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• Location: Herndon, Virginia
• Type: Contract
• Job #2311

Telecommunications Specialist, Dev

Chantilly, VA & McLean, VA

TS/SCI w Polygraph Required

• High school diploma or equivalent is required
• Requires less than three full years of experience specific to the skill and must be reflected
• Must be able to interface with individuals at all levels of the organization both verbally and in writing
• Must pay attention to detail and remain alert at all times.
• Prior experience with Cat5, Cat6, Fiber, Network Switches, and patch panels
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction
• Proficient in many facets of information technology requirements
• Should possess general business knowledge and soft-skills allowing them to be adaptable in a wide array of work environments.
• The candidate should have the willingness to participate in these type of activities when called upon to do so
• Advanced knowledge of the customer and the inner workings of the organization

Equal Opportunity Employment
Cornerstone Defense is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all employees and to upholding diversity in our recruiting and hiring processes. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, age, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

• 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.

• 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
• Type: Contract
• Job #1856

Title: DevOps 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related or an additional 6 years of experience in lieu of degree

• Minimum of 8 years of experience with hands on development experience using Java to ETL data

• Experience with ETL including:

o Data formats such as XML, JSON and YML

o Normalizing data and high-volume data ingestion

• Knowledge of build tools such as Maven or Gradle

• Understanding relational databases including the use of MySQL and/ or Oracle for designing

  database schemas

• Basic knowledge of Linux

• Experience with PKI including creating and deploying certificates

• Experience with C2S/AWS and understanding of fundamentals for EC2, VPC, and S3.

• Understanding of REST services and HTTP

• Experience with DevOps using tools like Jenkins

  Desired Qualifications:

• Developing middle tier software using Spring Boot

• Experience with Amazon AWS Java API

• Experience with shell scripting

CIT is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed professional to fill the role of CDEP Software Developer on our

team in Chantilly, VA. The Senior ETL-focused developer will need to have the ability to understand, develop,

automate, and enhance all parts of the data pipeline to include ingestion, processing, storage, and exposing

data for consumption. This position requires working with various mission stakeholders, communicating

system features and concepts to other users and developers, and interacting with program

management. Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to assisting other developers, debugging

various development and O&M processes, and system documentation