Test Engineer Richardson, TX Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
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:
Analyze the current regression tests that exist and develop a way to increase test automation in executing regression tests nightly
Take existing capability sell-off manual tests that have been executed previously and add relevant pieces to the nightly regression tests that are not currently covered
Perform routine Integration, Verification, & Test (IV&T) tasks to contribute to execution of PI objectives to test system capabilities
Required Skills:
Experience with Postgres and SQL databases to be able to make complex queries to extract information
Knowledge in scripting languages to include bash, perl, python and ability to query Oracle DB via sql and MongoDB
Experience supporting development and system integration of a software-based system in a DevSecOps environment, including:
Experience with the Atlassian Suite, including Jira and Confluence
Experience communicating execution status against technical requirements
Desired Skills:
Systems Engineering (SE) or Test Execution (TE) experience on a large government software development contract
Experience with SE process development and deployment
Experience with configuration management concepts and tools
Experience with Gherkin and Cucumber would be preferred
Security + Certification
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.
Location:Richardson, Texas
Type:Contract
Job#3422
Systems Engineer Richardson, TX Active TS/SCI
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:
Support technical direction and design to software agile development teams, and other Engineering personnel.
Perform technical analyses and define how the system works creating use cases, system capability and feature designs, defining system interfaces and acceptance criteria.
In this role, the candidate will provide engineering support for the implementation of a portion of the program’s systems engineering.
To succeed in this role, you must have systems engineering development lifecycle experience using an Agile methodology.
Collaborate with the systems engineering teams to design and develop software
Assist in providing technical information and clarification during the entire software development lifecycle, 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 customer user representatives or subject matter experts to gather user needs and incorporate into the feature designs for the agile development teams
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)
Experience interacting across multiple engineering disciplines, including both programmatic and technical
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 performing design activities with cross-disciplined engineering teams
Experience working in the software development Lifecyle
Desired Skills:
SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) background with end user mission experience
Experience in a technical role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team
Experience with cloud-based S/W architectures and systems is a plus
Experience developing MBSE and DoDAF artifacts
Background and experience successfully working with all levels of engineering development in large government software development programs as well as an individual contributor as part of an agile development team
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 Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.), and evaluation of requirements decomposition, system architecture and system design
Experience using MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tool
Experience in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and/or micro-service based systems
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.
Location:Richardson
Type:Contract
Job#3421
Software Engineer Richardson, TX Active TS/SCI
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:
In this role, you will use your solid foundation in Java and experience working in a Linux environment to comprehend customer needs and translate those needs into viable design solutions.
Use your understanding of software principles, theories, and concepts related to software engineering (including software development lifecycle and software development process), design patterns, and Object-Oriented architecture.
Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
Demonstrate your critical thinking skills with the ability to communicate concepts and ideas well.
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with Agile development methodologies.
Experience with DevSecOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
Experience with building automated tests.
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.
Location:Richardson, Texas
Type:Contract
Job#3418
Platform Engineer Richardson, TX Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
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:
The role's core responsibility revolves around empowering development teams with a robust platform that streamlines processes, enhances collaboration, and accelerates release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation.
You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. This will include a mixture of hands-on keyboard engineering work as well as documentation and baseline control.
Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure
Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premises cloud computing environments
Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management
Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions
Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management
Provide operational support for the platform
Administrative fluency with the following (or vendor equivalent): Red Hat Linux (v7+, 8+ preferred), Rancher
Experience troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based OS.
Required Skills:
Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration
Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Rancher
Desired Skills:
Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab)
Exposure to Cloud based web services such as AWS
Knowledge of secure coding practices such as OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation
Experience with Networking Concepts and architectures
Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore)
Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience with compute, networks, storage, and virtualization
Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework
Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Bash, Perl, Ruby, C++)
Current DoD 8570 certification (CompTIA Security +, CCNA) or ability to obtain within 90 days
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.
Location:Richardson, Texas
Type:Contract
Job#3416
Systems Engineer Richardson, TX Active TS/SCI
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.
Location:Richardson, Texas
Type:Contract
Job#3415
Automation Test Engineer Richardson, TX Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
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:
In this role you will develop, implement, and maintain a test automation strategy.
Analyze the current regression tests that exist and develop a way to increase test automation in executing regression tests
Take existing capability sell-off manual tests that have been executed previously and add relevant pieces to the regression tests that are not currently covered
Perform routine Integration, Verification, & Test (IV&T) tasks to contribute to execution of PI objectives to test system capabilities
Required Skills:
Experience with system engineering and technical experience with software systems
Experience supporting agile development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full life-cycle)
Experience interacting across multiple engineering disciplines, including both programmatic and technical
Desired Skills:
Experience with SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) with end user mission
Experience in a technical role of a multi-disciplined engineering team
Experience with cloud based S/W architectures and systems. Previous software development background a plus
Experience in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and/or micro-service based systems
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.
