Cornerstone Defense | Technically Innovative Solutions

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2786

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

Performs a wide variety of duties, including installations, debugging, maintenance, upgrades and general support of Cisco and Juniper network equipment.

Capable of applying sound engineering practices and technical skills to achieve both short and long-term goals as established by management.
Assist in the configuration and deployment of core and peripheral network devices, which will require continuous learning of new devices.
Analyze customer requirements and provides solutions to a variety of technical problems of varying degrees of complexity.

Perform maintenance and upgrade of networks, including routers, switches, firewalls, remote access systems, environmental units and networks.
Maintain network integrity and connectivity while ensuring compliance with policies, as well as maintains system backup and recovery capabilities.
Proactively monitor of all network devices, services, and servers using a combination of tools to ensure high availability.
Maintain current knowledge and documentation of relevant technology and processes.
Manage and troubleshoot network connectivity through the office.
Provide end-user support and issue resolution.
Provide helpdesk support for network issued and responds to requests for IT support.
Ability to effectively communicate issues and resolutions to all levels of the organization.
Support emergency 24 X7 on-call support, on a rotational basis.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in related technical discipline OR equivalent work experience in lieu of degree
At least 9 years of experience supporting network engineering experience performing maintenance and upgrades of networks, including routers, switches, firewalls, remote access systems.
Experience working within commercial cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc…).
Experience with data center/enterprise operational maintenance support
Experience in maintaining and troubleshooting Cisco and Juniper networks, to include performance issues and working with network monitoring tools
Solid understanding of network fundamentals, TCP/ICP routing, switching, firewalls and VPNs, Ethernet, routing concepts and routing protocols, VLANs, IP Addressing, Subnetting and VPN
Understanding or knowledge of cloud network concepts
Strong interpersonal and communication skills need to work with key stakeholders, engineering subject matter experts, and vendors.
Quick learner and detail oriented
Able to prioritize in a fast moving and high pressure, constantly changing environment
Strong time-management skills
Ability to work in a team environment, as well as independently
Able to support rotating on-call and after-hours support

Desired Qualifications

Network certification, to include one or more of the following:
- Cisco Certified Network Professional Routing and Switching (CCNP R&S)
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
- Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- AWS Certified Advanced Networking
- Juniper Networks Certified Internetwork Associate – Enterprise Routing and Switching (JNCIA-Junos)
- Juniper Networks Certified Internetwork Specialist- Enterprise Routing and Switching (JNCIS-Ent)
- Juniper Networks Certified Internetwork Professional – Enterprise Routing and Switching (JNCIP-ENT)
- Juniper Networks Certified Internetwork Associate – Security (JNCIA-Sec)
- Juniper Networks Certified Internetwork Specialist – Security (JNCIS-Sec)
- Juniper Networks Certified Internetwork Professional – Security (JNCIP-Sec)

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2785

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

Serve as the O&M Lead as part of a collaborative agile team.

Refine and enhance existing applications to better meet the customer's requirements.
Design, develop, and provide O&M for multiple tools, as well as helping develop solutions to software architecture programs and broad design solutions.
Participate in software development efforts through all aspects of the software engineering life cycle including scope and work estimation, design, documentation, implementation, testing and integration.
Must be a dynamic, innovative, self-starting problem solver.
Must have the aptitude and attitude to tackle unsolved technical challenges.
Ensure users are provided efficient and timely support to incidents and service requests
Ensure reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency of all services
Implement and maintain system monitoring tools/metrics to ensure the health of services
Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure compliance on policy requirements and adherence to best practices
Support the team in the creation and maintenance of standard operating procedures
Identify opportunities to increase efficiencies through process updates/changes and/or automation

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, OR relevant experience
Minimum of 9 years of relevant experience
4+ years of experience working in software engineering, application development and/or web application development and deployment
Must be able to design, develop, and provide O&M for multiple tools
Provide assistance with developing solutions to software architecture programs and broad design solutions
Experience with Cloud Computing Platforms, including AWS cloud deployments
Participate in software development efforts through all aspects of software engineering life cycle (including scope and work estimation, design, documentation, implementation, testing, and integration)
Experience with Ruby on Rails, or the ability to very quickly learn outside of work
Familiar with Test Driven and Behavior Driven Design/Development concepts and libraries
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues
Ability to review code written by others and provide constructive feedback
Experience with incident and problem management
Proven experience in implementing process and quality improvements
Should be a dynamic, innovative, self-starter, and problem solver with the ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks

Desired

Understanding of Scrum and Agile processes
Familiar with Cucumber and Rspec

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2781

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

. Description: The successful UX/UI candidate will:

Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.
Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with multi-discipline engineering teams to develop lower level detailed requirements.
Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.
Generates system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures.
Reviews test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements.

d. Experience/Education:
Required Experience:

BS 10-12, MS 8-10, Phd 5-7
TS/SCI with Poly level clearance is required
Minimum 2-years' experience engaging with customers and stakeholders to design the User Experience (UX) for an application
Demonstrated experience successfully solving UX problems
Demonstrated experience in the Visual Design of an application
Demonstrated understanding of the Rules of Accessibility
The ability to create a wire frame and assist in prototyping
The ability to create and communicate clear requirements to a development team

Desired Experience:

Experience working in an Agile development methodology
Experience with Adobe XD

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2774

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

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

Work Requirement: The Contractor Team shall provide expertise and guidance in the procurement of cross domain solutions and maintain such solutions and systems for the Sponsor. The Contractor Team shall conduct research into all aspects of existing and future aspects of cross domain solutions the Sponsor currently or could potentially leverage such as AWS ProServe. The Contractor Team shall recommend and perform implementation and integration strategies for cross domain solutions into existing Sponsor business practices and systems. The Contractor Team shall conduct O&M on Sponsor cross domain platforms. The Contractor Team shall provide guidance to the Sponsor regarding past, current, and future business practices. The Contractor Team shall develop and maintain cross domain system documentation. The Contractor Team shall attend regular meetings to understand and suggest requirements and workflow enhancements. The Contractor Team shall document meeting discussions. The Contractor Team shall build rapport with stakeholders and influence outcome of decisions on behalf of the Sponsor. The Contractor Team shall contribute to data collection and analysis discussions and realign priorities and collection strategies during evolving mission priorities. The Contractor Team shall provide expertise to implement and integrate the Sponsors OCR software. The Contractor Team shall engineer solutions with OCR and data capture technology such as IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture, version 22.0.1. The Contractor Team shall enable the Sponsors OCR efforts to ingest multiple form types such as .pdf. The Contractor Team shall map their data fields to other forms of varying types, such as JSON. The Contractor Team shall store and send all files to appropriate storage or destruction/deletion locations as necessary. The Contractor Team shall conduct full system development lifecycle analysis to include requirements, activities, and design. The Contractor Team shall code, test and deploy a cross domain scheduling solution. The Contractor Team shall enable the Sponsors scheduling of tests between secure systems and unsecure systems. The Contractor Team shall provide written reports, spreadsheets, briefings and briefing material, technical solutions presentations, technical papers, analysis by specified timelines as directed by the Sponsor on a case-by-case basis, within the contract period. The Contractor Team shall document and gather requirements and track/document progress accordingly.

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

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

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2772

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

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

Work Requirements: The Contractor Team is responsible for developing new courses and learning solutions in a variety of delivery modalities: making major revisions to existing courses; establishing standards for the design, development, and evaluation of courses; providing guidance material; and coaching new instructors in course delivery and instructional techniques. The Contractor Team shall work in a team-oriented environment and consult with Sponsor Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to handle a variety of activites related to curriculum design, development, and training delivery to include but not limited to: needs assessment, instructional-related research and analysis, course and lesson creation, design, development, delivery, assessing and soliciting feedback and programmatic evaluation.

The Contractor Team shall work closely with Sponsor management, instructional design teams, and SME instructors to determine technical requirements for learning solutions. The Contractor Team shall research, design, develop, document, and implement media products and artifacts in support of training courses for the Sponsor. The Contractor Team shall create training materials such as WBTs, online training courses, online training portals, websites, graphics and visuals for print and online consumption, and video projects: The Contractor Team shall maintain WBTs, online training courses, online training portals, websites, graphics and visuals for print and online consumption, and video projects. The Contractor Team shall provide support for WBTs, online training courses, online training portals, websites, graphics and visuals for print and online consumption, and video projects. The Contractor Team shall support in-class learning technologies such as audience response system. The Contractor Team shall support general photography needs. The Contractor Team shall document processes and resources for contunuity of operations: The Contractor Team shall maintain code and processess. The Contractor Team shall use knowledge management repositories. The Contractor Team shall use project tracking systems and processes. The Contractor Team shall ensure all activities and products are consistent with the Sponsor’s requirements. The Contractor Team shall comply with all relevant legal restrictions such as accessibility (Section 508), privacy and copyright.

The Contractor shall ensure, for the duration of the contract, that contractor personnel assigned to work under this contract maintain institutional knowledge and competency level necessary for all required skills, to inlcude the demonstrated on-the-job experience.

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

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

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2770

Title: Cyber Security Analyst
Location: Chantilly, VA

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

Required skills and demonstrated experience

The candidate shall have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience:
Demonstrated experience performing hands-on forensic review of devices to include laptops and mobile devices, using open source or commercial forensic tools, such as EnCase, FTK, X-Ways, Magnet IEF, or BlackLight.
Demonstrated experience handling and imaging various types of evidence from Solid State Drives (SSD), Hard Disk Drives (HDD), Thumb Drives, Volatile Memory, or Compact Disks.
Demonstrated experience with data extraction and analysis from various data sources including files, logs, directories, unallocated space, raw images, and custom databases.
Demonstrated experience parsing data types necessary to extract metadata and content of forensic value from various data sources.
Demonstrated experience and in depth understanding of multiple operating systems such as Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Demonstrated experience performing hands-on forensic review or reverse engineering of modern mobile devices such as Google Android or Apple iOS.
Demonstrated experience working with virtualization software and virtualized environments to include ESXi, VMWare, or VirtualBox.
Demonstrated experience conducting analysis of identified malicious software or code using both static and dynamic malware analysis.
Demonstrated experience using debuggers and disassemblers such as OllyDbg, WinDbg, IDA Pro, or Binary Ninja.
Demonstrated experience understanding system kernel level processing to detect and report on significant kernel events such as root kits, hooked functions, call tables, and data structures.

Highly Desired skills and demonstrated experience

Other skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not mandatory to perform the work, include:
Demonstrated experience using programming skills using scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or Bash.
Demonstrated experience with Sponsor’s enterprise and operational activities, capabilities, technical development programs.
Demonstrated experience with Sponsor’s information cyber security policies and regulations.
Demonstrated experience with risk management standards, Committee on National Security Systems Publication (CNSSP) 1253, Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2, 199, 200, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-37, 800-39, 800-53.

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2768

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

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Demonstrated experience utilizing Oracle, PostgreSQL and modern database technologies.
Demonstrated experience developing and interfacing with Application Program Interfaces (APIs).
Demonstrated experience performing testing and quality assurance of developed solutions within the existing Oracle data tier.
Demonstrated experience developing, creating, and modifying data structure and data load routines for analytic use cases.
Demonstrated experience working with relational data tiers including cleansing, transforming and processing of structured data.
Demonstrated experience working with views, triggers and Oracle PL and SQL.
Demonstrated experience working within an Agile project management model and approved Project Management Frameworks.
Demonstrated experience aligning data architecture with enterprise strategy and architectures that integrate and improve the quality of enterprise data.

DESIRED SKILLS:

Demonstrated experience with Amazon Web Services/Cloud Data Migration Services.
Demonstrated experience with JIRA.
Demonstrated experience with IMMUTA data policy.
Demonstrated experience collaborating and presenting technical information with Sponsor staff, IT customers, and other technical and non-technical staff and contractors at all levels.
Demonstrated experience with a variety of data repository types (i.e., relational, NoSQL, distributed processing framework, etc.).
Demonstrated experience creating and interfacing with REST APIs.

Location: Chantilly
Type: Contract
Job #2732

Title: Software Engineer

Location: Chantilly, VA

*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

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

Software Engineer supporting the Data Ingest Team. In this role, you will work with a small talented team working with BIG DATA. You will implement complex data parsers for a variety of structured and unstructured data sets to render them in a format recognized by a host of analytical tools. You will work primarily in Python but knowledge of Java and Perl is valuable. You will automate certain bulk data processing using Apache NiFi and other technologies. As part of the program’s process improvement program, you will refactor legacy code to improve speed and efficiency of production processing. You will research new technology to develop innovative new methods for extracting and transforming the huge flows of data received and ingested daily.

Required Qualifications

Active TS/SCI w/ poly

BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant technical field of study.
10+ years of experience in software development; 14+ years of experience in lieu of a degree.
Proficiency coding in Python, Java, or other similar programming language.
Demonstrable experience working in a Linux environment.

Desired Qualifications
- MS in Computer Science or engineering discipline
- Deep understanding of parsing concepts and schema formats
- Demonstrable experience with AWS
- Demonstrable experience with SQL and SQL-Lite
- Demonstrable experience with Mongo DB
- Demonstrable experience with hex editors
- Demonstrable experience with working with structured and unstructured data

Location: Chantilly
Type: Contract
Job #2731

Title: Software Engineer

Location: Chantilly, VA

*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Senior Software Engineer to join an agile development team creating the next generation ETL Platform that supports operations vital to our customer’s mission to produce outstanding intelligence analysis for our nation’s policy makers.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with your Agile development team to design and implement, test and deploy the next generation Extract Transform and Load Platform that supports vital operational and analytical missions. The ETL Platform will process petabytes of data annually to extract data from a myriad of formats including structured, unstructured, binary and text. You will use best of breed open source and commercial technologies such as Apache NiFi, Kafka, and AWS to implement your team’s solution against systems requirements. You will develop features in the data workflow that extracts embedded objects such as video and audio recordings to enrich the content of data available to operators and analysis. You will create interfaces to various analysis tools as well as to other content enhancement applications such as language translators. In short, you will build the future!

Required Qualifications

Active TS/SCI w/ poly
BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Information Systems, Science, Engineering or Technology field
BA/BS and 12-15 years of total experience or Masters and 10+ years of experience; additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in software development
Minimum of 2 years of experience with AWS
Demonstrable experience with Java, Python, C++, or C#
Active TS/SCI with polygraph level clearance is required

Desired Qualifications

Experience with Apache NiFi
Experience with DevSecOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
Experience with AWS SQS and Apache Kafka
Experience with Agile development methodologies

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2718

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

Seeking a Systems Engineer to join one of our teams in Chantilly, VA. 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
• Demonstrated knowledge with SDLC practices
• Ability and desire to function effectively on a highly motivated team
• Demonstrated experience working with High Operational Tempo and Mission focused teams
Desired Qualifications:
• Amazon certification(s)
• Knowledge of the data lifecycle and data management best practices
• Demonstrated knowledge of Agile best practices (CSM Certification)
• Knowledge of Java, Python, and other Development languages
• Demonstrated DevSecOps experience
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and associated technology stacks

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2707

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

Description: The Agile Systems Integrator will support the client’s mission goals and strategic objectives providing strategic planning, business planning, program increment and release train planning support to the program. The candidate will use the Agile Framework and provide leadership to a portfolio of projects within the client’s mission space through design, implementation, and testing.

Specific duties include:

Translate mission needs and business requirements into system, application, or process designs.
Review and update project schedules, milestones, and deliverables into various databases.
Monitor projects to ensure work scope and schedule are met.
Plan and coordinate all meeting logistics.
Attend detailed development meeting to track actions, note challenges, develop process flows and roadmaps, and facilitate internal communication.
Develop programmatic control gate documentation
Prepare briefings for Sponsor and stakeholders.
Provide highlights and written documentation of team accomplishments and concerns.

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2705

Title: Configuration Management Expert
Location: Chantilly, VA

Description: The successful Configuration Manager (CM) will create, update and maintain configuration documentation of new and existing systems. The CM will innovate and look for new methods to migrate data from system to system. He/she will ensure that systems and services are consistently documented as they are developed, delivered, and maintained in a way that meets Customer’s expectations and industry best practices. The CM will work with system owners/developers to identify areas that lack system documentation and configuration standards and propose opportunities to improve current processes. The CM will also identify, baseline, version control and audit system documentation.

Duties include:
Collaborating with other IT team members to ensure that all new and existing technologies are documented and baselined
Communicating with the Customer, including contractors and other external parties, to gather information about their configuration needs
Develop new configuration management methods and/or tools
Prepare configuration documentation and manage items
Analyze any issues with documentation of the configurations items and propose solutions
Assist in the migration of data between various systems (JIRA, Confluence, Tableau, Databases, Document Repositories, Microsoft tools, etc…)
Assist in migrating Microsoft Excel worksheet data to other systems
Assist the Customer in performing system integration activities
d. Experience/Education & additional Quals:

TS/SCI with Polygraph level clearance is required
3 years of systems engineering experience in a software environment
8 to 10 years’ experience with BS/BA or 6 to 8 years with MS/MA or 3 to 5 years with PhD; additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Software development team experience (don't have to have been a developer)
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
Presentation skills

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2704

Description: Work with mission partners to gather needs and prepare those needs for funding approval. This will require technical understanding and continuous communications between several stakeholders. Work with the Systems Engineering team to document the needs and create artifacts for funding determination. Once approved, will stay engaged with the development team to communicate updates to the mission partners and ensure their needs are being accurately addressed. Be the focal point for multiple mission requirement requests. Provides feedback to design engineers and evaluates end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle. Working as expert, will conduct research and evaluate technical performance of software products and overall segments and systems. Ensure products and systems comply with requirements and government information assurance and cyber security standards and practices through formal verification methods.

Participate in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements. This includes reviews of test plans/procedures and ensuring requirements verification/validation.
Produce high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and findings for senior US government intelligence and operations officials.
Ensure the operational readiness of products before their deployments
Provide operational input into product development
Ensure that all equipment, documentation, etc. is complete and available prior to testing start
Write test plans
Work with the team to ensure testing coverage
Collect and work with the development teams to resolve any issues found before or during testing
Prepare results briefings
Present briefings to management
Review technical documentation (Product guides, Quick Start guides) and identify discrepancies
Work with the product team to improve the documentation
Attend product demos

d. Experience/Education & additional Quals:
Required

BS 10-12, MS 8-10, Phd 5-7
Prior experience and fundamental knowledge of the systems engineering lifecycle
Experience writing requirements
Experience in writing test plans
Prior product testing experience
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desired

Some basic knowledge of RF
Previous CONOPS development

Clearance

TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2695

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

Position Description:
The Contractor shall have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience:

Demonstrated experience with, but not limited to, MS Office suite, Adobe products to include Captivate and Connect and Skype
Demonstrated experience with standard operational Windows environment, including but not limited to, desktop hardware, software, peripherals, and web technologies
Demonstrated experience with requirements management
Demonstrated experience in account management including access management of systems and applications and for applications in a cloud environment
Demonstrated experience with oral and written communication skill
Demonstrated experience with procurement mechanisms and processes for hardware and software procurement orders
Demonstrated experience with assessing and validating requirements for stand-alone tablets to include operations & maintenance and to keep system security plans up-to-date

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE

Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor’s IT security guidelines and policies
Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor’s procurement mechanisms and processes for hardware and software procurement orders
Demonstrated experience with basic knowledge of Project Management concepts and principles
Demonstrated experience with the ability to clearly and accurately explain rules, procedures, and highly complex technical information both orally and written
Demonstrated experience with transferring data between different systems

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2694

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

Position Description:
REQUIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE

The Contractor shall have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience:
Demonstrated experience addressing large volumes of new, possibly dis-similar data or concepts.
Demonstrated experience identifying and extracting data from multiple sources
Demonstrated experience managing and transforming structured and unstructured data
Demonstrated experience highlighting key issues and relationships from a base of information
Demonstrated experience prioritizing and scheduling next steps based on an understanding of the stated priorities.
Demonstrated experience communicating orally and in writing to senior or executive level audiences on resource needs relevant to data integration.
Demonstrated on-the-job experience planning and coordinating projects including scheduling of meetings and preparation of briefings or presentations.
Demonstrated on-the-job experience identifying, facilitating acquisitions, coordinating, and implementing necessary process improvements on technical discovery and exploitation.
Demonstrated on-the-job experience in building, designing and refining technical capabilities that support data integration.

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Data Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
Demonstrated on-the-job experience exhibiting communication skills, both oral and written, as well as making presentations to small audiences.
Demonstrated experience with Tableau.
Demonstrated experience with Python and SQL.
Demonstrated experience with network architecture.
Demonstrated experience with risk assessments, methodologies and scoring.
Demonstrated experience working independently.

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2569

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

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

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

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

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

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

Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Type: Contract
Job #2568

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

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

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

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

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