Title: Web Developer
Location: McLean, 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.

Python Programming – Develops web services, to include Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs, as pandas, numpy, scipy, gensim, and scikit-learn. Database technologies, including Elasticsearch and SQL databases. Data pipelines and workflow technologies, such as Apache NiFi.
Web Application Programming – Develop JavaScript/HTML/CSS web user interfaces using the Angular and Vue.js framework, including experience with, or knowledge of, additional web UI frameworks, such as React and/or Extended JavaScript (ExtJS), full-stack.
– Strong Python, JavaScript are the primary languages for the customer development efforts
– Strong NoSQL and SQL database experience, specifically with Elastic, MySQL, and /or DynamoDB
– Data modeling and database design/architecture knowledge
– Demonstrated web/web-based application development experience
– Familiarity with ETL and data pipeline best practices
– AWS cloud experience strongly preferred

 

Title: Test Engineer
Location: McLean, 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:
**All Required skills must be reflected with proposed applicant's experience to be submitted for consideration**
 

Desired Skills:

 

Title: Systems Administrator
Location: McLean, VA

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

Seeking a Systems Administrator to perform full lifecycle duration data management and conduct system administration and maintenance on a stand-alone network.

WORK REQUIREMENTS:

Required Skills:
**All Required skills must be reflected with proposed applicant's experience to be submitted for consideration**
 

Desired Skills:

Certifications

 

Insider Threat Analyst
Chantilly, VA
TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

Cornerstone Defense is seeking motivated candidates to join our insider threat detection, systems integration team.  Our mission-oriented team is responsible for the design, testing, deployment, maintenance, operation, and evolution of the systems directly supporting the insider threat detection program of a large government customer in the United States Intelligence Community (USIC).  GDIT has an immediate opening on the team for a motivated Insider Threat Analyst who is up to date with the latest Insider Threat detection tools and techniques.  This is a challenging yet rewarding position that provides an opportunity to leverage cutting edge technologies in pursuit of a vital mission that protects people, sensitive information/technologies, and the national security posture of the USIC.

Job Responsibilities:

Required Skills:

 

Title: Share Point Developer Senior
*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.
 

• Knowledge of Server OS maintenance, and SharePoint farm management/maintenance to a degree fitting LCAT requirements and candidate’s skills.
• Strong experience with SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019 required. Back-end SharePoint experience highly preferred over front-end/design experience.
• Strong previous experience with Windows Server 2016 and 2019, including standard server maintenance, OS patching, and migration.
• Demonstrate excellent customer service skills and be able to assist users through a variety of remote support capabilities (ticketing, phone, email, etc.).
• Previous experience managing/configuring SharePoint farms, web apps, and site collections manually and via PowerShell preferred. Design and deployment of SharePoint farm(s) highly desired.
• IIS, Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) experience desired.
•.NET, C#, Rest API/jQuery, JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS, Optimal IdM, user liaison experience, and writing documentation a strong plus.
• Experience with SharePoint associated products (Designer, Visio, InfoPath, Visual Studio, PowerShell,) as well as identity and access management.
DoD 8570 Compliance with IAT level 1 is required.

 

Title: SharePoint Developer Junior
*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.
• Exposure to Server OS maintenance, and SharePoint farm management/maintenance.
• Exposure to and experience with SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019 required. Back-end SharePoint experience highly preferred over front-end/design experience.
• Previous exposure to and experience with Windows Server 2016 and 2019, including standard server maintenance, OS patching, and migration.
• Demonstrate customer service skills and be able to assist users through a variety of remote support capabilities (ticketing, phone, email, etc.).
• IIS, Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) experience desired.
• .NET, C#, Rest API/jQuery, JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS, Optimal IdM, user liaison experience, and writing documentation a strong plus.
• Experience with SharePoint associated products (Designer, Visio, InfoPath, Visual Studio, PowerShell,) desired,
 DoD 8570 Compliance with IAT level 1 is required.

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Title: Systems 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.

Support specializing in systems engineering to perform Operations & Maintenance (O&M), and Research & Development (R&D) for the Sponsor’s Wireless Network & Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS) Infrastructures.
Mandatory Skills

Optional Skills

 

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

Working with a team providing Agile Coaching, Scrum Master Support services, and Dashboard and Metric support to any development team or business partner associated with the software development organization.
Mandatory Skills

Optional Skills

 

General Technical Targeting Analyst
Chantilly, VA

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

Company Overview:

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

Required Qualifications:

Desired Qualifications:

BS Equivalent – Minimum 4 years of experience in Cybersecurity, IS, IA, IT, EE, Network engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, Computer forensics or related technical field. Experience used as equivalency for college degree must be in addition to other experience requirements.
 

General Technical Targeting Analyst
McLean, VA

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

Company Overview:

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

Required Qualifications:

 

 

Title: DevOps Systems 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.
 

Required Experience:

 
Desired Experience:

 

Title: Systems Administrator

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.

Job Duties:

  Required Skills:

Desired Skills:

 

Title: Cloud Administrator
Location: McLean, 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.
 

The Sponsor has an engineering requirement to develop and support a hardened cloud environment that will house Human Language Technology (HLT) software. The Systems Administrator will provide engineering support to perform Operations and Maintenance (O&M) on a cloud environment and monitor performance, install patches and upgrades, and troubleshoot outages. They will provide infrastructure support to accommodate any new software capabilities that the Sponsoring office develops and support the Sponsor’s certification and accreditation efforts in coordination with security staff, software vendors, cloud service providers and other stakeholders. The Systems Administrator will also collect and provide supporting artifacts for certification and accreditation efforts and monitor the infrastructure and make adjustments to optimize performance, anticipate issues, and manage vulnerabilities. 
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience deploying and managing computer, networking, storage, and database AWS services at an enterprise level.
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience troubleshooting issues in AWS cloud environments.
3. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible or GitHub.
4. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience implementing security at all layers on AWS cloud solutions.
5. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience deploying and managing cloud-based applications.
6. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration.
7. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience using monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch or ELK Stack.
8. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience working within the security constraints required for the proper handling and protection of data.
9. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with writing detailed technical documentation for installation and configuration.
10. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with writing detailed O&M procedures.
11. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience working with Identity and Access Management (IdAM) systems such as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Microsoft Active Directory, OAuth 2.0 or Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML).
12. (Mandatory) (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience building and deploying virtual desktop environments such as Citrix or Remote Desktop Protocol.
13. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with an understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform.
14. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience working alongside architecture and engineering teams to implement scalable software services.
15. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience administering SQL and NoSQL databases.
16. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience managing continuous monitoring responsibilities for IT systems.
17. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience managing vulnerability scanning responsibilities for IT systems.
18. (Desired) Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining system security certification and accreditation for IT systems in accordance with compliance requirements.
19. (Desired) Demonstrated experience supporting security planning, assessment, risk analysis, and risk management using Risk Management Framework (RMF).
20. (Desired) Demonstrated experience automating tasks using AWS Lambda.
21. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with an understanding of implementing security best practices and Sponsor compliance requirements into networking, computing, and enclave environments.
22. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with HLT systems such as Optical Character Recognition and Computer Assisted Translation.
23. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with NodeJS, ReactJS and ExpressJS.
24. (Desired) Demonstrated experience building monitoring solutions in CloudWatch and ELK Stack.
25. (Desired) Demonstrated experience building APIs using Swagger and OpenAPI.
26. (Desired) Demonstrated experience in at least one scripting language, python preferred.
27. (Desired) Demonstrated experience developing solutions in Javascript.
28. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with strong speaking, writing, and presentation skills.

 

 

Title: Configuration Manager
Location: Reston, 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.
 

The Sponsor is seeking support in the domain of Endpoint Security Engineering. The focus is primarily on working in a mission technology area, which uses multiple IT systems and networks that operate in both the secure and unsecure environments. The unsecure cloud networks are primarily within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The Sponsor is transforming its networks, systems, and applications processes to build a secure and trusted computing environment while providing the capabilities for secure information sharing across the enterprise. The Configuration Manager will shepherd the design and implementation of the entire Configuration Management framework, including identifying and documenting the items to be controlled and the information to be captured and recorded. They will ensure the proper baseline identification of configuration items, perform periodic audits, and provide verification of version release configuration items and develop, maintain, and implement CM process standards, plans, and procedures, ensuring changes to the process methods and processes are properly approved, communicated and managed throughout the CM lifecycle. The Configuration Manager will maintain status accounting records to ensure that current and historical configurations of products can be accurately determined throughout the product life cycle and tracks all problems and changes in product documents and reports changes and current configuration. They will also participate in working groups and attend meetings with management and other functional groups to obtain information about and authorizations for the release of configuration items, drawings and software configuration changes specified as needed. 
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with network and system development and deployment.
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with information processing fundamentals and best practices.
3. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience developing configuration management standard operating procedures.
4. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience using code repositories and version control systems.
5. (Desired) Demonstrated experience designing and managing a CMDB.
6. (Desired) Demonstrated experience working in an AGILE environment.
7. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with Risk and Issue Management.

 

 

Title: Cyber Security Engineer
Location: Reston, 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.
 

The Sponsor is seeking support in the domain of Endpoint Security Engineering. The focus is primarily on working in a mission technology area, which uses multiple IT systems and networks that operate in both the secure and unsecure environments. The unsecure cloud networks are primarily within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The Sponsor is transforming its networks, systems, and applications processes to build a secure and trusted computing environment while providing the capabilities for secure information sharing across the enterprise. The Cyber Security Engineer will provide risk mitigation recommendations for systems and applications and provide support on information security policies, regulations, and technical implementations regarding facets of cyber operations, and the Sponsor’s Accreditation and Authorization (A&A) process. They will provide support to projects teams overviewing the Sponsor’s A&A platform and streamline communications/processes between projects, ISSMs, and Sponsor Cyber Security teams. The Cyber Security Engineer will shepherd an educational initiative for system evaluation against NIST 800-53, Risk Management Framework (RMF), DISA STIGS, Zero Trust M-22-09, FedRAMP and other security standards and publications, as well as the Sponsor’s internal security regulations; orchestrate the acceleration of control selection, and acceptance for project teams and system owners towards Approval to Operate (ATO); and actively participate in or shepherd technical exchange meetings and application review boards, to verify and validate systems security controls, and provide guidance with respect to after action items/requirements. They will also provide routine briefing on system status and mitigations activities as required by the Sponsor. 
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with A&A processes and procedures.
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience providing vulnerability guidance as it pertains to analysis results and mitigation plans for addressing security problems.
3. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience providing risk mitigation for systems, and application in the cloud environment.
4. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience reviewing reports generated by Nexpose, AppDetective, RunZero, and WebInspect.
5. (Desired) Demonstrated experience leading A&A teams, security initiatives, and executive level briefings.
6. (Desired) Demonstrated experience leading Technical Exchange Meetings regarding A&A and project status updates.
7. (Desired) Demonstrated experience providing guidance and writing Standard Operating Procedures for project teams which expedites the A&A Process.
8. (Desired) Demonstrated experience recommending continuous process improvement on A&A processes within the Sponsor’s environment.

 

Title: Systems Architect
Location: Reston, 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.
 

The Sponsor is seeking support in the domain of Endpoint Security Engineering. The focus is primarily on working in a mission technology area, which uses multiple IT systems and networks that operate in both the secure and unsecure environments. The unsecure cloud networks are primarily within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The Sponsor is transforming its networks, systems, and applications processes to build a secure and trusted computing environment while providing the capabilities for secure information sharing across the enterprise. The Systems Architect will develop and document design concepts that are consistent with Sponsor architectural guidance and industry best practices to address current infrastructure enhancements, new user/system requirements, transitions to the Sponsor technical environment, and enhancements to performance. They will analyze the schedule and performance implications of alternative design concepts for application components and the supporting infrastructure and support the analysis and evaluation of related legacy business processes, the design of improved processes, and the efforts necessary to substantiate new efforts. The Systems Architect will identify mission impacts because of new information technology services, ensure the interoperability of current and future systems and software releases for all supported applications, and analyze and study complex system requirements, proposing technical solutions to Sponsor management. They will also perform strategic systems planning and analysis, reporting results to Sponsor management; coordinate, review, and integrate the deliverables of information and technology architects into cohesive solutions architectures; and design all data solutions in alignment with applicable policies, standards, and practices. 
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with network and system development and deployment.
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with information processing fundamentals and best practices.
3. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with integrating COTS, GOTS, and custom software into an enterprise solution for knowledge management.
4. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with CI/CD pipeline and Agile best practices.
5. (Desired) Demonstrated experience in several IT domains such as software development, networking, security, cloud computing, data management, and systems integration.
6. (Desired) Demonstrated experience designing IT systems that are efficient, reliable, scalable, and secure..

 

 

Title: Software Engineer
Location: McLean, 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.
 

The Sponsor seeks software engineering and development support to create custom applications, scripts, or solutions in support of requirements for analysis on high priority intelligence issues. Software solutions experts will create custom tool sets; custom software, data extract, transform and load solutions for a wide variety of datasets and deliver those solutions via various infrastructure configurations such as on cloud infrastructure, on-premises-and-cloud hybrid infrastructure, or on local infrastructure.  The Sponsor requires a highly skilled Software Developer that will use coding best practices and adhere to security requirements to develop innovative user interface designs in response to analyst, user analyses, product innovation, technology, and business needs. The Software Developer will support or create databases to connect to applications, as necessary. The individual in this role will ensure user interface guidelines and standards are followed during the development and maintenance of the product. The individual will present design concepts and negotiate with stakeholders to arrive at a design that supports both the business need and a strong user experience. The will conduct and participate in product usability tests. The Software Developer will communicate and work effectively with cross-functional team members including but not limited to analysts, data scientists, management, project managers, and software solutions integrators. The technical professional will  maintain existing applications or developed applications per required enterprise or local requirements such as patching or other updates or upgrades. They will create or maintain documentation on technical solutions to include architecture diagrams, minimum viable product templates, user guides, user or functional testing instructions, quick references, development framework guides, APIs, and documentation related to technical solutions developed.
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with setting up and maintaining Cloud based DevOps functionality.
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with Java, JavaScript, Python or similar development languages and associated frameworks for applications development such as Flask, ReactJS or similar.
3. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience working with data in, and developing applications with, Sql and NoSQL databases.
4. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience documenting system design and architecture.
5. (Mandatory) Demonstrated strong coordination and collaboration skills with ability to work successfully across organizational boundaries.
6. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with performance tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting and de-bugging applications and services.
7. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience developing, deploying and maintaining containerized applications and databases.
8. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor’s deployment of AWS, experience deploying applications within the Sponsor’s environment.
9. (Desired) Demonstrated experience working in an Agile software development cycle.
10. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with Sql and NoSQL databases.
11. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with geospatial data, visualization, and relevant analytic methods and tools.
12. (Desired) Demonstrated experience manipulating large datasets.
13. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with open source data engineering tools and processes.

 

Title: Software Engineer
Location: McLean, 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.
 

The Sponsor seeks software engineering and development support to create custom applications, scripts, or solutions in support of requirements for analysis on high priority intelligence issues. Software solutions experts will create custom tool sets; custom software, data extract, transform and load solutions for a wide variety of datasets and deliver those solutions via various infrastructure configurations such as on cloud infrastructure, on-premises-and-cloud hybrid infrastructure, or on local infrastructure.  The Sponsor requires a highly skilled Software Developer that will use coding best practices and adhere to security requirements to develop innovative user interface designs in response to analyst, user analyses, product innovation, technology, and business needs. The Software Developer will support or create databases to connect to applications, as necessary. The individual in this role will ensure user interface guidelines and standards are followed during the development and maintenance of the product. The individual will present design concepts and negotiate with stakeholders to arrive at a design that supports both the business need and a strong user experience. The will conduct and participate in product usability tests. The Software Developer will communicate and work effectively with cross-functional team members including but not limited to analysts, data scientists, management, project managers, and software solutions integrators. The technical professional will  maintain existing applications or developed applications per required enterprise or local requirements such as patching or other updates or upgrades. They will create or maintain documentation on technical solutions to include architecture diagrams, minimum viable product templates, user guides, user or functional testing instructions, quick references, development framework guides, APIs, and documentation related to technical solutions developed.
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with setting up and maintaining Cloud based DevOps functionality.
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with Java, JavaScript, Python or similar development languages and associated frameworks for applications development such as Flask, ReactJS or similar.
3. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience working with data in, and developing applications with, Sql and NoSQL databases.
4. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience documenting system design and architecture.
5. (Mandatory) Demonstrated strong coordination and collaboration skills with ability to work successfully across organizational boundaries.
6. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with performance tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting and de-bugging applications and services.
7. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience developing, deploying and maintaining containerized applications and databases.
8. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor’s deployment of AWS, experience deploying applications within the Sponsor’s environment.
9. (Desired) Demonstrated experience working in an Agile software development cycle.
10. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with Sql and NoSQL databases.
11. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with geospatial data, visualization, and relevant analytic methods and tools.
12. (Desired) Demonstrated experience manipulating large datasets.
13. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with open source data engineering tools and processes.

 

 

Title: IT Program Manager
Location: McLean, 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.

The Sponsor’s office delivers critical needs at a fast pace to all of their incumbents and partners. The Sponsor’s office provides IT support to multiple locations while ensuring the best IT services are available to satisfy requirements. The Sponsor’s main objective is to leverage Sponsor and Sponsor Partner resources and manage customer expectations; working across all levels of management, other branches and services providers to define requirements, develop schedules, and mange project plans.    The Sponsor is looking for experienced IT project management resource to provide project management support to ensuring IT solutions are delivered and implemented on time and within budget.    The Sponsor requires a highly technical IT Program Manager that will perform all aspects of project management including project initiation, creation of project plan and schedule, conduct Technical Exchange Meetings (TEM), documentation, and interact with stakeholders. The individual in this role will perform overall management of the specific IT projects and ensuring that the technical solutions and schedules are implemented in a timely manner.  They will work with all levels of management, Sponsor’s divisions and branches, facilities, and service providers to define, accurately capture requirements, develop schedules and plans to include risk management plan, develop security related documentation, and manage project from project initiation to completion. The IT Program manager will lead, monitor, and track IT projects using Sponsor’s tools including but not limited to Confluence, Primavera (P6), and JIRA. The individual will create quad charts and presentations, capture meeting minutes, conduct control gates, brief project status, and keep senior management apprised of project status.  
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience in gathering and developing business requirements, and visualizing content that would provide an enhanced understanding of the information.
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience in SharePoint and Microsoft Azure.
3. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience utilizing Agile methodologies to improve management of requirements and delivery of functions.
4. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience in project management providing primary point of contact support leading large, complex, high priority, and high visibility IT projects while ensuring project scope and requirements are aligned and communicated across all levels of management.
5. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience managing multiple high priority projects with competing priorities.
6. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience managing the full project lifecycle for software and network projects using Project Management Principles (PMP), to include managing day-to-day activities, identifying dependencies and blockers, developing project timelines, presentations, deliverables, PMPs, and risk management plans.
7. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience identifying allocated resources, and identifying over and under resources allocations.
8. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with teamwork ability and excellent oral and written communication skills.
9. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience briefing project schedule, status, quad charts, and deliverables at project control gates, corporate boards, and to senior leadership.
10. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience de-conflicting project resources and other dependencies and elevating when appropriate.
11. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience in balancing project schedules and collaborating within project team and across organization on critical tasks.
12. (Desired) Demonstrated experience working in the Sponsor’s unsecured virtual workspace.
13. (Desired) Demonstrated experience working in Sponsor community supporting Sponsor’s mission requirements.
14. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with leading rapid development IT projects to include but not limited to software development, network, and development of applications in cloud environment utilizing Project Management Framework (PMF).
15. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with leadership skills and support team members to achieve success.

 

Title: Software Developer (Systems Software)
Location: Chantilly, VA

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

The Sponsor provides development support to enable mission by delivering products and services to collect, analyze and manipulate data. The Sponsor requires support specializing in software development to provide development and operations and maintenance (O&M) support to a ServiceNow platform used by the Sponsor’s organization to track requests, tasks, and metrics. Work will include implementing configuration and customization of the platform to address the business needs of the Sponsor’s organization, as well as assisting the Sponsor in establishing governance and change management.  The Team will implement the full software development lifecycle to support the development of custom workflows in the ServiceNow platform and have a good understanding of the Sponsor’s ServiceNow business needs. They will implement and customize ServiceNow solutions to meet the Sponsor’s mission requirements, be responsible for administration of the ServiceNow front-end, and provide O&M for the ServiceNow front-end. They will also define data tables and business logic in the ServiceNow platform; provide administration of ServiceNow user roles, groups and permissions; and support data transformation activities to load information into the ServiceNow platform. The team will manage the migration of update sets to sub-prod and prod environments, troubleshoot production problems related to the ServiceNow platform, and provide ServiceNow integration support with external systems and data sources. They will also provide development support to applications that will interface with the ServiceNow platform to ensure a seamless integration and work with a team to develop and deploy custom workflows, including the Sponsors project manager, systems engineer(s), system architect(s) and system integrator(s). The team should be prepared to follow an agile software development methodology for planning, implementing and delivering ServiceNow capabilities.
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with JavaScript.
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with web-based technologies, such as XML, HTML, or CSS.
3. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with relational databases.
4. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with the implementation and customization of ServiceNow modules.
5. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience modifying ServiceNow tables.
6. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with the ServiceNow business rules and scripting aspects of the ServiceNow platform. 
7. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience performing administration duties in ServiceNow.
8. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience troubleshooting problems in ServiceNow.
9. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience providing integration and development support for external
10. (Desired) Demonstrated experience using the Sponsors ServiceNow Platform.
11. (Desired) Demonstrated experience developing custom workflows in ServiceNow.

 

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Title: Web Developer
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.

 

  The Sponsor requires a Contractor team that shall handle policy and technical implementation activities under the Data Compliance Program.  This includes Project and Program management support, policy interpretation, communication and training, ongoing external system interaction and software and application development in partnership with Sponsor’s technical partner group. The team of Project Integrators will work closely with all team members, including technology, systems, program, training, communication, and oversight, both internal to the program as well as with external mission partners across the Sponsor organization, maintain the Sponsor’s communication and training platforms such as Sponsors WordPress, Confluence and Moodle, serve as the Sponsor team’s POCs with IT system teams to include ongoing communication and requirement tracking regarding data policy requirements, engage with legal and data governance partners and other key Sponsor stakeholders as required, and write code to support pulling and compiling relevant metrics for a dashboard using tools such as Tableau for work in a matrixed capacity with Sponsor’s technical partner team.
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience utilizing tools such as Tableau, WordPress, and Confluence.
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with performing assessment, analysis and development of requirements.
3. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience ensuring technical requirements align with and are traceable to legal and policy requirements.
4. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience creating and delivering program and project artifacts and deliverables to a wide array of audiences.
5. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with program and project reporting, for both technical and non-technical audiences.
6. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience exhibiting analytical and problem solving skills.
7. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with the data management lifecycle and related policies.
8. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with developing new training materials in various formats, in person or work-based training (WBT).
9. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience updating or revising training materials based on changes to training content.
10. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience creating reports measuring training delivered as well as development and maintenance of training metrics for internal and external reporting.
11. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience writing code to query partner system status and pull necessary metrics and develop a dashboard reporting capability with user interface.
12. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of executive, highly visible Sponsor programs
13. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with data tagging and metadata management.
14. (Desired) Demonstrated experience working independently or with the group as appropriate.

 

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

  The seven-person Developer team shall comply with the Lean Agile methodology. The Developer team shall participate in all Lean Agile scrums, sprints and grooming sessions. The Developer team shall perform Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product integration and development efforts. The Developer team shall ensure tasks are completed on schedule. The Developer team shall consult and coordinate appropriately for problem resolution, task scheduling, new resource requirements, and task clarification. The Developer team shall will work in partnership with an integrated team of staff and contractors. The Developer shall understand the cloud environments, such as AWS or Azure. The Developer team shall coordinate and collaborate with security, operations, engineering, testing and other teams to provide system information and technical support. The Developer team shall create, manage and update Jira tickets. The Contractor team shall design, develop and modify software systems. The Developer team shall document and track vendor software roadmaps for software and patch version updates. The Developer team shall unit test their software and perform code reviews.
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience developing detailed design and associated deliverables.
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience translating customer and system requirements into design.
3. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience designing system interfaces.
4. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience developing Single Page Applications using HTML5, CSS3, and Angular 2+.
5. (Mandatory) Demonstrated hands-on experience developing RESTful web services using Java 8+ or other technologies such as Spring Framework 4+, or Spring Security 4+.
6. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience working with non-relational database systems such as DynamoDB.
7. (Mandatory) Demonstrated hands-on experience with and troubleshooting of Internet and Web related protocols and technologies such as Tomcat, Nodejs, Web Services, or SSL.
8. (Mandatory) Demonstrated hands-on experience developing JUnit and Jasmine tests.
9. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with testing platforms such as Jest or Karma.
10. (Mandatory) Demonstrated hands-on experience working with DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, or Nexus
11. (Desired) Demonstrated recent experience with the Sponsor’s Lean Agile methodology.
12. (Desired) The Contractor shall have demonstrated experience using ErDoS for reporting sprint MVI burn-up and top line charts, as well as MVI features and user stories.
13. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with CFS, FSS, TagIt, KnoMAD, and TagIt digest.

 

Title: Software 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.
 

The Sponsor is looking for a Software Developer to join an existing team in supporting small applications development environment requirements
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience using JavaScript (JS).
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with these development languages: Java, NodeJS, and Angular.
3. (Desired) Demonstrated experience automating and scripting using Bash and Teraform.
4. (Desired) Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex issues with managing and deploying applications in the cloud.
6. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with REST Web services and SOAP Web services.
7. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with Spring, Spring Security and Hibernate frameworks.
8. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with AWS CloudFormation Templates, Load Balancer, Autoscaling, Security Groups, S3 and KMS.
9. (Desired) Demonstrated experience automating configuration and provisioning of cloud resources.
10. (Desired) Demonstrated experience OpenSSL and TLS encryption protocols.
11. (Desired)  Demonstrated experience administering databases like MySQL.
12. (Desired) Demonstrated experience administering no-SQL databases like MongoDB.
13.(Desired) Demonstrated experience installing and managing Apache, Tomcat and Express servers

 

Title: Software 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.
 

The Sponsor is looking for a Software Engineer to join an existing team in supporting small applications development environment requirements
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience using JavaScript (JS).
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with these development languages: Java, NodeJS, and Angular.
3. (Desired) Demonstrated experience automating and scripting using Bash and Teraform.
4. (Desired) Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex issues with managing and deploying applications in the cloud.
6. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with REST Web services and SOAP Web services.
7. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with Spring, Spring Security and Hibernate frameworks.
8. (Desired) Demonstrated experience with AWS CloudFormation Templates, Load Balancer, Autoscaling, Security Groups, S3 and KMS.
9. (Desired) Demonstrated experience automating configuration and provisioning of cloud resources.
10. (Desired) Demonstrated experience OpenSSL and TLS encryption protocols.
11. (Desired)  Demonstrated experience administering databases like MySQL.
12. (Desired) Demonstrated experience administering no-SQL databases like MongoDB.
13.(Desired) Demonstrated experience installing and managing Apache, Tomcat and Express servers

 

 

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

The Sponsor designs, develops, tests, integrates and deploys solutions for critical requirements. The current solution is at the end of life stage, therefore new solutions need to be developed and incorporated; new and innovative technologies utilized to successfully meet the user requirements. The goal of the Sponsor is to design and deliver an enterprise-level system with a modular, segmented architecture that can support both large scale and small scale solutions in order to meet the requirements across a broad range of applicable use cases. In order to support the technical requirements, the Sponsor requires Information Technology (IT) activities to achieve the goal of designing, developing, testing, integrating and deploying the solutions.  The Systems Engineers will install, configure, and test; operating systems, application software, and system management tools; support current network platforms and applications to include Cisco and Juniper; and support unique computer based tools to meet Sponsor requirements. They will also prepare and deliver both program and user level documentation; provide technical systems support for project activities; and troubleshoot the Sponsor’s complex systems.  They should be prepared to interact with members of the technical team leads; to understand the current system, subsystems, and component specifications and be able to use experience to recommend changes to facilitate efficient and effective development; communicate and share expertise within and across the Sponsor’s organizational boundaries; and work both independently and in small groups. 
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience establishing standards for information systems procedures.
2. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience troubleshooting both technical and non-technical issues
3. Demonstrated experience with Information Technology Infrastructure associated with technical projects.
4. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience evaluating alternatives to solve complex problems.
5. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience troubleshooting difficult problems.
6. (Mandatory) DevOps experience – Jenkins, Terraform/Ansible, Bash, Python, AWS   
7. (Highly Desired) Creating and working in an enclave
8. (Highly Desired) PKI experience
9. (Highly Desired) VMware
10.(Highly Desired) Active Directory
11. (Highly Desired) MySQL experience

 

 

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

The Sponsor designs, develops, tests, integrates and deploys solutions for critical requirements. The current solution is at the end of life stage, therefore new solutions need to be developed and incorporated; new and innovative technologies utilized to successfully meet the user requirements. The goal of the Sponsor is to design and deliver an enterprise-level system with a modular, segmented architecture that can support both large scale and small scale solutions in order to meet the requirements across a broad range of applicable use cases. In order to support the technical requirements, the Sponsor requires Information Technology (IT) activities to achieve the goal of designing, developing, testing, integrating and deploying the solutions.  The Systems Administrator will create, test, and maintain test, development and production environments; implement established technical and workflow procedures, troubleshoot network and application issues, and providing guidance and technical assistance as needed. They will update technical configuration documents, manage the system lifecycle, support technical review boards as needed, and participate in technical design reviews as needed.  The Administrator will also  prepare and deliver required documentation to include both program and user level documentation,  interact with members of the technical team leads; to understand the current system, subsystems, and component specifications and be able to use experience to recommend changes to facilitate efficient and effective development, communicate and share expertise within and across the Sponsor’s organizational boundaries and work both independently and in small groups. 
 

1. (Mandatory) Demonstrated experience with Linux and PowerShell administration.
2. (Desired) Demonstrated experience creating, testing, and maintaining test, development and production environments
3. (Desired) Demonstrated experience troubleshooting network and application issues.
4. (Desired) Demonstrated experience preparing and deliver required documentation to include both program and user level documentation

 

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Title: Data Scientist AI/ML
Location: Tysons, 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.
 

Highly visible position – Provide data science solutions to a variety of high-profile requirements as the continued success will require the creation of increasingly more sophisticated application of AI/ML capabilities to quickly identify actionable information.

Mandatory Skills
• Demonstrated experience as a Data Scientist.
• Demonstrated experience with machine learning methods, techniques and algorithms for natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV), and deep learning/deep neural networks.
• Demonstrated experience in handling imperfection in data.
• Demonstrated experience with statistical programming languages such as R, SQL, and Python.
• Demonstrated experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau.
• Demonstrated experience in documenting data science work, participating in peer reviews and adhering to data science tradecraft best practices.
• Demonstrated experience with data science tools.
• Demonstrated experience with a problem-solving aptitude.
Optional Skills
• Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor’s workflow and research application.
• Demonstrated experience using JIRA, Confluence and SharePoint.
• Demonstrated experience working in a team environment.
• Demonstrated experience briefing technical topics to a non-technical audience.
• Demonstrated experience in strong oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience in strong leadership ability and experience juggling competing priorities.

 

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

Backfill opening on the Shelby Task Order

Mandatory Skills
– Front-end development with Angular
– Experience developing in the customer space
– Proficient in Linux
– Use of GitHub
– Experience developing on an Agile team
Optional Skills
– Back-end development with Node
– Working knowledge of AWS
– Using Jira to document development efforts using Scrum
 

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Title: Systems Administrator
Location: Sterling, 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.
 

Support a small team in a dynamic, mission-focused environment, providing hands on support to highly technical user community. The SA will respond to Tier 1 and Tier 2 level requests and trouble tickets. This will involve potentially the following duties: computer workstation setup/configuration/troubleshooting, peripheral device troubleshooting/replacement, user inquiries/problems, user account management, shared drive access control, multi-use group management, network troubleshooting, and deferral support to higher tier personnel. The SA will also be responsible for removable media control/processing, desktop VTC support, application requests/installation/troubleshooting, and other user level support tasks. Additionally, the CSA will also provide surge support to other network support and project activities that may arise. Location: Sterling VA area

Mandatory Skills
• Experience administering Microsoft Windows desktop operating systems.
• Experience providing close support for Sponsor's environment
• Familiarity with Sponsor's enterprise access request system
• Deep knowledge of MS Active Directory to manage group access and distribution lists
• Administrator account with permissions on Sponsor's network
• Dedication to precision adherence to policy and standard operating procedures.
• Understanding of local area networks and information security practices.
• Experience creating, maintaining, and updating documentation, diagrams, and specifically security documentation.
Optional Skills
• Experience with workflow and ticketing systems (e.g. ServiceNow)
• Experience with shell scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Perl).
• Competency with Microsoft Visio
• Knowledge of virtualization platforms and technologies (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix).
• Professional certification(s) (e.g. CompTIA, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, etc.)
• Familiarity with Communications Security (COMSEC)
• Familiarity with RF technologies, including cellular and Wi-Fi

 

Title: Software/AQ Tester
Location: Reston, 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.
 

Assist with maintenance of existing legacy applications and transition to a new system architecture.
**Additional security scrub required.

Mandatory Skills
Create and maintain an automated test environment for the Sponsor
Automated test script creation and processing using Selenium or other automated testing products
Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures and documentation
Develop testing programs that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing
Document test procedures to ensure replicability and compliance
Test and qualify functional behavior of code
Conduct unit and functional testing on bug fixes
Optional Skills
Experience in testing web-based applications including those with databases and web services/APIs

 

Title: Web Developer
Location: Reston, 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.
 

Support with maintenance of legacy applications and assist with transition to new system architecture. Support for system development and deployment, system maintenance and troubleshooting for software and hardware components to maintain sustainability and reliability of the Sponsor’s systems and applications. Optional Skills
• Full Stack development experience to be able to contribute to backend
• Demonstrated experience using agile/scrum development processes.
**Requires secondary security scrub

Mandatory Skills
• Front end web development experience HTML, CSS and browser compatibility experience
• UI/UX experience with Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript and others
• Demonstrated experience with Section 508 requirements and WCAG 2.1 & WCAG 2.2 AA standards.
• Demonstrated experience with UI Design.
• Demonstrated experience with COTS accessibility issues.
• Demonstrated experience designing complete user interfaces and user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
• Demonstrated experience using wire-framing tools, storyboards and user flows.
• Demonstrated experience using and establishing UI/UX design best practices.

 

Title: Tempest Engineer
*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.

As part of our team, you'll get to work on a team of TEMPEST engineers and SMEs helping perform TEMPEST testing and provide TEMPEST engineering recommendations to help ensure the security of our nation's systems . You'll learn from our existing TEMPEST subject matter experts to grow your knowledge and skills, as well as share your TEMPEST expertise with others. You'll get to work onsite with the customer, integrated into their team to ensure mission success.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
– 3+ years of experience with TEMPEST testing, design, or engineering
– TEMPEST certified technician (Certified TEMPEST Professional Level II)
– TS/SCI with FS Poly Required
Capabilities / Duties:

Title: Communications Officer
Location: Reston, 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.

JOB DESCRIPTION: 
This is an exciting opportunity to support an important effort that requires a self-motivated, creative developmental-level individual to serve as a Communications Officer to support a Customer department that focuses on external engagement, research, and innovation.  The successful candidate will be responsible for drafting, editing, and maintaining communications for the department and content updates to the Customer web site and associated platforms, and pushing communications to achieve the Customer’s communication goals.  S/he is a team player who takes initiative and closely collaborates with Communications Team members and with the department workforce and subject matter experts. 
The Communications Officer will work with the customer to develop communications products in multiple formats, including web content, to ensure regular and transparent communications for department personnel.  An important function for the candidate will be identifying, publishing, and refreshing content for the group’s web presence on the customer system.
 Key Responsibilities Include, but are not limited to, the following:
Helping to develop and distribute employee communications content that supports the Customer’s communications strategy and reflects key messaging.

 
Required Qualifications:
 Active TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph.

Title: ISSE/A&A Specialist
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.
 

Work requirementS

required skills and demonstrated experience

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

Highly Desired skills and demonstrated experience

Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:

 

Title: Applications Developer
Location: McLean, 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.
 

Work requirementS

required skills and demonstrated experience

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

Highly Desired skills and demonstrated experience

Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:

 

Title: Software Developer
Location: Reston, 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.
 

Work requirementS

required skills and demonstrated experience

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

 

Highly Desired skills and demonstrated experience

Other skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not mandatory to perform the work, include:

 

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

Description:
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – US Citizenship required
Includes TopSecret/SCI with Poly Required

Location:  San Antonio, TX
Preferred Qualifications:

Qualifications:

Title: Data Scientist
Location: Tysons, 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.
Highly visible position – Provide data science solutions to a variety of high-profile requirements as the continued success will require the creation of increasingly more sophisticated application of AI/ML capabilities to quickly identify actionable information.

 

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

Provide technical analysis supporting identification and mitigation of critical infrastructure threats.

 

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

• Demonstrated experience in Radio Frequency (RF) knowledge.
• Demonstrated experience with computer security, authentication, and cryptography.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of a wide range of RF technologies to include terrestrial and space-based RF communications, government and commercial satellite systems, commercial cellular and wireless, 5G technologies, and embedded software and firmware development.
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, or deploying customized technical solutions.
• Demonstrated experience identifying possible technical or security problems and provide documented responses.
• Demonstrated experience supporting technical requirements management.
• Demonstrated experience performing complex problem management research and issue resolution.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating hardware and software products against customer requirements for technical evaluation and potential procurement.
• Demonstrated experience designing, engineering, implementing, and maintaining Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) and Sponsor developed applications.
• Demonstrated experience with Network Monitoring Appliances.
• Demonstrated experience assisting with automation of administrative tasks through scripting.
HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE
Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer or Physical Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor’s security or IT systems.
• Demonstrated experience with Shell scripting.
• Demonstrated experience with SQL Server, and Oracle 10g/11g and MySQL.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 10, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2, 2016.
• Demonstrated experience with Storage systems, including Net App, and HP.
• Demonstrated experience with VMware ESX.
• Demonstrated experience with the various types of forensic software utilized by the Sponsor.
• Demonstrated experience providing recommendations in technical
• Certification(s)
o VMware Certified
o Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 

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