Satellite Systems Engineer with SIGINT Clearance: TS/SCI with Poly Chantilly, VA
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Satellite Systems Engineer with SIGINT to work collaboratively in order to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services.
Space and Satellite Systems Engineer with a RF background focusing on asset inheritance, system of systems interoperability, enterprise level test plan/report/procedure execution, mission CONOPS development, analysis and planning, and requirements verification. This individual must be adaptable and flexible enough to fit mission needs with an intrinsic ability to engage, learn, and share knowledge. This position is not daily operations as partner organizations complete the actual day-to-day operations, but a percentage of future time may require satellite mission planning, please keep reading…
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
The Satellite System Engineer will be part of a small team that supports a larger program. This small team through a keen understanding of mission purpose and system capability monitors and analyzes various overhead sensing platforms as well as associated ground systems and networks. As system capabilities are added or enhanced, the engineer will assist the team to understand if these enhancements continue to support mission requirements. The ability to review software plus system requirements, then plan and execute enterprise level testing may be required with discrepancies and gap analysis fed back into the SAFe development lifecycle. The engineer may also provide technical assistance in the development of next generation programs by creating day-in-the-life scenarios, contributing to overall mission CONOPs, and share lessons learned with the wider organization. The engineer will work directly with the team lead, SETAs, and customer.
This position is within the customer work environment and requires a calm demeanor, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to act with technical precision and speed.
Preferred Experience:
Demonstrated understanding of various SIGINT space systems architectures, basic orbital mechanics, and satellite operations to assist with potential asset inheritance
Demonstrated experience with space mission management and planning activities
Familiarity with satellite mission ground systems including development and functional operation
Strong interpersonal and communication skills to interface on a daily basis with the customer and their technical staff.
Contributes to detailed technical analyses at the System of System (SOS) level
Configuration management of test and team systems engineering artifacts
Ability to understand and communicate satellite network data, packetizing, modulation schemes, command and control sequence, and message flows
Ability to elicit requirements from TEMs then document and provide traceability within JIRA or other requirement tracking tools
Solid academic grounding and experience with methods and tools applying systems engineering concepts, principles, and theories
Ability to document, prioritize, and explain system discrepancies to vendors/customer
Leads requirements analysis, requirements definition, requirements management, functional analysis, performance analysis, system design, detail trade studies, systems integration and test (verification), validation and interface definition studies of system, subsystem or system elements with little or no supervision
Leads detailed technical analyses for a system, subsystem or system elements to include: concept, requirements, design, integration, test, acceptance, delivery, training, operation, maintenance and disposal
Identifies, analyzes and resolves space/ground segment system design weaknesses.
Synthesizes solutions to meet customer expectations and technical performance while staying within schedule and cost constraints.
Nice to have:
Solid understanding of Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering for comms and payload
Knowledge of satellite and ground station calibration approaches
Experience with Pulse Descriptor Words (PDW) and ability to understand explain signal parameters
Space/Satellite operations experience and familiarity with TT&C, TLE, and ephemeris
Demonstrated use and understanding of SE concepts, principles, and theories
Demonstrated proficiency with requirements management, system design & system modeling tools
Proficient written and verbal communications skills to lead staff and small team proposal
Shows initiative on assignments, exercises independent judgment, and professionally executes projects with little direction
Experience with Matlab or Python
Experience working with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and other Agile software development efforts
Proficient ability in communicating issues, impacts, and corrective actions
Understanding of satellite design and subsystems is a plus
May assist with tracking satellite anomalies and resolution
Ability to keep an economic perspective when seeking efficiencies to improve customer value
Required Qualifications:
Requires a Bachelors degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field. Also requires 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience. Agile experience preferred.
Location:Herndon, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2310
Program Manager
Herndon, VA
PM role that requires someone with proven experience leading teams that are charged with implementing cross domain solutions that support requirements of varying complexity in addition to planning and managing the coordinated effort of a team of different stakeholders, information technology, and related technical professionals, to include personnel from different organizations with competing interests (e.g., customer, cross domain governing bodies, hosting facility, and technology provider).
In addition to running the Project Management Framework throughout each of the projects. Their technical familiarity should be in infrastructure should have an understanding of storage, networks, data center, and platform (OS) services. They will need to have a holistic view of the project and the technical intra-dependencies among the project. Help bring the technical staff together on project to fill gaps and communicate openly to get things done.
Required:
Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent work experience
Demonstrated 11 years of experience and knowledge in managing IT projects
Ability to monitor the progress of multiple concurrent and highly visible projects and requirements with the ability to recommend or take required corrective actions; skilled at risk identification and management
Hands-on experience developing and managing resource loaded project schedules using MS project.
Ability to articulate complex resource and technical issues to a range of audiences; excellent communication skills
Hands-on experience leading and managing enterprise level, multi-disciplinary cross-organizational project teams using the Agency Project Management Framework (PMF) and Agile project management methodology
Proven ability to build and maintain constructive relationships among customers, stakeholders, technical teams, and contractors across the customer space & IC
Extensive ability to communicate (orally and in writing) the most complex technical concepts and project information, tailoring ideas, explanations, and concepts to executive and senior managers.
Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent projects, short deadlines, and competing priorities
Demonstrated initiative, sound judgment, and ability to work independently and as a team player
Expert ability to identify programmatic challenges, risks, and constraints coupled with strong ability to convey well thought mitigation strategies
PMP Certification
Knowledge of Agency enterprise technical architecture, services-oriented architectures, security requirements, and operating environments
A broad knowledge of Agency IT components, missions and strategies
Familiarity with Intelligence Community issues, policies, systems, and working relationships
Demonstrated ability to examine project successes and failures and make recommendations to improve processes and practices
Strong analytic ability to evaluate programmatic data, resolve inconsistencies and propose solutions to project issues
Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability and willingness to initiate and manage relationships across the customer space.
The selected candidate can be located locally in Reston, VA or remote.
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Job Requirements:
• Collaborate with software architects and developers.
• Collaborate with the project managers, analysts, and customers in the analysis, design, creation, and maintenance of integration solutions.
• Produce code to develop easy maintenance and extension of DSI software products.
• Integrate software components and third-party programs.
• Understand and demonstrate development skills utilizing ASP.NET, .NET Core, .NET Framework, C#, and JavaScript/JQuery.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing software.
• Perform validation and verification testing prior to deploying implementations.
• Recommend and execute improvements.
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting.
• All other duties as assigned.
Required Experience:
• 5+ years of experience with software development, infrastructure development, or related field.
• Working understanding of SQL, SSL Certificates, and Single Sign on Configurations.
• Understanding of the asp.net application lifecycle from IIS to the DOM.
• Create and consume REST and SOAP web services.
• Experience with Windows environment and Visual Studio.
• Experience with .NET, SaaS.
• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to multitask and manage time efficiently.
• Ability to work independently and in a team.
Desired Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field.
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2285
Counterintelligence Referent Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Poly Chantilly, VA
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of CI Referent to work collaboratively in order to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services for a large Government agency to detect and mitigate insider threats.
The Insider Threat Detection program is manned by a multi-disciplinary team of system and data engineers, data scientists, software developers, intelligence analysts, and investigators to provide insider threat detection and counterintelligence services. This program provides an opportunity to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services for a large Government agency to detect and mitigate insider threats. This program takes data from multiple sources in any format (structured or unstructured), transforms it into interpretable fragments, and allow our engines to categorize, quantify, distill, and display results for human analysts to interpret. Team members work closely with esteemed customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions. The technology stack is built on cutting edge hardware and software with multiple Windows and Linux environments interfacing with multi-petabyte data processing and analytic platforms – all designed, built, and maintained by our team.
We are looking for a Counterintelligence Referent that is a self-starter with the mindset that stays up to date with the latest tools and techniques. This is a challenging yet rewarding position that provides an opportunity to leverage cutting edge technologies in pursuit of a vital mission that protects people, sensitive information/technologies, and the national security posture of the USIC.
The field of insider threat detection and mitigation is evolving and growing, and our program needs highly innovative individuals, please keep reading…
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
The CI Referent delivers mission assurance to an Intelligence Community (IC) member by providing dedicated CI support to their agencys overall daily requirements, operations, critical infrastructure, research & development, and major acquisitions. CI Referents are integrated into the critical components of their assigned agency and into separate mission sites to better identify internal/external adversarial threats and communicate with relevant IC partners.
The CI Referent is responsible for maintaining current CI support plans for aerospace/satellite programs as directed by the Government and other IC assets, as assigned. The CI Referent works closely with company and program Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to assist in identifying threats to Critical Program Information. The most valuable aspects of a program and the personnel responsible for those assets are identified and protected. Frequent and productive liaison with law enforcement, IC members, military intelligence agencies, and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is imperative.
The CI Referent supports Research, Development, and Acquisition (RDA) programs, CI Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM), Defense and Critical Infrastructure, and the Insider Threat Program. The CI Referent works closely with aerospace/satellite assets to support the transport and launch of space vehicles. The CI Referent is responsible for analysis, collections, and inquiries, which are conducted in accordance with existing legal statutes, IC and DOD policies, procedures and applicable federal, state, and local laws.
The CI Referent coordinates complex CI concerns, with a heavy emphasis on SCRM matters. The CI Referent also coordinates cyber threats, criminal violations such as espionage and terrorism, insider threat, and the compromise of classified material, with their assigned IC agency, and all other appropriate IC, and law enforcement offices. The CI Referent protects the equities of their assigned agency by developing actionable information with federal counterparts. The CI Referent also coordinates and tracks the CI outreach conducted by their agency.
Required Experience and Qualifications:
Comprehensive knowledge of federal laws, Executive Orders, IC guidance, DOD regulations, and procedures concerning CI collections, investigations, interviewing techniques, and operations.
Extensive knowledge of the IC, CI organizations, and law enforcement elements to include their authorities, roles, responsibilities, jurisdictions, functions, and relationships.
Extensive knowledge of the adversary, methods of operations, targeting activities, and intent.
Proficient knowledge of security practices for ensuring the safeguarding of classified information, as well as the knowledge and experience dealing with intelligence oversight issues.
Comprehensive knowledge and experience in conducting CI related research, analysis, and critical thinking, including the judicial process and impacts upon the IC process for delivering finished analytic and investigative products.
Knowledge and experience in providing CI services to support research, development, and acquisition (e.g., SCRM), Committee on the Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), financial management functions, acquisition lifecycle, and contracting functions, as well as CI services for the protection of critical infrastructure and associated critical national assets.
Working knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerability, including the applicable laws, regulations, policies, and ethics related to cybersecurity, privacy, and impacts.
Applies techniques of debriefing, interviewing, or elicitation in a systematic manner through direct and indirect questioning to obtain information of security, counterintelligence and/or intelligence value. Prepares accurate and complete reports that document processes, outcomes, and findings.
Assesses/analyzes potential CI leads generated by internal/external LE and CI partners.
Preferred/bonus skills:
Bachelors degree in a related specialized area or field or the equivalent is required plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
Interviewing, elicitation, and debriefing skills commensurate with the professional experience and education of the prospective job candidate.
Experience interacting with agencies across the IC. Experience with DOD CI Collection requirements.
Completion of a formal state or federal CI training program, such as the FBI, FLETC, AFOSI, NCIS, US Army MI, JCITA, DCITA, etc.
Background and experience in CI SCRM and CI support to RDA.
Ability to travel worldwide.
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2282
Software Developer Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Poly Chantilly, VA
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Software Developer to work collaboratively in order to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services for a large Government agency to detect and mitigate insider threats.
The Insider Threat Detection program is manned by a multi-disciplinary team of system and data engineers, data scientists, software developers, intelligence analysts, and investigators to provide insider threat detection and counterintelligence services. This program provides an opportunity to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services for a large Government agency to detect and mitigate insider threats. This program takes data from multiple sources in any format (structured or unstructured), transforms it into interpretable fragments, and allow our engines to categorize, quantify, distill, and display results for human analysts to interpret. Team members work closely with esteemed customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions. The technology stack is built on cutting edge hardware and software with multiple Windows and Linux environments interfacing with multi-petabyte data processing and analytic platforms – all designed, built, and maintained by our team.
We are looking for a Software Developer that is a self-starter with the mindset that stays up to date with the latest tools and techniques. This is a challenging yet rewarding position that provides an opportunity to leverage cutting edge technologies in pursuit of a vital mission that protects people, sensitive information/technologies, and the national security posture of the USIC.
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The field of insider threat detection and mitigation is evolving and growing, and our program needs highly innovative individuals, please keep reading…
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Design, develop, and deploy client facing software
Interact with other software developers, customers, and stakeholders
Solve complex problems and improve processes
Collaborate with team members to ensure code is completed efficiently and effectively
Perform root cause analysis on production systems
Required Experience and Qualifications:
Hands-on experience with one or more of the following software languages: C#/.NET, Java, or Python
Strong knowledge of Microsoft development tools (Visual Studio, SQL Management Studio, etc.)
Solid understanding of object-oriented architecture and design
Experience building customer facing software
Experience designing and developing client-side, server-side, and database components for new application features using C#/.NET, Web API, SQL Server, jQuery, Knockout.js (or similar framework), JavaScript, CSS and HTML5.
Hands on experience with SQL Server
Solid understanding of Git
Practical experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
Preferred/bonus skills::
Bachelors of Science in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) related field, plus 8 yrs or Masters degree plus 6 yrs.
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2281
Senior Data Engineer Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Poly Chantilly, VA
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Senior Data Engineer to work collaboratively in order to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services for a large Government agency to detect and mitigate insider threats.
The Insider Threat Detection program is manned by a multi-disciplinary team of system and data engineers, data scientists, software developers, intelligence analysts, and investigators to provide insider threat detection and counterintelligence services. This program provides an opportunity to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services for a large Government agency to detect and mitigate insider threats. This program takes data from multiple sources in any format (structured or unstructured), transforms it into interpretable fragments, and allow our engines to categorize, quantify, distill, and display results for human analysts to interpret. Team members work closely with esteemed customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions. The technology stack is built on cutting edge hardware and software with multiple Windows and Linux environments interfacing with multi-petabyte data processing and analytic platforms – all designed, built, and maintained by our team.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will help us expand our insider threat capabilities in automating data integration and collection strategies. The successful candidate will help expand and optimize the data ingestion pipeline architecture, develop strategies for efficient ingestion, processing, storage, structuring, and access. In addition, the Data Engineer will support data analysts, data scientists, and big data engineers in identifying data sources, performing exploratory data analysis, developing data models, ensuring data cleanliness and accuracy to provide new Insider Threat behavioral insights.
The field of insider threat detection and mitigation is evolving and growing, and our program needs highly innovative individuals, please keep reading…
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Support data science team by designing, developing and implementing scalable ETL process for disparate datasets into a Hadoop infrastructure
Design, develop, implement, and maintain data ingestion process from various disparate datasets using StreamSets (experience with StreamSets not mandatory)
Develop processes to identify data drift and malformed records
Develop technical documentation and standard operating procedures
Leads technical tasks for small teams or projects
Required Experience:
Working knowledge of entity resolution systems
Experience with Hadoop and Hive/Impala
Experience with messages systems like Kafka
Experience with NoSQL and/or graph databases like MongoDB or ArangoDB
Any of the following databases: SQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Postgres
Working experience with ETL processing and Python
Working experience with data workflow products like StreamSets or NiFi
Working experience with Python RESTful API services, JDBC
Experience with Cloudera Data Science Workbench is a plus
Understanding of pySpark
Leadership experience
Creative thinker
Ability to multi-task
Excellent use and understanding of data engineering concepts, principles, and theories.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelors of Science in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) related field, plus 8 yrs or Masters degree plus 6 yrs.
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2280
Senior Solutions Architect Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Poly Chantilly, VA
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Senior Solutions Architect to work collaboratively in order to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services for a large Government agency to detect and mitigate insider threats.
We are looking for a technologist that understands the wide enterprise IT landscape and can effectively identify and communicate risks and solution enhancements. As Senior Solution Architect you will become an expert in all aspects of the production infrastructure and work closely with onsite engineers, administrators, database admins, and software developers. You will work in a secure, fast paced environment with continuous integrations and leading-edge technologies. You will actively engage with the Government customer leadership members to communicate your strategies through verbal and written presentations. The field of Solutions Architect is evolving and growing, and our program needs highly innovative individuals, please keep reading…
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Analyze current IT architecture and propose, design and implement future enhancements
Effectively communicate solutions and issues to wide audience of technical and non-technical members
Conceptualize, develop and implement IT architecture solutions in a secure customer mission space
Form key relationships with all members of the technical service team and act as the bond that integrates the various technical duties together
Identify customer needs and requirement, plan and present future product road maps
Identify all required components for solutions integration including hardware/software procurements, data center power sizing, network design, and deployment strategies
Work closely with System Engineers and Administrators to define and align tasks for solution implementations
Work closely with technology vendors to evaluate products through technical exchange meetings and product evaluations
Develop solutions that are highly available and fault tolerant
Develop project plans and identify risks
Identify legacy solutions and design recap
Required Experience:
Minimum three (3) years experience in designing, developing, building, and implementing Big Data solutions or developing automated solutions to solve complex problems, a thoughtful ability to solve problems could outweigh years of experience.
Experience creating Solution Briefings for customers that provide a solution description, cost/benefit analysis and implementation schedules.
Experience deploying solutions that meet NIST 800-53, ICD503 security requirements
Wide comprehension of how various IT infrastructure components work together, including Servers/Workstations, network equipment, Big Data infrastructure, data storage management, enterprise software application, and on-premise cloud solutions
Expert in Microsoft Enterprise Infrastructure components such as Active Directory, Domains and Trusts, DNS, DHCP, SQL, Exchange, Clusters
Experience with IT workstation environments and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Comfortable working on site in a secure classified environment
Experience implementing storage technologies to include Fiber Channel SAN and Network Attached Storage
Experience configuring Local Area and Wide Area Networks.
Experience configuring Firewall policies and NAT polies
Experience engaging with vendors to allocate budgets for IT purchases and plan procurements
Experience designing and implementing on premise cloud architecture using VMware vSphere
Experience with developing disaster recovery and COOP plans is a plus
Experience designing and implementing Hadoop (HDFS, Kafka, Impala/Hive)
Experience with UNIX/Linux environments
Experience designing and integrating firewall solutions
Experience with Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) is a plus
Experience integrating hardware solutions into Enterprise Data Centers
Understanding of RESTful service and APIs
Working experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Required Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or IT related field
DoD 8570 Compliant
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2256
Title: Applications Developer Engineer – junior
Location: Hanover, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Applications developers use programming languages and source code to create software that meets government requirements. Developer may work with multiple programming languages. Application development involves the process, life cycle and creation of the software designed to meet the government requirements.
Capabilities:
With assistance breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
With assistance clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Work as a part of a team to write a specific sectionofcode.
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Mathematics degree
Four (4) years of equivalent related military experience may be substituted for the Bachelor degree
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Applications developers use programming languages and source code to create software that meets government requirements. Developer may work with multiple programming languages. Application development involves the process, life cycle and creation of the software designed to meet the government requirements.
Capabilities:
With assistance breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
With assistance clarify actions the program is intended to perform. (U) Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Breakdown program specifications into it’s simplest elements and translate it into code.
Clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Combine all elements of a program design and test it.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users.
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or
Computer Engineering or Mathematics and have two (2) years of software/system development work experience (Four (4) years of equivalent related military experience may be substituted for Bachelor degree), with knowledge in one (1) or more of the following areas:
Software System Design
Software System Development
Software System Integration
Software System Testing
In addition to the minimum requirements above, the individual shall have at least one (1) year of work experience in two or more of the following areas:
Developing software applications in C, C++, or Java.
Developing software applications for Unix, Linux, or Windows environments.
Developing DLLs for the Windows environment.
Development on computer telephony platforms using computer telephony cards such as Dialogic.
Object-oriented programming.
Working knowledge of common protocols/standards such as TCP/IP, SNMP, H.323, X.25, 802.11, 802.16, SIP, MEGACO, or MGCP.
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2254
Title: Application Developer Engineer – Senior
Location: Hanover, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Applications developers use programming languages and source code to create software that meets government requirements. Developer may work with multiple programming languages. Application development involves the process, life cycle and creation of the software designed to meet the government requirements.
Capabilities:
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
Clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Combine all elements of a program design and test it.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users.
Breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
Clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Lead a team to write a specific multiple sections of code.
Combine all elements of a program design and test it.
Establish detailed program specification through discussion with government stakeholders.
Conduct User acceptance testing.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users.
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Mathematics and a minimum of six (6) years of software/system development work experience or a Masters of Computer Science or Computer Engineering (Four (4) years of equivalent related military experience may be substituted for Bachelor degree) with a minimum of four (4) years of experience, with expertise in two (2) or more of the following areas:
System Requirements Analysis
Software System Design
Software System Development
Software System Integration
Software System Testing
In addition to the requirements above, the individual shall have at least five (5) years of work experience in three or more of the following areas:
Developing software applications in C, C++, or Java.
Developing software applications for Unix, Linux, or Windows environments.
Developing DLLs for the Windows environment.
Development on computer telephony platforms using computer telephony cards such as Dialogic.
Object-oriented design and programming.
Working knowledge of common protocols/standards such as TCP/IP, SNMP, H.323, X.25, 802.11, 802.16, SIP, MEGACO, or MGCP.
Web development, with proven knowledge of XML, php, mySQL, ColdFusion, or Apache.
Script writing using Perl, Python, Bourne shell, C shell, or other proprietary scripting languages.
Database experience with Sybase, Oracle, or Microsoft.
Reverse engineering and analysis of software.
Kernel knowledge of Unix (Linux).
Bit-level data analysis.
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2253
Title: Application Development Engineer – SME
Location: Hanover, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Applications developers use programming languages and source code to create software that meets government requirements. Developer may work with multiple programming languages. Application development involves the process, life cycle and creation of the software designed to meet the government requirements.
Capabilities:
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
Clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Combine all elements of a program design and test it.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users.
Breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
Clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Lead a team to write a specific multiple sections of code.
Combine all elements of a program design and test it.
Establish detailed program specification through discussion with government stakeholders.
Conduct User acceptance testing.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users.
Combine all elements of a program design and test it
Establish detailed program specification through discussion with government stakeholders.
Conduct User acceptance testing.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users.
Guide the design and development process to completion.
Test critical portions of programs to ensure proper operation.
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Mathematics and a minimum of fifteen (15) years of software/system development work experience or a Masters of Computer Science or Computer Engineering (Four (4) years of equivalent related military experience may be substituted for Bachelor degree) with a minimum of ten (10) years of experience with technical expertise in three (3) or more of the following areas:
System Requirements Analysis
Software System Design
Software System Development
Software System Integration
Software System Testing
In addition to the requirements above, the individual shall have at least five (5) years of work experience in three or more of the following areas:
Developing software applications in C, C++, or Java.
Developing software applications for Unix, Linux, or Windows environments.
Developing DLLs for the Windows environment.
Development on computer telephony platforms using computer telephony cards such as Dialogic.
Object-oriented design and programming.
Working knowledge of common protocols/standards such as TCP/IP, SNMP, H.323, X.25, 802.11, 802.16, SIP, MEGACO, or MGCP.
Web development, with proven knowledge of XML, php, mySQL, ColdFusion, or Apache.
Script writing using Perl, Python, Bourne shell, C shell, or other proprietary scripting languages.
Database experience with Sybase, Oracle, or Microsoft.
Reverse engineering and analysis of software.
Kernel knowledge of Unix (Linux).
Bit-level data analysis.
Location:Tysons Corner, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2252
Title: Field Service Representative (1st/2nd/3rd Shift)
Location: Tysons, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
The Field Service Representative is a systems administrator with a strong aptitude to troubleshoot Tier 1 technical problems in real-time both independently and within a team environment. As part of a team of FSRs, you will support fellow team members, end users, and other engineer teams with a focus on communicating effectively across all stakeholders in a 24/7 operational environment.
For reference, here is a list of shifts that exist on the team:
1st Shift: 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM*
2nd Shift: 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM*
3rd Shift: 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM*
Key Experience and Skills Required:
MS Windows 10, Server 2016, Server 2019, SQL Server 2014/ 2016/ 2019
MS Office Suite 2016, Symantec Anti-Virus, Veritas Back-up Exec, Mediawiki
Jira (ticket system)
Establishing work methodologies to gather, organize, and report metrics for review with appropriate engineer(s) for system monitoring and maintenance, e.g., records, reports, graphs, charts
Supporting and maintaining system operations and schedules consistently across shifts
Communicating issue resolution in an educational and informative manner with end users
Troubleshooting issues and coordinating resolutions among team members and stakeholders across various locations and shifts
Exercising judgment within defined policies, practices, and procedures to determine appropriate action
Basic windows script knowledge. You should be able to understand a batch file. This includes following the path of the configuration in the batch file; creating your own batch files to perform desired tasks; and troubleshooting batch files to see where they may be broken.
Supporting daily/weekly program meetings as a required
Knowledge of the imagery exploitation lifecycle, and various imagery systems
On call 24/7 Tier 1 support
Key Foundational Skills:
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Problem-solver, well-versed in troubleshooting
Flexible and versatile enough to work on a variety of different tasks and technologies
Self-starter, does not need training in system administration/Tier 1 support fundamentals
Fast learner, grasps and applies new information quickly
Ability to multitask and sustain multiple operational systems simultaneously based on current operational needs
Shows initiative on assignments, exercises independent judgment, and professionally executes projects with little direction
Highly Desired Experience and Skills:
MAAS (Multi-int Analysis and Archive System)
Haivision, encoder technology and video routing
Well-informed of current and future technologies
Subject matter expert (SME) in one discipline/field and developing working knowledge in adjacent disciplines/fields
Strong background supporting intelligence and FMV operations
Documentation/SOP creation and maintenance
Building productive internal/external working relationships
Location:Tysons Corner, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2251
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Tysons, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Duties and Tasks:
As part of our site team, our On-Site Senior Software Engineer will have the opportunity to gain familiarity with new tools, technologies, software applications, and our Multi-INT Analysis and Archive System (MAAS) via in-depth, hands-on training.
The On-Site Senior Software Engineer position requires someone with a keen ability to rapidly solve software challenges with a focus on communicating effectively with the customer, team and end users on a highly important and exciting program. The ideal candidate must be able to work independently under pressure and effectively identify, recommend and solve mission related issues when software solutions are needed. The candidate must be able to communicate and work effectively with remote, non-collocated development teams.
The On-Site Senior Software Engineer will support tools, applications, products, and services that involve docker containers, microservices, Nifi workflows, and various other container orchestration systems. At the direction of the government customer and the Multi-INT Analysis and Archive System (MAAS) development team, responsibilities may include front end development related to customer software solutions and efforts to create, maintain, and update new features on web pages. The candidate may also support back-end development and collaboration efforts.
In addition to solving ongoing operational problems, novel software solutions will be greatly valued, especially using the latest accepted software technologies. On-site software implementations and prototypes will be evaluated and migrated back into the formal software baseline at the factory.
The ideal candidate will have a general passion for software solutions and will possess an inquisitive mind that can quickly adapt and work independently, with teams, and with ad-hoc tasking on various applications/products.
Required Skills:
Front-End Software Engineering Skills:
Web Development/Web Frameworks (Node, React, Angular, Vue)
Drive to pro-actively seek out customer needs, system improvements, innovative solutions
Agile experience
Organized Innovator who can recommend and efficiently implement new ways to visualize data and information with minimal impact to users/systems
Strong hands-on experience
Location:Tysons Corner, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2250
Title: Advanced Software Engineer
Location: Tysons, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
The On-Site Senior Software Engineer position requires someone with a keen ability to rapidly solve software challenges with a focus on communicating effectively with the customer, team, and end users on a highly important and exciting program. The ideal candidate must be able to work independently under pressure and effectively identify, recommend, and solve mission related issues when software solutions are needed. The candidate must be able to communicate and work effectively with remote, non-collocated development teams.
The On-Site Senior Software Engineer will ensure the proper operation of the Mult-Int Analysis and Archive System (MAAS – FMV) which includes many dependencies on other systems (e.g., video encoders, network infrastructure, database, etc). The candidate will focus on front end development related to customer software solutions on-site at the direction of the government customer and the MAAS development team. The candidate may support backend development and collaboration efforts in addition to front end development efforts. In addition to solving ongoing operational problems, novel software solutions will be greatly valued, especially using the latest accepted software technologies. On-site software implementations and prototypes will be evaluated and migrated back into the formal software baseline at the factory.
The ideal candidate will have a general passion for software solutions and will possess an inquisitive mind that can quickly adapt and work effectively with the entire on-site team.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
General language skillsets
Java (AOP, IOC)
JavaScript, React/Redux, AngularJS
SQL, NoSQL, Graph
C++
General required concepts
GraphDB, SQL and NoSQL data modeling / visualization / querying
MS SQL Server, OmniSci, Accumulo/Hadoop preferred
Reactive application development in a web browser –
Write and manage large applications in React/Redux, rxJS, Reactive Streams
Manage and bug triage legacy applications in AngularJS
Debug and troubleshoot applications in customer space
Applications range from Java to C++ at priority determined by customer
Microservice API development and integration experience (gRPC/REST)
Deploy micro and macro services in NodeJS or JBoss
Manage communication endpoints in gRPC or REST
REST based service level integration, API negotiation, Threading and Load Balancing
Managing scalability of deployed software products
Heavily use ETL concepts and engines to decouple solutions
Apache NIFI
Creating and maintaining orchestration templates, modifying templates provided from unclassified teams into classified space
Process
Prior experience operating with Kanban processes
Ability to manage and/or contribute to software baselines across classification boundaries
Location:Tysons Corner, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2249
Title: Engineering Site Lead
Location: Tysons, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
The Engineering Site Lead is an experienced systems engineer and technical leader with exceptional multi-tasking skills to tackle challenges across systems, processes, and agile teams that support mission operations. As part of our site team you will:
lead efforts in requirement gathering by interacting with customers
lead multi-faceted engineers in supporting critical 24/7 system operations
lead prioritizing of development, testing, troubleshooting, and delivery activities for end-to-end system performance validation efforts with a focus on communicating effectively with customers, team members, and end users in a 24/7 operational environment
Key Experience and Skills Required:
Planning, delegating, driving technical efforts to completion
JIRA, Agile experience, backlog grooming and prioritization
Flexibility and versatility to work on a variety of different tasks and technologies
Understanding and communicating technical strategies to inform development efforts
Proactive identification and prioritization of system improvements and innovations that move technical solutions forward
Deploying and implementing solutions from factory to ops with minimal impact to users/systems
System testing, troubleshooting, demos to inform the development cycle
Supporting daily/weekly group and leadership meetings
Experience with resolving ad hoc and/or urgent tasks involving multiple stakeholders
Use case and SOP development
Requirements Elicitation and facilitating agreements between customers
Key Foundational Skills:
Detail oriented
Excellent communication and collaboration skills (across teams and customers)
Excellent team collaboration/team player
Well-informed of current and future technologies
Self-starter, problem-solver, well-versed in troubleshooting
Knowledge of software engineering/computer science fundamentals
Strong understanding and application of engineering principles, practices, and standards
Ability to multitask and sustain multiple operational systems simultaneously based on current operational needs
Knowledge of the imagery exploitation lifecycle, and various imagery systems
Subject matter expert (SME) in one discipline/field and developing working knowledge in adjacent disciplines/fields
Linux administration
Familiarity with Kibana
Experience as a technical liaison between various stakeholders
Experience aligning business needs, technical needs, and mission needs
Location:Tysons, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2247
Chief Engineer of GEOINT Clearance: S/TS with Poly Tysons, VA Hybrid
The Chief Engineer is responsible for the overall technical direction and execution for the Program development team and other efforts in the Multi-Int business of the Space and Intelligence Systems (SIS) Intelligence, Intelligence Solutions (IS) business area. The Chief Engineer position is like an Integrated Product Team (IPT) lead or a Program Technical Manager (PTM). In this position, the candidate is required to support the development of systems and capabilities centered on our MAAS baseline and offshoot capabilities.
The Chief Engineer will create consensus among the development team, the government team, and the program manager. This position is a leadership position for our organization that performs our SAFe-compliant agile software development process. You’ll perform software requirements analysis, system integration activities, lead research and design, develop and test software and tools, to include development of new work products or enhancing existing applications, systems or embedded products. We will rely on your experience and knowledge to solve the hardest technical problems facing the company, often requiring the utmost creativity and innovation. It’s your chance to step up to the challenge and prove you’re ready to lead the world.
What You’ll Experience:
Technologies that aren’t just top-notch, they’re often top-secret
A team of bold thinkers committed to exploring what’s next
Opportunities to gain new knowledge – as it’s discovered
What You Bring To The Table:
A Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering, a related specialized area or field and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience or a Master's degree and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
Substantial leadership skills and proven team building and motivation skills
Proven problem-solving skills in complex environments
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time if necessary
What Sets You Apart:
Skilled at applying and executing highly advanced technologies, principles, theories and concepts
Strong ability to work with leadership team to plan and execute tactical and strategic efforts
Strong ability to lead, mentor, and motivate experienced technical staff
High level of proficiency in project management, including managing to budgets, schedules, and technical execution
Through proactive leadership, creates an environment where the impact of technology on the business is clearly recognized
Use JIRA to manage daily, sprint, and increment metrics, performance, and backlogs
Demonstrated ability to collaborate across multiple locations
Location:Tysons Corner, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2245
Title: Senior Systems Engineer
Location: Tysons, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Senior Advanced Systems Engineers will:
Perform MAAS Database maintenance
Knowledge of the imagery exploitation life cycle, and various imagery systems
Network and System Engineering experience
Network hardware Engineering
Microsoft Engineering
Support the following OS and software: MS Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, Active Directory, MAAS (Multi-int Analysis and Archive System), MS Office Suites, VMWare, vSphere, vCenter 7
Report information through weekly site communications group meetings, weekly status reports, and monthly logs to team members and management
SPLUNK
PKI experience
SQL Database experience
SCCM
What You’ll Experience:
Technologies that aren’t just top-notch, they are cutting edge.
A team of bold thinkers committed to exploring what’s next
Opportunities to gain new knowledge – as it’s discovered
What You Bring To The Table:
Subject matter expert (SME) in one discipline/field and developing working knowledge in adjacent disciplines/fields
Proficient understanding and application of engineering principles, concepts, practices, and standards
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2244
Title: Full Stack C# Developer
Location: Hanover, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Designs, develops, and builds front-end user interfaces (web pages), business logic and algorithms, and also writes code that interacts with the database and passes data back and forth between the front end and the data store.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Capabilities:
Codes, tests, integrates and documents software solutions
Applies principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to the development of complex solutions
Participates as a Subject Matter Expert in internal review of software components and systems
Works on the hardest technical problems facing the company, often these problems are unusually complex and require the utmost creativity and innovation
Applies and champions the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products
Receives no appreciable instruction on day-to-day work; more often responsible to define the scope, schedule and expectations for the work they execute or lead; assignments may be self-initiated
Provides leadership and/or direction and/or supervision to lower level employees and teams
Leads large technical tasks and large teams and projects
Keeps abreast of technology trends and champions new ideas and process improvements
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in software engineering or a related technical field is required plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience. Agile experience preferred.
Alternatively: Strong development skills in Java and a willingness to learn C#
Database experience
Preferred: MongoDB
HTML
CSS
Deployment with a Web Server
Preferred: IIS
Proficient understanding of software engineering concepts, principles, and theories
Proficient at applying technical standards and methodologies to resolve issues in creative ways and help company meet financial and business objectives
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2235
Location: Hanover, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
The Java Developer Engineer will assist project leaders in the research, design, development and testing of software and tools, to include development of new work products or enhancing existing applications, systems or embedded products. This may include coding, testing and documenting software solutions to advance our technology solutions.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Capabilities:
Use Java development experience to develop, deploy, and maintain mission-critical applications
Provide support and technical advice during conceptualization, development, and implementation phases to transform requirements to working solutions. This includes involvement with users to define system scope and objectives, as well as contributing to design decisions.
Work on new development and re-engineering efforts, including making system design decisions
Implement enhancements to existing system in addition to coordinating with other developers working in parallel and perform QA/testing as needed
Provide software development services on all tiers
Experience with test driven development
Scrum/agile project lifecycle approach to software development
Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experience is required; Agile experience preferred
Clear understanding of software engineering concepts, principles, and theories
Clear understanding of the software development process
Candidate must have experience in the following:
1 year of Developing software applications for Java
1 year of Developing software applications for Unix, Linux, or Windows environments
1 year of Developing software applications for Python
Experience in two (2) or more of the following:
Developing DLLs for the Windows environment
Development on computer telephony platforms using computer technology cards such as Dialogic
Object-oriented programming
Working knowledge of common protocols/standards such as TCP/IP, SNMP, H.323, X.25, 802.11, 802.16, SIP, MEGACO, or MGCP
Web development, with proven knowledge of XML, php, mySQL, ColdFusion, or Apache
Script writing using Perl, Python, Bourne shell, C shell, or other proprietary scripting languages
Database experience with Sybase, Oracle, or Microsoft
Reverse engineering and analysis of software
Kernel knowledge of Unix (Linux)
Bit-level data analysis
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2234
Test Engineer – Mid Level Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain Polygraph within reasonable period of time Location: Hanover, MD
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Analyzes system requirements and concept of operations documents, acquisition plans, and system descriptions to develop evaluation and test plans and procedures, prepare for and conduct the data collection and analysis, and report status and results. Supports the development of Government test and evaluation documentation e.g., Test & Evaluation (T&E) Strategy, Test & Evaluation Master Plan, Event Test Plans, Test Readiness Assessments, and T&E Reports. Works with other test organizations to support T&E program integration. Provides specialized T&E capabilities tailored to system functions, level, maturity, and performance area as assigned in the SOW.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Capabilities:
The Level 2 Test Engineer (TE) shall possess the following capabilities:
Assist with any or aII of the Level I tasks as constrained by technical training and previous testing experience
Conduct research into and apply knowledge of Government test and evaluation concepts and related engineering, acquisition, and operations activities as needed to support the T&E activities
Plan and Execute Performance Analysis
Assess operational and system performance requirements for testability and criticality to frame and prioritize T&E objectives and enable evaluation planning
Review planned acquisition approaches to support T&E schedule alignment with decision maker needs for T&E support
Coordinate with program Systems Engineering (SE) and review T&E-related SE information to leverage functional analysis, system descriptions, parameter selection and dependencies, Modeling and Simulation, and initial performance risk assessments to inform evaluation planning
Assess operational and system performance requirements for testability and criticality to frame and prioritize T&E objectives and enable evaluation planning
Review planned acquisition approaches to support T&E schedule alignment with decision maker needs for T&E support
Coordinate with program Systems Engineering (SE) and review T&E-related SE information to leverage functional analysis, system descriptions, parameter selection and dependencies, Modeling and Simulation, and initial performance risk assessments to inform evaluation planning
Design surveys for evaluation of Subject Matter Expert (SME) input and user assessments of performance
Select, develop, & use analysis tools
Participate in the T&E Working-level Integrated Product Team (WIPT) and/or Integrated Test
Team for coordination of evaluation plans
Execute the evaluation plan on data collected by the Testing Tasks
Produce Evaluation Plans (metric framework, scenarios/threads, timelines, requirements (T&E cross-walk), Analysis Plans, Data Requirements, Risk Assessments, Evaluation Reports, Status reports; provide input to Government T&E products (e.g., Technology Readiness Assessments
Test & Evaluation Strategy, Test & Evaluation Master Plan, T&E Plans & Procedures and Test Readiness Reports)
Plan and Execute Performance Data Collection
Plan program and event level testing for collection of data required for analysis and to synch T&E events with supported decision points
Design data sampling schemes to optimize the information/resource balance and to control testing uncertainties
Select, coordinate, and calibrate Instrumentation, collection and data management tools, targets, & facilities
Ensure test readiness including training of test event participants re conduct of the event; equipment readiness, and security, legal, and privacy compliance arrangements
Establish and employ Data & Configuration Management capabilities
Support Data Authentication group functions; and comply with program Discrepancy Reporting criteria and· processes
Participate in T&E WIPT and/or Integrated Test Team for coordination of data collection plans
Execute Testing and Data Collection per plan
Produce associated Test Plans, Procedures, and Reports/Briefings, Data Management Plan
Define and provide technical direction and guidance for the Level 1 tasks to the Level O and Level 1 TEs assigned to the task
Recommend draft plans and reports from the Level 1 tasks for approval by the task leader
Work directly with the Government sponsor to coordinate task implementation
Maintain knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest
Qualifications:
Five (5) years experience as a TE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
Four (4) years of additional TE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
Location:Herndon, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2192
Title: Data Architect
Location: Herndon, VA *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Data Architect – Expert (11+ years of experience) position that requires the following:
– Understanding of Cloud architecture delivery
– AWS-cloud system setup, to include networking, storage, load-balancing, fail-over, etc.
– Solid grasp of Linux/bash system administration methods
– Solid understanding of AWS, Terraform, Cloud Formation
– Ability to deliver in a DevSecOps environment, infrastructure requisition to CI/CD-like deployment
– Understanding of IaaS, PaaS, & SaaS
– Understanding of programming languages, such as Python
– Understanding of containerization tech, such as Docker, Kubernetes
– Understanding of automated build and deployment tech, such as Ansible, Jenkins
– Understanding of source control in GitHub
– Privileged account exposure, such as -ADM, JWICS -ADM
– Working in engineering environments, such as FidOS, VDE, etc.
– Use of IDEs (VS Code, etc.) for source code modification and management
– Experience with A&A process support, documentation (security controls, procedure evidence, architecture depiction)
Location:Reston, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2173
Title: Business Analyst
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Business Analyst responsible for working closely with Customer Engagement project teams to provide the customer with business analysis expertise and project support, in a tactical capacity, evaluating internal and external client requirements and implementing effective solutions in a timely manner.
The selected candidate will gather, analyze, and document business requirements (i.e., user stories using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints) and functional requirements (decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements).
Job Requirements:
• Must have an Active TS/SCI with polygraph ONLY, all others need not apply.
• Ability to define and document customer business processes and functions including business process diagrams, data maps, test plans and test scripts.
• Ability to perform process re-engineering.
• Consult with project team members and customer stakeholders to identify, define, and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, and challenges related to the business functions such as those supporting the Federal Acquisition Lifecycle.
• Collaborate with the DSI project manager, technical analysts, and customer end-users in the analysis, design, configuration, testing and maintenance of DSI's AEON platform to ensure desired operational performance.
• Track and document changes for functional and business specifications; write detailed universally understood procedures for testing uses cases, knowledge capture and training purposes.
• Perform quality assurance review and validation of deliverables for both, internal and external delivery.
• Achieve proficiency in all major DSI products, including the AEON software suite: through internal staffing training, self-guided tutorials, and daily exposure to individual product feature sets.
• Provide support for a variety of meetings, demonstrations, and program activities.
• Test projects in accordance with 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).
• Provide input during requirements development as well as test case development and review.
• Comprehension of change management processes.
• Other duties as assigned.
Required Experience:
• 5+ years prior business analyst experience.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment for a matrixed organization.
• Strong knowledge of productivity tools such as 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 Agile development process.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with proven ability to listen and relate with the customer.
• 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 that is willing to help other team members at all times.
Desired Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience.
• 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 organizations business processes.
usiness Analyst Hiring 3-4 B.A.'s Rate range 80-130, but will go higher for a Rockstar
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Business Analyst responsible for working closely with Customer Engagement project teams to provide the customer with business analysis expertise and project support, in a tactical capacity, evaluating internal and external client requirements and implementing effective solutions in a timely manner.
The selected candidate will gather, analyze, and document business requirements (i.e., user stories using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints) and functional requirements (decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements).
Job Requirements:
• Must have an Active TS/SCI with polygraph ONLY, all others need not apply.
• Ability to define and document customer business processes and functions including business process diagrams, data maps, test plans and test scripts.
• Ability to perform process re-engineering.
• Consult with project team members and customer stakeholders to identify, define, and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, and challenges related to the business functions such as those supporting the Federal Acquisition Lifecycle.
• Collaborate with the DSI project manager, technical analysts, and customer end-users in the analysis, design, configuration, testing and maintenance of DSI's AEON platform to ensure desired operational performance.
• Track and document changes for functional and business specifications; write detailed universally understood procedures for testing uses cases, knowledge capture and training purposes.
• Perform quality assurance review and validation of deliverables for both, internal and external delivery.
• Achieve proficiency in all major DSI products, including the AEON software suite: through internal staffing training, self-guided tutorials, and daily exposure to individual product feature sets.
• Provide support for a variety of meetings, demonstrations, and program activities.
• Test projects in accordance with 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).
• Provide input during requirements development as well as test case development and review.
• Comprehension of change management processes.
• Other duties as assigned.
Required Experience:
• 5+ years prior business analyst experience.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment for a matrixed organization.
• Strong knowledge of productivity tools such as 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 Agile development process.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with proven ability to listen and relate with the customer.
• 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 that is willing to help other team members at all times.
Desired Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience.
• 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 organizations business processes.
Location:Columbia, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2169
Title: Principal Software Engineer
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Daily tasking will include working as part of a small team to support advancing cyber capabilities by innovating analysis and tradecraft tools by utilizing development and scripting skills in Python, Jupyter Notebook and JavaScript.
Experience in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline.
Experience must have been as a software engineer supporting software architecture development, requirement analysis,
Process execution and evaluation, selection and evaluation of COTS/GOTS tools and integration (with both new and existing systems).
Development skills in Java threading/thread pooling, RMI, character set encoding, swing, JDBC, JMS, J2EE, Enterprise Java Beans, Web Logic, Servlets, and JSP.
Knowledge of XML structure, XML parsers, SQL and Perl is required
Location:Scottsdale, Arizona
Type:Contract
Job#2114
Title: Advanced Software Engineer Clearance: Secret Eligible, obtainable within 24 months Location: Scottsdale, AZ Remote Work Flexibility
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
We are looking for a Subject Matter Expert (SME) with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of participating in the development of cutting-edge technologies that support some of our nation’s core defense/intelligence services and systems. You will work closely with customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions. Please keep reading…
Responsibilities:
Software application development (primarily Java) in a process-oriented organization
Maintains hardware, software, and related components of project
Infrastructure improvements and maintenance in a process-oriented organization
Performs infrastructure requirements analysis, participates in research, designs, develops, and tests software and tools, to include development of new work products or enhancing existing applications, systems, or embedded products
Applies principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to the development of complex architectures
Leverages scaled agile ceremonies, practices, and organization to plan, communicate, develop, and deliver Minimum Viable Product (MVP) solutions
Researches and analyzes data, such as customer design proposals, market trends, state of technology and industry, specifications, and manuals to determine feasibility of design
Commercial Software application configuration, integration into large DoD system
Follows standard practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained
Frequently works with organizations outside engineering or with external customers
Builds stable working relationships
Communicates objectively to discuss, defend, and reach consensus on design decisions
Required Qualifications:
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field
Requires 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience
Agile experience preferred.
Capable of working on problems of diverse scope requiring extensive analysis of data and evaluation of a multitude of factors
Proficient ability to use the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the software development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products
Software C/C++ and Java Development
Ability to follow written instructions
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
Proficient written and verbal communications skills
Skilled in communicating issues, impacts, and corrective actions
IT Infrastructure Development
Desired Qualifications:
Familiar with software test and automation and DevOps
Familiarity with PKI certificate management
Two-Factor Authentication
Identity Access Management
Active Directory
LDAP
Networking
Active Directory Authentication and Authorization for RedHat Linux systems and users
Microsoft Server Administration
DNS
Shows initiative on assignments, and professionally executes projects with very little direction, or can provide direction and leadership to technical teams
Exercises independent judgment and sometimes defines new procedures and practices to improve team and company performance
Proficient ability to be a team player who thrives in collaborative environments and revels in team success, meeting and exceeding personal and team commitments
Type:Contract
Job#2082
Title: Computer & Network Security Specialist – Full Performance
Location: Chantilly, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Responsibilities:
The candidate should be able to:
• Support the day-to-day operation of the customer’s Splunk deployment
• Create queries, dashboards, and visualizations in support of customer requirements
• Develop custom functions utilizing REST endpoints and integrating technologies with Splunk
• Create and manage Splunk knowledge objects to include apps, dashboards, alerts, extractions, tags, workflow actions, and aliases
• Develop reports for operational activities
• Creative problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to de-construct problems
Required Qualifications:
• TS/SCI w/ poly
• 5 to 8 years with BS/BA or 3 to 5 years with MS/MA or 0 to 2 years with PhD or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated Splunk engineering experience
• Understanding of a variety of security tools including firewall logs, intrusion detection systems, windows logs, event management
• Understanding of operating systems (e.g., Linux, Windows, etc)
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Key contributor and self-starter with cross-organizational skills that promote transparency, flexibility, and collaboration
Desired Qualifications:
• CompTIA Network+ certification
• CompTIA Security+ certification
Location:Herndon
Type:Contract
Job#2075
Title: Application Software Developer
Location: Chantilly, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Cornerstone Defense is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed professional to fill the role of Systems Engineer:
The individual in this role will architect applications and service migrations into a virtual Amazon Web Services environment. The Systems Engineer will track new requirements and break them down into actionable tasks for the development team while supporting group level architecture discussions surrounding development and integration of data lake. Additionally, the individual in this position will be responsible for implementing efficiencies in the transfer and transitioning of data associated with project tools and applications and must be comfortable briefing senior management on high priority work items.
Required Qualifications: • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or similar or 6 additional years of experience in lieu of degree • Minimum 8 years of experience in a Systems Engineering role • Ability to integrate COTS, GOTS, and custom software into an enterprise solution for data management or knowledge management with appropriate security and monitoring measures • Knowledge of customer security controls and their implementation on enterprise tools • Ability to track and manage customer needs with an enterprise work/requirement tracking tool • Experience working with customers to prioritize needs across a large set of stakeholders
Desired Qualifications: • Amazon certification(s) and hands on experience in an AWS environment • Knowledge of the data lifecycle and data management best practice
Location:Herndon, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2048
Title: UI/UXEngineer
Location: Herndon, VA *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
• Builds, deploys and maintains Web Site pages
• Develops and improves site navigation
• Coordinates with web content developers and graphics designers to ensure that needs are technically feasible
• Provides technical site maintenance, consultation on issues related to animation, search engine techniques, link integrity, navigation, browsers, graphics, and other technical web developments
• Develop code using HTML, Visual Basic or other web-based programming languages
• Prepares technical documentation
Location:Herndon, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2039
Title: Data Engineer
Location: Herndon, VA *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
• Develops and applies advanced methods, theories and research
techniques in the investigation and solution of highly complex and
advanced software applications and problems requiring the expert
application of advanced knowledge
• Plans, conducts, technically directs and evaluates projects or major
phases of significant projects, coordinating the efforts of engineers
and technical support staff in the performance of assigned projects
• Conducts investigations and tests of considerable complexity
• Reviews literature, patents and current practices relevant to the
solution of assigned projects
• Recommends corrections in technical applications and analysis
• Evaluates vendor capabilities to provide required products or
services
• Provides technical consultation to other organizations
• May provide work leadership for lower level employees
• Work at this level is normally on the forefront of new technologies
Location:Reston, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2007
Title: Program Manager Location : Reston Virginia
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Job Description:
Responsible for working closely with DSI’s Customer Engagement and Product Management teams to provide the customer with business analysis expertise and project support, in a tactical capacity, evaluating internal and external client requirements and implementing effective solutions in a timely manner.
The Program Manager will be responsible for oversight of a large contract which provides software and services to the government in an acquisition program management arena. The Program Manager will interface with various levels of the customer and management supported by a dedicated and matrixed organization and resources. The Program Manager will be responsible for capturing, communicating, and managing program status, schedule, cost, and requirements as well as directing the day-to-day operations of the program to include planning, organizing and controlling technical and schedule elements during the life of the contract; tracking and reporting programs tasks, costs and metrics for pertinent areas of performance; and evaluating, selecting, and onboarding candidates in accordance with established requirements.
Job Requirements:
Develop and maintain effective relationships with current and potential customers, business partners and subcontractors.
Ability to effectively communication short and long-term objectives and direction to matrixed managers and teams.
Ability to perform process re-engineering.
Facilitate project team members and customer stakeholders to identify, define, and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, and challenges related to the business functions such as those supporting the Federal Acquisition Lifecycle.
Collaborate with the project manager, technical analysts, and customer end-users in the analysis, design, configuration, testing and maintenance of DSI's AEON platform to ensure desired operational performance.
Track and document changes for functional and business specifications.
Perform quality assurance review and validation of deliverables for both, internal and external delivery.
Achieve proficiency in all major DSI products, including the AEON software suite: through internal staffing training, self-guided tutorials, and daily exposure to individual product feature sets.
Provide support for a variety of meetings, demonstrations, and program activities.
Provide input during requirements development as well as test case development and review.
Comprehension of change management processes.
Other duties as assigned.
Required Experience:
10+ years prior program/project management experience.
Ability to work in a team-oriented environment for a matrixed organization.
Demonstrated ability to lead and manage diverse workforce at multiple locations.
Strong track record of organizational leadership and business management, including strong analytical, presentation, and problem-solving skills; possess outstanding verbal and written communications skills.
Ability to gain internal support and consensus; ability to operate independently using solid judgment and without extensive supervision or feedback.
Well-developed reasoning and problem-solving skills, including a demonstrated ability to manage risk.
Ability to establish an effective working relationship with customers, technical staff, managers and peers; ability to motivate employees and ensure engagement.
Strong knowledge of productivity tools such as 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 Agile development process.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with proven ability to listen and relate with the customer and relevant stakeholders.
Proven ability to communicate technical details to a non-technical audience.
Excellent organizational and time management skills.
Strong team player that is willing to help other team members at all times.
Desired Experience:
Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience with increasingly complex management assignments, including successful supervisory or leadership experience.
Knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Lifecycle or commercial contracting.
Knowledge of Federal financial systems or commercial accounting.
Experience with Federal government contracting and/or program office organizations business processes.
Ability to review training materials and conduct end-user training sessions.
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#1990
Title: Software Engineer Location: Chantilly, VA Clearance: Secret
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Cornerstone Defense is Software Engineer to work in a collaborative, team-focused environment.
The candidate should be able to complete software development efforts using all aspects of the software engineering life cycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, documentation, implementation, testing and integration.
Assist in determining and recommending the best designs based on customer business objectives, timelines and other resource constraints.
Must be dynamic, innovative, self-starting, and a problem solver.
Must have the aptitude and attitude to tackle unique, unsolved technical challenges.
Mandatory Skills:
Active Secret clearance
Minimum of three (3) years of software engineering experience
Experience in JavaScript and/or C
Ability to write scripts and tools as needed within minimal guidance
Optional Skills:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree. Note that years of experiences can be substituted in lieu of a degree.
Experience with web crypto, web browsers, and/or networking
Location:Herndon, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#1985
Title: Technical Trainer
Location: Herndon, VA *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
The candidate will be responsible for implementing technical training courses, facilitating customer visits, and performing lab demonstrations that provide a competitive edge for technical audiences. This will include the delivery of standard and customized training based on field needs and the delivery of new product and technology training in support of field readiness. Administer hands-on tests. The position will also be responsible for helping to create, test, and review new and existing courseware.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in any field, plus a minimum of two years’ experience in training roles. In lieu of degree, a minimum of 5 years of related user engagement and/or training experience may be substituted.
• 2+ years of experience working as a Trainer or an Instructional Systems Designer (ISD)
• Demonstrated experience with curriculum development and delivery of classroom and video-based online training materials
• Current TS/SCI with polygraph clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Demonstrated ability to work in teams with a collaborative interpersonal style
• Ability to interact with various stakeholders to include senior management and customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Experience in the Intelligence Community
• Experience working in a Customer Facility
• Ability to perform with minimum direction
• Ability to work in a demanding environment with changing priorities
Location:Herndon, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#1984
Title: Information Systems Security Engineer
Location: Herndon, VA *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
• Under minimal supervision, carries out all phases of information systems/networks security program that involves access to computers and computerized data enabling company to meet contractual requirements for networks security
• Conducts regular audits to ensure that systems are being operated securely, and information systems security policies and procedures are being implemented as defined in security plans
• Conducts investigations of computer security violations and incidents, reporting as necessary to management
• Responds to queries and requests for computer security information and reports
• Develops, tests, and operates firewalls, intrusion detection systems, enterprise anti-virus systems and software deployment tools
• Safeguards the network against unauthorized infiltration, modification, destruction or disclosure
• Researches, evaluates, tests, recommends, communicates and implements new security software or devices
• Implements, enforces, communicates and develops security policies or plans for data, software applications, hardware, and telecommunications
• Develops materials for computer security education/awareness programs
• Provides information to management regarding the negative impact on the business caused by theft, destruction, alteration or denial of access to information
• Provides recommendations to clients on information assurance engineering standards, implementation dependencies, and changing information assurance related technologies
• Provides information assurance project management, technical security staff oversight, and development of mission-critical technical documents
• May participate in planning and assigning personnel for certain projects
• Recommends changes in procedures
Location:Aurora, Colorado
Type:Contract
Job#1959
Title: Signals Analyst – Expert
Location: Chantilly, VA
*Clearance: *ActiveTS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Responsible for the collection, exploitation, analysis, and dissemination of signals intelligence, to include communications, electronic, and foreign instrumentation signals intelligence.
Supports the execution of SIGINT collection requirements.
Understands and leverages SIGINT data and information, analyzes and identifies data requirements, uses specialized SIGINT tools, and services, and develops SIGINT products.
Solves non-standard information requirements problems via a combination of analytic judgment and proven analytic practices.
Systematically acquires, validates, maintains, and scopes data to uncover schemes and scenarios that will provide historical conclusions as well as correlations to future events.
Prepares assessments of current events based on the sophisticated collection, research, and analysis of open source and other information. Prepares deliverables on analysis methodology and results.
Learns and applies emerging technologies to process metadata and content for discovery purposes.
Develops and documents analysis and discovery tradecraft.
Bachelor's degree, military intelligence training, or equivalent experience.
Required:
Masters + 10 years of experience, OR
Bachelors + 12 years of experience, OR
15 years of experience
Location:Herndon
Type:Contract
Job#1923
Title: ISSE – FP
Location: Chantilly, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Required Qualifications:
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related or an additional 6 years of experience in lieu of degree
• Experience preparing systems security plans, risk assessment reports, customer responsibility matrices, and security incident response standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Experience preparing security assessment criteria for development teams to comply with all A&A requirements
• Experience briefing customers to guide Accreditation activities
• Demonstrated ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals via formal and informal briefings and Technical Exchange Meetings
• A high level understanding of Cloud solutions such as Amazon, Microsoft, or Google
• Experience developing and refining application development details into Critical Control matrices
• Proficiency in ICD 503 compliance
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience with the XACTA 360 tool
• Information Systems Security Engineer/Officer (ISSE/ISSO) experience
• Knowledge of NIST 800 series security documentation
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#1871
Vista Program
Intelligence Analyst, Senior
Chantilly, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Provides analysis and research for industry, infrastructure, technology, country, geographic area, biographic and targeted vulnerability. Prepares assessments of current events based on the sophisticated collection, research and analysis of classified and open source information. Develops and maintains analytical procedures to meet changing requirements and ensure maximum operations. Collects data using a combination of standard intelligence methods and business processes. A candidate will provide both technical and regional analysis in support of USG customer and will be responsible for reviewing and researching unclassified and classified databases, preparing analysis, reports, and providing briefings. The candidate will be responsible for internal and external collaboration.
Required Qualifications:
Requires Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, Political Science, Foreign Language or Culture, History, Public Policy, Intelligence Analysis, or related academic field
6 years of practical experience in intelligence analysis, targeting, or open source analysis, or technical analysis.
6 years’ experience in IT, telecom, network/computer/data security
Proven ability to research and analyze data from a variety of sources and to present findings in clear and concise written reports
Demonstrated experience in the intelligence lifecycle
Proven experience with (drafting, coordinating, reviewing) intelligence community official communications methods
Demonstrated ability to work well with teams or individually with minimal supervision
Demonstrated working knowledge of RF and telecommunications protocols
Desired Qualifications:
MS Degree
Ability to improve processes or methods of analysis
Prior CI or risk management experience
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#1870
Vista Program
Cyber Security Analyst – Senior / Expert
Chantilly, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Detects, mitigates, and analyzes threats. Conducts research and evaluates technical and all-source intelligence with specific emphasis on user behavior and patterns in a dynamic and changing mission environment. Analyzes technical and non-technical data and metadata to determine normal patterns of events, proactively identify abnormalities, and determine root-cause of abnormalities. Correlates threat data from various sources. Prepares assessments and presentations of analyses and findings. Develops and maintains analytical procedures to meet changing requirements and ensure maximum operations. Collects data using a combination of standard intelligence methods and business processes. Produces high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and findings for senior intelligence officials.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Cybersecurity, Information Security, IT, EE, Network Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Demonstrated 6 years experience in three or more specific areas to include: analysis, network engineering, networking security, penetration testing, red teaming, hardware engineering, software reverse engineering, and computer exploitation.
Proven proficiency with at least three (3) or more of the following: mobile security, telecom protocols, operating systems (Windows, iOS, Android, or Linux), reverse engineering, forensics, network analysis, vulnerability assessment or malware forensics.
Demonstrated working knowledge of software development and some demonstrated proficiency in scripting and/or programming languages and database development
Proven experience in network analysis methodologies
Prior experience with one or more of the following tools: Splunk, ArcSight, intrusion detection/prevention system, network anti-virus technologies.
Demonstrated experience in drafting reports, documenting case details, and able to summarize findings and recommendations based on system analysis.
Demonstrated ability to work well with teams or individually with minimal supervision
Desired Qualifications:
MS degree in technical field
Experience within IC community
Relevant Certifications: CCFP, GCIA, OSCP, CEH, CISSP, or Security+
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Experience ensuring quality assurance and the spreading of best practices
Experience with operational communications
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#1869
Vista Program – Cyber Security/Pentester Chantilly, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Responsibilities:
Seeking a penetration tester for an Intelligence Community (IC) customer mission system. The successful candidate will perform vulnerability assessments and penetration testing following the customer’s prescribed scope statement with authorities derived from the customer’s Enterprise cyber security organization. The ideal candidate must display familiarity with Windows and Linux Mobile operating systems and be able to conduct network and security vulnerability analysis. Specifically, the candidate will analyze mission systems to help assess vulnerability to compromise from adversaries. The successful candidate must have prior experience with scope defined penetration testing using mainly open source tools.
Penetrate desktops, servers, applications, operating systems, and security systems to gain root/admin access
Provide black-box penetration testing utilizing tools and techniques to conduct cybersecurity evaluations for highly specialized network communication systems
Modify open source exploits to bypass/evade antivirus, firewalls, hardened systems, and IDS/IPS systems
Modify computer/system/network attacks, exploits, and Metasploit modules to create variations that evade detection
Perform reconnaissance, privilege escalation persistence, lateral movement, and payload generation for multiple targets
Hide digital artifacts and communications to evade antivirus, firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, Wireshark, and tcpdump
Work independently to analyze, research, and solve technical problems
Leverage existing business processes and document new repeatable business processes and procedures where necessary
Research external information on cybersecurity events, incidents, threats, and technical vulnerabilities
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Cybersecurity, Information Security, IT, EE, Network Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Demonstrated 6 years experience in three or more specific areas to include: analysis, network engineering, networking security, penetration testing, red teaming, hardware engineering, software reverse engineering, and computer exploitation.
Experience with Kali Linux and Metasploit tools
Experience with programming/scripting: Python, Powershell, Ruby, C, JavaScript, etc
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to explain complex technical topics to non-technical audiences
Desired:
MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Forensics, Network Security, or equivalent technical experience
4 years of exploit development, computer/network security, or network traffic analysis using analytical tools
Expert knowledge of networking components/devices and various OS/applications in Linux and Windows environments
At least one of the following certifications: CISSP, OSCP, CEH, CEPT, GPEN, EnCE, GASF, GSFE, or BLCE
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#1868
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Responsibilities:
Conducts research and evaluates technical and all-source intelligence with specific emphasis on user behavior and patterns in a dynamic and changing mission environment. Detects anomalous activity in raw and processed log files for deeper exploration using IC tools and databases. Differentiates between general and targeted or suspicious scanning. Identifies trends RF systems and performs behavior analysis. Uses Splunk dashboards to create alerts and investigate log files. Correlates threat data from various sources. Writes concise assessments that highlight findings supported by evidence, articulating the impact of conclusions.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in EE, Applied Math, Physics, or related technical field
Minimum of 6 years of direct experience in Intelligence Community signals analysis or signal collection, with focus on wireless, cellular, satellite or terrestrial signals
Demonstrated proficiency with Splunk and Python
Proven ability to research and analyze data from a variety of sources and to present findings in clear and concise written reports
Familiarity with SIGINT tasking and collection mechanisms
Demonstrated working knowledge of RF and telecommunications protocols
Demonstrated working knowledge of IC data sets and tools for telecommunications analysis
Demonstrated ability to work well with teams or individually with minimal supervision
Desired Qualifications:
MS degree in technical field
Familiarity with other IC agencies
Familiarity with RF testing and measurement system
Familiarization with waveform engineering and analysis
Experience with operational communications
Location:McLean, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#1860
Systems Engineer – Expert/SME
Work location: Just outside WMA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Job Description:
The individual selected for this position will support the Customer's organization responsible for supporting thecorporate career development, which is a learning institution, where skills-specific training divisions leverage privatesector opportunities to raise digital acumen throughout the Sponsor organization. The office environment is fast-pacedand requires a self-starter. The Sponsors office consists of five (5) components, of which the SE will support the digiLearn Platform.
The System Engineer (SE) shall be responsible for all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including the integration of middleware with COTS as well as enterprise systems. Responsibilities consist of, but are not limited to the following:
All aspects of the software development lifecycle, to include integration of middleware with COTS as well as enterprise systems.
Serve as the Lead for troubleshooting and solving complex technical problems related to the production system
Lead the integration of COTS applications, technologies and services into the client network.
Lead the Authorization and Accreditation process for COTS deployment to cloud and on premise environments.
Evaluate new feature for technical approach and estimation of level of effort to implement.
Communicate (orally and in writing) moderately complex technical concepts & project information
Assist with the deployment and maintaining systems in cloud environment.
Manage technical elements of a continuous integration environment and apply continuous deployment best practices.
Develop system documentation – build, standard operating procedures, maintenance instructions, configuration management
Work with subject matter experts to define processes, conduct gap analysis and recommend alternatives for use in future development efforts.
Coordination with COTS vendor on planned enhancements and troubleshooting.
Coordination with external offices to ensure compliance with data standards, and successful data exchange
Transition of legacy system to new technologies with a focus on how processes and the corresponding data are impacted.
Provide demonstrations and detailed walk-through of features to a variety of technical and nontechnical audiences.
Document system changes, maintaining configuration control, and maintaining system security documentation.
Develop technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by the client.
Qualifications:
Extensive experience with Java, Python, SQL Database, and ASP.NET application.
Maintenance experience with Windows based servers
System administration experience with AWS cloud operations and services
Experience using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Management Console and AWS Services including EC2, Load Balancing, S3 and CloudWatch
Demonstrated experience with cloud optimization and engineering to include scheduled jobs and tasks, and capacity planning.
Experience with cloud architecture elements such as security groups, NACLs, and route-tables.
Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining shell scripts written in languages such as bash, Python, Yaml, and JSON.
Experience creating and maintaining CloudFormation templates.
Demonstrated on-the-job experience with web services (REST) and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Team player attitude and experience leading a technical team. Desired:
Working knowledge of network security controls, Learning Management Systems and/or application of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (Al/ML)
Location:Herndon
Type:Contract
Job#1857
Title: Data Parser
Location: Chantilly, VA
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone’s Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related or an additional 4 years of experience in lieu of degree
Minimum 2-3 years of practical, hands on experience with Java 8
Experience with file input and output
Experience with libraries used to read and write structured data (XML, JSON, CSV, etc.)
Experience with DevOps (Maven, Gradle, Jenkin, Nexus)
Experience with Unit testing (JUnit, Mockito, etc.).
Proven ability to understand and debug existing code
Experience working with large data volumes requiring high performant code
Oracle Database Experience
Experience writing complex SQL statements to join multiple tables
