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Sr Principal Cyber Software Engineer

Blue Water Staffing

Sr Principal Cyber Software Engineer

Dulles, VA
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Seeking a highly motivated software engineer to lead the continuous development, integration, testing, and delivery of advanced cybersecurity threat intelligence information sharing capabilities.

     

    Responsibilities Include:

     

    • Interfacing directly with the Customer and stakeholders regarding the continuous development, integration, testing, deployment and training of enhanced Information Sharing capabilities.
    • Leading agile development teams, organizing development project plans, sprints, tasks, and schedules while providing technical direction and guidance to the teams
    • Analyzing user feedback, requirements, CONOPS and high-level system architectures to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
    • Conducting trade studies, to determine possible system (hardware, software, architecture) improvements.
    • Developing technical documentation, including user guides, test plans, and contract deliverable items and supporting product line training.

     

    Requirements

     

    ·U.S. Citizenship

    ·Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility (SSBI within the last five years)

    ·Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline or equivalent experience.

    ·Must have 10 years of professional experience or 8 years with a Master’s degree or 6 years with PhD in a related discipline.

    ·DoD 8570.1 IAT Level 2 certification or the ability to obtain certification within three months of employment.

    ·Must have strong systems or software engineering experience required.

    ·Strong communication and leadership skills.

    ·Comfortable working with diverse cross-functional teams including Government technical representatives and subcontractors.

    ·Demonstrated ability to manage multiple teams and projects of variable sizes.

    ·Experience providing technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration and testing of all system components

    ·Experience collecting user and stakeholder feedback, assessing requirements, developing solutions, and conducting design reviews

    ·Detailed technical understanding of cybersecurity attack techniques and associated prevention/detection methods.

    ·Experience and/or strong familiarity with Agile development methodologies (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban) and software and system lifecycle methodologies, (e.g ISO, CMMI, ITIL).

    ·Experience and/or strong familiarity with agile project planning/management techniques.

     

    Desired Skills

     

    ·DoD 8570.1 IAT Level III certification

    ·Experience and/or familiarity with Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX), Trusted Automated eXchange of Indicator Information (TAXII), and Cyber Observable eXpression (CybOX)

    ·Hands-on practical experience with Security Information Event Management (SIEM) systems, firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), Identity Management

    ·Certifications related to Agile development – SAFe, Scrum Master, Product Owner

    ·Experience and/or familiarity with Java, C, C++, Python, PERL, and Javascript, JSON, SOAP, REST, HTML/CSS, MySQL

    ·Strong experience with IT infrastructure including Windows and Linux operating systems, VMware, TCP/IP networking, Storage, and Cloud-based environments (AWS, OpenStack)

    ·Experience and/or familiarity with DevOps, Continuous Development/Continuous Integration concepts, and tools such as Docker, Jenkins, JIRA, Git, Chef, Ansible, Puppet

    ·Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM)

     

    This position could be a Sr. Principal Software Engineer (G11) or a Principal Software Engineer (G10) depending on the candidates qualifications.