Title: Software Engineer
Location: Greenbelt, MD
*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 Software Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems (e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real- time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements. 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 COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
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Desired Qualifications
Title: Configuration Manager
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*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.
| 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. CONUS TRAVEL: N
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Title: Test Engineer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
*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.
| 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. CONUS TRAVEL: N
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Colorado Springs, CO
Cybersecurity Engineer
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.
Cornerstone Defense is looking for a Cybersecurity Engineer in Colorado Springs, CO.
The PTES program is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer with a strong background in DoD security tools (ACAS, HBSS/ESS, SIEM), Security Configuration (STIG) environments and RMF Policy creation and verification. The engineer will be supporting different cloud computing environments (AWS GovCloud and DoD Cloud) working with teams implementing and verifying security across the program, including testing and assisting with security plans.
The PTES 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 Boeing-built Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites and terminals.
As a member of the PTES 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 have the opportunity to make an impact on the results of our project. The PTES team offers a collaborative mentoring environment where you have the opportunity to learn from or lead others.
Position Responsibilities:
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Herndon, Virginia
*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.
Cornerstone Defense DevOps Software Engineers help promote state-of-the-art IT solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and share lessons learned. Focus on enabling container deployments and implementation of serverless architectures within AWS. Additionally, we need our DevOps Software Engineer to be versatile and be enthusiastic to take on new problems. We believe that in addition to hiring great talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products.
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Title: Software Developer
Location: Herndon, Virginia
*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.
Cornerstone Defense is seeking a Full Performance developer to support a dynamic program. The current technical team provides software design, development, operations, and maintenance on myriad systems and initiatives advancing AI/ML/Data Management. The program technical teams focus on streamlining operations, automating processes, and aligning enterprise data management solutions to the overarching digital architecture. We are seeking a developer to support an emerging project as part of a team.
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Title: Information Systems Security Engineer
Location: Herndon, Virginia
*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 an Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE). The role of the ISSE is to bridge the gap between high level security policies/requirements and technical/operational implementation of those requirements. Candidates should have in-depth understanding of the cybersecurity policies and procedures for government sector information systems and sufficient technical knowledge and experience to implement them. The ISSE will work closely and effectively with the ISSM and Sponsor IT managers on all aspects of their development and implementation programs as they progress through their Agile management processes. The ISSE will provide guidance, standards, and oversight to the development teams as they work towards accreditation and then to keep accredited. The candidate will provide input to A&A process activities and related documentation such as systems concept of operations, system security design, implementation plans, operational procedures, and maintenance training materials. Bachelor's degree (preferably in STEM field) and 10 years technical experience. Additional technical experience may be substituted in lieu of education. Must have a TS/SCI Full Scope Poly Clearance. This position is located in the Herndon area.
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Title: Applications Developer
Location:Herndon, Virginia
*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.
Cornerstone Defense is looking to support a Full Stack Applications Developer to develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise / departmental IT systems. This position requires in-depth hands-on experience developing software in a team environment where customer focus, cooperation, communication, and continual tradecraft improvements are the norm. Must have excellent debugging skills, work independently, think outside the box, and interact well with others.
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Title: Software 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.
Software Engineer supporting the Data Ingest Team. In this role, you will work with a small talented team working with BIG DATA. You will implement complex data parsers for a variety of structured and unstructured data sets to render them in a format recognized by a host of analytical tools. You will work primarily in Python but knowledge of Java and Perl is valuable. You will automate certain bulk data processing using Apache NiFi and other technologies. As part of the program’s process improvement program, you will refactor legacy code to improve speed and efficiency of production processing. You will research new technology to develop innovative new methods for extracting and transforming the huge flows of data received and ingested daily.
Required Qualifications
Title: Software 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.
Senior Software Engineer to join an agile development team creating the next generation ETL Platform that supports operations vital to our customer’s mission to produce outstanding intelligence analysis for our nation’s policy makers.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with your Agile development team to design and implement, test and deploy the next generation Extract Transform and Load Platform that supports vital operational and analytical missions. The ETL Platform will process petabytes of data annually to extract data from a myriad of formats including structured, unstructured, binary and text. You will use best of breed open source and commercial technologies such as Apache NiFi, Kafka, and AWS to implement your team’s solution against systems requirements. You will develop features in the data workflow that extracts embedded objects such as video and audio recordings to enrich the content of data available to operators and analysis. You will create interfaces to various analysis tools as well as to other content enhancement applications such as language translators. In short, you will build the future!
Required Qualifications
Title: Cyber Detection Engineer Team Lead
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.
We need you to lead the team who protect and defend the largest target in the world using your expertise in Host Based IDS, IPS and specialized network defense. This position will utilize the latest cyber tools available and assist in creating new ones while allowing you to advance the nation's information security posture.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Provide subject matter expertise in the creation, editing, and management of signatures, rules and filters for specialized network defense systems such as Network and host-based IDS, IPS, NDR, EDR, firewall, web application firewalls, Proxy and SIEM systems
Manage and administer the tuning of rules, signatures, and custom content for specialized CND applications and systems
Identify potential conflicts with implementation of any CND tools within the enterprise and develop recommendations to remediate these conflicts
Manage inter-agency relationships with partner organizations to facilitate mission execution
Provide innovative and creative solutions to challenging problems
Provide logical use case development
Provide and track requirements to engineering partners
Identify gaps in visibility or coverage of cyber defense systems
Prepare and brief management and partner organizations on current state/proposed solutions
Prepare data analytics and reporting
15+ years of experience in Cyber Security, InfoSec, Security Engineering or Network Engineering with emphasis in cyber security issues and operations, computer incident response, systems architecture, data management
Ability to demonstrate expertise utilizing SIEM tools for use case development and application
Understanding of the following classes of enterprise cyber defense technologies:
Incident Response analysis
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems
Network Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)
Host Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
Endpoint and Network Detection and Response (EDR/NDR)
User Behavior Analytics (UBA)
Network and Host malware detection and prevention
Network and Host forensic applications
Web/Email gateway security technologies
Ability to leverage interpersonal, organizational, writing, communications, and briefing skills
Ability to demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills
DOD 8570 IAT Level I or CSSP-IR certification (can be obtained after hire)
Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or other closely related Information Technology field of study
Experience with all or some of the following:
Palo Alto Networks
McAfee ePO/NSM
Carbon Black
Tanium
Jira
Mitre ATT&CK
Python
Splunk ES
Equal Opportunity Employment
Cornerstone Defense is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all employees and to upholding diversity in our recruiting and hiring processes. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, age, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Title: Expert Cyber Threat Hunter
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.
Join our Adversarial Pursuit team as a Cyber Threat Hunt Expert on this Cyber Security support contract. Help strengthen an established unit of elite cyber defense experts by advising strategic vision and tactical implementation to protect our customer's varied networks from all enemies.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Provide strategic and tactical direction to cyber hunters and leadership based on trends and actionable intelligence related to threat capabilities
Coordinate hunt activities between various internal and external hunt groups
Construct and exploit threat intelligence to detect, respond, and defeat advanced persistent threats (APTs)
Fully analyze network and host activity in successful and unsuccessful intrusions by advanced attackers
Build fly-away kits utilizing an agile approach to identify the appropriate tools and technologies necessary to conduct hunt missions
Conduct advanced threat hunt operations using known adversary tactics, techniques and procedures as well as indicators of attack in order to detect adversaries with persistent access to the enterprise
Create and add custom signatures, to mitigate highly dynamic threats to the enterprise using the latest threat information obtained from multiple sources. Perform malware analysis on samples obtained during an investigation or hunt operation to create custom signatures
Develop and produce reports on all activities and incidents to help maintain day to day status, develop and report on trends, and provide focus and situational awareness on all issues
Piece together intrusion campaigns, threat actors, and nation-state organizations
Manage, share, and receive intelligence on APT adversary groups
Generate intelligence from their own data sources and share it accordingly
Identify, extract, and leverage intelligence from APT intrusions
Expand upon existing intelligence to build profiles of adversary groups
Leverage intelligence to better defend against and respond to future intrusions
Correlate data from intrusion detection and prevention systems with data from other sources such as firewall, web server, and DNS logs
Notify the management team of significant changes in the security threat against the government networks in a timely manner and in writing via established reporting methods
Coordinate with appropriate organizations within the intelligence community regarding possible security incidents. Conduct intra-office research to evaluate events as necessary, maintain the current list of coordination points of contact.
Review assembled data with firewall administrators, engineering, system administrators and other appropriate groups to determine the risk of a given event
Maintain knowledge of the current security threat level by monitoring related Internet postings, Intelligence reports, and other related documents as necessary
Ability to demonstrate effective interpersonal, organizational, writing, communications, and briefing skills
Ability to use advanced level analytical and problem-solving skills to solve complex issues
CISSP or CEH Certification
DoD 8570 IAT Level III or CSSP-SPM (can be obtained after hire)
Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or other closely related Information Technology field of study
Equal Opportunity Employment
Cornerstone Defense is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all employees and to upholding diversity in our recruiting and hiring processes. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, age, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Title: Cyber Security Data Engineer – Senior
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.
Cyber Security Data Engineer:
The Cyber Security Data Engineer will design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale, and is responsible for creating data pipelines used by data scientists, data-centric applications, and other data consumers. This is a highly technical position, requiring experience and skills in areas such as programming, mathematics, and computer science.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Assembling large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements.
Identifying, designing and implementing internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes.
Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SQL technologies.
Building analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and customer acquisition.
Working with stakeholders including data, design, product and executive teams and assisting them with data-related technical issues.
Establish advanced analysis and data visualization methodologies, models, and tools to derive/predict intelligence outcomes and impacts.
Implement data validation and cleaning techniques to find and fix or remove inaccurate and irrelevant data.
Develop and maintain a data warehouse populated with data from numerous sources and with varied formats.
Build, test, and maintain database pipeline architectures.
Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
Data pipeline and warehouse performance measurement and optimization.
Prepare data for predictive and prescriptive modeling in close partnership with in-house data science team.
Deliver updates to stakeholders based on analytics.
Ensure compliance with customer’s data governance and security policies.
Design, develop and maintain scaled, automated, user-friendly systems that will support the needs of the business.
2+ years of relevant work experience in data science or data engineering in big data environments.
2+ years of experience in data mining and data-set preparation using SQL
2+ years of experience using data visualization software, such as, Tableau Desktop or Power BI.
Experience with data modeling, data warehousing, and building ETL pipelines.
Strong verbal and written communication and data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical team, and senior management as required.
Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related technical field of study.
3+ years of experience in a data engineer role with a technology company.
Experience working in large data warehouse environments.
Experience conducting large scale and complex data analysis to support data centric architecture
Experience using Python, R, Java, JavaScript, AngularJS, .NET, Hadoop, and Apache and other related technologies
Equal Opportunity Employment
Cornerstone Defense is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all employees and to upholding diversity in our recruiting and hiring processes. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, age, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Title: Data Scientist
Location: 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.
Data Scientist:
Use your analytic talent to churn through petabytes of data providing valuable information and insight to policy makers and security professionals defending the most coveted intelligence target in the world. Identify anomalies that could reveal previously unknown risks or threats to the customer’s environment.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Advise on the methods and data needed and/or available to evaluate the problem
Collaborate with data collectors and analysts to identify and close gaps on complex monitoring problems
Provide accurate, timely, complex and sophisticated data analysis
Determine and employ the most appropriate research design for data collection and analysis
Analyze, evaluate, and assess quantitative data (using statistical software, computer models, geospatial models, software languages, and mathematical models) to contribute to or develop software tools, analytic models, and/or reports)
Work with stakeholders to understand the requirements and identify what problems are they trying to solve with data
Provide requirements or recommendations to data engineers to help normalize or enrich data sources
Experience using markup languages such as LaTeX or HTML
Experience with Natural Language Processing for anomaly detection
Experience with Statistics, Machine Learning, Linear Algebra and Calculus, Data Visualization and VBA scripts
Experience working in a team-based agile work environment
Experience working in an analytical research environment
Ability to use analytical and problem-solving skills to solve complex problems
Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance
Bachelor’s Degree in mathematics, statistical analysis, data science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or other closely related IT discipline)
Equal Opportunity Employment
Cornerstone Defense is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all employees and to upholding diversity in our recruiting and hiring processes. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, age, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Title: Cyber Security Analyst – Senior
Location: 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.
Description/Responsibilities:
The CIRT Incident Handler on this agency-level Cyber Security support contract performs the following duties:
• Performs actions in response to identified cyber intrusions
• Determines appropriate course of action in response to identified cyber security incidents or anomalous network activity
• Performs advanced analysis to include forensic seizures of hardware, malware triage and dynamic analysis, and determination of the scope of compromise during a cyber incident
* Communicates with stakeholders and leaders to ensure incidents are managed appropriately
* Acts as incident command during small scale incidents and cyber response subject matter expert during large scale incidents
• Recommend enterprise countermeasures based on incident trends
• Prepares detailed recommendations for network defense improvements to close or mitigate incidents
Required Experience/Skills:
* Demonstrated experience in cyber incident response/detection or expert network engineering, system administration, or devops
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, writing, communications, and briefing skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in Cyber Security, InfoSec, Security Engineering, Network Engineering with emphasis in cyber security issues and operations, computer incident response, systems architecture, data management
Required Tools:
Familiarity with the following classes of enterprise cyber defense technologies:
• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems
• Network Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)
• Host Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)
• Network and Host malware detection and prevention
• Network and Host forensic tools
• Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
• Sysmon
• Web/Email gateway security technologies
* Experience with Splunk, Windows PowerShell, or similar technologies
* Netflow and Full Packet Capture solutions
Required Certifications:
DOD 8570 IAT Level I, CSSP-IR, or CSSP-A
Required Degree:
BS (bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or other closely related IT discipline)
10 years experience if no BS
Equal Opportunity Employment
Cornerstone Defense is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all employees and to upholding diversity in our recruiting and hiring processes. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, age, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Technical Writer – Policy
*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.
Seeking a highly motivated Technical Writer – Policy to join our multi-million dollar national intelligence program supporting the Cloud Investment Multi-Cloud Management (CIMM) team. As a contributor to the intelligence community’s first multi-cloud initiative, you will be at the epicenter of emergent cloud computing technologies establishing a foundation that will evolve to include all agencies within the IC.
Technical Writer – Policy gathers, analyzes, and composes technical information. Conducts research and ensures the use of proper technical terminology. Translates technical information into clear, readable documents to be used by technical and non-technical personnel. Supports the development of all types of documents and reports by developing and updating graphics presentations to improve the quality and enhance the usability of these documents.
Responsibilities include:
Qualifications
Required:
Desired:
Title: Linux Systems Adminstrator
Location: 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.
Cornerstone Defense has an immediate need for a Linux System Engineer to be a member of the IT team that is the Londinium Program. The Londinium Program is comprised of linux (80%), windows (20%), virtualization, storage, network, HW, and data center engineers that works as a team and, offers rewarding opportunities to think outside the box in order to deliver innovative and sustainable IT environments to our customers. The Londinium system administrators work both independently and as a member of an integrated product team supporting a wide variety of basic and complex computing and network configurations and must have proven Linux experience.
The on-site system administrator will support the installation, configuration, maintenance, failure analysis and recovery, performance monitoring, data storage management, and security management of the data center environment. The system engineer will haveexperience in at least one, preferably two, scripting languages (shell, Perl, Powershell, Python, etc.) and shall have proven experience administering Linux operating systems in the conduct of their duties. The right candidate will have proven experience in problem solving.
Specific duties and responsibilities of the Linux System Engineer may include, but are not limited to:
Minimum Qualifications and Education:
Title: Automation Developer
Location: Columbia, MD
*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 in an environment where you can design the architecture and develop solutions to meet the organization’s needs while enhancing your skillset and advancing your career. Looking for an innovative, and motivated individual to join a small, talented, and hardworking Linux team in a hybrid cloud and on premise based environment. This team creates, maintains, and troubleshoots Linux instances on multiple networks, in multiple architectures.The ideal candidate works well in a small team setting, has a desire to learn hands-on Linux administration, AWS Cloud and automation/scripting techniques, and communicates well with team members. Required skills: • Monitor servers for health and status • Basic troubleshoot skills • User account administration • Self-motivated • Strong desire to learn and grow • Ability to follow instructions and communicate with team members Desired skills: • Automated instance provisioning (Deploy via Kickstart, VMWare template, AWS AMI) • Experience with Software installation/updates/patches via YUM/DNF • Experience with or understanding of services such as DNS, NFS, LVM, rsyslog, iptables/firewalld • Experience with AWS Cloud and Services • Experience with Bash and Python scripting • Experience with Puppet and Ansible DoD 8570 Compliance with IAM level 1 is required (SEC+ ce; Network+ ce; A+ ce) |
Title: Software 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.
Seeking a highly motivated, self-directed professional to fill the role of Software Developer. The ideal candidate has the ability to develop software to parse various data types and transform them into a common data model. Maintaining the existing data parsing code and associated database tables. General support of a large database (50+ TB) holding the mission data
Required Qualifications:
• Minimum 2-3 years of practical, hands-on experience with Java
• Demonstrated experience in AWS
• Experience with file input and output
• Experience with libraries used to read and write structured data (XML, JSON, CSV, etc.)
• Experience with Devops (Maven, Gradle, Jenkin, Nexus)
• Experience with Unit testing (JUnit, Mockito, etc.)
• Proven ability to understand and debug existing code
• Experience working with large data volumes requiring highly performant code
• Oracle Database Experience
o Experience writing complex SQL statements to join multiple tables
o Experience designing schemas (tables, columns, foreign keys, etc.)
o Experience with large databases (million+ rows)
• Ability to work independently
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience with Java 8 Streams
• Experience writing stored procedures and PL/SQL
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.
Seeking a Systems Engineer to join one of our teams in Chantilly, VA. The individual in this role will architect applications and service migrations into a virtual Amazon Web Services environment. The Systems Engineer will track new requirements and break them down into actionable tasks for the development team while supporting group level architecture discussions surrounding development and integration of data lake. Additionally, the individual in this position will be responsible for implementing efficiencies in the transfer and transitioning of data associated with project tools and applications and must be comfortable briefing senior management on high priority work items.
Required Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or similar or 6 additional years of experience in lieu of degree
• Minimum 8 years of experience in a Systems Engineering role
• Ability to integrate COTS, GOTS, and custom software into an enterprise solution for data management or knowledge management with appropriate security and monitoring measures
• Knowledge of customer security controls and their implementation on enterprise tools
• Ability to track and manage customer needs with an enterprise work/requirement tracking tool
• Experience working with customers to prioritize needs across a large set of stakeholders
• Demonstrated knowledge with SDLC practices
• Ability and desire to function effectively on a highly motivated team
• Demonstrated experience working with High Operational Tempo and Mission focused teams
Desired Qualifications:
• Amazon certification(s)
• Knowledge of the data lifecycle and data management best practices
• Demonstrated knowledge of Agile best practices (CSM Certification)
• Knowledge of Java, Python, and other Development languages
• Demonstrated DevSecOps experience
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and associated technology stacks
Title: Applications Software 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.
Seeking a highly motivated, self-directed professional to fill the role of Applications Software Developer on our team in the Herndon, VA area. The ideal candidate will excel at designing, building, and deploying highly scalable, resilient, performant services in an integrated team to continually improve DevOps posture. They will work with current application teams to understand current analytics, review test plans, and to collaborate with user interface designers to ensure developed software integrates seamlessly. Additionally, they will serve as an expert resource within the development team to determine the needs of the business that will simplify and automate the application services. Required Qualifications:
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related or an additional 6 years of experience in lieu of degree
• Demonstrated experience with Java and one or more technologies (e.g., Servlets, Hibernate, Spring, Web Services/J2EE)
• Demonstrated experience with datasets both relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience in continuous integration and delivery tools (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience in Web server technologies (Tomcat, Web Logic, IIS, HttpCore)
Desired Qualifications:
• Demonstrated experience with Typescript UI technologies
• Demonstrated experience working in a dynamic working environment
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.
seeking a highly motivated, self-directed professional to fill the role of Software Engineer. The ideal candidate has the ability to work with big data and various data formats to make data meaningful to the end user. This individual is responsible for working with developers, other data scientists, and various stakeholders to address mission needs. Responsibilities include developing visualizations, modeling data, developing algorithms, working on software libraries, and investigating data questions.
Required Qualifications:
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance
• A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or specialized experience in a scientific or technical discipline
• Demonstrated experience in AWS
• Minimum 2-3 years of practical, hands-on experience with Java
• Experience with file input and output
• Experience with libraries used to read and write structured data (XML, JSON, CSV, etc.)
• Experience with Unit testing (JUnit, Mockito, etc.)
• Proven ability to understand and debug existing code
• Experience working with large data volumes requiring highly performant code
• Oracle Database Experience
o Experience writing complex SQL statements to join multiple tables
o Experience designing schemas (tables, columns, foreign keys, etc.)
o Experience with large databases (million+ rows)
• Ability to work independently
• Elasticsearch, Python, and Kbana
• Demonstrated knowledge of NoSQL, SQL and Relational Databases (MySQL)
Desired Qualifications:
• AWS
• Grafana
•MapReduce (EMR)
•Avro
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.
| 1. • Must have hands-on experience with AWS and Linux in a production environment. 2. • Experience patching and maintaining system's databases, to include RDS, MySQL, and Oracle 3. • Proven experience troubleshooting and solving technical problems 4. • Knowledge of Federated Identity, RBAC, authentication & authorization solution, etc. 5. • Understanding of secure-cloud configuration, (e.g., CloudTrail, AWS Config), cloud-security technologies (e.g., VPC, Security Groups) and Access Control (IAM). 6. • Experience with configuration management (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.) 7. • Experience with security, such as NGFW, WAF, SIEM, endpoint security. 8. • Ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment 9. • Bachelor's Degree in IT related field or equivalency in related work experience 10. • Demonstrated on-the-job experience working and solving technical problems independently as a system administrator. 11. • Experience using a scripting language. 12. • Demonstrated ability to monitor and troubleshoot enterprise workflow applications, to include: installing, starting, and stopping background processes, analyzing log and event files, and patching and troubleshooting. 13. • Demonstrated ability creating and managing a virtual infrastructure, such as AWS, Azure, Hyper-V, or VMWare. |
Title: Special Access Control Officer
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.
| 1. Strong multitasking ability and scheduling skills. 2. Extensive knowledge in the use of MS Office, the Internet, and other internal applications necessary to complete routine and moderately complex tasks. 3. Excellent working knowledge of computer software to include search capability. 4. Strong interpersonal skills to maintain effective working relationships with team members and customers. 5. Ability to manage own activities and office workflow under tight deadlines. 6. Bachelor degree from an accredited institution plus at least four years professional experience in Intelligence Community. 7. Candidates resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position mentioned above. 8. Minimum years experience providing executive level administrative support. 9. Work experience can be considered in lieu of degree 10. Basic understanding of IT systems and IT systems development processes and procedures. |
Title: Scanning Technician
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.
| 1. Provide mail-processing support for the onsite client registry Monday through Friday between 7am and 4 pm; 2. Strong computer and customer service skills 3. Knowledge of and experience in using Microsoft Office Suite, especially, Word and Excel 4. Knowledge of Adobe and understanding file conversions. 5. Knowledge of client guidelines for physical distribution of mailings; courier deliveries; etc. 6. Ability to follow standard operating procedures, think independently, and use sound judgement, but know when to ask questions. |
Title: Project Integrator
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.
1. • Project Management Certification
2. • Candidates must have a Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of six (8) years of experience, or 11 years of experience without a degree.
3. • Candidates resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position mentioned above, experience can be considered in lieu of a degree
Title: Knowledge Management Expert
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.
| 1. MANDATORY SKILLS 2. Demonstrated skills in creating dashboards using Tableau to support business analytics and visibility into workflow. 3. Demonstrated skills in providing data analytics support, including, but not limited to, metrics, metadata, batch tracking and data validation. 4. Demonstrated experience with managing, inputting, monitoring, updating, and validating the status automated systems. 5. Experience with data research and operational metrics queries 6. Demonstrated skills with time management and meeting demanding and dynamic deadlines with accuracy. 7. Experience with special projects, such as studies and/or special initiatives. 8. Demonstrated experience developing and providing presentations and delivering briefings. 9. Demonstrated experience working with senior leadership to assist in understand key data reporting requirements and key opportunities to leverage analysis of key data points to enable effective and efficient business decisions to meet organization goals. 10. Ability to work well with others. 11. Ability to work well under pressure and changing demands. 12. Must be proficient using multiple Microsoft applications to include but not limited to Excel. |
Title: Information Review & Release Analyst
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.
| 1. Strong analytical, problem solving, and critical thinking skills. 2. Must have excellent communications and interpersonal skills, as well as experience working in a team environment. 3. Knowledge of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Privacy Act (PA), and Executive Order Mandatory Declassification Review (EOMDR) programs and Executive Order (EO) 13526 directive; strong knowledge of the intelligence community with analytical skills background 4. Knowledge of legal terminology, such as in the area of police enforcement, security or court systems 5. Strong work ethic 6. Organizational and time management skills. 7. Strong proficiency in on-line tools such as Word, Excel, and Access, and other required systems to be able to perform the requirements. 8. Strong multitasking ability, adaptable, and flexible skills. |
Title: Enterprise IT Training 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.
1. Create and maintain the resources necessary (including but not limited to Training Plans, Training Materials, and User Guide) to ensure the successful training of Customer personnel, OGAs, and/or contractors for the following areas: Customer Automated Systems, Information Review and Release, Records Information Management Program, and Classification Management as required by the Customer.
2. Deliver an updated User Guide, to include the associated on-line help version, for each release for Customer Automated Systems as directed by the Customer.
3. Provide classroom and individual training as required by the Customer.
4. Develop training schedule, manage enrollment, and document attendance in accordance with Customer processes.
5. Provide training to Customer and OGAs to include coordination of training dates, locations, and administrative matters as required by Customer.
6. Create test and production system user accounts for all individuals scheduled to receive training, as required by the Customer.
7. Prepare necessary data for Customer Automated Systems as required by Customer.
8. Conduct training needs assessment(s) as required by Customer.
9. Provide classification training to Customer's workforce as required by the Customer.
10. Provide Materials, and User Guide to ensure the successful training of Customer personnel, OGAs, and/or
11. contractors for the following areas: Customer Automated Systems, Information Review and Release, Records Information Management Program, and Classification Management as required by the Customer.
Title: Applications 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.
Seeking Systems Engineers with a minimum of 16 years experience, and a Bachelors and/or Masters degree with significant experience in the following required areas:
Experience administering Splunk Enterprise for large organizations
Experience managing user authentication within Splunk to include Role and Attribute Based Access Controls (RBACABAC), authentication with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and Active Directory (LDAPAD), and managing access via HEC tokens
Experience managing integrations with technical add-ons with a relevant experience integrating DBConnect
Experience implementing and managing Apps within Splunk
Experience administering Splunk on large scale cloud environments
Experience working in DevOps and Scrum environments
Required Certifications
Splunk industry certifications
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills :
Splunk Enterprise Certified Administrator
Cloud Provider industry certifications
Title: Agile Systems 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.
Specific duties include:
Title: Cyber Security Senior Analyst
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.
Process transactions in accordance with Federal Reserve Banking and finance laws
Identify financial discrepancies in customer accounts
Process financial transactions and prepare vouchers to include entitlements and invoices
Certify availability and accountability of funds as well as entitlements for payment of claims and invoices
Utilize extensive knowledge of appropriation and finance laws
Analyze and prepare reports to guarantee contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and cost control guidelines
Perform cost and schedule risk assessments to identify and mitigate program cost and scheduling risks
Prepare financial inputs for internal reports and presentations
Perform program financial analyses and provide both external and internal reporting
Serve as the voice of client to deliver mission requirements
Define and produce documentation for status and tracking
Manage reach-back on operations and technology needs based on policies
Collaborate with Client to establish process and implementation strategies
d. Experience/Education:
• Must have a strong desire to deliver on customer and company commitments
• Must provide expert program management and have a strong desire to improve the customer experience
• Must have excellent notetaking skills
• Must be proficient in client reporting style
• Must be flexible with duties and responsibilities
• Must have an aggressive work ethic and ability to work unsupervised
Additional Qualifications
• TS/SCI w/ POLY
• Strong communication and coordination skills
• Strong knowledge of U.S. Banking and Finance Laws
• Experience with generating and coordinating documents using the Clients specific reporting system
• Experience with creating briefing packages and communicating to leadership both technical and non-technical audiences
• Self-starter and demonstrated ability to work independently
• Experience managing requirements for a large organization
• Able to learn quickly on the job
• Translating and simplifying complicated business and financial topics for variety of audiences
• Strong knowledge of using client internal capabilities: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, SharePoint
• BS 12-15, MS 10-13. Phd 10+; additional experience can be accepted in lieu of degree
Title: Configuration Management Expert
Location: Chantilly, VA
Duties include:
Collaborating with other IT team members to ensure that all new and existing technologies are documented and baselined
Communicating with the Customer, including contractors and other external parties, to gather information about their configuration needs
Develop new configuration management methods and/or tools
Prepare configuration documentation and manage items
Analyze any issues with documentation of the configurations items and propose solutions
Assist in the migration of data between various systems (JIRA, Confluence, Tableau, Databases, Document Repositories, Microsoft tools, etc…)
Assist in migrating Microsoft Excel worksheet data to other systems
Assist the Customer in performing system integration activities
d. Experience/Education & additional Quals:
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.
Participate in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements. This includes reviews of test plans/procedures and ensuring requirements verification/validation.
Produce high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and findings for senior US government intelligence and operations officials.
Ensure the operational readiness of products before their deployments
Provide operational input into product development
Ensure that all equipment, documentation, etc. is complete and available prior to testing start
Write test plans
Work with the team to ensure testing coverage
Collect and work with the development teams to resolve any issues found before or during testing
Prepare results briefings
Present briefings to management
Review technical documentation (Product guides, Quick Start guides) and identify discrepancies
Work with the product team to improve the documentation
Attend product demos
d. Experience/Education & additional Quals:
Required
Desired
Clearance
Cloud Engineer
Chantilly, VA or Springfield, 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.
Responsibilities:
Required Skills:
Desired Skills:
Cloud Architect
Chantilly, VA or Springfield, VA
Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph
Responsibilities:
Required Skills:
Desired Skills:
DevSecOps Engineer
Chantilly, VA or Springfield, VA
Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph
Responsibilities:
Required Skills:
Desired Skills:
Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE)
Chantilly, VA or Springfield, 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.
Responsibilities:
Required Skills:
Desired Skills:
Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) – Agile
Chantilly, VA or Springfield, 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.
Responsibilities:
Required Skills:
Desired Skills:
Title: Systems Administrator
Location: Virginia
*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.
Position Description:
DESIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE