Software Developer Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Poly Chantilly, VA
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Software Developer to work collaboratively in order to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services for a large Government agency to detect and mitigate insider threats.
The Insider Threat Detection program is manned by a multi-disciplinary team of system and data engineers, data scientists, software developers, intelligence analysts, and investigators to provide insider threat detection and counterintelligence services. This program provides an opportunity to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services for a large Government agency to detect and mitigate insider threats. This program takes data from multiple sources in any format (structured or unstructured), transforms it into interpretable fragments, and allow our engines to categorize, quantify, distill, and display results for human analysts to interpret. Team members work closely with esteemed customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions. The technology stack is built on cutting edge hardware and software with multiple Windows and Linux environments interfacing with multi-petabyte data processing and analytic platforms – all designed, built, and maintained by our team.
We are looking for a Software Developer that is a self-starter with the mindset that stays up to date with the latest tools and techniques. This is a challenging yet rewarding position that provides an opportunity to leverage cutting edge technologies in pursuit of a vital mission that protects people, sensitive information/technologies, and the national security posture of the USIC.
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The field of insider threat detection and mitigation is evolving and growing, and our program needs highly innovative individuals, please keep reading…
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Design, develop, and deploy client facing software
Interact with other software developers, customers, and stakeholders
Solve complex problems and improve processes
Collaborate with team members to ensure code is completed efficiently and effectively
Perform root cause analysis on production systems
Required Experience and Qualifications:
Hands-on experience with one or more of the following software languages: C#/.NET, Java, or Python
Strong knowledge of Microsoft development tools (Visual Studio, SQL Management Studio, etc.)
Solid understanding of object-oriented architecture and design
Experience building customer facing software
Experience designing and developing client-side, server-side, and database components for new application features using C#/.NET, Web API, SQL Server, jQuery, Knockout.js (or similar framework), JavaScript, CSS and HTML5.
Hands on experience with SQL Server
Solid understanding of Git
Practical experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
Preferred/bonus skills::
Bachelors of Science in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) related field, plus 8 yrs or Masters degree plus 6 yrs.
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2281
Senior Data Engineer Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Poly Chantilly, VA
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Senior Data Engineer to work collaboratively in order to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services for a large Government agency to detect and mitigate insider threats.
The Insider Threat Detection program is manned by a multi-disciplinary team of system and data engineers, data scientists, software developers, intelligence analysts, and investigators to provide insider threat detection and counterintelligence services. This program provides an opportunity to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services for a large Government agency to detect and mitigate insider threats. This program takes data from multiple sources in any format (structured or unstructured), transforms it into interpretable fragments, and allow our engines to categorize, quantify, distill, and display results for human analysts to interpret. Team members work closely with esteemed customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions. The technology stack is built on cutting edge hardware and software with multiple Windows and Linux environments interfacing with multi-petabyte data processing and analytic platforms – all designed, built, and maintained by our team.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will help us expand our insider threat capabilities in automating data integration and collection strategies. The successful candidate will help expand and optimize the data ingestion pipeline architecture, develop strategies for efficient ingestion, processing, storage, structuring, and access. In addition, the Data Engineer will support data analysts, data scientists, and big data engineers in identifying data sources, performing exploratory data analysis, developing data models, ensuring data cleanliness and accuracy to provide new Insider Threat behavioral insights.
The field of insider threat detection and mitigation is evolving and growing, and our program needs highly innovative individuals, please keep reading…
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Support data science team by designing, developing and implementing scalable ETL process for disparate datasets into a Hadoop infrastructure
Design, develop, implement, and maintain data ingestion process from various disparate datasets using StreamSets (experience with StreamSets not mandatory)
Develop processes to identify data drift and malformed records
Develop technical documentation and standard operating procedures
Leads technical tasks for small teams or projects
Required Experience:
Working knowledge of entity resolution systems
Experience with Hadoop and Hive/Impala
Experience with messages systems like Kafka
Experience with NoSQL and/or graph databases like MongoDB or ArangoDB
Any of the following databases: SQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Postgres
Working experience with ETL processing and Python
Working experience with data workflow products like StreamSets or NiFi
Working experience with Python RESTful API services, JDBC
Experience with Cloudera Data Science Workbench is a plus
Understanding of pySpark
Leadership experience
Creative thinker
Ability to multi-task
Excellent use and understanding of data engineering concepts, principles, and theories.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelors of Science in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) related field, plus 8 yrs or Masters degree plus 6 yrs.
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2280
Senior Solutions Architect Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Poly Chantilly, VA
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Senior Solutions Architect to work collaboratively in order to further advance cutting-edge technology, products, and services for a large Government agency to detect and mitigate insider threats.
We are looking for a technologist that understands the wide enterprise IT landscape and can effectively identify and communicate risks and solution enhancements. As Senior Solution Architect you will become an expert in all aspects of the production infrastructure and work closely with onsite engineers, administrators, database admins, and software developers. You will work in a secure, fast paced environment with continuous integrations and leading-edge technologies. You will actively engage with the Government customer leadership members to communicate your strategies through verbal and written presentations. The field of Solutions Architect is evolving and growing, and our program needs highly innovative individuals, please keep reading…
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Analyze current IT architecture and propose, design and implement future enhancements
Effectively communicate solutions and issues to wide audience of technical and non-technical members
Conceptualize, develop and implement IT architecture solutions in a secure customer mission space
Form key relationships with all members of the technical service team and act as the bond that integrates the various technical duties together
Identify customer needs and requirement, plan and present future product road maps
Identify all required components for solutions integration including hardware/software procurements, data center power sizing, network design, and deployment strategies
Work closely with System Engineers and Administrators to define and align tasks for solution implementations
Work closely with technology vendors to evaluate products through technical exchange meetings and product evaluations
Develop solutions that are highly available and fault tolerant
Develop project plans and identify risks
Identify legacy solutions and design recap
Required Experience:
Minimum three (3) years experience in designing, developing, building, and implementing Big Data solutions or developing automated solutions to solve complex problems, a thoughtful ability to solve problems could outweigh years of experience.
Experience creating Solution Briefings for customers that provide a solution description, cost/benefit analysis and implementation schedules.
Experience deploying solutions that meet NIST 800-53, ICD503 security requirements
Wide comprehension of how various IT infrastructure components work together, including Servers/Workstations, network equipment, Big Data infrastructure, data storage management, enterprise software application, and on-premise cloud solutions
Expert in Microsoft Enterprise Infrastructure components such as Active Directory, Domains and Trusts, DNS, DHCP, SQL, Exchange, Clusters
Experience with IT workstation environments and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Comfortable working on site in a secure classified environment
Experience implementing storage technologies to include Fiber Channel SAN and Network Attached Storage
Experience configuring Local Area and Wide Area Networks.
Experience configuring Firewall policies and NAT polies
Experience engaging with vendors to allocate budgets for IT purchases and plan procurements
Experience designing and implementing on premise cloud architecture using VMware vSphere
Experience with developing disaster recovery and COOP plans is a plus
Experience designing and implementing Hadoop (HDFS, Kafka, Impala/Hive)
Experience with UNIX/Linux environments
Experience designing and integrating firewall solutions
Experience with Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) is a plus
Experience integrating hardware solutions into Enterprise Data Centers
Understanding of RESTful service and APIs
Working experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Required Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or IT related field
DoD 8570 Compliant
Location:Columbia, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2278
Title: Systems Administrator – Level 2
*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 Skills:
· Experience with Windows and Linux (CentOS/RHEL or similar *NIX) administration.
· Experience with STE requirements/tools/teams.
· Experience with customer Information System Security processes and tools (SSPs/ATO/IAVAs etc).
Desired Skills:
· Experience scripting against REST APIs, databases, and CSV files.
· Experience with network design, security, and automation.
· Experience with DevOps tech stacks and modern CM and CI/CD tools (especially Ansible).
· Experience with a scripting language (Python/bash).
· Experience with VMWare hypervisors and virtualization, and FreeIPA and Kerberos authentication.
Location:Columbia, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2277
Title: Sr. Software Systems Engineer
*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.
Description:
Sr. Software Systems Engineer focused on architecture and engineering tradecraft documentation to include:FIW modeling, system power and bring-up sequences, state degradation diagrams, reliability and availability block diagrams, telemetry data flow and collection requirements, interdependency and FIW/FW/SW relationship diagrams.
Must utilize systems engineering experience in carrying out functions, including configuration and resource management, quality assurance, and physical and software integration, acquisition, and testing.
Must contribute to the development of System Engineering plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specification, and Interface Control Documents.
Will also need to record and display internally developed solutions through development of deep-dive documents, flow charts, layout, as well as diagrams.
Qualifications:
BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related subject.
Proven working experience in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Unix/Linux based environments, Solid network knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP).
Location:Columbia, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2269
Title: Systems Engineer – Level 2
*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.
Job Description
Systems Engineer with a DevOps focus. Member of a high-impact team bringing industry best-practices, open-source tooling, and ubiquitous automation into the customer’s software integration and delivery processes. Freedom to innovate in almost any area the team touches, from system administration (hardware/OS/security) to software (containerization/installation/orchestration) to monitoring (health & status, metrics, automated recovery) and more. Team members serve as a critical resource to the integration, system administration, and software development teams to encourage automation, standardization, and adoption of modern tools.
Essential:
– significant work experience in software system integration and DevOps
– advanced troubleshooting skills
– significant experience in Linux (CentOS/RHEL)
– experience scripting with bash/python
– experience automating fleet management with Ansible
– experience with CI/CD concepts and implementation
– some software development experience/exposure
– proficient with git
– experience with containers and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes/Rancher)
– proficient with switching and routing concepts
Non-essential, Desired:
– experience with managing VMware Infrastructure
– experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
– experience with event streaming platforms (Kafka) and messaging topologies (activemq/rabbitmq)
– experience developing with and operating elasticsearch databases in production
– experience with networking
– experience performing ETL on data using open-source tooling
Type:Contract
Job#2268
Data Scientist
Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph preferred
Location: Chantilly, VA
Cornerstone Defense has an immediate opening on the team for a motivated Data Scientist. The Data Scientist will help us expand our insider threat capabilities to include more predictive analytics and data science capabilities. The successful candidate will help define the shape of this endeavor while working directly with our Insider Threat Program team members. The data scientist will identify data sources, perform exploratory data analysis, develop data models and improve the visualization of data sets to provide new user behavior insight. Additionally, the data scientist will develop and execute a strategy based on customer requirements that leads to effective and efficient insider threat detection.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Responsibility:
The Data Scientist will be part of a team within the customer space in support of their Insider Threat Program. The candidate will have hybrid experience in software development and data science. The Data Scientist's role would be to insert data science expertise into our team leveraging machine learning and advanced analytics to solve complex problems.
Participates in the research, design and development systems software, software applications and/or tools for new programs and subprograms
Identify and make enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software and/or data model
Identify new machine learning and advanced analytics methodologies based on available data sets, and implement dynamic models/algorithms
Collaborate with Insider Threat analytic personnel to understand their mission needs, and identify forward thinking data science approaches for operationalization
Participates as a Subject Matter Expert in internal review of software components and systems utilizing machine learning
Participates in collaboration activities with senior management and leadership within the customer space
Assist in the design, development, testing, and validation of multiple modeling design concepts to include but not limited to statistical, mathematical, and simulation models
Apply agile software development methodologies such as Scrum in the performance of tasks
Minimum Qualifications:
5+ years of experience with machine learning
5+ years of experience with standard data science tool-sets
A strong computational mathematics background
A strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases
Python and/or Javascript experience
Capable of working on complex problems of diverse scope or situations or data that requires in-depth evaluation of variable factors
Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
Detailed and very strong knowledge of technology trends and champions new ideas and product and process improvements
Very strong ability to excel at the development of new theories and methods
Very strong awareness of business objectives and Engineering's role in achieving
Very strong ability to be creative, innovative and responsible, and able to master advanced decision-making skills
Very strong ability to grasp and apply new information quickly
Shows initiative on assignments, and professionally executes projects as a technical SME with little or no direction
Very strong ability to be a team player who thrives in collaborative environments and revels in team success, meeting and exceeding personal and team commitments
Very strong written and verbal communications skills
Very strong ability to recognize and clearly report relevant information
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related Science or Mathematics field, plus 8 years or Master's degree plus 6 years.
As a CNO Test Engineer, you’ll develop and conduct functional, operational, and/or performance tests on hardware, software, and systems, execute the test approach and documents system verification throughout the engineering development lifecycle, generate system test work products by applying the appropriate standards, processes, procedures and tools, and isolate and documents issues and defects.
Capabilities:
Responsible for automated ed-to-end system testing of capabilities for network devices
Experience developing automated test scripts using Python, Ruby or SmartBear a plus
Understanding and knowledge of dataflow and operational tools
Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, a related specialized area or field (or equivalent experience) plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience
Expert knowledge and experience with object-oriented programming, system processes and scripting languages
Openly contributes to the development of new theories and methods to enhance productivity and efficiency, solicits input, and optimizes solutions
Ability and willingness to help anticipate and shape business opportunities
Outstanding communication skills for frequent contact with managers, project teams across the company and external customers and vendors
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2258
Reverse Engineer – Advanced Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain Polygraph within reasonable period of time Location: Hanover, MD
Advanced Reverse Engineer will analyze, decompose, disassemble code, perform static code analysis, kernel-level debugging, and debug and modify software. Programming in both C and assembly language, we’ll rely on you to be involved in Protocol Analysis, Vulnerability Assessment, Security Research, Rapid Prototyping of proof of concept capabilities. You’ll conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration testing utilizing reverse engineering techniques. You’ll also contribute to the design, development and implementation of countermeasures, system integration, and tools specific to Cyber and Information Operations.
Capabilities:
Developing embedded software systems in assembly C, C++, or Java
Developing embedded software systems for Unix, Linux, Windows, VxWorks, JunOS, or vendor-proprietary operating systems
Experience with IDA Pro or similar reverse engineering too
Experience with operating system internals for Unix, Linux, Windows, VxWorks, JunOS, or vendor-proprietary operating systems
Reverse engineering and analysis of software
Low-level programming of device drivers in a Unix, Linux, or Windows environment
Bit-level data analysis
Systems engineering of large scale embedded systems
Qualifications:
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or a related Science or Mathematics field. Also requires 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience.
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2257
Reverse Engineer – Senior Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain Polygraph within reasonable period of time Location: Hanover, MD
Senior Reverse Engineer will analyze, decompose, disassemble code, perform static code analysis, kernel-level debugging, and debug and modify software. Programming in both C and assembly language, we’ll rely on you to be involved in Protocol Analysis, Vulnerability Assessment, Security Research, Rapid Prototyping of proof of concept capabilities. With your experience in Reverse Engineering tools, both COTS and GOTS, you’ll conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration testing utilizing reverse engineering techniques. You’ll also contribute to the design, development and implementation of countermeasures, system integration, and tools specific to Cyber and Information Operations.
Capabilities:
Developing embedded software systems in assembly C, C++, or Java
Developing embedded software systems for Unix, Linux, Windows, VxWorks, JunOS, or vendor-proprietary operating systems
Experience with IDA Pro or similar reverse engineering too
Experience with operating system internals for Unix, Linux, Windows, VxWorks, JunOS, or vendor-proprietary operating systems
Reverse engineering and analysis of software
Low-level programming of device drivers in a Unix, Linux, or Windows environment
Bit-level data analysis
Systems engineering of large scale embedded systems
Qualifications:
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or a related Science or Mathematics field. Also requires 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience.
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2256
Title: Applications Developer Engineer – junior
Location: Hanover, MD
*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.
Applications developers use programming languages and source code to create software that meets government requirements. Developer may work with multiple programming languages. Application development involves the process, life cycle and creation of the software designed to meet the government requirements.
Capabilities:
With assistance breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
With assistance clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Work as a part of a team to write a specific sectionofcode.
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Mathematics degree
Four (4) years of equivalent related military experience may be substituted for the Bachelor degree
*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.
Applications developers use programming languages and source code to create software that meets government requirements. Developer may work with multiple programming languages. Application development involves the process, life cycle and creation of the software designed to meet the government requirements.
Capabilities:
With assistance breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
With assistance clarify actions the program is intended to perform. (U) Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Breakdown program specifications into it’s simplest elements and translate it into code.
Clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Combine all elements of a program design and test it.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users.
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or
Computer Engineering or Mathematics and have two (2) years of software/system development work experience (Four (4) years of equivalent related military experience may be substituted for Bachelor degree), with knowledge in one (1) or more of the following areas:
Software System Design
Software System Development
Software System Integration
Software System Testing
In addition to the minimum requirements above, the individual shall have at least one (1) year of work experience in two or more of the following areas:
Developing software applications in C, C++, or Java.
Developing software applications for Unix, Linux, or Windows environments.
Developing DLLs for the Windows environment.
Development on computer telephony platforms using computer telephony cards such as Dialogic.
Object-oriented programming.
Working knowledge of common protocols/standards such as TCP/IP, SNMP, H.323, X.25, 802.11, 802.16, SIP, MEGACO, or MGCP.
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2254
Title: Application Developer Engineer – Senior
Location: Hanover, MD
*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.
Applications developers use programming languages and source code to create software that meets government requirements. Developer may work with multiple programming languages. Application development involves the process, life cycle and creation of the software designed to meet the government requirements.
Capabilities:
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
Clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Combine all elements of a program design and test it.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users.
Breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
Clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Lead a team to write a specific multiple sections of code.
Combine all elements of a program design and test it.
Establish detailed program specification through discussion with government stakeholders.
Conduct User acceptance testing.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users.
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Mathematics and a minimum of six (6) years of software/system development work experience or a Masters of Computer Science or Computer Engineering (Four (4) years of equivalent related military experience may be substituted for Bachelor degree) with a minimum of four (4) years of experience, with expertise in two (2) or more of the following areas:
System Requirements Analysis
Software System Design
Software System Development
Software System Integration
Software System Testing
In addition to the requirements above, the individual shall have at least five (5) years of work experience in three or more of the following areas:
Developing software applications in C, C++, or Java.
Developing software applications for Unix, Linux, or Windows environments.
Developing DLLs for the Windows environment.
Development on computer telephony platforms using computer telephony cards such as Dialogic.
Object-oriented design and programming.
Working knowledge of common protocols/standards such as TCP/IP, SNMP, H.323, X.25, 802.11, 802.16, SIP, MEGACO, or MGCP.
Web development, with proven knowledge of XML, php, mySQL, ColdFusion, or Apache.
Script writing using Perl, Python, Bourne shell, C shell, or other proprietary scripting languages.
Database experience with Sybase, Oracle, or Microsoft.
Reverse engineering and analysis of software.
Kernel knowledge of Unix (Linux).
Bit-level data analysis.
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2253
Title: Application Development Engineer – SME
Location: Hanover, MD
*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.
Applications developers use programming languages and source code to create software that meets government requirements. Developer may work with multiple programming languages. Application development involves the process, life cycle and creation of the software designed to meet the government requirements.
Capabilities:
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
Clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Combine all elements of a program design and test it.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users.
Breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
Clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Lead a team to write a specific multiple sections of code.
Combine all elements of a program design and test it.
Establish detailed program specification through discussion with government stakeholders.
Conduct User acceptance testing.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users.
Combine all elements of a program design and test it
Establish detailed program specification through discussion with government stakeholders.
Conduct User acceptance testing.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users.
Guide the design and development process to completion.
Test critical portions of programs to ensure proper operation.
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Mathematics and a minimum of fifteen (15) years of software/system development work experience or a Masters of Computer Science or Computer Engineering (Four (4) years of equivalent related military experience may be substituted for Bachelor degree) with a minimum of ten (10) years of experience with technical expertise in three (3) or more of the following areas:
System Requirements Analysis
Software System Design
Software System Development
Software System Integration
Software System Testing
In addition to the requirements above, the individual shall have at least five (5) years of work experience in three or more of the following areas:
Developing software applications in C, C++, or Java.
Developing software applications for Unix, Linux, or Windows environments.
Developing DLLs for the Windows environment.
Development on computer telephony platforms using computer telephony cards such as Dialogic.
Object-oriented design and programming.
Working knowledge of common protocols/standards such as TCP/IP, SNMP, H.323, X.25, 802.11, 802.16, SIP, MEGACO, or MGCP.
Web development, with proven knowledge of XML, php, mySQL, ColdFusion, or Apache.
Script writing using Perl, Python, Bourne shell, C shell, or other proprietary scripting languages.
Database experience with Sybase, Oracle, or Microsoft.
Reverse engineering and analysis of software.
Kernel knowledge of Unix (Linux).
Bit-level data analysis.
Location:Tysons Corner, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2252
Title: Field Service Representative (1st/2nd/3rd Shift)
Location: Tysons, 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.
The Field Service Representative is a systems administrator with a strong aptitude to troubleshoot Tier 1 technical problems in real-time both independently and within a team environment. As part of a team of FSRs, you will support fellow team members, end users, and other engineer teams with a focus on communicating effectively across all stakeholders in a 24/7 operational environment.
For reference, here is a list of shifts that exist on the team:
1st Shift: 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM*
2nd Shift: 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM*
3rd Shift: 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM*
Key Experience and Skills Required:
MS Windows 10, Server 2016, Server 2019, SQL Server 2014/ 2016/ 2019
MS Office Suite 2016, Symantec Anti-Virus, Veritas Back-up Exec, Mediawiki
Jira (ticket system)
Establishing work methodologies to gather, organize, and report metrics for review with appropriate engineer(s) for system monitoring and maintenance, e.g., records, reports, graphs, charts
Supporting and maintaining system operations and schedules consistently across shifts
Communicating issue resolution in an educational and informative manner with end users
Troubleshooting issues and coordinating resolutions among team members and stakeholders across various locations and shifts
Exercising judgment within defined policies, practices, and procedures to determine appropriate action
Basic windows script knowledge. You should be able to understand a batch file. This includes following the path of the configuration in the batch file; creating your own batch files to perform desired tasks; and troubleshooting batch files to see where they may be broken.
Supporting daily/weekly program meetings as a required
Knowledge of the imagery exploitation lifecycle, and various imagery systems
On call 24/7 Tier 1 support
Key Foundational Skills:
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Problem-solver, well-versed in troubleshooting
Flexible and versatile enough to work on a variety of different tasks and technologies
Self-starter, does not need training in system administration/Tier 1 support fundamentals
Fast learner, grasps and applies new information quickly
Ability to multitask and sustain multiple operational systems simultaneously based on current operational needs
Shows initiative on assignments, exercises independent judgment, and professionally executes projects with little direction
Highly Desired Experience and Skills:
MAAS (Multi-int Analysis and Archive System)
Haivision, encoder technology and video routing
Well-informed of current and future technologies
Subject matter expert (SME) in one discipline/field and developing working knowledge in adjacent disciplines/fields
Strong background supporting intelligence and FMV operations
Documentation/SOP creation and maintenance
Building productive internal/external working relationships
Location:Tysons Corner, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2251
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Tysons, 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.
Duties and Tasks:
As part of our site team, our On-Site Senior Software Engineer will have the opportunity to gain familiarity with new tools, technologies, software applications, and our Multi-INT Analysis and Archive System (MAAS) via in-depth, hands-on training.
The On-Site Senior Software Engineer position requires someone with a keen ability to rapidly solve software challenges with a focus on communicating effectively with the customer, team and end users on a highly important and exciting program. The ideal candidate must be able to work independently under pressure and effectively identify, recommend and solve mission related issues when software solutions are needed. The candidate must be able to communicate and work effectively with remote, non-collocated development teams.
The On-Site Senior Software Engineer will support tools, applications, products, and services that involve docker containers, microservices, Nifi workflows, and various other container orchestration systems. At the direction of the government customer and the Multi-INT Analysis and Archive System (MAAS) development team, responsibilities may include front end development related to customer software solutions and efforts to create, maintain, and update new features on web pages. The candidate may also support back-end development and collaboration efforts.
In addition to solving ongoing operational problems, novel software solutions will be greatly valued, especially using the latest accepted software technologies. On-site software implementations and prototypes will be evaluated and migrated back into the formal software baseline at the factory.
The ideal candidate will have a general passion for software solutions and will possess an inquisitive mind that can quickly adapt and work independently, with teams, and with ad-hoc tasking on various applications/products.
Required Skills:
Front-End Software Engineering Skills:
Web Development/Web Frameworks (Node, React, Angular, Vue)
Drive to pro-actively seek out customer needs, system improvements, innovative solutions
Agile experience
Organized Innovator who can recommend and efficiently implement new ways to visualize data and information with minimal impact to users/systems
Strong hands-on experience
Location:Tysons Corner, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2250
Title: Advanced Software Engineer
Location: Tysons, 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.
The On-Site Senior Software Engineer position requires someone with a keen ability to rapidly solve software challenges with a focus on communicating effectively with the customer, team, and end users on a highly important and exciting program. The ideal candidate must be able to work independently under pressure and effectively identify, recommend, and solve mission related issues when software solutions are needed. The candidate must be able to communicate and work effectively with remote, non-collocated development teams.
The On-Site Senior Software Engineer will ensure the proper operation of the Mult-Int Analysis and Archive System (MAAS – FMV) which includes many dependencies on other systems (e.g., video encoders, network infrastructure, database, etc). The candidate will focus on front end development related to customer software solutions on-site at the direction of the government customer and the MAAS development team. The candidate may support backend development and collaboration efforts in addition to front end development efforts. In addition to solving ongoing operational problems, novel software solutions will be greatly valued, especially using the latest accepted software technologies. On-site software implementations and prototypes will be evaluated and migrated back into the formal software baseline at the factory.
The ideal candidate will have a general passion for software solutions and will possess an inquisitive mind that can quickly adapt and work effectively with the entire on-site team.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
General language skillsets
Java (AOP, IOC)
JavaScript, React/Redux, AngularJS
SQL, NoSQL, Graph
C++
General required concepts
GraphDB, SQL and NoSQL data modeling / visualization / querying
MS SQL Server, OmniSci, Accumulo/Hadoop preferred
Reactive application development in a web browser –
Write and manage large applications in React/Redux, rxJS, Reactive Streams
Manage and bug triage legacy applications in AngularJS
Debug and troubleshoot applications in customer space
Applications range from Java to C++ at priority determined by customer
Microservice API development and integration experience (gRPC/REST)
Deploy micro and macro services in NodeJS or JBoss
Manage communication endpoints in gRPC or REST
REST based service level integration, API negotiation, Threading and Load Balancing
Managing scalability of deployed software products
Heavily use ETL concepts and engines to decouple solutions
Apache NIFI
Creating and maintaining orchestration templates, modifying templates provided from unclassified teams into classified space
Process
Prior experience operating with Kanban processes
Ability to manage and/or contribute to software baselines across classification boundaries
Location:Tysons Corner, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2249
Title: Engineering Site Lead
Location: Tysons, 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.
The Engineering Site Lead is an experienced systems engineer and technical leader with exceptional multi-tasking skills to tackle challenges across systems, processes, and agile teams that support mission operations. As part of our site team you will:
lead efforts in requirement gathering by interacting with customers
lead multi-faceted engineers in supporting critical 24/7 system operations
lead prioritizing of development, testing, troubleshooting, and delivery activities for end-to-end system performance validation efforts with a focus on communicating effectively with customers, team members, and end users in a 24/7 operational environment
Key Experience and Skills Required:
Planning, delegating, driving technical efforts to completion
JIRA, Agile experience, backlog grooming and prioritization
Flexibility and versatility to work on a variety of different tasks and technologies
Understanding and communicating technical strategies to inform development efforts
Proactive identification and prioritization of system improvements and innovations that move technical solutions forward
Deploying and implementing solutions from factory to ops with minimal impact to users/systems
System testing, troubleshooting, demos to inform the development cycle
Supporting daily/weekly group and leadership meetings
Experience with resolving ad hoc and/or urgent tasks involving multiple stakeholders
Use case and SOP development
Requirements Elicitation and facilitating agreements between customers
Key Foundational Skills:
Detail oriented
Excellent communication and collaboration skills (across teams and customers)
Excellent team collaboration/team player
Well-informed of current and future technologies
Self-starter, problem-solver, well-versed in troubleshooting
Knowledge of software engineering/computer science fundamentals
Strong understanding and application of engineering principles, practices, and standards
Ability to multitask and sustain multiple operational systems simultaneously based on current operational needs
Knowledge of the imagery exploitation lifecycle, and various imagery systems
Subject matter expert (SME) in one discipline/field and developing working knowledge in adjacent disciplines/fields
Linux administration
Familiarity with Kibana
Experience as a technical liaison between various stakeholders
Experience aligning business needs, technical needs, and mission needs
Location:Fair Lakes, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2247
Title: Chief Engineer
Location: Fair Lakes, 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.
The Chief Engineer is responsible for the overall technical direction and execution for the Program development team and other efforts in the Multi-Int business of the Space and Intelligence Systems (SIS) Intelligence, Intelligence Solutions (IS) business area. The Chief Engineer position is like an Integrated Product Team (IPT) lead or a Program Technical Manager (PTM). In this position, the candidate is required to support the development of systems and capabilities centered on our MAAS baseline and offshoot capabilities. The Chief Engineer will create consensus among the development team, the government team, and the program manager. This position is a leadership position for our organization that performs our SAFe-compliant agile software development process. You’ll perform software requirements analysis, system integration activities, lead research and design, develop and test software and tools, to include development of new work products or enhancing existing applications, systems or embedded products. We will rely on your experience and knowledge to solve the hardest technical problems facing the company, often requiring the utmost creativity and innovation. It’s your chance to step up to the challenge and prove you’re ready to lead the world. What You’ll Experience:
Technologies that aren’t just top-notch, they’re often top-secret
A team of bold thinkers committed to exploring what’s next
Opportunities to gain new knowledge – as it’s discovered
What You Bring To The Table:
A Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering, a related specialized area or field and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience or a Master's degree and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
Substantial leadership skills and proven team building and motivation skills
Proven problem-solving skills in complex environments
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time if necessary
What Sets You Apart:
Skilled at applying and executing highly advanced technologies, principles, theories and concepts
Strong ability to work with leadership team to plan and execute tactical and strategic efforts
Strong ability to lead, mentor, and motivate experienced technical staff
High level of proficiency in project management, including managing to budgets, schedules, and technical execution
Through proactive leadership, creates an environment where the impact of technology on the business is clearly recognized
Use JIRA to manage daily, sprint, and increment metrics, performance, and backlogs
Demonstrated ability to collaborate across multiple locations
Location:Fair Lakes, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2246
Title: Full Motion Video Systems Engineer
Location: Tysons, 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.
The FMV Systems Engineer is a systems engineer with a proactive mindset to maintain and update systems as part of an Agile team that supports mission operations. As part of the team you will support Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline activities involving end-to-end system performance validation efforts with a focus on communicating effectively with customers, team members, and end users in a 24/7 operational environment.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
The ideal candidate must be able to work independently under pressure and effectively identify, recommend, and problem solve system issues to ensure systems, software, and applications are properly configured to meet customer needs in the 24/7 operational environment.
Key Experience and Skills Required:
MS Windows 10, Server 2016, Server 2019, SQL Server 2014/ 2016/ 2019
MS Office Suite 2016, Symantec Anti-Virus, Veritas Back-up Exec, Mediawiki
Jira (ticket system)
Basic windows script knowledge. You should be able to understand a batch file. This includes following the path of the configuration in the batch file; creating your own batch files to perform desired tasks; and troubleshooting batch files to see where they may be broken.
Reporting information to team members and leadership (status reports, metrics, logs)
Supporting daily/weekly group meetings
Knowledge of the imagery exploitation lifecycle, and various imagery systems
On call 24/7 tier 2 support
Key Foundational Skills:
Strong hands-on experience
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Problem-solver, well-versed in troubleshooting
Flexible and versatile enough to work on a variety of different tasks and technologies
Self-starter, does not need training in software engineering/computer science fundamentals
Strong understanding and application of engineering principles, practices, and standards
Ability to multitask and sustain multiple operational systems simultaneously based on current operational needs
Preferred Experience and Skills:
MAAS (Multi-int Analysis and Archive System)
Haivision, encoder technology and video routing
Well-informed of current and future technologies
Planning and tracking team delegation
Subject matter expert (SME) in one discipline/field and developing working knowledge in adjacent disciplines/fields
Strong background supporting intelligence and FMV operations
Documentation/SOP creation and maintenance
Location:Tysons Corner, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2245
Title: Senior Systems Engineer
Location: Tysons, 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.
Senior Advanced Systems Engineers will:
Perform MAAS Database maintenance
Knowledge of the imagery exploitation life cycle, and various imagery systems
Network and System Engineering experience
Network hardware Engineering
Microsoft Engineering
Support the following OS and software: MS Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, Active Directory, MAAS (Multi-int Analysis and Archive System), MS Office Suites, VMWare, vSphere, vCenter 7
Report information through weekly site communications group meetings, weekly status reports, and monthly logs to team members and management
SPLUNK
PKI experience
SQL Database experience
SCCM
What You’ll Experience:
Technologies that aren’t just top-notch, they are cutting edge.
A team of bold thinkers committed to exploring what’s next
Opportunities to gain new knowledge – as it’s discovered
What You Bring To The Table:
Subject matter expert (SME) in one discipline/field and developing working knowledge in adjacent disciplines/fields
Proficient understanding and application of engineering principles, concepts, practices, and standards
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2244
Title: Full Stack C# Developer
Location: Hanover, MD
*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.
Designs, develops, and builds front-end user interfaces (web pages), business logic and algorithms, and also writes code that interacts with the database and passes data back and forth between the front end and the data store.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Capabilities:
Codes, tests, integrates and documents software solutions
Applies principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to the development of complex solutions
Participates as a Subject Matter Expert in internal review of software components and systems
Works on the hardest technical problems facing the company, often these problems are unusually complex and require the utmost creativity and innovation
Applies and champions the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products
Receives no appreciable instruction on day-to-day work; more often responsible to define the scope, schedule and expectations for the work they execute or lead; assignments may be self-initiated
Provides leadership and/or direction and/or supervision to lower level employees and teams
Leads large technical tasks and large teams and projects
Keeps abreast of technology trends and champions new ideas and process improvements
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in software engineering or a related technical field is required plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience. Agile experience preferred.
Alternatively: Strong development skills in Java and a willingness to learn C#
Database experience
Preferred: MongoDB
HTML
CSS
Deployment with a Web Server
Preferred: IIS
Proficient understanding of software engineering concepts, principles, and theories
Proficient at applying technical standards and methodologies to resolve issues in creative ways and help company meet financial and business objectives
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2243
Title: Senior Embedded Developer/Engineer
Location: Hanover, MD
*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.
Designs, develops, debugs and modifies software embedded software. Analyzes requirements and determines which requirements have a software component. The software requirements are translates those requirements into software instructions enter either by hand or through an automated tool used to generate code.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Capabilities:
With assistance breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
With assistance clarify actions the program is intended to perform. (U) Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
Clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Write detail documentation for the operation of the program by users
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Mathematics and a minimum of six (6) years of software/system development work experience or a Masters of Computer Science or Computer Engineering with a minimum of four (4) years of experience, with expertise in two (2) or more of the following areas (Four (4) years of equivalent related military experience may be substituted for Bachelor degree):
System Requirements Analysis
Software System Design
Software System Development
Software System Integration
Software System Testing
In addition to the requirements above, the individual shall have at least five (5) years of work experience in three or more of the following areas:
Developing embedded software systems in assembly, C, C++, or other proprietary languages.
Developing embedded software systems in one or more of the following operating system environments: Unix, Linux, Windows, VxWorks, PalmOS, JunOS, or vendor-proprietary operating systems.
Experience with operating system internals with one or more of the following operating systems: Unix, Linux, Windows, VxWorks, PalmOS, JunOS, or vendor-proprietary operating systems.
Reverse engineering and analysis of software.
Low-level programming of device drivers in a Unix, Linux, or Windows environment.
Bit-level data analysis.
Systems engineering of large scale embedded systems.
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2240
Title: Mid Level Embedded Developer/Engineer
Location: Hanover, MD
*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.
Designs, develops, debugs and modifies software embedded software. Analyzes requirements and determines which requirements have a software component. The software requirements are translates those requirements into software instructions enter either by hand or through an automated tool used to generate code.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Capabilities:
With assistance breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
With assistance clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or
Computer Engineering or Mathematics and have two (2) years of software/system development work experience (Four (4) years of equivalent related military experience may be substituted for Bachelor degree), with knowledge in one (1) or more of the following areas:
Software System Design
Software System Development
Software System Integration
Software System Testing
In addition to the minimum requirements above, the individual shall have at least one (1) year of work experience in two or more of the following areas:
Developing embedded software systems in assembly, C, C++, or other proprietary languages.
Developing embedded software systems in one or more of the following operating system environments: Unix, Linux, Windows, VxWorks, JunOS, or vendor-proprietary operating systems.
Experience with operating system internals with one or more of the following operating systems: Unix, Linux, Windows, VxWorks, JunOS, or vendor-proprietary operating systems.
Reverse engineering and analysis of software.
Low-level programming of device drivers in a Unix, Linux, or Windows environment.
Bit-level data analysis.
Systems engineering of large scale embedded systems.
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2239
Title: Junior Embedded Developer/Engineer
Location: Hanover, MD
*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.
Designs, develops, debugs and modifies software embedded software. Analyzes requirements and determines which requirements have a software component. The software requirements are translates those requirements into software instructions enter either by hand or through an automated tool used to generate code.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Capabilities:
The Level O Embedded Developer shall possess the following capabilities:
With assistance breakdown program specifications into it simplest elements and translate it into code.
With assistance clarify actions the program is intended to perform.
Work as a part of a team to write a specific section of code.
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Mathematics degree. Four (4) years of equivalent related military experience may be substituted for the Bachelor degree.
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2238
Title: Mid Level Systems Engineer
Location: Hanover, MD
*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.
Utilize industry best practices, product knowledge, and business acumen to analyze business needs and recommend and implement product enhancements to help ensure solution meets objectives. Leads the solution design and implementation aspects of engagement(s) ensuring quality, integrated software solutions within constraints of time and budget. Perform requirements gathering, analysis, reviews, and create and maintain requirements traceability matrices. Develop system requirements specifications, design documents, user manuals and readiness reviews.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Capabilities:
As a Systems Engineer, you’ll participate in requirements analysis and management, functional analysis, performance analysis, system design, trade studies, systems integration and test (verification) in the development and evaluation of networks and information systems.
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of five (5) years of experience planning, developing, and implementing systems engineering practices and processes. Experience with the Software Engineering Institute's CMMI model is required. Experience with Microsoft Office and Project are required. Familiarity with software development and various software development lifecycle models is also required.
The individual shall have at least five (5) years of systems engineering experience in three or more of the following areas:
Work breakdown structures
Project schedules and estimates
Requirements definition and analysis
Requirements traceability
Requirements verification and validation
Configuration management
Risk management
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2237
Title: Senior Systems Engineer
Location: Hanover, MD
*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.
Utilize industry best practices, product knowledge, and business acumen to analyze business needs and recommend and implement product enhancements to help ensure solution meets objectives. Leads the solution design and implementation aspects of engagement(s) ensuring quality, integrated software solutions within constraints of time and budget. Perform requirements gathering, analysis, reviews, and create and maintain requirements traceability matrices. Develop system requirements specifications, design documents, user manuals and readiness reviews.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Capabilities:
As a Systems Engineer, you’ll participate in requirements analysis and management, functional analysis, performance analysis, system design, trade studies, systems integration and test (verification) in the development and evaluation of networks and information systems.
Qualifications:
Shall have a minimum of ten (10) years of experience planning, developing, and implementing systems engineering practices and processes. Experience with the Software Engineering Institute's CMMI model is required. Experience with Microsoft Office and Project are required. Familiarity with software development and various software development lifecycle models is also required.
The individual shall have at least ten (10) years of systems engineering experience in three or more of the following areas:
Work breakdown structures
Project schedules and estimates
Requirements definition and analysis
Requirements traceability
Requirements verification and validation
Configuration management
Risk management
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2236
Title: C++ Software Developer
Location: Hanover, MD
*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.
The Java Developer Engineer will assist project leaders in the research, design, development and testing of software and tools, to include development of new work products or enhancing existing applications, systems or embedded products. This may include coding, testing and documenting software solutions to advance our technology solutions.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Capabilities:
Codes, tests, integrates and documents software solutions
Applies principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to the development of complex solutions
Participates as a Subject Matter Expert in internal review of software components and systems
Works on the hardest technical problems facing the company, often these problems are unusually complex and require the utmost creativity and innovation
Applies and champions the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products
Receives no appreciable instruction on day-to-day work; more often responsible to define the scope, schedule and expectations for the work they execute or lead; assignments may be self-initiated
Provides leadership and/or direction and/or supervision to lower level employees and teams
Leads large technical tasks and large teams and projects
Keeps abreast of technology trends and champions new ideas and process improvements
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Science in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) related field or equivalent experience, plus a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree. Agile experience preferred.
Must be proficient in object oriented software development while a strong C++ background is highly desired, a talented Java developer willing to learn C++ is also given consideration. Prior Python development experience is a plus.
Develop custom C++ software code, debugs, troubleshoots, and resolves software and hardware compatibility and operability issues –
Use data structures, software engineering, OOD, C++ programing techniques and algorithms to write, debug and test code
Ability to code in a LINUX/UNIX environment
Linux C++ toolchains
Other desired skills
Multithreaded programming
Unit testing framework
Sockets API programming
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2235
Location: Hanover, MD
*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.
The Java Developer Engineer will assist project leaders in the research, design, development and testing of software and tools, to include development of new work products or enhancing existing applications, systems or embedded products. This may include coding, testing and documenting software solutions to advance our technology solutions.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Capabilities:
Use Java development experience to develop, deploy, and maintain mission-critical applications
Provide support and technical advice during conceptualization, development, and implementation phases to transform requirements to working solutions. This includes involvement with users to define system scope and objectives, as well as contributing to design decisions.
Work on new development and re-engineering efforts, including making system design decisions
Implement enhancements to existing system in addition to coordinating with other developers working in parallel and perform QA/testing as needed
Provide software development services on all tiers
Experience with test driven development
Scrum/agile project lifecycle approach to software development
Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experience is required; Agile experience preferred
Clear understanding of software engineering concepts, principles, and theories
Clear understanding of the software development process
Candidate must have experience in the following:
1 year of Developing software applications for Java
1 year of Developing software applications for Unix, Linux, or Windows environments
1 year of Developing software applications for Python
Experience in two (2) or more of the following:
Developing DLLs for the Windows environment
Development on computer telephony platforms using computer technology cards such as Dialogic
Object-oriented programming
Working knowledge of common protocols/standards such as TCP/IP, SNMP, H.323, X.25, 802.11, 802.16, SIP, MEGACO, or MGCP
Web development, with proven knowledge of XML, php, mySQL, ColdFusion, or Apache
Script writing using Perl, Python, Bourne shell, C shell, or other proprietary scripting languages
Database experience with Sybase, Oracle, or Microsoft
Reverse engineering and analysis of software
Kernel knowledge of Unix (Linux)
Bit-level data analysis
Location:Hanover, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2234
Test Engineer – Mid Level Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain Polygraph within reasonable period of time Location: Hanover, MD
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.
Analyzes system requirements and concept of operations documents, acquisition plans, and system descriptions to develop evaluation and test plans and procedures, prepare for and conduct the data collection and analysis, and report status and results. Supports the development of Government test and evaluation documentation e.g., Test & Evaluation (T&E) Strategy, Test & Evaluation Master Plan, Event Test Plans, Test Readiness Assessments, and T&E Reports. Works with other test organizations to support T&E program integration. Provides specialized T&E capabilities tailored to system functions, level, maturity, and performance area as assigned in the SOW.
Core hours are 8 AM – 4 PM EST with flexibility on either end. Ad hoc support is required as needed for requests that fall outside this core window.
Capabilities:
The Level 2 Test Engineer (TE) shall possess the following capabilities:
Assist with any or aII of the Level I tasks as constrained by technical training and previous testing experience
Conduct research into and apply knowledge of Government test and evaluation concepts and related engineering, acquisition, and operations activities as needed to support the T&E activities
Plan and Execute Performance Analysis
Assess operational and system performance requirements for testability and criticality to frame and prioritize T&E objectives and enable evaluation planning
Review planned acquisition approaches to support T&E schedule alignment with decision maker needs for T&E support
Coordinate with program Systems Engineering (SE) and review T&E-related SE information to leverage functional analysis, system descriptions, parameter selection and dependencies, Modeling and Simulation, and initial performance risk assessments to inform evaluation planning
Assess operational and system performance requirements for testability and criticality to frame and prioritize T&E objectives and enable evaluation planning
Review planned acquisition approaches to support T&E schedule alignment with decision maker needs for T&E support
Coordinate with program Systems Engineering (SE) and review T&E-related SE information to leverage functional analysis, system descriptions, parameter selection and dependencies, Modeling and Simulation, and initial performance risk assessments to inform evaluation planning
Design surveys for evaluation of Subject Matter Expert (SME) input and user assessments of performance
Select, develop, & use analysis tools
Participate in the T&E Working-level Integrated Product Team (WIPT) and/or Integrated Test
Team for coordination of evaluation plans
Execute the evaluation plan on data collected by the Testing Tasks
Produce Evaluation Plans (metric framework, scenarios/threads, timelines, requirements (T&E cross-walk), Analysis Plans, Data Requirements, Risk Assessments, Evaluation Reports, Status reports; provide input to Government T&E products (e.g., Technology Readiness Assessments
Test & Evaluation Strategy, Test & Evaluation Master Plan, T&E Plans & Procedures and Test Readiness Reports)
Plan and Execute Performance Data Collection
Plan program and event level testing for collection of data required for analysis and to synch T&E events with supported decision points
Design data sampling schemes to optimize the information/resource balance and to control testing uncertainties
Select, coordinate, and calibrate Instrumentation, collection and data management tools, targets, & facilities
Ensure test readiness including training of test event participants re conduct of the event; equipment readiness, and security, legal, and privacy compliance arrangements
Establish and employ Data & Configuration Management capabilities
Support Data Authentication group functions; and comply with program Discrepancy Reporting criteria and· processes
Participate in T&E WIPT and/or Integrated Test Team for coordination of data collection plans
Execute Testing and Data Collection per plan
Produce associated Test Plans, Procedures, and Reports/Briefings, Data Management Plan
Define and provide technical direction and guidance for the Level 1 tasks to the Level O and Level 1 TEs assigned to the task
Recommend draft plans and reports from the Level 1 tasks for approval by the task leader
Work directly with the Government sponsor to coordinate task implementation
Maintain knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest
Qualifications:
Five (5) years experience as a TE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Statistics, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
Four (4) years of additional TE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
Location:Reston, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2224
Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
*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.
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Job Description
Seeking a DevOps Engineer responsible for working closely with Customer Engagement project teams to provide the customer with to provide first line support for customer implementations.
The selected candidate will provide support for customer deployments and assist with installation and administrative configuration as required. Candidate will assist with triaging and routing incoming requests, troubleshooting applications or environment issues and remediating them. Acting as the initial point of contract for the customer, the candidate will work closely with project team to advance solutions implemented by the customer.
Job Requirements:
Work directly with the DevOps team and Senior DevOps manager to understand system deployment and installation processes.
Manage all computer systems and oversee the daily performance, keeping an eye out for issues and inefficiencies.
Provide Tier-1 support to resolve any help desk tickets, calls and/or change requests where installation/application configuration may be an issue.
Respond to user issues, answering inquiries and resolving more complicated issues firsthand.
Maintain records of system performance, combining raw information into a useful and beneficial performance report for monthly board meetings.
Create training material whenever new recruits are hired to explain the correct and most efficient way to operate the implemented systems.
Other duties as assigned.
Experience and Skills
Required Experience:
Must hold an Active TS/SCI with polygraph ONLY, all others need not apply.
3 – 7 years’ experience in development and operations, or related IT, computer, or operations field.
Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.
Ability to work in a team-oriented environment for a matrixed organization.
Experience with Microsoft operating systems/Windows environments.
Previous experience with software development, infrastructure development, development and operations or working in an IT department.
Effective communication skills.
Ability to effectively collaborate with internal and external customers.
Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Proven ability to communicate technical details to a non-technical audience.
Excellent organizational and time management skills.
Strong team player that is willing to help other team members at all times.
Desired Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Experience with AWS deployments.
Knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Lifecycle or commercial contracting.
Knowledge of Federal financial systems or commercial accounting.
Experience with Federal government contracting and/or program office organizations business processes.
Location:Columbia, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#2220
Title: SIGINT Systems Technical Analyst
*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.
Job Description:
Development and deployment of wireless systems focusing on RF systems using Software Defined Radios, Digital Signals Processing, Protocol Analysis, and Data Flow supporting national and tactical customers.
Required Skills:
Some Project management experience with knowledge of Microsoft Project software
General Administrative skills
Knowledge of the SIGINT processing chain (desired)
Knowledge of testing (desired)
Desire to learn Systems Engineering
CSM preferred or is willing to obtain a CSM.
Location:Colorado Springs, Colorado
Type:Contract
Job#2218
Title: P992 – Senior Test & Evaluation Engineer
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Clearance: TS/SCI
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 Skill/Experience:
Bachelors, Masters or Doctoral Degree of Science from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry
4 or more years of experience with systems software testing
Desired Skills/Experience:
Familiarity with requirements analysis and development; analysis, derivation, allocation, and traceability of requirements
Familiarity with Agile methodology tool sets such as Jira
Familiarity with requirements management tool sets such as DOORS
Experience executing SW testing at different levels including component, Configuration Item, subsystem, integration/system, and acceptance testing
Experience developing and executing automated testing using scripts, developed software, and/or other applications
Experience with space systems modeling and simulation
Experience with space systems engineering and associated artifacts such as requirements, UML architecture, ICDs, User Guides, and algorithm design.
Experience with Linux operating system
Location:Reston, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2217
Title: Software Developer/Engineer
The selected candidate can be located locally in Reston, VA or remote.
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.
Job Description:
Seeking highly motivated Developers/Engineers to build and implement functional software solutions, that thrives in a fast-paced, agile environment including the ability to engage in open and animated peer review sessions, able to change direction quickly, and an eagerness to learn new technologies.
All development staff experience full exposure to application lifecycle management (ALM), which affords our employees the opportunity to learn and work across many functional areas including UI/UX, business layer, database design, application architecture, etc.
Job Requirements:
Develop and maintain technical project plans that adhere to company goals and coordinate various technical personnel during all project phases, from initial development through implementation.
Collaborate with other software architects and developers
Produce code to develop easy maintenance and extension of DSI software products
Integrate software components and third-party programs
Understand and demonstrate development skills utilizing ASP.NET 2.0, C#, JavaScript/JQuery, and .NET Framework
Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
Perform validation and verification testing prior to deploying implementations
Gather and evaluate user feedback
Recommend and execute improvements
Create technical documentation for reference and reporting
Other duties as assigned.
Required Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field
5+ years’ experience with software development, infrastructure development, or related field
Working understanding of SQL, SSL Certificates, and Single Sign on Configurations
Understanding of the asp.net application lifecycle from IIS to the DOM
Experience with Windows environment and Visual Studio
Experience with .NET, SaaS, and Scrum / Agile methodologies
Experience with REACT and MaterialUI
Good verbal / written communication with all levels of management
Able to multitask and manage time efficiently
Ability to work independently and in a team
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2211
Data Engineer Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain Polygraph within reasonable period of time Location: Chantilly, VA
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.
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Data Engineer to work with collaborative teams to help expand and optimize the data ingestion pipeline architecture, develop strategies for efficient ingestion, processing, storage, structuring, and access. In addition, the Data Engineer will support data analysts, data scientists, and big data engineers in identifying data sources, performing exploratory data analysis, developing data models, ensuring data cleanliness and accuracy to provide new Insider Threat behavioral insights.
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Support data science team by designing, developing and implementing scalable ETL process for disparate datasets into a Hadoop infrastructure
Design, develop, implement, and maintain data ingestion process from various disparate datasets using StreamSets (experience with StreamSets not mandatory)
Develop processes to identify data drift and malformed records
Develop technical documentation and standard operating procedures
Leads technical tasks for small teams or projects
Required Experience and Qualifications:
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field.
5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience.
Desired Experience and Qualifications:
Working knowledge of entity resolution systems
Experience with Hadoop and Hive/Impala
Experience with messages systems like Kafka
Experience with NoSQL and/or graph databases like MongoDB or ArangoDB
Any of the following databases: SQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Postgres
Working experience with ETL processing and Python
Working experience with data workflow products like StreamSets or NiFi
Working experience with Python RESTful API services, JDBC
Experience with Cloudera Data Science Workbench is a plus
Understanding of pySpark
Leadership experience
Creative thinker
Ability to multi-task
Excellent use and understanding of data engineering concepts, principles, and theories
Data Engineer Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Poly Chantilly, VA
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Data Engineer to work with collaborative teams to help expand and optimize the data ingestion pipeline architecture, develop strategies for efficient ingestion, processing, storage, structuring, and access. In addition, the Data Engineer will support data analysts, data scientists, and big data engineers in identifying data sources, performing exploratory data analysis, developing data models, ensuring data cleanliness and accuracy to provide new Insider Threat behavioral insights.
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Support data science team by designing, developing and implementing scalable ETL process for disparate datasets into a Hadoop infrastructure
Design, develop, implement, and maintain data ingestion process from various disparate datasets using StreamSets (experience with StreamSets not mandatory)
Develop processes to identify data drift and malformed records
Develop technical documentation and standard operating procedures
Leads technical tasks for small teams or projects
Required Experience and Qualifications:
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field.
5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience.
Desired Experience and Qualifications:
Working knowledge of entity resolution systems
Experience with Hadoop and Hive/Impala
Experience with messages systems like Kafka
Experience with NoSQL and/or graph databases like MongoDB or ArangoDB
Any of the following databases: SQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Postgres
Working experience with ETL processing and Python
Working experience with data workflow products like StreamSets or NiFi
Working experience with Python RESTful API services, JDBC
Experience with Cloudera Data Science Workbench is a plus
Understanding of pySpark
Leadership experience
Creative thinker
Ability to multi-task
Excellent use and understanding of data engineering concepts, principles, and theories
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2209
Senior Linux Engineer Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain Polygraph within reasonable period of time Location: Chantilly, VA
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Senior Linux Systems Engineer with an agile mindset who is up to date with the latest Linux features and best practices. This is a challenging yet rewarding position that provides an opportunity to leverage cutting edge technologies in pursuit of a vital mission that protects people, sensitive information/technologies, and the national security posture of the USIC, please keep reading…
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Setting up and managing Linux systems, applications and environments and ensuring those systems comply with government security standards
Apache web server administration and configuration
Maintains High Availability infrastructure ensuring security compliances and high level performance while minimizing service interruption
Provide network systems securities through policy enforcement and monitoring access
Assists in the design of multi-server environments including IP address schemes, DNS, WINS etc
Troubleshooting network hardware and software applications, OS upgrades, and security systems to resolve operational issues and restore services
Required Experience and Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in a specialized area; or equivalent is required plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
Minimum of a IAT Level II (DoD 8570.1M) certification is required: e.g. GIAC Security Essentials – GSEC; CompTIA Security+ CE; Security Certified Network Professional – SCNP; Systems Security Certified Practitioner – SSCP
Desired Experience and Qualifications:
Familiarity with Windows systems, VMWare, Hadoop, and Storage Area Networks, Big Data Analytical environments
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work independently with little supervision
Demonstrated ability to quickly learn, retain, and apply good interpersonal skills, and perform effectively under time pressure
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2207
Data Engineer Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain Polygraph within reasonable period of time Location: Chantilly, VA
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Senior Data Engineer to help mitigate insider threat data from multiple sources in any format (structured or unstructured), transform it into interpretable fragments, and allow engines to categorize, quantify, distill, and display results for human analysts to interpret.
The Senior Data engineer will support insider threat capabilities in automating data integration and collection strategies and help expand and optimize the data ingestion pipeline architecture, develop strategies for efficient ingestion, processing, storage, structuring, and access. In addition, the Data Engineer will support data analysts, data scientists, and big data engineers in identifying data sources, performing exploratory data analysis, developing data models, ensuring data cleanliness and accuracy to provide new Insider Threat behavioral insights, please keep reading…
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Support data science team by designing, developing and implementing scalable ETL process for disparate datasets into a Hadoop infrastructure
Design, develop, implement, and maintain data ingestion process from various disparate datasets using StreamSets (experience with StreamSets not mandatory)
Develop processes to identify data drift and malformed records
Develop technical documentation and standard operating procedures
Leads technical tasks for small teams or projects
Required Experience and Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) related field, plus 8 yrs or a Masters degree plus 6 yrs.
Desired Experience and Qualifications:
Working knowledge of entity resolution systems
Experience with Hadoop and Hive/Impala
Experience with messages systems like Kafka
Experience with NoSQL and/or graph databases like MongoDB or ArangoDB
Any of the following databases: SQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Postgres
Working experience with ETL processing and Python
Working experience with data workflow products like StreamSets or NiFi
Working experience with Python RESTful API services, JDBC
Experience with Cloudera Data Science Workbench is a plus
Understanding of pySpark
Leadership experience
Creative thinker
Ability to multi-task
Excellent use and understanding of data engineering concepts, principles, and theories
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2203
Counterintelligence Debriefer *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply * Chantilly, VA
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.
We are looking for a team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Counterintelligence Debriefer who works with collaborative teams to analyze information and intelligence relevant to threats facing the systems, infrastructure, and resources critical to the nation. The selected candidate will interview individuals in order to collect information pertinent to foreign contact and foreign travel. This information may lead to the creation of intelligence products that will be shared throughout the counterintelligence community. The selected candidate will also present awareness and defensive briefings in order to highlight threats facing the community, please keep reading….
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Analyze counterintelligence threat information
Review foreign contact/travel reporting
Conduct interviews to collect additional information
Draft intelligence products
Conduct awareness briefings
Required Experience and Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in a related specialized area or the equivalent is required plus a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree.
Additional Responsibilities
Exercise creative thinking and ideation to advance our business performance.
Deliver innovative, flexible, integrated solutions to meet customers' changing business needs.
Support and engage in programs, projects and practices behind the culture and strategy, and comply with all policies and procedures.
Follow industry and department trends and developments to ensure services are consistent with, and/or superior to, industry best practices.
Location:Chantilly, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#2202
Senior Counterintelligence Operations Analyst Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Poly Chantilly, VA
We are looking for a team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Senior Counterintelligence Operations Analyst who works with collaborative teams to analyze information and intelligence relevant to threats facing the systems, infrastructure, and resources critical to the nation. The selected candidate will interview individuals in order to collect information pertinent to foreign contact and foreign travel. This information may lead to the creation of intelligence products that will be shared throughout the counterintelligence community. The selected candidate will also present awareness and defensive briefings in order to highlight threats facing the community, please keep reading….
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Analyze counterintelligence threat information
Review foreign contact/travel reporting
Conduct interviews to collect additional information
Draft intelligence products
Conduct awareness briefings
Required Experience and Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in a related specialized area or field or equivalent is required plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience
Additional Responsibilities
Exercise creative thinking and ideation to advance our business performance.
Deliver innovative, flexible, integrated solutions to meet customers' changing business needs.
Support and engage in programs, projects and practices behind the culture and strategy, and comply with all policies and procedures.
Follow industry and department trends and developments to ensure services are consistent with, and/or superior to, industry best practices.
Location:Chantilly
Type:Contract
Job#2198
Linux Systems Administrator Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain Polygraph within reasonable period of time Location: Chantilly, VA
We are looking for team-members with creative talent who are ready to take on the challenge of Linux Systems Administrator who works with collaborative teams totake data from multiple sources in any format (structured or unstructured), transform it into interpretable fragments, and allow our engines to categorize, quantify, distill, and display results for human analysts to interpret.
Our technology stack is built on cutting edge hardware and software with multiple Windows and Linux environments interfacing with multi-petabyte data processing and analytic platforms – all designed, built, and maintained by our team. The field of insider threat detection and mitigation is evolving and growing, and our program needs highly innovative individuals. As a Linux Systems Administrator, you will help us expand our insider threat infrastructure in a Linux virtualized environment, please keep reading….
Roles and responsibilities potentially include:
Administer and manage Linux and hardware for on-premises systems, engineering, analysis, and test environments
Perform system and user account maintenance
Test and assess security configuration of Linux servers
Monitor, evaluate, and optimize system performance
Troubleshoot and resolve operating system conflicts
Analyze, test and implement security patches and hardening
Perform maintenance data collection on the equipment
Perform preventive and corrective maintenance activities
Document maintenance actions
Installs, configures and maintains multiplatform systems hardware, software and components
Integrates security solutions into information systems
Required Experience and Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience is required plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus 3 years of relevant experience.
Desired Experience and Qualifications:
Experience with Linux system administration including testing building/provision large-scale physical and/or virtual environments
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work independently with little supervision
Demonstrated ability to quickly learn, retain, and apply good interpersonal skills, and perform effectively under time pressure