organization’s capabilities

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Demonstrated hands on experience configuring cloud VPCs, subnets, route tables, and gateways
Demonstrated experience scaling applications written in Java, Python or other programming languages with Cloud Native technologies
Experience deploying code in AWS utilizing solutions such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation
Experience working with cloud native technologies, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), and/or Serverless cloud technologies
Experience securing cloud environments per NIST 800-53 security controls
Demonstrated experience achieving customer accreditation of cloud solutions for highly sensitive system

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

AWS Certification: Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent
Demonstrated experience with cloud technologies used with ETL and big data pipelines such as Glue, EMR, HIVE, Spark, S3, SQS, and SNS
Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes or EKS
Demonstrated experience using the AWS CDK

Location: Columbia, Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3289

Title: Technical Writer
Location : Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Salary Range: $160,000-$170,000
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Ready to be part of a cutting edge growing Cyber Security project that is making a huge impact on the DOD/Intel community? This role includes performing within a team of Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, and Intel Analysts supporting DCO (Defensive Cyber Operations) activities and providing technical writing expertise. Teams are performing end to end vulnerability assessments of weapons systems and providing mitigation strategies and technical recommendations to protect systems from cyber threats!

Qualifications:

Bachelor in STEM field and 4 years Technical Writing experience or HS and 6 years Technical Writing experience supporting System Engineering teams
Experienced user of the latest release of Microsoft Office (or equivalent) products
Additionally, in accordance with any task, the candidate shall have a combination of the following skills:
Ability to capture up to date notes, and provide record management of latest project developments by attending meetings, project events, reviewing documentation, and email traffic associated with project.
Experience with engineering and project delivery life cycles
Ability to absorb and synthesize large quantities of engineering or technical information, be able to digest and summarize technical date to functional teams and Government leadership.
Ability to work with project and engineering team leads and members to identify required documentation repositories; support documentation revisions and edits while determining the best solution for compiling and storing modified and historical project artifacts.
Demonstrated ability to work closely with various mission delivery departments and engineering teams; support the vetting and definition of project requirements through verbal and online collaborations.
Read, interpret, modify system engineering drawings and specifications.
Demonstrated ability to enter technical studies, metadata, and data into relational databases.
Ability to upload content onto websites using COTS web authoring tools; Ability to integrate existing graphics into documents using various COTS tools.
TS/SCI with Poly ++

Desired

Vulnerability Assessment reporting
Cyber background; or experience with handling documentation dealing with major weapons/space systems

Location: McLean, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3283

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

Description: Create, update, and maintain a federated search and discovery software system to integrate data related to financial information from a variety of data providers within a cloud environment. The developer will utilize an Agile Scrum development methodology throughout this process.

Responsibilities include:

Java Full Stack Web Development
Developing a user friendly web application
Developing new features and enhancements to web application to allow users to search and correlate financial information related to their mission
Developing APIs and web services
Creating and maintaining AWS Cloud infrastructure

Required Skills:

Experience working within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment and utilizing tools such as SMS, Data Pipeline, Relational Database (RDS), Cloudwatch, EC2, EBS, S3, KMS, or SMS
Developing in a DevOps environment and utilizing tools such as GitHub, Subversion, Jenkins, Maven, or Artifactory
Utilizing web stack technologies and software design
Working at all tiers of the architecture, to include Web UI, Business Logic, and Database layer
Developing software in a continuous integration, continuous deployment (CI/CD) paradigm
Programming with Java and associated frameworks
Utilizing ElasticSearch and other big data technologies like MapReduce
Scripting using JavaScript (JS) framework like Angular JS or EXT-JS
Using tools such as Apache Tomcat, Apache Spark, Hadoop, SOLR, JDBC, ANT, Active Directory, LDAP, Regex, SQL, or JSON
Using JIRA tracking system
Employing Agile development methodology

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3282

Network Engineer
Chantilly, VA

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

Demonstrated experience analyzing existing systems and identifying necessary corrective actions and improvements.
Demonstrated experience building, maintaining and troubleshooting gold image hard drives.
Demonstrated experience coordinating and performing security testing.
Demonstrated experience creating network topology diagrams.
Demonstrated experience designing, configuring and troubleshooting Routing and Switching systems (Cisco expertise required).
Demonstrated experience implementing L2 and L3 VPN across an MPLS network.
Demonstrated experience installing, maintaining, and configuring Aspera Enterprise Server and Aspera P2P.
Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of automation solutions
Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and vRealize Suite.
Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of virtual networks and servers and virtual workstations.
Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of VMware vCenter and VMware NSX-T.
Demonstrated experience performing Hypervisor deployments.
Demonstrated experience using forensic software including Cellebrite, XRY, WinHex, FTK, and Autopsy.
Demonstrated experience with Gateway Redundancy Protocols to include HSRP and VRRP.
Demonstrated experience with network IP address management.
Demonstrated experience with network security such as firewalls and ACL’s.
Demonstrated experience with Routing Protocols to include OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP.
Demonstrated experience with vulnerability scanning tools.
Demonstrated experience working in Local Area Network (LAN) environments and Wide Area Network (WAN) environments.
Demonstrated experience working with TCP IP protocol suite, IP subnets and masking, and routing protocols.
Demonstrated hands on experience engineering the design, build, and configuration of Linux servers and virtual infrastructure.
Demonstrated hands on experience performing administration, troubleshooting, patching, and support of Linux servers and virtual infrastructure.
Demonstrated hands on experience performing engineering, implementation, and troubleshooting of VMWare virtualization infrastructure.
Demonstrated hands on experience performing risk analysis for proposed IT infrastructure changes.
Demonstrated hands on experience performing system monitoring and analysis, including root cause analysis of system faults and outages.
Demonstrated experience working with vendors on system troubleshooting.

Location: Linthicum, Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3279

Title: Target Digital Network Analyst
Location: Linthicum, MD
Salary Range: $200,000-$205,000
*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.

BS degree in Electrical / Computer / Software Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems or Stem Related
Minimum of 5 years of experience in 2 or more of the following:
Cryptanalytic work in military or intelligence community organization
Vulnerability assessment, pen testing, incident response, analysis networks and / or host forensics
Minimum of at least 3 years of experience in 3 or more of the following:
Microsoft windows operating systems, systems internals, file attributes; Executable file analysis; File Hasting and fuzzy file hashing
Experience with NTOC/SID(S2) analysis and production working cyber adversary intrusion set/targets
TS/SCI with Poly Required

Responsibilities

This position will combine expert level research with analyzed intelligence community assessments and reports and open-source intelligence to support vulnerability discovery and mitigation efforts of United States National Defense platforms and Critical Infrastructure
This support includes writing intelligence reports, briefing and informing senior leadership, and traveling to cyber tabletop exercises (CTTXs)
Conducting advanced analysis of SIGINT collection, open source data, network data and host data to ensure target community, to profile targets and their activities and develop techniques to gain more target information
Provide expert analytic support at both network and host level to identify and characterize anomalies on USG networks
Possesses knowledge of target technologies and applies skills and knowledge of digital networks and the applications on them to determine how targets communicate, move, operate, and live
Applies geospatial analysis techniques against network packet information, computer OS system data, executable file data, host data, and metadata collected from tasked communication system to identify anomalies, locate and track targets, and to accurately report the intelligence gained from the analysis to characterize anomalies on USG networks

Location: Herndon, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #3276

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

The Project Integrator will support the government customer organization responsible for establishing and improving data management services. This includes identifying business processes and assisting the organization to optimize its data management strategy, as it pertains to data compliance, data protection, and data sharing. The Project Integrator will act as a liaison between the customer's and partner's staff and contractor teams to ensure accurate information flow between groups.

• Prior experience in government customer or federal records and information management and applicable regulations and guidelines, with demonstrated experience supporting front offices and/or senior leaders.
• A strong background in the CFR and regulations is a must for this position
• Practical knowledge of project management methodologies and strong critical thinking skills.
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• 16 years of relevant experience is required for this position. A Bachelor's Degree in Management of Information Systems, Computer Science, and Information Systems, Engineering, Business or related field may be substituted for three years of experience; A total of five years may be substituted with an Advanced Degree.
• Demonstrated proficiency and extensive experience with Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and Office applications.

Optional Skills:

• Correlate and analyze business and technical data to understand performance and identify improvement opportunities by conducting analysis, monitoring compliance, and capturing lessons learned
• Translate strategic initiatives and business requirements into functional information technology requirements and corresponding capabilities
• Coordinate project schedules, facilitate meetings, document minutes, and trace action items for successful completion
• Assist with development of a communication strategy and materials for organization