Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
Collaborate with the multi discipline engineering teams to design and develop software
Assist in providing technical information and clarification during the entire software development Lifecyle, from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations
Perform solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe Agile practices
Apply systems engineering expertise to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development effort
Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.
Required Skills:
Demonstrated system engineering and technical experience with software systems development
Experience in agile software development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full SE life cycle)
Domain experience in IC GEOINT, including familiarity with common GEOINT still imagery data formats
Experience in development of ICDs, APIs, and system specifications as a primary author
Experience using the Atlassian tool suite, including Jira and Confluence
Experience in cloud or cloud-hybrid deployment environments
Ability to interact effectively with customer and consumer communities for technical exchange meetings and design briefings
Experience working in an Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements, requirements decomposition, and experience with CONOPS development
Experience working on teams addressing solution definition, decomposition, design and acceptance criteria
Experience in development of containerized software system architectures
Ability to function independently in the development and revisions of existing ICDs, APIs, and system specifications in response to contract mods
Program experience with requirements development and/or requirements maintenance
Desired Skills:
Experience with streaming data formats including Full Motion Video and Moving Target Indicator data
Strong communications skills to support technical exchange meetings and design briefings
Engineering experience working in the full software development lifecycle using Agile methodology that ensures high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and within cost and schedule parameters
Experience using MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tools
Domain experience with active data types supported by NSGPDDs
Thorough understanding of the 12 Factor App concepts for service development
Strong experience with Confluence as a communications medium
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.