Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense. Position Description:
Work with a team of technical cloud computing professionals to rapidly build and deploy a demonstration capability, while simultaneously supporting the program office to specify, design and deploy the final system.
Development will take place in an iterative fashion using scrum techniques with inputs from multiple stakeholders. The development team will rapidly grow into a large scale, enterprise development effort.
Requires exceptional flexibility and technical skills.
Work will be done in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders and changing requirements.
Participation in iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements
Meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirements, user stories, and related artifacts to determine technical specifications for the system environments
Coordinating with technical teams responsible for the cloud hosting infrastructures in order to establish and maintain the environments used by the program for the development, test, and deployment of the demonstration capability and the final production system
Build, migrate and test AWS cloud environments and integrations
Develop templates or scripts to automate everyday developer or operations functions
Build new automation to expand and maintain Cloud hosting
Monitor and maintain multiple Cloud Infrastructure environments based on client requirements
Identify new tools and processes to improve the Cloud platforms
Collaborate with remote team members to build and maintain positive, productive team relationships
Developing, testing, and monitoring connections to interfacing systems such as data feeds from numerous organizations and user interactions from other Sponsor organizations
Working with other programs to coordinate the integration of enterprise services to be consumed/used by the Sponsor system
As this program matures, this role may require occasional on-call after-hours support
Development of technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by program management
Required Technical Skills:
Linux/Unix systems administration
Knowledge of physical server management, issue diagnosis and troubleshooting
Cloud application (AWS/Azure) architecture
AWS Cloud Formation
Large scale system integration
Scripting to automate developer or operations functions
Environment and Server layout and configuration maintenance to Industry standards and best practices
Developing enterprise and solution-level architectural designs
JIRA, Confluence and other project management tools
Review and Maintain environments at the latest security posture
Remediate app/package installations
Rapid prototyping to refine system requirements and technical specifications of the system and its operating environments
Experience in developing enterprise and solution-level architectural designs.
Knowledge of infrastructure as code design, management, and version control techniques.
Exposure to project management skills and/or project-based work structures, project lifecycle models, etc.
Knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
Strong communication and documentation skills
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.