Anti-Tamper Systems/Hardware Engineer Colorado Springs, CO and Huntsville, AL Active Top Secret Compensation Range: $130,000 – $170,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Program Overview: The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is the integrating element of the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense and combatant commanders at strategic, regional and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, to collectively see the battle develop, and to dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives. C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that enables an optimized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight. C2BMC is the force multiplier that globally and regionally networks, integrates and synchronizes autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations to optimize performance. C2BMC is an integral part of all system ground and flight tests which verify and exercise all current and future missile defense system capabilities.
Job Responsibilities:
Coordinate with Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Anti-tamper (AT) and C2BMC leadership on updates and/or changes to the C2BMC system
Perform Anti-Tamper Risk and Threat Management Assessments and reports for the C2BMC program
Develop the analysis process and preparation of the AT plan and provide coordination and input for near-term fielding decisions
Develop, deliver, and maintain C2BMC AT Plan, C2BMC AT Evaluation Plan, C2BMC Key Management Plan, and the C2BMC Program Protection Plan
Develop, deliver, and maintain Critical Program Information (CPI) analysis, Defense Exportability Assessments, and defense export strategy
Develop, deliver, and maintain waivers for CPI, AT or defense exportability features
Assess program Anti-Tamper designs and implementation plans in support of verification and validation efforts
Develop and deliver recommendations to improve program protection while meeting cost, schedule, and performance objectives
Assess program protection and Anti-Tamper designs and implementation plans in support of verification and validation efforts
Identify risk-based technical countermeasures for the protection of C2BMC Critical Program Information and Critical Components.
Brief Anti-Tamper and Program Protection requirements and prepare white papers and evaluations as required
Support program milestone reviews and Fielding Decisions and verify entrance criteria is satisfied by having the Anti-Tamper and Program Protection products approved.
Interact with customer to define SSE requirements, solutions, trades, costs, implementation, system impacts, and effectiveness
Support developing plans and estimates, task execution, project tracking, reporting, and risk identification and mitigation plans. Keep senior management informed on major accomplishments, issues and concerns
Some travel between development sites (COS and HSV) may be required.
Required Skills:
Must possess a substantial understanding of system design and development, Service Oriented Architecture development principles and implementation and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD).
The candidate should understand and possess demonstrable skills including:
Experience designing and implementing Anti-Tamper (AT) and/or Defense Exportability Features (DEF) solutions.
The ability to engineer complex systems to ensure separation of concerns.
The ability to factor confidentiality, integrity and availability considerations in all phases of system development lifecycle.
The ability to understand and decompose requirements to support implementation, verification and validation testing of hardware components.
The ability to generate detailed, repeatable, automated test procedures. The ability to extract data to support analysis requirements.
The ability to generate procedures that test functionality.
The ability to apply Agile and Lean Product Development principles as well as training others through a DevOps type environment.
Background should include all aspects of the system development life cycle.
Experience with Git, JIRA, Confluence and other open-source development tools.
Candidates must have experience working in an integrated team environment with other systems, software, and specialty engineers to develop solutions.
The candidate should have an understanding and knowledge of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS).
The successful candidate must have a demonstrated ability to collaborate with a team of high performing individuals across a multi-site, multi-discipline organization.
Ability to analyze high level needs and through a structured and logical approach refine the need into an evolving minimum viable product (MVP) that leads to a fielded product. Excellent communications skills required (written and oral).
Able to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings.
Able to write and implement engineering plans within a project. Proven interaction in a team environment a must.
Desired Skills:
Previously engineered automation pipelines to enable effective development within environments with rapidly changing requirements, design challenges which require novel solutions, fast-paced activities, and tight deadlines.
Understanding of anti-tampering and exportability concerns and how to apply secure hardware/software methodologies.
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Colorado Springs, Colorado
Type:Contract
Job#3436
System Safety Engineer Colorado Springs, CO and Huntsville, AL Active Top Secret/SCI Compensation Range: $130,000 – $160,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Program Overview: The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is the integrating element of the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense and combatant commanders at strategic, regional and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, to collectively see the battle develop, and to dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives. C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that enables an optimized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight. C2BMC is the force multiplier that globally and regionally networks, integrates and synchronizes autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations to optimize performance. C2BMC is an integral part of all system ground and flight tests which verify and exercise all current and future missile defense system capabilities.
Job Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include integration of the product lines (BM, C2, Networks), generation of responsible sections of the capability specifications, training less experienced personnel in SE and Safety techniques, reviewing the content and details of technical products, and acting as a technical interface to MDA working level counterparts on an as required basis.
Required to independently complete Safety analysis including Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), Subsystem Hazard Analysis (SSHA) and support incorporating updates into existing Safety Analysis Reports (SARs).
System Safety engineering and development of program safety plans to provide the engineering team with application of safety policies and guidance.
Individual will provide support to MDA and other program personnel as required as well as other system engineering tasks as required.
Successful candidate will interface with team members and National Team management to ensure high quality products are generated on time and within the resources available.
Regular travel between Colorado Springs and Huntsville, Alabama will be required.
Required Skills:
Identification and definition of desired capabilities
Modeling the interrelationships between internal and external components
Communicating the desired capabilities to a diverse group of developers, engineers, subject matter experts, and users
Generating system/element level functional, performance, and interface specifications to document and control the achievement of the desired capabilities
In-depth knowledge of systems engineering concepts, principles, and techniques
System Engineering background with specialization in System and Software Safety.
Must have the ability to be part of an integrated team tasked with defining the physical, functional, and technical architecture necessary to describe the desired capabilities of an evolving BMDS Battle Management, Command & Control, and Communications effort.
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Colorado Springs, Colorado
Type:Contract
Job#3435
Global Algorithm Architect Colorado Springs, CO Active Top Secret Compensation Range: $125,000 – $160,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Program Overview: The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is the integrating element of the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense and combatant commanders at strategic, regional and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, to collectively see the battle develop, and to dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives. C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that enables an optimized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight. C2BMC is the force multiplier that globally and regionally networks, integrates and synchronizes autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations to optimize performance. C2BMC is an integral part of all system ground and flight tests which verify and exercise all current and future missile defense system capabilities.
Job Responsibilities:
Provide technical expertise and support in developing and analysis of complex algorithms in support of new BMDS capabilities as part of the Global Agile Release Train (ART).
The candidate will assist in the execution, analysis, and trades of Track Server algorithms over large data sets.
The candidate will also participate in developing and documenting complex algorithms, how those algorithms are applied in application software, and create and validate as needed test sets to prove proper implementations.
This position will report to the Global ART EPM, and be responsible to the Global Architect Lead for adhering to architectural guidance as part of implementation.
Required Skills:
Candidate must have experience working in the missile defense or related domains including operational and technical knowledge of topics such as engagement management, track management, sensor management.
The applicant should be well versed in the utilization of Data Analytics to analyze system performance on large data sets, to visualize complex data sets, and performing trades on algorithm implementations.
Proven track record of successfully applying system engineering principles to develop product solutions.
Experience with BMDS systems is highly desired.
Direct experience in one or more of the following algorithm domains is highly desired: target tracking, target classification, target prediction.
Experience in developing Algorithm Description Documents (ADDs) is desired.
Candidate should be experienced in technical interaction with government customers.
A working knowledge of software development processes and transitioning algorithms into production software is strongly desired, as is knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design principles.
Candidate must possess an understanding of Algorithm design techniques, and Kinematic/ Dynamic System modeling.
Candidates should also have experience working in an integrated team environment with other systems, software and specialty engineers to develop solutions.
Excellent communications skills are required (written and oral) as is the ability to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings.
Occasional trvel to Schriever SFB or other OCONUS locations as required.
Desired Skills:
Experience working with Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Optimal control, State Estimation, Statistical Analysis, Stochastic processes, Target Tracking/Correlation, and Orbital Mechanics.
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Colorado Springs, Colorado
Type:Contract
Job#3434
Global Systems and Interface Architect Colorado Springs, CO Active Top Secret/SCI Compensation Range: $165,000 – $205,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Program Overview: The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is the integrating element of the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense and combatant commanders at strategic, regional and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, to collectively see the battle develop, and to dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives. C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that enables an optimized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight. C2BMC is the force multiplier that globally and regionally networks, integrates and synchronizes autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations to optimize performance. C2BMC is an integral part of all system ground and flight tests which verify and exercise all current and future missile defense system capabilities.
Job Responsibilities:
Support the development and review of interface documents, system requirements, Verification Cross Reference Matrix (VCRM) development, architectural documentation, engineering estimates, and author and perform formal and informal engineering reviews.
Position will also provide mentoring to junior systems engineering team members to enhance skills in the department.
Works with the enterprise test architect to enable system sell off capabilities as required.
Candidate needs to have the ability to be flexible to support various tasking on short notice.
Work will be performed under the direction of the Global Architect Lead, and will require interfacing with team members, C2BMC management, and government customers to ensure high quality products are generated on time and within the resources available.
Responsibilities include adhering to DOORS processes and procedures, reviewing the content and details of technical products, and acting as a technical interface to MDA working level counterparts on an as-required basis.
Candidate will be actively involved in the efforts associated with Agile development including iteration planning, mentoring team members on architectural patterns being used, and agile team leadership.
Required Skills:
Demonstrated experience working large multi-site software development efforts including external interface development
Demonstrated experience executing under Federal Acquisition Regulations including Operational Concept development, Requirements, System Decomposition, Standards Compliance, Design, Implementation and Selloff
Demonstrated experience conducting or leading Analysis of Alternatives, Trade Studies and/or Design Evaluations
Familiarity with cyber, platform and network architecture technologies, dependencies and design drivers
Candidate must possess an understanding of systems engineering process and principles.
A successful applicant should have a proven track record of successfully applying system engineering principles to develop product solutions.
Candidates should have experience developing system engineering artifacts (e.g. specifications, Interface Control Documents, Use Cases, System Architecture Descriptions, Trade Studies, etc.).
Candidates should also have experience in with developing large, complex software systems.
Candidates should have experience working in an integrated team environment with other systems, software and specialty engineers to develop solutions.
Excellent communications skills are required (written and oral) as is the ability to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings.
Able to write and implement engineering plans within a project.
Desired skills include experience working within an Agile development environment, domain experience with both Space and Missile Defense, experience with Systems Analysis, Model Based System Engineering, Architecture development, Virtualization, Containerization, and Cloud Computing principles.
Travel supporting program reviews and customer meetings to CONUS sites including Huntsville, AL and Shriever SFB expected.
Desired Skills:
Experience designing large command and control and/or weapon systems
Experience processing radar sensor data
Experience with near real time processing, persistence and distributed user community
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Colorado Springs, Colorado
Type:Contract
Job#3433
Global Systems Safety Engineer Colorado Springs, CO Active Top Secret Compensation Range: $125,000 – $155,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Program Overview: The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is the integrating element of the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense and combatant commanders at strategic, regional and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, to collectively see the battle develop, and to dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives. C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that enables an optimized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight. C2BMC is the force multiplier that globally and regionally networks, integrates and synchronizes autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations to optimize performance. C2BMC is an integral part of all system ground and flight tests which verify and exercise all current and future missile defense system capabilities.
Job Responsibilities:
System Safety engineering and development of program safety plans to provide the engineering team with application of safety policies and guidance
Individual will provide support to MDA and other program personnel as required as well as other system engineering tasks as required
Successful candidate will interface with team members and National Team management to ensure high quality products are generated on time and within the resources available
Integration of the product lines
Generation of responsible sections of the capability specifications
Training less experienced personnel in SE and Safety techniques
Reviewing the content and details of technical products, and acting as a technical interface to MDA working level counterparts on an as-required basis
Required Skills:
Should possess System Engineering background with specialization in System and Software Safety
Experience analyzing design to ensure safety requirements are met
Ability to apply engineering principles to analyze and recommend design features that meet safety criteria in system design to control or eliminate hazards
Experience developing safety documents to support customer and test requirements (SAR, SRA, SSPP)
Experience with hazard identification
Experience participating in System Safety Working Groups
Must possess knowledge of MIL-STD-882E
System engineering and software systems engineering experience required in developing new and integrating existing systems
Ability to analyze high level needs and through a structured and logical approach refine the need into an integrated set of hardware and software
Excellent communications skills desired (written and verbal)
Able to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Colorado Springs, Colorado
Type:Contract
Job#3432
Infrastructure Automation/Maintenance System Administrator Colorado Springs, CO Active Top Secret/SCI Compensation Range: $125,000 – $160,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Program Overview: The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is the integrating element of the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense and combatant commanders at strategic, regional and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, to collectively see the battle develop, and to dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to achieve global and regional mission objectives. C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that enables an optimized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight. C2BMC is the force multiplier that globally and regionally networks, integrates and synchronizes autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations to optimize performance. C2BMC is an integral part of all system ground and flight tests which verify and exercise all current and future missile defense system capabilities.
Job Responsibilities:
The candidate will work on the Global Infrastructure team and will assist in maintaining and sustaining a hyperconverged infrastructure.
They will work primarily with multiple operating systems and specific developmental toolsets.
Required Skills:
3+ years of building project plans and organizing groups to manage personnel resources and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to support the software development lifecycle
Linux experience using RHEL administration including networking and protocols
Experience with projects that plan and schedule multiple groups in building out construction of labs, equipment to include: rack, space and power.
Experience with adding engineering rigor to the process for the Network Engineers, System Admins and cyber in support of projects and milestones.
Experience in working with CM to assure all processes are being met and captured
Understand of System Administration roles in a customer prem cloud environment
Understanding of Network Engineering roles in supporting Cloud base solution/implementations.
Experience with the tools like terraform, Ansible, shell scripting
Experience automating the buildout of VMs using Nutanix, VMWare
1+ container orchestration using Kubernetes (or similar tool) to support databases and SW developments tools like GitLab, Nexus as well as mission software
Current Linux certification to fulfill DoD computing environment requirement
Previous experience working in Agile Software Development organizations using the SAFe framework
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Colorado Springs, Colorado
Type:Contract
Job#3431
Network Engineer Colorado Springs, CO Active TS/SCI Compensation Range: $130,000 – $175,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Program Overview: Cornerstone Defense is seeking an Experienced Network Engineer with a strong background in DoD network security and testing complex environments. The engineer will be supporting different cloud computing environments (AWS GovCloud, DoD Cloud/VMWare NSX, and physical environments) working with teams implementing and verifying network settings across the program, including testing, and assisting with maintenance of network devices. The program is developing a new Global Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) Ground System that will manage transmission of protected tactical waveform – a type of secure, anti-jam communication – over proprietary-built Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites and terminals.
As a member of the team, you will be involved in the entire software development life cycle, from idea creation and development, all the way through to maintenance and support of the customer’s delivered system. These positions will place you in roles where you can make an impact on the results of our project. The team offers a collaborative mentoring environment where you could learn from or lead others.
Job Responsibilities:
Define and integrate the end-end communications and networking systems architecture for a space system.
Provide technical flow down of systems requirements to several spacecraft and ground subsystems.
Own end-end analyses for the end-end communications link.
Partner with customers on system of systems solutions.
Support a team of Systems Engineers for the development requirements for innovative projects, use cases and sequence diagrams and Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for complex space and ground architectures.
Support planning for and execution of subsystem and vehicle-level integration and test campaign.
Work closely with other engineering disciplines in an integrated team environment to develop system architecture in compliance with interface definitions and system/subsystem requirements.
Support stakeholder needs through analysis, technical performance measures (TPM) definition, requirements analysis, and allocation & definition for subcontractors, utilizing MBSE Enterprise Architect, JIRA and Confluence
Integrate security principles into the development and deployment of software/hardware solutions.
Support Network Integration with both software and hardware teams.
Risk Management Framework (RMF): Designs and facilitates implementation of security controls IAW NIST SP 800-53 and SP 800-171. Documents hardware, software, system components, and data flow as required to complete RMF System Security Plans. Develop and maintain training plans, records, and training.
Travel to support installation and testing of new network site connections.
Additional duties, as assigned
Required Skills:
Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to dive deep into troubleshooting a problem.
5+ years of experienced with General Networking experience (e.g., debugging, packet captures with Wireshark, Routing, VLAN, firewall rules).
5+ years of experience with Switches, Routers and Firewalls (Cisco & FortiGate)
5+ years of experience with Ixia Network Traffic Generator.
5+ years of experience with QoS and traffic policing.
5+ years of experience with IPSEC tunnels.
3+ years of experience working with JIRA, confluence, bitbucket.
Desired Skills:
7+ years of experience in Network Engineering on aerospace platforms or similar highly regulated products.
5+ years of experience with requirements development, verification, validation, ICDs, risk, issues and opportunities management and trade studies.
Experience with spacecraft and/or space systems architecture.
Experience utilizing Model Based Engineering (MBE or MBSE) tools such as Enterprise Architect.
Familiarity with Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) desired.
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Reston, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#3429
DevSecOps Engineer III Reston, VA Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
As a Sr. DevSecOps Engineer III, you’ll play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and efficient software development and deployment pipelines.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security practices seamlessly into the development and operations lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure, and reliable software solutions.
Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to integrate security practices into the software development lifecycle.
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that incorporate automated security testing, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks.
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) templates and configurations, ensuring security best practices are applied to cloud resources and infrastructure components.
Perform regular security assessments, code reviews, and penetration testing to identify and address vulnerabilities and weaknesses in applications, code, and infrastructure.
Monitor and analyze system and application logs to detect and respond to security incidents.
Implement and manage identity and access management (IAM) solutions, ensuring appropriate authentication and authorization mechanisms are in place.
Collaborate with software engineers to provide guidance on secure coding practices and assist in remediation of security findings.
Participate in incident response activities, helping to investigate and mitigate security incidents in a timely manner.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of security policies, procedures, and documentation.
Required Skills:
At least 10 years of experience as a DevSecOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on integrating security into the software development lifecycle.
Expert experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Artifactory, SonarQube, Selenium, Fortify, Acunetix, and Prisma Cloud).
Expert experience building DevSecOps solutions at scale across IL5 to IL6+ classification domains
Expert understanding of AWS and familiarity with other cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, GCP) and securing cloud-based applications and services.
Strong experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Strong experience in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation and tool integration.
Hands-on experience with security tools for static code analysis, dynamic application security testing (DAST), and vulnerability scanning, using tools such as Fortify, Acunetix, and Prisma Cloud
Knowledge of security best practices, common vulnerabilities, and exposure to security frameworks (e.g., OWASP, NIST).
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Reston, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#3428
DevSecOps Engineer I Reston, VA Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
As a DevSecOps Engineer I, you’ll play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and efficient software development and deployment pipelines.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security practices seamlessly into the development and operations lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure, and reliable software solutions.
Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to integrate security practices into the software development lifecycle.
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that incorporate automated security testing, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks.
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) templates and configurations, ensuring security best practices are applied to cloud resources and infrastructure components.
Perform regular security assessments, code reviews, and penetration testing to identify and address vulnerabilities and weaknesses in applications, code, and infrastructure.
Monitor and analyze system and application logs to detect and respond to security incidents.
Implement and manage identity and access management (IAM) solutions, ensuring appropriate authentication and authorization mechanisms are in place.
Collaborate with software engineers to provide guidance on secure coding practices and assist in remediation of security findings.
Participate in incident response activities, helping to investigate and mitigate security incidents in a timely manner.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of security policies, procedures, and documentation.
Required Skills:
At least 6 years of experience as a DevSecOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on integrating security into the software development lifecycle.
Strong experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Artifactory, SonarQube, Selenium, Fortify, Acunetix, and Prisma Cloud).
Strong Experience building DevSecOps solutions at scale across IL5 to IL6+ classification domains
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and securing cloud-based applications and services.
Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation and tool integration.
Knowledge of security best practices, common vulnerabilities, and exposure to security frameworks (e.g., OWASP, NIST).
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:College Park, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#3427
DevSecOps Engineer III College Park, MD Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Compensation Range: $145,000 – $185,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
As a Sr. DevSecOps Engineer III, you’ll play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and efficient software development and deployment pipelines.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security practices seamlessly into the development and operations lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure, and reliable software solutions.
Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to integrate security practices into the software development lifecycle.
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that incorporate automated security testing, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks.
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) templates and configurations, ensuring security best practices are applied to cloud resources and infrastructure components.
Perform regular security assessments, code reviews, and penetration testing to identify and address vulnerabilities and weaknesses in applications, code, and infrastructure.
Monitor and analyze system and application logs to detect and respond to security incidents.
Implement and manage identity and access management (IAM) solutions, ensuring appropriate authentication and authorization mechanisms are in place.
Collaborate with software engineers to provide guidance on secure coding practices and assist in remediation of security findings.
Participate in incident response activities, helping to investigate and mitigate security incidents in a timely manner.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of security policies, procedures, and documentation.
Required Skills:
At least 10 years of experience as a DevSecOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on integrating security into the software development lifecycle.
Expert experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Artifactory, SonarQube, Selenium, Fortify, Acunetix, and Prisma Cloud).
Expert experience building DevSecOps solutions at scale across IL5 to IL6+ classification domains
Expert understanding of AWS and familiarity with other cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, GCP) and securing cloud-based applications and services.
Strong experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Strong experience in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation and tool integration.
Hands-on experience with security tools for static code analysis, dynamic application security testing (DAST), and vulnerability scanning, using tools such as Fortify, Acunetix, and Prisma Cloud
Knowledge of security best practices, common vulnerabilities, and exposure to security frameworks (e.g., OWASP, NIST).
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:College Park, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#3426
DevSecOps Engineer I College Park, MD Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Compensation Range: $120,000 – $160,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
As a DevSecOps Engineer I, you’ll play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and efficient software development and deployment pipelines.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security practices seamlessly into the development and operations lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure, and reliable software solutions.
Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to integrate security practices into the software development lifecycle.
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that incorporate automated security testing, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks.
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) templates and configurations, ensuring security best practices are applied to cloud resources and infrastructure components.
Perform regular security assessments, code reviews, and penetration testing to identify and address vulnerabilities and weaknesses in applications, code, and infrastructure.
Monitor and analyze system and application logs to detect and respond to security incidents.
Implement and manage identity and access management (IAM) solutions, ensuring appropriate authentication and authorization mechanisms are in place.
Collaborate with software engineers to provide guidance on secure coding practices and assist in remediation of security findings.
Participate in incident response activities, helping to investigate and mitigate security incidents in a timely manner.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of security policies, procedures, and documentation.
Required Skills:
At least 6 years of experience as a DevSecOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on integrating security into the software development lifecycle.
Strong experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Artifactory, SonarQube, Selenium, Fortify, Acunetix, and Prisma Cloud).
Strong Experience building DevSecOps solutions at scale across IL5 to IL6+ classification domains
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and securing cloud-based applications and services.
Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation and tool integration.
Knowledge of security best practices, common vulnerabilities, and exposure to security frameworks (e.g., OWASP, NIST).
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Colorado Springs, Colorado
Type:Contract
Job#3425
DevSecOps Engineer I Colorado Springs, CO Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Compensation Range: $120,000 – $160,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
As a DevSecOps Engineer I, you’ll play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and efficient software development and deployment pipelines.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security practices seamlessly into the development and operations lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure, and reliable software solutions.
Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to integrate security practices into the software development lifecycle.
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that incorporate automated security testing, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks.
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) templates and configurations, ensuring security best practices are applied to cloud resources and infrastructure components.
Perform regular security assessments, code reviews, and penetration testing to identify and address vulnerabilities and weaknesses in applications, code, and infrastructure.
Monitor and analyze system and application logs to detect and respond to security incidents.
Implement and manage identity and access management (IAM) solutions, ensuring appropriate authentication and authorization mechanisms are in place.
Collaborate with software engineers to provide guidance on secure coding practices and assist in remediation of security findings.
Participate in incident response activities, helping to investigate and mitigate security incidents in a timely manner.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of security policies, procedures, and documentation.
Required Skills:
At least 6 years of experience as a DevSecOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on integrating security into the software development lifecycle.
Strong experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Artifactory, SonarQube, Selenium, Fortify, Acunetix, and Prisma Cloud).
Strong Experience building DevSecOps solutions at scale across IL5 to IL6+ classification domains
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and securing cloud-based applications and services.
Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation and tool integration.
Knowledge of security best practices, common vulnerabilities, and exposure to security frameworks (e.g., OWASP, NIST).
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Colorado Springs, Colorado
Type:Contract
Job#3424
DevSecOps Engineer III Colorado Springs, CO Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Compensation Range: $145,000 – $185,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
As a Sr. DevSecOps Engineer III, you’ll play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and efficient software development and deployment pipelines.
You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security practices seamlessly into the development and operations lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure, and reliable software solutions.
Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to integrate security practices into the software development lifecycle.
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that incorporate automated security testing, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks.
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) templates and configurations, ensuring security best practices are applied to cloud resources and infrastructure components.
Perform regular security assessments, code reviews, and penetration testing to identify and address vulnerabilities and weaknesses in applications, code, and infrastructure.
Monitor and analyze system and application logs to detect and respond to security incidents.
Implement and manage identity and access management (IAM) solutions, ensuring appropriate authentication and authorization mechanisms are in place.
Collaborate with software engineers to provide guidance on secure coding practices and assist in remediation of security findings.
Participate in incident response activities, helping to investigate and mitigate security incidents in a timely manner.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of security policies, procedures, and documentation.
Required Skills:
At least 10 years of experience as a DevSecOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on integrating security into the software development lifecycle.
Expert experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Artifactory, SonarQube, Selenium, Fortify, Acunetix, and Prisma Cloud).
Expert experience building DevSecOps solutions at scale across IL5 to IL6+ classification domains
Expert understanding of AWS and familiarity with other cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, GCP) and securing cloud-based applications and services.
Strong experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Strong experience in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation and tool integration.
Hands-on experience with security tools for static code analysis, dynamic application security testing (DAST), and vulnerability scanning, using tools such as Fortify, Acunetix, and Prisma Cloud
Knowledge of security best practices, common vulnerabilities, and exposure to security frameworks (e.g., OWASP, NIST).
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Richardson, Texas
Type:Contract
Job#3423
Test Engineer Richardson, TX Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
Analyze the current regression tests that exist and develop a way to increase test automation in executing regression tests nightly
Take existing capability sell-off manual tests that have been executed previously and add relevant pieces to the nightly regression tests that are not currently covered
Perform routine Integration, Verification, & Test (IV&T) tasks to contribute to execution of PI objectives to test system capabilities
Required Skills:
Experience with Postgres and SQL databases to be able to make complex queries to extract information
Knowledge in scripting languages to include bash, perl, python and ability to query Oracle DB via sql and MongoDB
Experience supporting development and system integration of a software-based system in a DevSecOps environment, including:
Experience with the Atlassian Suite, including Jira and Confluence
Experience communicating execution status against technical requirements
Desired Skills:
Systems Engineering (SE) or Test Execution (TE) experience on a large government software development contract
Experience with SE process development and deployment
Experience with configuration management concepts and tools
Experience with Gherkin and Cucumber would be preferred
Security + Certification
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Richardson, Texas
Type:Contract
Job#3422
Systems Engineer Richardson, TX Active TS/SCI
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
Support technical direction and design to software agile development teams, and other Engineering personnel.
Perform technical analyses and define how the system works creating use cases, system capability and feature designs, defining system interfaces and acceptance criteria.
In this role, the candidate will provide engineering support for the implementation of a portion of the program’s systems engineering.
To succeed in this role, you must have systems engineering development lifecycle experience using an Agile methodology.
Collaborate with the systems engineering teams to design and develop software
Assist in providing technical information and clarification during the entire software development lifecycle, from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations.
Perform solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe Agile practices
Apply systems engineering expertise to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development effort
Engage with customer user representatives or subject matter experts to gather user needs and incorporate into the feature designs for the agile development teams
Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.
Required Skills:
Demonstrated system engineering and technical experience with software systems development
Experience in agile software development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full SE life cycle)
Experience interacting across multiple engineering disciplines, including both programmatic and technical
Experience working in an Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements, requirements decomposition, and experience with CONOPS development
Experience working on teams addressing solution definition, decomposition, design and acceptance criteria
Experience performing design activities with cross-disciplined engineering teams
Experience working in the software development Lifecyle
Desired Skills:
SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) background with end user mission experience
Experience in a technical role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team
Experience with cloud-based S/W architectures and systems is a plus
Experience developing MBSE and DoDAF artifacts
Background and experience successfully working with all levels of engineering development in large government software development programs as well as an individual contributor as part of an agile development team
Engineering experience working in the full software development lifecycle using Agile methodology that ensures high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and within cost and schedule parameters
Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.), and evaluation of requirements decomposition, system architecture and system design
Experience using MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tool
Experience in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and/or micro-service based systems
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Richardson
Type:Contract
Job#3421
Software Engineer Richardson, TX Active TS/SCI
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
In this role, you will use your solid foundation in Java and experience working in a Linux environment to comprehend customer needs and translate those needs into viable design solutions.
Use your understanding of software principles, theories, and concepts related to software engineering (including software development lifecycle and software development process), design patterns, and Object-Oriented architecture.
Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
Demonstrate your critical thinking skills with the ability to communicate concepts and ideas well.
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with Agile development methodologies.
Experience with DevSecOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
Experience with building automated tests.
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Aurora, Colorado
Type:Contract
Job#3420
Title: Software Engineer Location: Aurora, CO Clearance: Active TS/SCI Compensation Range: $120,000 – $180,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
As a Software Engineer, you have the opportunity to directly impact the world around you and contribute to classified programs and technologies you are passionate about. Our small agile teams adapt to evolving customer and warfighter needs.
Design, develop, test, deliver, and maintain software for cutting-edge satellite ground systems.
Work with talented teams of engineers, architects, and leaders in an Agile environment.
A breadth of advanced software technologies and techniques including multi-tiered architectures, AWS web services, and microservice software design.
Modern DevSecOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery techniques.
Software lifecycle practices for large-scale defense projects.
Satellite ground system technologies including command & telemetry, flight dynamics, planning and scheduling, and spacecraft operations.
Required Skills:
Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and five (5) years of relevant software engineering experience.
Experience developing object-oriented software using Java.
Software development lifecycle experience using the Agile methods.
Desired Skills:
Experience with some area of satellite ground system software such as mission management, planning and scheduling, command and telemetry, satellite operations, or flight dynamics models.
Interest in software leadership roles.
Experience developing software using C++ and Python.
Experience with microservices in an AWS environment using Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with Test Automation, DevSecOps, and CI/CD processes.
Experience working with a large-scale legacy software system.
Experience with tools such as Confluence, Eclipse, Jira, Jenkins, Junit, Kafka, and Spring Boot
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Aurora, Colorado
Type:Contract
Job#3419
Platform Scrum Master Aurora, CO Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Compensation Range: $130,000 – $155,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
The role's core responsibility will be as a scrum master for an agile platform product team in charge of the team’s agile cadence to include running scrum meetings, sprint reviews, PI planning, and agile metrics.
You will help with the design and implementation of the platform.
You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset.
Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure to a modern platform infrastructure.
Eliminate impediments that may arise to keep the team focused on their objectives.
Assist the product owner in backlog grooming and agile scrum event preparations.
Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions.
Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premises VMware computing environments.
Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management.
Ensure security and compliance are integrated into the platform.
Provide operational support for the platform.
Required Skills:
Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and 5+ years of related work experience.
Experience with Agile Development Methodologies (E.g. scrum, SAFe).
Great communication and interpersonal skills to successfully work with various teams.
Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services.
Experience with containerization using technologies such as Kubernetes or Docker.
Experience with troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based Operating Systems.
Experience with VMware.
Experience with programming/automation/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Ruby, Bash, C++, C#, Go).
Current CompTIA Security + or ability to obtain within 90 days.
Desired Skills:
Experience with Agile Development Methodologies (E.g. scrum, SAFe)
Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab).
Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
Knowledge of secure coding practices such as OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore).
Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience with compute, networks, storage, and virtualization.
Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework.
Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration.
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Richardson, Texas
Type:Contract
Job#3418
Platform Engineer Richardson, TX Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
The role's core responsibility revolves around empowering development teams with a robust platform that streamlines processes, enhances collaboration, and accelerates release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation.
You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. This will include a mixture of hands-on keyboard engineering work as well as documentation and baseline control.
Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure
Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premises cloud computing environments
Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management
Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions
Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management
Provide operational support for the platform
Administrative fluency with the following (or vendor equivalent): Red Hat Linux (v7+, 8+ preferred), Rancher
Experience troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based OS.
Required Skills:
Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration
Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Rancher
Desired Skills:
Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab)
Exposure to Cloud based web services such as AWS
Knowledge of secure coding practices such as OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation
Experience with Networking Concepts and architectures
Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore)
Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience with compute, networks, storage, and virtualization
Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework
Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Bash, Perl, Ruby, C++)
Current DoD 8570 certification (CompTIA Security +, CCNA) or ability to obtain within 90 days
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Springfield, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#3417
Integration and Test Engineer Springfield, VA Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
We are seeking a Senior Systems Integration & Test Engineer to join our Engineering team in Springfield, Virginia for the role of Operations & Maintenance (O&M) team member.
The O&M team activities include supporting the daily execution of activities on a complex satellite ground system, supporting internal and external stakeholder maintenance activities, supporting bi-weekly operational software deliveries and performing on-site E2 triage and support during business hours with after-hours on-call expectations.
Provide regular updates to the on-site SETA team via a daily status page and in-person engagements
Support weekly SETA and team lead technical tag-ups
Support Change Management Board meetings as needed
Provide technical SME support as an on-site E2 Systems Integration & Test Engineer
Work in a classified lab on site
Work in an Agile program environment
Required Skills:
Experience working on-site in a badgeless environment with multiple stakeholders
Experience troubleshooting and resolving software system execution problems
Experience with systems engineering principles and activities
Desired Skills:
Experience working in a Satellite Ground System development or operations environment
Experience with ground station and satellite domains (such as terrestrial data networking, command and telemetry, launch operations, flight dynamics, mission planning, on-orbit operations)
Familiarity with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
Test Automation experience (Cucumber, Gherkin, home-grown)
Experience with Java, C++, or Python
Experience with Linux operating system
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Richardson, Texas
Type:Contract
Job#3416
Systems Engineer Richardson, TX Active TS/SCI
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
Collaborate with the multi discipline engineering teams to design and develop software
Assist in providing technical information and clarification during the entire software development Lifecyle, from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations
Perform solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe Agile practices
Apply systems engineering expertise to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development effort
Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.
Required Skills:
Demonstrated system engineering and technical experience with software systems development
Experience in agile software development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full SE life cycle)
Domain experience in IC GEOINT, including familiarity with common GEOINT still imagery data formats
Experience in development of ICDs, APIs, and system specifications as a primary author
Experience using the Atlassian tool suite, including Jira and Confluence
Experience in cloud or cloud-hybrid deployment environments
Ability to interact effectively with customer and consumer communities for technical exchange meetings and design briefings
Experience working in an Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements, requirements decomposition, and experience with CONOPS development
Experience working on teams addressing solution definition, decomposition, design and acceptance criteria
Experience in development of containerized software system architectures
Ability to function independently in the development and revisions of existing ICDs, APIs, and system specifications in response to contract mods
Program experience with requirements development and/or requirements maintenance
Desired Skills:
Experience with streaming data formats including Full Motion Video and Moving Target Indicator data
Strong communications skills to support technical exchange meetings and design briefings
Engineering experience working in the full software development lifecycle using Agile methodology that ensures high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and within cost and schedule parameters
Experience using MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tools
Domain experience with active data types supported by NSGPDDs
Thorough understanding of the 12 Factor App concepts for service development
Strong experience with Confluence as a communications medium
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Richardson, Texas
Type:Contract
Job#3415
Automation Test Engineer Richardson, TX Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
In this role you will develop, implement, and maintain a test automation strategy.
Analyze the current regression tests that exist and develop a way to increase test automation in executing regression tests
Take existing capability sell-off manual tests that have been executed previously and add relevant pieces to the regression tests that are not currently covered
Perform routine Integration, Verification, & Test (IV&T) tasks to contribute to execution of PI objectives to test system capabilities
Required Skills:
Experience with system engineering and technical experience with software systems
Experience supporting agile development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full life-cycle)
Experience interacting across multiple engineering disciplines, including both programmatic and technical
Desired Skills:
Experience with SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT Intelligence Community (IC) with end user mission
Experience in a technical role of a multi-disciplined engineering team
Experience with cloud based S/W architectures and systems. Previous software development background a plus
Experience in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and/or micro-service based systems
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Herndon, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#3414
Title: IT Program Manager Location: Herndon, VA *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience
Demonstrated experience with Sponsor tools and operations and Sponsor roles and missions
Demonstrated experience with requirements writing with Confluence and JIRA
Demonstrated experience gathering requirements, conducting analyses on processes, and proposing improvements to existing processes
Demonstrated experience facilitating technical exchange meetings with stakeholders to identify, collect, and establish coordinated technical business requirements
Demonstrated experience preparing and conducting technical business analyses, needs assessments, and requirements analysis and definition to align business systems, solutions and initiatives
Demonstrated experience preparing requirements and recommendations related to business systems
Demonstrated experience identifying and collecting mission user IT needs for both desktop and operational technical capabilities
Demonstrated experience developing and documenting current and future IT artifacts based on stakeholder feedback to understand associated technical details and make recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a Lean Agile environment
Demonstrated experience maintaining and capturing feedback in IT requirements library to ensure changes are captured from a traceability and documentation standpoint
Demonstrated experience providing IT stakeholder engagement for daily agile events that support and drive decision making at boards, committees, councils, and working groups
Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience
Demonstrated experience being ready to learn and the ability to identify potential business risks
Demonstrated experience working within a highly collaborative team environment
Demonstrated experience in problem resolution to include organizing and structuring solutions to complex problem sets
Demonstrated experience gathering, defining, and managing stakeholder requirements in support of technical capabilities in accordance with regulation and policy
Benefits Overview: Cornerstone Defense offers a very comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to: Medical, Dental and Vision Plans * Generous PTO Policy * 401(k) * HSA and FSA options * Life and Disability Insurance * Tuition Reimbursement and Training * Perks at Work Discount Program * Referral Program * Leads Generation Program * CollegeAmerica 529 * Fitness Reimbursement Program * Travel Assistance * Norton Lifelock Benefit Solutions * Life Planning Financial & Legal Services *
Location:Herndon, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#3413
Title: Cyber Security Architect / Engineer Location: Herndon, VA *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply * Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Analyzes customer requirements and provides highly innovative technical expertise on cloud computing techniques and related cloud architectures.
Identifies the vulnerabilities and risks associated with Cloud misconfigurations, particularly with respect to systems processing extremely sensitive data.
Helps to define and update Cloud security standards/requirements necessary to minimize the risks associated with Cloud misconfigurations.
Assists with establishing an approach to monitoring compliance with specific Cloud security standards of systems in the Cloud.
Develops scripts, terraform files, and/or Cloud Development Kits (CDK) to assist project teams with an automated means to implement and validate Cloud configuration standards.
Reviews and analyzes Cloud configuration compliance data to inform risk remediation and/or risk mitigation strategies.
Maintains current and advanced knowledge of progressive and advancing technology as assigned.
Provides expert guidance and leadership to less experienced cloud development personnel.
May serve as a task or project leader. (Not a people manager)
May consult with executives and customers to deliver complex cloud development solutions.
Recognized as a subject matter expert in cloud technology.
Benefits Overview: Cornerstone Defense offers a very comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to: Medical, Dental and Vision Plans * Generous PTO Policy * 401(k) * HSA and FSA options * Life and Disability Insurance * Tuition Reimbursement and Training * Perks at Work Discount Program * Referral Program * Leads Generation Program * CollegeAmerica 529 * Fitness Reimbursement Program * Travel Assistance * Norton Lifelock Benefit Solutions * Life Planning Financial & Legal Services *
Type:Contract
Job#3411
Platform Engineer Aurora, CO Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Compensation Range: $130,000 – $155,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
The role's core responsibility is for providing the design, development, implementation, and integration of a predominantly cloud based compute/network/storage infrastructure.
Support modernizing the program platform’s over-arching design through new emerging technologies and use of DevOps/DevSecOps tools and automation in-order to streamline processes, enhance collaboration, and accelerate the release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation.
You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments on a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. This will include a mixture of hands-on keyboard engineering work as well as documentation and baseline control.
Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure.
Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across cloud-based computing environments.
Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management.
Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and other agile development teams to design and implement robust platform solutions.
Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management.
Provide operational support for the platform.
Required Skills:
Experience with RedHat Linux
Experience with Cloud based technologies, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS)/ Commercial Cloud Services (C2S).
Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker.
Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Ruby, Bash, C++, C#, Go).
Experience with troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based Operating Systems.
Must meet DoD 8570 IAT level II requirements (Security + CE or equivalent)
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:McLean, Virginia
Type:Contract
Job#3407
Customer Labor Category:
Cyber Security Project Engineer
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Position Description:
Cyber Operations – Incident Response • Strong knowledge of cloud security principles and experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud • Proficiency in network security principles, protocols, and technologies (firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs, etc.) • Proficiency in endpoint security principles and technologies (Antivirus/Anti-malware software, Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems, EDR, etc.) • Understanding of operating systems (Windows, Linux, Unix) and their security mechanisms • Experience using a SIEM for log aggregation, correlation, and analysis • Experience with incident response, and incident response tools, frameworks, and life cycle • Experience with query languages •Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK Framework, adversary TTPs, and threat intelligence • Knowledge of malware analysis techniques and tools • Demonstrated experience in IT best practices regarding application, enterprise system, and network security • Ability to create and maintain documentation to include internal processes, procedures, relevant instructions, policies, and guidance • Ability to be on call for incident response • Strong technical writing skills • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to investigate and resolve security incidents. • Strong attention to detail to identify security vulnerabilities and anomalies • Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate with team members, management, and other stakeholders • Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies and methodologies Desired Skills • Security Certifications to include CISA, SSCP, CEH, CAP, GCIH, ECIH, CASP+, SEC+ • Cloud Security Certifications in AWS and Azure • Experience with driving cloud security engineering • Familiarity with scripting or programming languages (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.) for automation and scripting tasks. • Experience with implementing automation mechanisms within a SIEM, CSP, or an enterprise environment • Higher education related to the above description
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Benefits Overview: Cornerstone Defense offers a very comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to: Medical, Dental and Vision Plans * Generous PTO Policy * 401(k) * HSA and FSA options * Life and Disability Insurance * Tuition Reimbursement and Training * Perks at Work Discount Program * Referral Program * Leads Generation Program * CollegeAmerica 529 * Fitness Reimbursement Program * Travel Assistance * Norton Lifelock Benefit Solutions * Life Planning Financial & Legal Services *
Location:Bethesda , Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#3406
Title: Cloud Systems Engineer Location: Bethesda, Maryland Clearance: TS/SCI w/ Full Scope Polygraph Compensation Range: $170,000 – $195,000
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense. Position Description:
Work with a team of technical cloud computing professionals to rapidly build and deploy a demonstration capability, while simultaneously supporting the program office to specify, design and deploy the final system.
Development will take place in an iterative fashion using scrum techniques with inputs from multiple stakeholders. The development team will rapidly grow into a large scale, enterprise development effort.
Requires exceptional flexibility and technical skills.
Work will be done in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders and changing requirements.
Participation in iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements
Meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirements, user stories, and related artifacts to determine technical specifications for the system environments
Coordinating with technical teams responsible for the cloud hosting infrastructures in order to establish and maintain the environments used by the program for the development, test, and deployment of the demonstration capability and the final production system
Build, migrate and test AWS cloud environments and integrations
Develop templates or scripts to automate everyday developer or operations functions
Build new automation to expand and maintain Cloud hosting
Monitor and maintain multiple Cloud Infrastructure environments based on client requirements
Identify new tools and processes to improve the Cloud platforms
Collaborate with remote team members to build and maintain positive, productive team relationships
Developing, testing, and monitoring connections to interfacing systems such as data feeds from numerous organizations and user interactions from other Sponsor organizations
Working with other programs to coordinate the integration of enterprise services to be consumed/used by the Sponsor system
As this program matures, this role may require occasional on-call after-hours support
Development of technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by program management
Required Technical Skills:
Linux/Unix systems administration
Knowledge of physical server management, issue diagnosis and troubleshooting
Cloud application (AWS/Azure) architecture
AWS Cloud Formation
Large scale system integration
Scripting to automate developer or operations functions
Environment and Server layout and configuration maintenance to Industry standards and best practices
Developing enterprise and solution-level architectural designs
JIRA, Confluence and other project management tools
Review and Maintain environments at the latest security posture
Remediate app/package installations
Rapid prototyping to refine system requirements and technical specifications of the system and its operating environments
Experience in developing enterprise and solution-level architectural designs.
Knowledge of infrastructure as code design, management, and version control techniques.
Exposure to project management skills and/or project-based work structures, project lifecycle models, etc.
Knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
Strong communication and documentation skills
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Bethesda , Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#3405
Title: Cyber Security Engineer Location: Bethesda, Maryland Clearance: TS/SCI w/ Full Scope Polygraph Compensation Range: $175,000 – $195,000 Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense. Position Description: A successful candidate will work with others on program security team to provide for all aspects of security to include but not limited to the following: • Work with others on program security team to provide for all aspects of security to include but not limited to the following Activities: • Provide expert-level knowledge, both in context and execution with the Risk Management Framework to support a NIST SP 800-53 HHM systems through the A&A process. • Construct thorough and complete security documentation to include, but not limited to, System Security Plans (SSPs), Plan of Actions and Milestones (POA&Ms), and any other artifacts to support the Body of Evidence (BOE), for sponsor's approval. • Identify security controls and work with engineering, development and testing staff to construct proper test plans and procedures. • Implement security audit reviews verifying that the audit records are collected and reviewed. • Coordinate all security testing exercises, working with external assessment teams and technical staff. • Configure and support various AWS services to protect the security posture of the system Desired Skills: • Demonstrated strong technical skills and analytic abilities, as well as experience performing system security analysis and risk management. • Demonstrated experience with security in the Amazon Web Services environment. • Demonstrated experience performing complex technical tasks in pursuit of overall goals with minimal direction. • Demonstrated experience in translating an understanding of systems and applications into security test plans and perform hands on security testing. • Demonstrated knowledge of risk management methodologies. • Demonstrated experience to analyze test results and suggest mitigations for security problems. • Demonstrated technical experiences with system configuration, development, and design specifically around enterprise systems and hypervisors. • Demonstrated experience with Linux and virtual platforms. • Documented working experience with public and private information security groups and organizations. • Possesses experience with communicating vulnerability results and risk posture to senior executives. • Possess a broad knowledge of Information Security policies and guidance, as well as the ability to assist in researching, evaluating, and developing relevant security policies and guidance. Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Bethesda , Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#3404
Title: Cloud Migration Application Support Location: Bethesda, Maryland *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply * Compensation Range: $170,000 – $200,000 Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense. Position Description:
Work with a team of systems engineers and software developers to specify, design, develop, test and deploy the end-state system. Development will take place in an iterative fashion using scrum techniques with inputs from multiple stakeholders. The work will be done in a dynamic stakeholder environment within AWS. Communicate with team leads and senior leadership and rapidly adjust direction in support of new and/or changing requirements.
This effort will include a variety of activities, including:
Design, implement and maintain JAVA Microservices
Integrate data from one system to another via REST API
Become an expert on an AWS data workflow that includes Lambda, S3, and other such technologies
Ingest and normalize data from multiple data sources
Develop technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by program management
Working with other enterprise service programs to leverage their capabilities via web services integration
Coordinate and/or participate in system integration and/or user acceptance testing
Write unit and integration test
Monitor applications in production
Participate in code reviews
Technical skills:
Knowledge of standard ETL tools, such as Pentaho, AWS Glue, etc.
Understanding of JAVA Microservices
Understanding of REST API
Understanding of AWS data workflow that includes Lambda, S3, and other such technologies
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Description: Responsible for leading the plan, design and development activities to create the user experience for devices, tools and systems. Responsible for establishing interactive conventions, assisting in gathering user requirements, mocking-up user experiences, participating in trade-off discussions with development teams and subject matter experts, analyzing tool sets, creating screen mock-ups and helping customers to imagine new kinds of interactive techniques and technologies. Applies visualization and screen design expertise to create a successful user experience.
The Level 2 User Experience Designer shall possess the following capabilities:
Operate in an agile development environment requiring the delivery of User Experience feedback on a weekly basis.
Conduct User Experience research and optimization.
Create final visual designs, storyboards, interaction flows, and interface guidelines.
Take a user-centered approach in crafting design solutions that meet both user needs and product strategy requirements.
Work with Product Owners to rapidly prototype and iterate on multiple design solutions.
Review final implementation with front-end developers to insure design standards are followed.
Work across teams and communicate effectively with stakeholders within various customer bases to provide inspiration and constructive feedback to other Designers.
Leading project life cycle design including interviewing customers, clearly articulating customer requirements to design team, creating visual designs/prototypes, presenting information to customers, and helping solve and clarify questions and problems.
Manage several diverse engineering teams in conducting User Experience research and optimization.
Qualifications:
Ten years’ experience in User Experience Design. Five years’ experience within the last 10 years experience leading project life cycle design.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
Four (4) years of additional User Experience Design experience on projects with similar design may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Description: 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.
The Level 2 Test Engineer (TE) shall possess the following capabilities:
Assist with any or all of the Level 1 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
Review planned acquisition approaches to support T&E schedule alignment with decision maker needs for T&E support
Analyze performance risk areas to focus T&E planning
Specify, validate, and adapt Modeling and Simulation for T&E use
Apply Statistical Analysis of variations in performance behavior to characterize confidence in performance estimates
Select, develop, & use analysis tools
Execute the evaluation plan on data collected by the Testing Tasks
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
Establish and employ Data & Configuration Management capabilities
Support Data Authentication group functions; and comply with program Discrepancy Reporting criteria and processes
Assess operational and system performance requirements for testability and criticality to frame and prioritize T&E objectives and enable evaluation planning
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 environments and priorities for evaluation attention and scenario selection, and to coordinate user participation in T&E
Plan program and event level risk-tailored performance estimation and analysis of system and operational Effectiveness and Suitability metrics & conditions; levels of T&E include inspection, demonstration, paper analysis, survey, simulation, and physical test
Design surveys for evaluation of Subject Matter Expert (SME) input and user assessments of performance
Participate in the T&E Working-level Integrated Product Team (WIPT) and/or Integrated Test Team for coordination of evaluation plans
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)
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
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 0 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.
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Description: Responsible for the preparation, review, revision, and maintenance of technical documents including software and systems engineering, system operations, testing, and user documentation. Writes and edits technical documentation for all of the project’s hardware and software to include installation, configuration and how-to documentation. Creates code documentation for software; produces implementation guides and enduser guides for capabilities; provides field, data definition, and data flow documentation and formats technical publications from pamphlets, technical drawings, and consultations with technical personnel and other available resources.
The Level 2 Technical Writer (TW) shall possess the following capabilities:
Assist in preparing and maintaining operations documentation, user guides and manuals and technical publications
Understand basic concepts (to include basic grammar concepts), responsible for writing technical copy for various types of documents
Gather technical information, prepares written text
Maintain a current internal documentation library
Use multiple word processing and presentation tools such as MS Word, PowerPoint, and Visio etc.
Prepare and maintain operations documentation, user guides and manuals and technical publications
Work with developers to produce quality documentation and training materials
Work on all phases of documentation
Understand basic concepts and write technical copy for various types of documents for a program/project of similar complexity
Prepare reports, responses, and briefings targeted to a wide range of audiences
Coordinate layout and design of documents
Research highly technical subject matter, organizes information from multiples sources, and express technical information in written form that is comprehensible to a wide audience of readers
Under general direction, write technical copy for various types of documents for a program/project of similar complexity
Apply concepts for technical writing based on engineering drawings, technical information from engineering documentation, consultations with engineers and subject matter experts, and other available sources
Produce defense acquisition documentation, user manuals, training manuals, and other documentation utilized by the end-user community of DoD electronic equipment and systems
Interpret engineering and maintenance drawings, operational procedures to understand and blend large quantities of computer related information
Produce technical documentation for Cryptologic programs or projects developing analytic tradecraft methodologies
Apply technical manual standard NSA DS-89 to work products
Qualifications:
Six (6) years experience as a TW in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
Four (4) years of additional TW experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense. Description:
Installs, tests, and validates operational software as specified by installation standards, manufacturer’s guidance and safety codes; Maintains a broad knowledge of the system.
The Level 2 System Integration Technician shall possess the following capabilities:
Installs, tests, and validates operational software as specified by installation standards, manufacturer’s guidance and safety codes; Maintains a broad knowledge of the system.
Installs, tests, and validates operational software as specified by installation standards, manufacturer’s guidance and safety codes; Maintains a broad knowledge of the system.
Installs, tests, and validates operational equipment and software as specified by installation standards, manufacturer’s guidance and safety codes; maintains a broad knowledge of the system; Acts as a lead technician for program production.
Qualifications:
SIGINT Experience Desired: At least three years of direct experience with an intelligence community or signals intelligence activity.
Education Requirement:
Bachelor’s Degree in Communications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics or similar degree or equivalent documented combination of training and experience.
General Experience Requirement:
Minimum ten years experience integrating systems using multiple operating systems; Experience performing all aspects of the integration and test of the system including installing the hardware in the racks, labeling cables, running cables, building the system to drawing package, performing quality assurance, loading operating system, loading applications, and performing all levels of testing in regard to system; Develop overall integration & test strategy and schedule test plans & scripts.
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Description: Applies systems engineering principles throughout the systems life cycle phases: Concept, Development, Production, Utilization, Support, and Retirement. Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts. Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives. Responsibility for the technical integrity, quality, and completeness of work performed and deliverables associated with one or more of the 25 process areas defined by ISO/IEC15288: Technical Process Area – Stakeholder Requirements Definition, Requirements Analysis, Architectural Design, Implementation, Integration, Verification, Transition, Validation, Operation, Maintenance, and Disposal; Project Process Area – Project Planning, Project Assessment and Control, Decision Management, Risk Management, Configuration Management, Information Management, and Measurement; Enterprise (Organizational Project-Enabling) Process Area – Project Portfolio Management, Infrastructure Management, Lifecycle Model Management, Human Resource Management, and Quality Management; Agreement Process Area – Acquisition and Supply.
The Level 5 System Engineer shall possess the following capabilities:
Perform systems engineering activities and assist in the preparation of a work product in Technical Process Areas associated with the ISO/IEC 15288.
Develop and deliver a work product in any of the ISO/IEC 15288 Process Areas.
Perform analysis of technical alternatives for a project and make preliminary recommendations.
Assist in performing systems engineering activities in the ISO/IEC 15288 Agreement or Enterprise Process Areas.
Perform systems engineering activities and assist in the preparation of multiple work products in Project and/or Technical Process Areas associated with any of the ISO/IEC 15288 processes.
Perform systems engineering activities and develop and deliver work products in each of the ISO/IEC 15288 Project and Technical Process Areas.
Independently analyze, and recommend alternatives for elements of project’s technical design.
Perform systems engineering activities and develop and deliver work products of either the ISO/IEC 15288 Agreement or Enterprise Process Areas.
Assist in developing a new or innovative approach to a technical or engineering issue.
Assist in conducting an evaluation to determine its suitability for project implementation.
Analyze and propose appropriate engineering standards and processes for a project.
Supervise or coordinate the work of other contractor engineers or technicians on a project.
Lead contractor systems engineering activities for a project to include supervising the work of the project engineering staff and technicians.
Approve delivery of work products of multiple Processes Areas defined in the ISO/IEC 15288.
Independently make decisions regarding engineering issues and methodology for a project.
Brief stakeholders and present the status on all technical aspects of their project.
Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field (See Note 1) or a related discipline (See Note 2) from an accredited college or university plus fifteen (15) years of systems engineering experience. OR A High School Diploma or GED plus nineteen (19) years of general systems engineering experience (any Process Area). OR A Master’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field (See Note 1) or a related discipline (See Note 2) from an accredited college or university plus thirteen (13) years of systems engineering experience. OR A PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field (See Note 1) or a related discipline (See Note 2) from an accredited college or university plus thirteen (13) years of systems engineering experience.
Note 2 – Examples of related disciplines include: Chemistry, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, and Physics.
Company Benefits:
Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Description: Applies systems engineering principles throughout the systems life cycle phases: Concept, Development, Production, Utilization, Support, and Retirement. Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts. Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives. Responsibility for the technical integrity, quality, and completeness of work performed and deliverables associated with one or more of the 25 process areas defined by ISO/IEC15288: Technical Process Area – Stakeholder Requirements Definition, Requirements Analysis, Architectural Design, Implementation, Integration, Verification, Transition, Validation, Operation, Maintenance, and Disposal; Project Process Area – Project Planning, Project Assessment and Control, Decision Management, Risk Management, Configuration Management, Information Management, and Measurement; Enterprise (Organizational Project-Enabling) Process Area – Project Portfolio Management, Infrastructure Management, Lifecycle Model Management, Human Resource Management, and Quality Management; Agreement Process Area – Acquisition and Supply.
The Level 3 System Engineer shall possess the following capabilities:
Perform systems engineering activities and assist in the preparation of a work product in Technical Process Areas associated with the ISO/IEC 15288.
Develop and deliver a work product in any of the ISO/IEC 15288 Process Areas.
Perform analysis of technical alternatives for a project and make preliminary recommendations.
Assist in performing systems engineering activities in the ISO/IEC 15288 Agreement or Enterprise Process Areas.
Perform systems engineering activities and assist in the preparation of multiple work products in Project and/or Technical Process Areas associated with any of the ISO/IEC 15288 processes.
Perform systems engineering activities and develop and deliver work products in each of the ISO/IEC 15288 Project and Technical Process Areas.
Independently analyze, and recommend alternatives for elements of project’s technical design.
Perform systems engineering activities and develop and deliver work products of either the ISO/IEC 15288 Agreement or Enterprise Process Areas.
Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field (See Note 1) or a related discipline (See Note 2) from an accredited college or university plus six (6) years of systems engineering experience OR A High School Diploma or GED plus ten (10) years of general system engineering experience (any Process Area). OR A Master’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field (See Note 1) or a related discipline (See Note 2) from an accredited college or university plus four (4) years of systems engineering experience OR A PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field (See Note 1) or a related discipline (See Note 2) from an accredited college or university plus four (4) years of systems engineering experience.
Note 2 – Examples of related disciplines include: Chemistry, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, and Physics
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Description: Provides support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Information Technology (IT) systems. Manages IT system infrastructure and any processes related to these systems. Provides support to IT systems including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all of the client/server/storage/network devices, mobile devices, etc. Provides Tier 1 (Help Desk) and Tier 2 (Escalation) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems. Provides support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers. Provides support for the dispatch system and hardware problems and remains involved in the resolution process. Configures and manages UNIX and Windows operating systems and installs/loads operating system software, troubleshoots, maintains integrity and configures network components along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance.
The Level 3 System Administrator (SA) shall possess the following capabilities:
Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of IT systems
Provide Tier 1 (Help Desk) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems
Manage the daily activities of configuration and operation of IT systems
Provide assistance to users in accessing and using IT systems
Provide Tier 1 (Help Desk) and Tier 2 (Escalation) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems
Provide support to IT systems including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all of the client/server/storage/network devices, mobile devices, etc.
Provide support for the escalation and communication of status to agency management and internal customers
Optimize system operations and resource utilization, and perform system capacity analysis and planning
Provide in-depth experience in trouble-shooting IT systems
Provide detailed analysis and feedback to agency management and internal customers for escalated tickets
Provide support for the dispatch system and hardware problems and remains involved in the resolution process
Configure and manage UNIX and Windows (or other applicable) operating systems and installs/loads operating system software, troubleshoot, maintain integrity of and configure network components, along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance
Support the design of systems, mission architecture and associated hardware
Possess a working knowledge and understanding of system administration interdependencies as part of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Analyze and resolve complex problems associated with server hardware, applications and software integration
Qualifications:
Fifteen (15) years experience as a SA in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
Five (5) years of additional SA experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Description: The Cloud Software Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse Big-Data Cloud systems based upon documented requirements. Directly contributes to all stages of back-end processing, analyzing, and indexing. Provides expertise in Cloud Computing, Hadoop Eco-System including implementing Java applications, Distributed Computing, Information Retrieval (IR), and Object Oriented Design. Works individually or as part of a team. Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results. Resolves software problem reports. Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment. Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS) in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
The Level 3 Cloud Software Engineer shall possess the following capabilities:
Provide in-depth knowledge of Information Retrieval; assisting the software development team in designing, developing and testing Cloud Information Retrieval
Implement complex workflows that manage Cloud MapReduce analytics
Implement code that interacts with Cloud Distributed Coordination Frameworks
Oversee one or more software development tasks and ensures the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project
Make recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
Serve as a subject matter expert for Cloud Computing and corresponding technologies including Hadoop – assisting the software development team in designing, developing and testing Cloud Computing Systems
Debug problems with Cloud based Distributed Computing Frameworks
Manage multi-node Cloud based installation
Delegate programming and testing responsibilities to one or more teams and monitor their performance
Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering
Recommend new technologies and processes for complex cloud software projects
Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software
Architect solutions to complex Cloud Software Engineering Problems such as efficiently processing and retrieving large amounts of data
Make recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
Qualifications:
Twelve (12) years’ experience software engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required; four (4) years of which must be in programs utilizing Big Data cloud technologies and/or Distributed Computing.
Four (4) years of cloud software engineering experience on projects with similar Big-Data systems may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Master in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university may be substituted for two (2) years of experience.
Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer certification may be substituted for one (1) year of Cloud experience.
The following Cloud related experiences are required:
Two (2) years of Cloud and/or Distributed Computing Information Retrieval (IR).
One (1) year of experience with implementing code that interacts with implementation of Cloud Big Table.
One (1) year of experience with implementing code that interacts with implementation of Cloud Distributed File System.
One (1) year of experience with implementing complex MapReduce analytics.
One (1) year of experience with implementing code that interacts with Cloud Distributed Coordination Frameworks.
One (1) year of experience in architecting Cloud Computing solutions
One (1) year of experience in debugging problems with Cloud based Distributed Computing Frameworks
One (1) year of experience in managing multi-node Cloud based installation
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Bethesda, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#3395
Title: Financial Resource Analyst Compensation Range: $130-145k Location: Bethesda, MD *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ CI Polygraph needed to apply * Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Description:
Coordinating with stakeholders on financial taskings • Preparing and delivering executive level presentations to senior leadership on the program’s financial status during program management reviews • Providing input to leadership on business process improvements • Developing spend plans and allocating and executing funds according to spending priorities • Working closely with project managers to define requirements and justify financial needs • Analyzing the program’s execution and tracking expenditures against available budget • Providing regular status updates to leadership on the financial status and recommending solutions and strategies • Gathering information for, and tracking BCR packages and Economy Act Transfers • Being actively involved in document and quality control”
Type:Contract
Job#3394
SharePoint Developer Chantilly, VA Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced SharePoint Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in SharePoint development and support, with the ability to work independently and effectively communicate with stakeholders. This role requires a thorough understanding of SharePoint from versions 2013 to 2019, along with proficiency in building workflows and forms using Nintex.
Job Responsibilities:
Develop, customize, and support SharePoint sites and site collections.
Create and manage SharePoint workflows and forms using Nintex.
Utilize PowerShell for SharePoint module scripting and automation.
Implement and manage site features including master pages, web parts, content types, permissions, and templates.
Collaborate with users to analyze business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
Document processes and maintain clear communication with team members and stakeholders.
Troubleshoot and resolve SharePoint-related issues efficiently.
Requirements:
Proficiency in SharePoint 2013-2019, including site architecture and design.
Strong experience with Nintex for workflow and form customization.
Solid knowledge of PowerShell scripting for SharePoint management.
Familiarity with HTML, CSS, XSL, XSLT, CAML, and JavaScript for web development.
Understanding of SharePoint security models, authentication, and permission settings.
Ability to work independently under limited supervision.
Strong troubleshooting skills specific to SharePoint environments.
Excellent documentation and communication skills.
Proficient in user interaction and business analysis.
Microsoft certifications related to SharePoint development are a plus.
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Location:Laurel, Maryland
Type:Contract
Job#3382
Title: Windows Server Administrator Location: Laurel, MD *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply * Compensation Range: $210k – $230k Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
• Support implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Windows servers (2012, 2016, and 2019), including the provisioning of a Windows 11 VDI infrastructure for enclave access and program support. • Support IT systems including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all of the client/server/storage/network devices, etc. • Escalation and communication of status to management and internal customers • Provides Tier 2 and 3 (Escalation) problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems. Creates and updates ServiceNow tickets accordingly. • Manages GPOs, applies security and system patching and coordinates/supports all service leads utilizing Windows servers across the program. • Configures and manages Windows operating systems and installs/loads operating system software, troubleshoots, maintains integrity and configures network components along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance. • Will be comfortable in all areas of analysis, design, installation, implementation, configuration, tuning, administration, operation, and security of mid-to-large-tier Windows systems. • Be knowledgeable in the following categories: Power shell, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory, Trelix ePolicy Orchestrator, Virtualization and VMWare, and Amazon Web Services. • Optimize system operations and resource utilization and performs system capacity analysis and planning. • Analyzes and resolves complex problems associated with servers, windows applications, and software integration. • Be able to respond to after-hours requests as required in a 24 x 7 environment, as needed.
Benefits Overview: Cornerstone Defense offers a very comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to: Medical, Dental and Vision Plans * Generous PTO Policy * 401(k) * HSA and FSA options * Life and Disability Insurance * Tuition Reimbursement and Training * Perks at Work Discount Program * Referral Program * Leads Generation Program * CollegeAmerica 529 * Fitness Reimbursement Program * Travel Assistance * Norton Lifelock Benefit Solutions * Life Planning Financial & Legal Services *