Integration Engineer (Senior-Level):

Overall Assignment Description:

Senior-level Integration Engineers are responsible for leading the development of program and project integration solutions across the enterprise and determining integration/interface requirements. Provides services for engineering and integration support to enable, within NGA, NSG, and the IC, formal methods for AI Assurance, including, but not limited to, Independent Verification and Validation integration of AI, IV&V/T&E-As-a-Service, Quality Assurance (QA) for fully automated AI models in operational mode, and other innovation activities impacting operational GEOINT AI (robustness learning and testing, Verification of AI, adversarial robustness, metamorphism, brittleness, monotonicity of Deep Neural Network, etc.).

Duties include:

• Provides a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of hardware and software components.

• Develop procedures and upgrades, improving network infrastructures, and managing systems configuration.

• Develop an integration roadmap strategy to meet the desired outcomes for AI Assurance

• Demonstrated managing and maintaining external tools/capabilities in platforms like Microsoft Project to ensure sprint planning, project integration is aligning to the roadmap.

• Document and brief Government on integration risk to the schedule/roadmap and options for overcoming the gaps.

• Execute to stay abreast on new technology coming into AI for business processes internal and external to our group .

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.

• Technical strategies and roadmaps for AI tools and capabilities integrating into the AI system Maintain and monitor testbed for automated and manual testing and retirement and insertion of testing into the test environment.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Computer Programming languages to include but not limited to; Python, C++, Matlab, R, Java

• Demonstrated cross IC and DoD program and acquisitions experience

• Demonstrated experience in integrating tools and capabilities into DevSecOps platforms

• leveraging the CI/CD pipelines

• Demonstrated experience in running testbeds and technical sprints with external IC, DoD,

• Industry and/or Academia

Desired:

• Demonstrated experience in SAFe framework and Model Based Systems Engineering

• Demonstrated experience in Atlassian products such as Confluence and JIRA

• Demonstrated experience with engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies.

• Demonstrated experience with engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology,

• Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Senior level

• experience as an Integration Engineer.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Quality Assurance Analyst:

Job Description Summary:

• Reviews and evaluates software products and systems to ensure adherence to company and customer quality standards. 

• Develops software/systems testing procedures and conducts tests.

• Design and implement testing plans for IT related products and services.

• Identify test procedures and scenarios for the quality control of IT products and services.

• Provide cross functional support to help resolve defects and errors of IT products.

• Assesses performance of IT products and services to ensure they meet established quality standards.

• Collect and communicate quantitative and qualitative findings from test results to various IT teams.

• Resolve highly complex product issues and track progress.

• Identify areas for improvement to enhance the product's efficiency.

• Ensure that the final product satisfies the product requirements and meet end-user expectations.

• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technology and trends in IT quality assurance.

• May coach and provide guidance to less experienced professionals.

• May serve as a team or task lead.

This position has alternate locations in the National Capital Region.

Level 4:

• Develops, analyzes and  models operational, economic, management, accounting and other organizational   data to quantify the competitive performance of business segments, evaluate potential operational changes, and design new approaches and methodologies. 

• Applies and integrates statistical, mathematical, predictive   modeling and business analysis skills to manage and manipulate complex, high   volume data from a variety of sources.

• Guides the successful completion of major programs and may function   in a project leadership role.

• Analyzes organizational data and conducts advanced statistical   analysis.

• Develops technical solutions to complex problems which require the   regular use of ingenuity and creativity.

• Models and evaluates the potential impact of data changes.

• Develops innovative strategies and quantifies the competitive   performance of the organization's operations and/or markets. 

• May coach and review the work of less-experienced   professionals.

• May serve as a team or task leader.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+12yrs.

• Associates+10yrs.

• Bachelors+8yrsMasters+6yrsPhD+4yrs.

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered   equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

GREM Certified Cyber Malware Reverse Engineer:

Job Description Summary:

Your work in cyber security will have an impact on securing our clients’ missions and ensuring we anticipate the threats of tomorrow. As a Cyber Malware Reverse Engineer  you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter

Level 6:

• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave.

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats. Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.

• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.

• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.

• Researches and evaluates new concepts and processes to improve performance. 

• Analyzes cross-functional problem sets, identifies root causes and resolves issues.

• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and  the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.

• May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals.

• May serve as a team or task lead.

HOW A CYBER MALWARE REVERSE ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Work will provide customer understanding of current malware and how to apply appropriate countermeasures.

• Outstanding problem-solving skills are essential. When serious malware threats are identified, you will work closely with other areas of the security team to identify appropriate solutions. 

• You must be passionate about technology, and able to learn the ropes of new security solutions rapidly. 

• Recognize common behavior patterns that are primarily found in malware. 

• Indicators of Compromise (IOC)s will be obtained through: forensic analysis of digital information, Open-Source Intel (OSINT) review/monitoring, available tools both customer provided and open source, and pivoting/researching on previously reported IOCs. 

• Participate in collaborative sessions with other CNDSPs and IC agencies on malicious intrusions, attacks or suspicious activities, as well as share emerging Cyber Threat Intel data.  

• Assist in the development of IOCs for active defensive countermeasures and passive detection signatures. 

• Day or Swing shift position available.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Expertise in reverse engineering malware, and familiarity with today's tools and operational needs. 

• Ability to identify vulnerabilities in software and hardware, analyze and reverse engineer software and hardware systems

• Attention to detail and ability to work with team-members and independently.

• Must have common knowledge of standard network infrastructure. 

• Familiar with monitoring emerging threats through Tools, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and how they relate to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework

• Knowledge of debuggers and disassemblers and familiar with linkers and loaders 

• Knowledge of domain masquerading, certificates, and file hashing. 

• Strong written communications skills are necessary to properly document and report the malware. 

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+16yrs

• Associates+14yrs

• Bachelors+12yrs

• Masters+10yrs

• PhD+8yrs

• Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training and Certifications:

• IAT Level 2

• GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)

Security Clearance:

• Active TS SCI and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed.

Cyber Defense Firewall Administrator:

Job Description Summary:

Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within the network environment or enclave.

This position has alternate locations in the National Capital Region.

Level 0:

• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.

• Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.

• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.

• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.

• Understands and applies more advanced processes to daily activities.

• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.

Job Description:

• Performing Enterprise Defense Countermeasure (DC) activities and coordination with other government agencies to record and prepare incident reports and analysis methodology and results.

• Monitoring and analyzing signature alerts from Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) for false positives.

• Providing technical enforcement of organizational security policies.

• Providing "tune-or-drop" recommendations towards the DC team's Signature Lifecycle Review procedure.

• Provide insight to Detection and Response teams on signature functionality and providing signature tuning as needed.

• Providing guidance and work leadership to less-experienced staff.

• Communicating with customers and teammates clearly and concisely.

• Maintaining current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned and may have supervisory responsibilities.

• Participating in special projects as required.

• May serve as a technical team or task leader.

• Position may require evening, weekend, or shiftwork (depending on operational tempo).

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)

• Experience authoring Yara rules

• Experience authoring Snort signatures

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+4yrs

• Associates+2yrs

• Bachelors+0yrs

Training and Certifications:

• IAT Level II

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Sr. Systems Engineer guide engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties May Include: 

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers performing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Guides the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. 

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers developing solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.  

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Conducts Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within a Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational and agency boundaries

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related STEM degree program -or- 4 years of additional experience in lieu of degree

• 12 to 18 years' experience

• Senior-level working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

• Experience with and strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or in a related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.

• INCOSE Certified System Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification.

• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Licensure as a professional engineer.

• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations: ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, o USGIF.

• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Systems Engineer (Mid-Level):

Overall Assignment Description:  

• Mid-level Systems Engineers employ a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties include: 

• Conducts requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Conducts planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. 

• Develops solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology and mentor Junior Engineers in developing these skill sets.  

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assists with Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Mid-level working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

• Mid-level working system engineering experience in government or industry.

Desired:

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.

• INCOSE Associate System Engineering Professional (ASEP) certification.

• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Membership or active participation in any of the following professional organizations: ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, or USGIF.

• Working knowledge of photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

Education and Experience:

• 6 to 12 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Mid level experience as a Systems Engineer.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

IC-CAP is seeking a motivated product quality System Engineer to support the planning, test development, data definition, and task execution for new and existing products within the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG). The candidate will need to write clear test plans to satisfy the test objective. They will work with a team of image scientists, image analysts, photogrammetrists, and statisticians to perform specific tasks, track issues, and clearly communicate status and results to multiple stakeholders.

The mission spans many data providers and sensor phenomenology's including electrical-optical, RADAR, LIDAR, OPIR, motion, multi- and hyper-spectral. We work to verify and validate product visual quality, as well as the accuracy of the support data. The qualified candidate should have experience with test design to verify and validate products against requirements to meet planned concept of operations. The ideal candidate will have image science or imagery analysis experience or knowledge ready to apply to the challenges of the group. Good written and verbal communication and teamwork are critical.

Experience and Education

Required:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in System Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Software Engineering, or a related Science or Engineering

• 5+ years of experience as a system engineer to include independent testing and data verification, requirements, and development of concept of operations. 

• Experience with sensor imaging systems, products, and exploitation processes 

• Strong written and oral communication skills, with emphasis on briefing to obtain decisions and solve technical issues and test plans/reports writing

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team 

• Willingness to learn, solve problems and perform in a dynamic work environment 

Preferred Skillset:

• Experience in remote sensing phenomenologies (for example EO/IR/SAR)

• Knowledge of NSG tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination (TCPED) image chain 

• Experience with product quality assessments, visual or metadata assessments

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

All Source Analyst Production Junior-Level:

Junior-Level:

• Demonstrates working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description.

• Demonstrates ability to use logic and systematic approaches to gather, evaluate, and synthesize multiple sources of information.

• Demonstrates ability to work semi-independently with oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.

• Demonstrates ability interpreting analysis to include, but is not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications.

• Demonstrates ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.

• Demonstrates ability to produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic / soft copy matrices and / or web-enabled formats.

• Demonstrates ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally, with strong grammar skills.

• Demonstrates proficiency using Microsoft Office tools.

• Demonstrates ability to develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.

• Demonstrates ability to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.

• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.

• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.

• Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.

• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply IC and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.

Job Description:

• Demonstrates working knowledge of the concepts involved in the   specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description. 

• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply IC and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.

• Demonstrates ability to use logic and systematic approaches to gather, evaluate, and synthesize multiple sources of information.

• Demonstrates ability to work semi-independently with oversight and direction.   

• Demonstrates ability to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.

• Demonstrates ability interpreting analysis to include, but is not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications. 

• Demonstrates ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.

• Demonstrates ability to produce timely, logical, and concise analytic   reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic / soft copy matrices and / or web-enabled formats.

• Demonstrates ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally; with strong grammar skills.

• Demonstrates proficiency using Microsoft Office tools.

• Demonstrates ability to develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.

• Demonstrates ability to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.

• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category. 

• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.

• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.

• Demonstrates ability to guide teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems. 

Responsibilities:

• Conducts analysis using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of national security issues and developments that are regional or functional in nature. Provides all-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence analytic requirements.

• Provides all-source analysis to include: research, evaluation and deconfliction of single-source classified reporting, technical intrusion information, other agency all-source finished intelligence, open-source information and other relevant data.

• Categorizes and characterizes cyber threats and malware to help identify trends and changes in the activities of the cyber adversaries.

• Adheres to Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) all-source analytic tradecraft and standards.

• Establishes and maintains communications with counterparts in the Intelligence Community, the USCYBERCOM service components, other combatant commands, Cyber National Mission Force, Department of Homeland Security/NCSD, CERTS and Information Assurance Centers to collaborate on analysis and identify changes in the environment (This is done only at the direction of USCYBERCOM leadership and in accordance with the guidance of government sponsors within assigned division).

• Maintains cognizance of events occurring both within the U.S. government systems and internationally as directed to identify possible relationships to established knowledge base.

• Possesses either a certificate of completion /or verified work experience/course work equivalent to the skills identified in DoD Directive 8570.01 for IAT level 1 or IAM level 1.

• Uses intelligence production tools and databases, to include Tripwire Analytic Capability, Intellipedia, Palantir, MIDB, Cyber Common Operating Picture (CyberCOP), Target Knowledge Base, Cyber Threat Matrix, Automated Message Handling System, WISE Information Management System, Network Knowledge Base, FoxTrail, CENTAUR, ispace, Pathfinder, and Microsoft OneNote.

Provides intelligence support, including the following:

• Intelligence Support to Planning and Operations - The Candidate shall provide all-source JIPOE support to offensive cyber operations / defensive cyber operations (OCO/DCO) planning and execution to include production of cyber related Intelligence Estimates and associated products. This analysis shall include direct support to the Intelligence Planning Teams (IPTs), as required.

• Threat Trends and Indicators - The Candidate shall produce bulletins and briefs related to assigned area of responsibility. These shall include specific changes in tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) and technical trends in cyber threats directed at the DoDIN and U.S. critical infrastructure/key resources (CI/KR), as required. The Contractor shall also monitor threat activities to develop specific cyber indicators to support the USCYBERCOM role in the Defense Warning Program.

• Cyber-Related Exercise Support - The Candidate shall provide scenario development, white cell or role playing support to cyber related exercises, as required.

• USCYBERCOM Staff Support - The Candidate shall respond expeditiously to J2 or other USCYBERCOM staff requests for information, as required.

• Product Development - The Candidate shall assist in the production, editing, publishing and dissemination of clear, concise, timely and relevant cyber analytic products, as required.

• Briefing - The Candidate shall develop and present intelligence slides and in-depth briefings and presentations related to assigned area of responsibility to USCYBERCOM staff up to GO/FO level.

• Meeting Support - The Candidate shall, as required, provide support to meetings related to assigned area of responsibility. This shall include meetings within the Command or held at other government or cleared defense contractor facilities. Travel may be required for long distance meetings, but virtual participation is preferred.

Education and Experience:

• Junior-Level B.A./B.S. or four (4) years of direct experience in the specific labor category.

Desired Education and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. An additional 4 years of experience in the specific labor category, may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

• Minimum 3 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

Security Clearance: 

• Active TS SCI and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed.

Business Process Manager (Expert):

Overall Assignment Description:  

Expert Business Process Manager (BPM) leads and oversees identifying and applying organizational resources to meet defined work objectives and deliverables.   The BPM will assure efficient use of staffing and material resources, with accountability and reporting responsibility for identifying compliance, addressing shortfalls or deficiencies, and managing plans for change response within the program.  The Business Process Manager will evaluate current IT engineering and architecture processes, to identify process improvements for optimizing operational efficiency.  The Business Process Manager will report directly to the Program Manager and Lead Integrator.

Duties include: 

• Analyzes user service needs and requirements to determine if approach, risk, and feasibility of planned cloud transition and/or development are within time and cost constraints. 

• Reviews existing programs and assist in making process refinements, to reduce operating time, and improve efficiency. 

• Collaborates with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to deliver effective business management processes that support them in attaining mission objectives.

• Assembles and facilitate the business case for accomplishing cloud activities as defined by the lead engineers, integrators, architects, stakeholders, and maintainers.

• Plans the transition of business processes from paper to Model Based Systems Engineering artifacts.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Expert level experience in engineering, design and analysis of IT or related systems experience in all phases of design, development, analysis and documentation, and development of standards and guidelines for tasks being performed.

• Expert-level working experience in government or industry in DoD/IC Acquisition Process or PPBES.

• Demonstrated experience providing guidance and direction in high technology programs.

Desired:

• Certifications (or equivalent experience) in Certified Business Process Professional (CBPP), Operations Research, Model Based Systems Engineering, Process innovation, value analysis or Enterprise process management.

• Experience establishing processes for solutions using Cloud Based Technology such as: Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured Service, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

• Experience establishing processes for solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

• Experience establishing processes for solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.  

Education and Experience:

• 18 years' experience.

• Master’s Degree in business administration, business operations, operations research, business management, or STEM program, or equivalent Expert level experience as a Business Process Manager.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Cyber Incident Responder – Fusion Level 4:

Job Description Summary:

Performs forensic analysis of digital information and gathers and handles evidence. Identifies network computer intrusion evidence and perpetrators.

Level 4:

• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave.

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.

• Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.

• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.

• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.

• Researches and evaluates new concepts and processes to improve performance.

• Analyzes cross-functional problem sets, identifies root causes and resolves issues.

• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.

• May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals.

• May serve as a team or task lead.

Job Description:

• Responsible for strengthening the defensive posture and cyber defense operational readiness of an IT Enterprise. Our program defends and protects Government assets from external Cyber Security attacks and Insider Threats that can potentially cause or create data, systems, networks, and personnel vulnerabilities.

• Performs forensic analysis of digital information and gathers and handles evidence. Identifies network computer intrusion evidence and perpetrators, and coordinates with other government agencies to record and report incidents.

• Monitors Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to identify security issues for remediation.

• Ensures the integrity and protection of networks, systems, and applications by technical enforcement of organizational security policies, through monitoring of vulnerability scanning devices.

• Prepare incident reports of analysis methodology and results.

• Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced technical staff members.

• Participate in special projects as required.

• Continuously evaluate and make recommendations for the enhancement of the organization's security posture.

• Position may require evening, weekend, or shiftwork (depending on operational tempo).

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)

• Experience authoring Yara rules

• Experience authoring Snort signatures

Education and Experience:

• HS/GED+12 years

• Associate Degree+10 years

• Bachelor’s Degree+8 years

• Master’s Degree+6 years

• PhD+4 years

Required Certifications:

• IAT II – Required to start on program.

• CSSP Analyst - Required to start on program.

• GMON (GIAC Continuous Monitoring Certification) – Required within 180 days of start date.

• SCCU (Splunk Core Certified User) – Required within 180 days of start date.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Cyber Incident Responder – Response Level 3:

Performs forensic analysis of digital information and gathers and handles evidence. Identifies network computer intrusion evidence and perpetrators.

Level 3:

• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave.

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur   within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.

• Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in   accordance with computer network directives, including initiating,   responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains   cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management   for hardware, firmware, and software.

• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.

• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.

• Researches and evaluates new concepts and processes to improve performance. 

• Analyzes cross-functional problem sets, identifies root causes and resolves issues.

• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of   hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and   the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.

• May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals.

• May serve as a team or task lead.

Job Description:

• Responsible for strengthening the defensive posture and cyber defense operational readiness of an IT Enterprise. Our program defends and protects Government assets

• from external Cyber Security attacks and Insider Threats that can potentially cause or create data, systems, networks, and personnel vulnerabilities.

• Performs forensic analysis of digital information and gathers and handles evidence. Identifies network computer intrusion evidence and perpetrators, and coordinates with other government agencies to record and report incidents.

• Monitors Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to identify security issues for remediation.

• Ensures the integrity and protection of networks, systems, and applications by technical enforcement of organizational security policies, through monitoring of vulnerability scanning devices.

• Prepare incident reports of analysis methodology and results.

• Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced technical staff members.

• Participate in special projects as required.

• Continuously evaluate and make recommendations for the enhancement of the organization's security posture.

• Position may require evening, weekend, or shiftwork (depending on operational tempo).

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)

• Experience authoring Yara rules

• Experience authoring Snort signatures;

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+10yrs

• Associates+8yrs

• Bachelors+6yrs

• Masters+4yrs

• PhD+2yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered   equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training and Certifications:

• GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent

• Splunk Core Certified User

• DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

Required Certifications:

• IAT II – Required to start on program.

• CSSP Analyst - Required to start on program.

• GMON (GIAC Continuous Monitoring Certification) – Required within 180 days of start date.

• SCCU (Splunk Core Certified User) – Required within 180 days of start date.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Cyber Incident Responder – Detect:

Performs all procedures necessary to ensure the safety of information systems assets and to protect systems from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction. Monitor, evaluate, and maintain systems and procedures to safeguard internal information systems, network, databases, and Web based security.

This position has an alternate locations in the National Capital Region.

Level 1:

• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave.

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g.,  IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.

• Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating,   responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.

• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.

• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.

• Understands and applies more advanced processes to daily activities.

• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.

Job Description:

• The successful applicant should be expected to identify potential cyber threats, determine levels of risk, and produce analytical reports for a variety of audiences. You will occasionally be required to present your findings in front of senior executives, so the ability to translate technical indicators into layperson's terms is vital.

• Outstanding problem-solving skills are essential. When serious threats are identified, you will work closely with other areas of the security team to identify appropriate solutions. You must be passionate about technology, and able to learn the ropes of new security solutions rapidly.

• Indicators of Compromise (IOC)s will be obtained through: forensic analysis of digital information, Open Source Intel (OSINT) review/monitoring, available tools both customer provided and free, and pivoting/researching on previously reported IOCs.

• Must have common knowledge of standard network infrastructure.

• Other items that would be good to know include: domain masquerading, certificates, and file hashing.

• Familiar with monitoring emerging threats through Tools, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and how they relate to the MITRE ATT&CK framework

• Participate in collaborative sessions with other CNDSPs and IC agencies on malicious intrusions, attacks or suspicious activities, as well as share emerging Cyber Threat Intel data.

• Assist in the development of IOCs for active defensive countermeasures and passive detection signatures.

• Good written communications skills are necessary in order to properly document and report the identification and sharing of newly identified IOCs.

• Attention to detail and ability to work with team-members and independently.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED +6yrs

• Associates +4yrs

• Bachelors +2yrs

• Masters +0yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered  equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience

Required Certifications:

• IAT II 

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

System Architects Sr assist in leading the design and development of solutions for complex applications problems, API design, data services, platform services, cloud services and infrastructure services to meet user requirements and align to strategic goals and the Enterprise Architecture. 

Duties include:

• Assists Government in directing system architects in the design, development, maintenance, and documentation of solution architectures ensuring traceability to the Enterprise architecture and Enterprise requirements.

• Assists with the analysis of user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.

• Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions architecture design based on analysis of requirements and new technology.

• Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level System Architect contractors.

• Refer to Section 3.1: Strategic, Enterprise, and Solutions-level Architecture Engineering for a listing of expected work activities the System Architect position would be required to support.

• Ability to solve complex problems, lead a team(s) and work independently and proactively with minimal supervision.

Education and Experience:

Required:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program or equivalent Expert-Level System Architect work experience.

• Expert experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), or Intelligence Community’s (IC) Program Architecture Guidance (PAG).

• Experience communicating and collaborating both within and external to organization, to include with senior executives and leaders.

Desired:

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Federated Enterprise Architect Certifications: Certified Enterprise Architect

• National Defense University, College of Information and Cyberspace, Enterprise Architecture Certification

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Senior Principal Database Engineer:

The selected candidate will work within a cross-functional Scrum team with experience supporting data management processes, database engineering and management; designing, developing, maintaining, and enhancing database systems

Job Duties:

• Database engineering and management activities associated with high volume, multi-format data management services.

• Designs large-scale data management solutions including developing efficient storage, indexing, and access approaches.

• Updates data enterprise architecture models (if needed) and data abstraction layer to enable access to new data sources.

• Designs and implements indexing strategies for ingested data.

• Designs and implements storage and indexing strategies across the multiple repositories to provide efficient storage and retrieval.

• Supports design and development of data access APIs.

Basic Qualifications:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

• Experience with Postgres, SQL, PL/pgSQL.

• Experience installing application software in an operational environment.

• Experience with Agile, AWS, RDBMS technology, Elasticsearch, Linux.

• Security+

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Preferred:

• Knowledge of data modeling, Cameo

• Familiarity with NoSQL technology (Hadoop and/or EMR)

• CentOS System Administration

• Linux

Education and Experience:

Staff (Level 5):

• 14+ Years with BS

• 12+ Years with Masters

• 9+ Years with PhD

• + additional 4 yrs without degree

Senior Principal (Level 4):

• 9+ Years with BS

• 7+ Years with Masters

• 4+ Years with PhD

• + additional 4 yrs without degree

Principal (Level 3):

• 5+ Years with BS

• 3+ Years with Masters

• 0 Years with PhD

• + additional 4 yrs without degree

Associate (Level 2):

• 2+ Years with BS

• 0 Years with Masters

• + additional 4 yrs without degree

Systems Engineer (Mid):

Overall Assignment Description: 

Mid-Level will be responsible for overseeing engineering activities of an organization's information

systems. The Systems Engineer – Mid Level plans, designs, develops, evaluates, tests, and integrates an organization's systems infrastructure, including the implementation and design of  hardware and software. 

Duties Include: 

• Assists the Government in developing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies. 

• Develops system and programming specifications. 

• Designs data processing solutions based on business need and technical considerations. Researches and resolves application production problems. Monitors application performance and performs run time improvement functions. 

• Prepares system documentation. 

• Performs complex engineering analysis and design tasks. Prepares specifications and designs, and implements solutions. 

• Assists in design subsystems; assists in developing standards. May work as part of a project team.

• Evaluates IT system problems of workflow, organization, and planning. 

• Assists in the design, development, analysis, installation, maintenance, operation and servicing of computer operating/hardware systems within a cybersecurity environment; provides  customer support; 

• Works under direct supervision; does related work as required. 

Skills and Experience: 

Required: 

• 2+ years experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of DoD Information Systems. Understanding of the Digital Engineering Framework and Configuration Management 

• 2+ years working experience working with (DoDAF) standards 

• 2+ years working experience working with Model Base System Engineers (MBSE) 

Desired: 

• Knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages. 

• Software Development Framework certification. 

• Experience in the field of geospatial intelligence. 

• Experience in engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies. 

• Experience in engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data. 

• Experience in engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

Education and Experience:

• 6 to 12 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, other related disciplines and requires a minimum of 4+ years of work experience. 

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Expert Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across DIE, NGA, NSG,ASG and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. 

Duties may include:

• Assists the Government in providing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation,  maintainability and analysis across the NSG, ASGand Federal Agencies. 

• Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. 

• Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology. 

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.  

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs. 

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities. 

• Assists in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments. 

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design. 

• Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments. 

• Leads the integration Maven across other Programs at NGA, the DIE, and the IC. 

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current DIE, NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises. 

• Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems  Engineers.

Education and Experience

Required: 

• 15 to 18 years of expert experience

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or in a related STEM degree program with 15 years of expert level experience or Bachelor’s Degree in Systems Engineering or in a related STEM degree program with 18+ of expert level experience

• Demonstrated expert level working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments

• Demonstrated experience with of systems engineering lifecycle

Desired: 

• Doctorate in Systems Engineering or in related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages. 

• Software Development Framework certification. 

• INCOSE Expert System Engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.

• Licensure as a professional engineer. 

• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:  ACSM, ASCE , ASPRS , OGC , SAREM, or USGIF.

• Demonstrated work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence. 

• Demonstrated experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies. 

• Demonstrated experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

• Demonstrated experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.  

• Demonstrated experience in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields. 

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Test Systems Engineer (Senior):

Overall Assignment Description: 

Senior-level Test Systems Engineers assist in leading Application, System and Integration Testing teams performing test and evaluation across NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. This task is focused on providing technical advisory support to identify capabilities, tools, technologies, and new agile methods and techniques ready to adapt to current innovations within AI R&D for Test and Evaluation (T&E) Automation and Verification of AI models. 

Duties include: 

• Perform appropriate diagnostic testing on AI/ML systems and applications, measuring performance and efficiency on said systems/applications, documentation, and maintenance solutions for systems or subsystems and making recommendations to the government. 

• Create and maintain technical framework to execute specifications to pass system level  integration 

• Prepare and publish presentations and participate in conferences, webinars, and online events Design and Develop quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method tools, techniques, and methodologies to analyze, assess, benchmark, and monitor AI risk and related impacts.  

• Assists the Government in providing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies. 

• Assist Government in the creation of foundation of AI Assurance capabilities, including thorough formal methods for trusted and trustworthy eXplainable AI (XAI) and /or Independent Verification & Validation methodologies (IV&V) for AI (beyond T&E), T&E/V&V-As-a-Service Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology towards AI Assurance for best AI Governance. 

• Formulate descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive insights/algorithms and translate technical specifications into development code. 

• Conduct statistical analysis and interpreting the results to guide the government’s decisionmaking process.

• Create and lead algorithm governance process that leverage metrics to ensure performance and compliance with the principles established by the DOD and the ODNI 

• Document procedures for installation and maintenance, complete programming, perform testing and debugging, define and monitor performance metrics. 

• Rapidly iterate AI models and results to refine and validate approach for accuracy and repeatability. Create, Develop and Define business processes and acceptance criteria to support testing and evaluation,

• Author test planning documentation to include test cases and reports and experience running test scenarios within Dev/Test Environment and identify and report potential issues.

• Develop deep learning frameworks and models, GPU acceleration, model optimization, real-time streaming data, and distributed computing.

• Develop test procedures to support the AI model independent verification and validation approach and sync with cross functional groups for alignment.

• Evaluate and test the front to end acceptance criteria of the full AI model architecture to provide feedback to the developer teams and the government 

Skills and Experience: 

Required: 

• Senior level working experience in understanding scripting, statistics, and a have computer vision background 

• 10+ years’ experience with three or more of the following: JMeterand, Jenkins, Docker, Postman, Swagger, Nexus, Apigee or GitHub/GitLab (or equivalent software packages), Java, Bash, Curl, XML, JSON, SQL, Python, Javascript, or AWS or C2S. 

• Experience in both quantitative and qualitative analysis to support sound metrics to uphold the confidence of the AI model assurance. 

• Senior level working experience with traditional, Agile, and DevOps development practices and associated testing strategies. 

• Experience using Test Driven Development leveraging computer programming languages to include but not limited to; Python, C++, Matlab, R, Java 

• Experience in the field of geospatial intelligence 

• Knowledge of AI Assurance, T&E or V&V-As-a-Service, and XAI. 

• Experience designing quality engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and  Artificial Intelligence technologies 

• Experience coding and developing test and evaluations for AI programs 

• Experience in SAFe framework and Model Based Systems Engineering 

Desired: 

• Demonstrated experience in Atlassian products such as Confluence and JIRA 

• Demonstrated experience working with NGA Enterprise solutions to include CI/CD pipeline and DevSecOps.

• Demonstrated experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies.

• Demonstrated experience with internal and external program transitions and technical capabilities

• Demonstrated experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent expert level work experience as aTest Systems Engineer. 

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Integration Engineer (Senior-Level):

Overall Assignment Description: 

Senior-level Integration Engineers are responsible for leading the development of program and project integration solutions across the enterprise and determining integration/interface requirements. Provides services for engineering and integration support to enable, within NGA, NSG, and the IC, formal methods for AI Assurance, including, but not limited to, Independent Verification and Validation integration of AI, IV&V/T&E-As-a-Service, Quality Assurance (QA) for fully automated AI models in operational mode, and other innovation activities impacting operational GEOINT AI (robustness learning and testing, Verification of AI, adversarial robustness, metamorphism, brittleness, monotonicity of Deep Neural Network, etc.).

Duties include: 

• Provides a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of hardware and software components. 

• Develop procedures and upgrades, improving network infrastructures, and managing systems configuration. 

• Develop an integration roadmap strategy to meet the desired outcomes for AI Assurance 

• Demonstrated managing and maintaining external tools/capabilities in platforms like Microsoft Project to ensure sprint planning, project integration is aligning to the roadmap. 

• Document and brief Government on integration risk to the schedule/roadmap and options for overcoming the gaps. 

• Execute to stay abreast on new technology coming into AI for business processes internal and external to our group .

• Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries. 

• Technical strategies and roadmaps for AI tools and capabilities integrating into the AI system Maintain and monitor testbed for automated and manual testing and retirement and insertion of testing into the test environment. 

Skills and Experience: 

Required: 

• Computer Programming languages to include but not limited to; Python, C++, Matlab, R, Java

• Demonstrated cross IC and DoD program and acquisitions experience 

• Demonstrated experience in integrating tools and capabilities into DevSecOps platforms 

• leveraging the CI/CD pipelines 

• Demonstrated experience in running testbeds and technical sprints with external IC, DoD, 

• Industry and/or Academia 

Desired: 

• Demonstrated experience in SAFe framework and Model Based Systems Engineering

• Demonstrated experience in Atlassian products such as Confluence and JIRA 

• Demonstrated experience with engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies.

• Demonstrated experience with engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data 

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, 

• Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Senior level 

• experience as an Integration Engineer. 

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Part-Time Position

Senior Level Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) Engineers guide and conduct modeling, simulation and analysis activities in support of business stakeholders, analysts, and warfighters to define and analyze system and data requirements to support NGA business and mission processes to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. This position is focused on providing technical advisory support to identify capability gaps and needs, tools, technologies, and new agile methods and techniques ready to adapt to current innovations within AI R&D particularly verification of AI models.

Duties include:

• Perform Gap analysis and methodologies to identify the implications of artificial intelligence and machine learning for the future of warfare, and the specific defense and security applications (e.g., intelligence analysis, command and control, targeting, autonomous systems, information operations, training and simulation) where AI will be most impactful.

• Assists in creating and leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Design of Experiments (DoE), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

• Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations

• Experience in both quantitative and qualitative analysis to support sound metrics to uphold the confidence of the AI model assurance.

• Assists Government in the creation of foundation of AI Assurance capabilities, including thorough formal methods for trusted and trustworthy eXplainable AI (XAI) and /or Independent Verification & Validation methodologies (IV&V) for AI (beyond T&E), T&E/V&V-As-a-Service

• Work with leaders, scientists, and engineers across NGA, NSG, the (IC, ASG and US Government contractors for advancing, coordinating, and executing corporate AI strategies and goals–particularly centered around Verified-AI (IV&V) and XAI.

Education and Experience

Required:

• 12 to 18 years of experience

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Senior level experience as a MS&A Engineer.

• Demonstrated experience in of AI Assurance, T&E or V&V-As-a-Service, and XAI.

• Demonstrated experience providing engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

• Demonstrated experience using Test Driven Development leveraging computer programming languages to include but not limited to; Python, C++, Matlab, R, Java

• Demonstrated experience of IV&V and the T&E status quo for AI models.

Desired:

• Demonstrated experience working with NGA Enterprise solutions to include CI/CD pipeline and DevSecOps

• Demonstrated experience in SAFe framework and Model Based Systems Engineering

• Demonstrated experience in Atlassian products such as Confluence and JIRA

• Demonstrated experience with engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies.

• Demonstrated experience with engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Lead Digital Engineer Expert-Level:

Overall Assignment Description:

Expert-level Systems Engineer shall assist the Government in ensuring Sensor Acquisition Programs are included in the planning, designing, defining, developing, documenting, and baselining of the GEOINT Enterprise Architecture (GEA), inclusive of business, data, network, security, solutions-level sub-architectures and interfaces between systems, to ensure enterprise systems work together in an integrated fashion to deliver mission capabilities and solutions.

Duties include:

• Leads and performs systems engineering activities to build and maintain digital models of services, components, systems, and subsystems to link requirement and design artifacts to solution and enterprise level architectures using MBSE methodologies and tools.

• Collects and applies algorithms and statistical methods to obtain answers from various data sources and normalize it to assists Government Program Office in assessing, documenting, and tracking engineering requirements, user stories, and features used to inform government and contractor teams about systems engineering and integration development activities.

• Improve overall process in data management, collection, dashboard design, and entire product life cycle for defined development and implementation activities.

• Develop, design, and maintain Tableau dashboards and analytics to prepare reports.

• Actively manage the performance and usability of Tableau to get desired result.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Expert-level experience in helping organizations make data-driven decisions by providing real-time insights into business operations performance indicators and other metrics.

• Tableau Certification and other Business Intelligence tools e.g., Oracle NetSuite, Manta etc.

• +5 years of data modeling, data mapping, data analysis, and data visualization

• +5 years of experience in developing and managing dashboards and reports in Tableau

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools, and languages. e.g., CAMEO and Jira

• Demonstrated experience applying and implementing Agile methodologies e.g., SAFe Agile.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• SAFe Agile certification

• Cameo certification

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

Education and Experience:

• 18 years of experience.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Enterprise Architect (Expert):

Overall Assignment Description: 

Expert Enterprise Architects provide strategic oversight and planning of the Corporate Enterprise 

Architecture (CEA). They develop technical, strategic guidance for senior/mid- level architects in the 

creation and implementation approach of Enterprise architecture artifacts IAW DoDAF and IC PAG. 

Duties include: 

• Assists Government in directing architects in the development, maintenance, and documentation of the CEA, ensuring alignment to NGA Strategy and CONOPs.

•  Provides technical leadership enabling NGA to make informed, data-driven decisions and trade-offs between competing demands.

• Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level Enterprise Architect contractors.

• Derivation, definition, and documentation of the right Resource, Functional, and Operational Capabilities and associated activities and services about NGA Corporate, along with systems analysis necessary to define, document, and baseline the current NGA CEA;Planning, design, and systems engineering work necessary to build and portray the future state NGA CEA;

• Development of conceptual, logical and physical architecture and technical roadmaps defining the time-phased schedule for the path of transition or transformation of systems and services from the baselined current state to the future state CEA; and program, segment and project-based solutionlevel architectures consistent with the enterprise-level architecture.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Expert working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), or Intelligence Community’s (IC) Program Architecture Guidance (PAG).

• Demonstrated experience with the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture, Joint Capability Areas, the Unified Joint Task List, the IC’s Joint Reference Architecture Model, and the IC Core Reference Architecture

• Demonstrated experience with the WhiteHouse, OMB, or GSA’s Shared Services initiative called Federal Integrated Business Framework to include the DoD and the IC’s End-to-End Business Processes such as Hire-to-Retire, Procure-to-Pay, Acquire-to-Retire, and Budget-to-Report

• Demonstrated experience with the Defense Acquisition, the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development, and the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution processes.

• Demonstrated experience with leadership, orchestration, communication, engagement, and critical thinking skills.

• Demonstrated experience in conducting the DoD standard for Capability-Based Assessment employing strong critical and analytical skills.

Desired:

• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Possesses Federated Enterprise Architect Certifications: Certified Enterprise Architect

• Possesses National Defense University, College of Information and Cyberspace, Enterprise Architecture Certification.

• Experience architecting solutions using Cloud Based Technology such as: Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured Service, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

• Experience architecting solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

• Experience architecting solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

Education and Experience:

• 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Expert-level work experience as an Enterprise Architect. 

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

All-Source Analyst (Production) Junior-Level:

Junior-Level:

• Demonstrates working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description.

• Demonstrates ability to use logic and systematic approaches to gather, evaluate, and synthesize multiple sources of information.

• Demonstrates ability to work semi-independently with oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.

• Demonstrates ability interpreting analysis to include, but is not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications.

• Demonstrates ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.

• Demonstrates ability to produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic / soft copy matrices and / or web-enabled formats.

• Demonstrates ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally, with strong grammar skills.

• Demonstrates proficiency using Microsoft Office tools.

• Demonstrates ability to develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.

• Demonstrates ability to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.

• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.

• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.

• Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.

• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply IC and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.

Job Description:

• Conducts analysis using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of national security issues and developments that are regional or functional in nature. Provides all-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence analytic requirements. 

• Provides all-source analysis to include: research, evaluation and deconfliction of single-source classified reporting, technical intrusion information, other agency all-source finished intelligence, open-source information and other relevant data. 

• Categorizes and characterizes cyber threats and malware to help identify trends and changes in the activities of the cyber adversaries. 

• Adheres to Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) all-source analytic tradecraft and standards. 

• Establishes and maintains communications with counterparts in the Intelligence Community, the USCYBERCOM service components, other combatant commands, Cyber National Mission Force, Department of Homeland Security/NCSD, CERTS and Information Assurance Centers to collaborate on analysis and identify changes in the environment (This is done only at the direction of USCYBERCOM leadership and in accordance with the guidance of government sponsors within assigned division). 

• Maintains cognizance of events occurring both within the U.S. government systems and internationally as directed to identify possible relationships to established knowledge base.

• Possesses either a certificate of completion /or verified work experience/course work equivalent to the skills identified in DoD Directive 8570.01 for IAT level 1 or IAM level 1. 

• Uses intelligence production tools and databases, to include Tripwire Analytic Capability,Intellipedia, Palantir, MIDB, Cyber Common Operating Picture (CyberCOP), Target Knowledge  Base, Cyber Threat Matrix, Automated Message Handling System, WISE Information Management System, Network Knowledge Base, FoxTrail, CENTAUR, ispace, Pathfinder, and Microsoft OneNote. 

Provides intelligence support, including the following: 

• Intelligence Support to Planning and Operations: The Candidate shall provide all-source JIPOE support to offensive cyber operations / defensive cyber operations (OCO/DCO) planning and execution to include production of cyber related Intelligence Estimates and  associated products. This analysis shall include direct support to the Intelligence Planning Teams (IPTs), as required. 

• Threat Trends and Indicators: The Candidate shall produce bulletins and briefs related to assigned area of responsibility. These shall include specific changes in tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) and technical trends in cyber threats directed at the DoDIN and U.S. critical infrastructure/key resources (CI/KR), as required. The Candidate shall also monitor threat activities to develop specific cyber indicators to support the USCYBERCOM role in the Defense Warning Program. 

• Cyber-Related Exercise Support:The Candidate shall provide scenario development, white cell or role playing support to cyber related exercises, as required. 

• USCYBERCOM Staff Support:The Candiate shall respond expeditiously to J2 or other USCYBERCOM staff requests for information, as required. 

• Product Development: The Candiate shall assist in the production, editing, publishing and dissemination of clear, concise, timely and relevant cyber analytic products, as  required. 

• Briefing: The Candidate shall develop and present intelligence slides and in-depth  briefings and presentations related to assigned area of responsibility to USCYBERCOM staff up to GO/FO level. 

• Meeting Support: The Candiate shall, as required, provide support to meetings related to assigned area of responsibility. This shall include meetings within the Command or held at other government or cleared defense contractor facilities. Travel may be required for long distance meetings, but virtual participation is preferred. 

Education and Experience:

• Junior-Level B.A./B.S. or four (4) years of direct experience in the specific labor category.

Desired Education and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. An additional 4 years of experience in the specific labor category, may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

• Minimum 3 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS SCI and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed.

Test Systems Engineer (Senior-Level):

Overall Assignment Description: 

Senior-level Test Systems Engineers assist in leading Application, System and Integration Testing teams performing test and evaluation across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. 

Duties may include: 

• Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers performing test and evaluation across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence  (ASG) and Federal Agencies. 

• Performs testing of applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) in DevOps pipelines utilizing quality assurance measures established by the government and industry best practices. Performs independent integration testing on system software and hardware to determine the system’s compliance with specified requirements. 

• Plans and executes manual tests, and automated test scripts using scripting and programming languages. 

• Supports technical investigations for defects discovered during test activities. 

Skills and Experience: 

Required: 

• Senior-level systems integration experience working in government or industry integrating large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools.

• Experience with traditional, Agile, and DevOps development practices and associated testing strategies.

• 12+ years of systems integration experience working in government or industry integrating large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• Experience tracing program/project requirements to the  source requirement such as the Joint Architecture Reference Models (JARM), and JARM Technical Service Types (TSTs) for duplication analysis and gap analysis.

• Ability to coordinate with users and stakeholders to develop Sensor program requirements for new and changing mission needs.

• Experience with requirements development, RFC documentation and tracking

• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools.

• Experience with traditional, Agile, and DevOps development practices and associated      testing strategies.

Desired: 

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program. 

• Experience with JMeterand, Jenkins, Docker, Postman, Swagger, Nexus, Apigee or GitHub/GitLab (or equivalent software packages), Java, Bash, Curl, XML, JSON, SQL, Python, Javascript, and AWS and C2S.

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages. 

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks. 

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience. 

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience. 

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering,Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience. 

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Principal Cyber Systems Administrator: 

Job Responsibilities Include: 

• Update and maintenance of Automated Deployment project using Ansible and Terraform.

• Weekly security patching using IaC.

• Resolving Jupyter, and general cluster, issues.

• Maintainer of the “Spreadsheet to Terraform files” script for provisioning environments for Development Teams.

• Manage account requests and maintain access list.

• Configuration, Setup, roll-out, and maintenance of the Kubernetes deployment of Jupyter on AAP PROD.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience Bash scripting.

• Experience with debugging code.

• Background with task tracking and knowledge management systems. Ex: Jira, Confluence, Gitlab.

• Experience with version control systems and Infrastructure as Code practice.

• Experience with object-oriented and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Ruby, Java, and/or Go.

• Experience with Splunk or other logging software.

• Experience with Docker containers and container management using Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.

• Basic knowledge of Networking (DNS, DHCP, Firewalls, CIDR Notation, etc.)

• Use of SSH and command line tools to manage systems

• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS or similar distribution 

• Security+ or CISSP (Privileged User Access required)

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, or an additional 4 years of experience without a degree

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Desired:

• QualificationsUNIX operating systems administration and troubleshooting.

• Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) workflows.

• Experience with automated configuration and infrastructure management tools: Ansible and Terraform.

• Basic knowledge of Virtualization and Physical/Virtual Hardware/Right Sizing .

Education and Experience:

Staff (Level 5):

• 14+ Years with BS

• 12+ Years with Masters

• 9+ Years with PhD

• + additional 4 yrs without degree

Senior Principal (Level 4):

• 9+ Years with BS

• 7+ Years with Masters

• 4+ Years with PhD

• + additional 4 yrs without degree

Principal (Level 3):

• 5+ Years with BS

• 3+ Years with Masters

• 0 Years with PhD

• + additional 4 yrs without degree

Associate (Level 2):

• 2+ Years with BS

• 0 Years with Masters

• + additional 4 yrs without degree

Systems Engineer (Mid-Level):

Overall Assignment Description:  

Mid-level Systems Engineers employ a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

Duties include: 

• Conducts requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.

• Conducts planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. 

• Develops solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology and mentor Junior Engineers in developing these skill sets.  

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.

• Assists with Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• 6 to 12 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Mid level experience as a Systems Engineer.

• Mid-level working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

• Mid-level working system engineering experience in government or industry.

Desired:

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.

• INCOSE Associate System Engineering Professional (ASEP) certification.

• Documented work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.

• Membership or active participation in any of the following professional organizations: ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, OGC, SAREM, or USGIF

• Working knowledge of photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.

Education and Experience:

• 6 to 12 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested. 

Training Specialist Level 5:

• Prepares and/or conducts training programs, teaches classes, holds seminars and discussion groups.

• Designs, develops, organizes, and delivers training programs to train all levels of personnel.

• Develops tests and visual aids, conducts training classes, and develops criteria for evaluating effectiveness of training activities.

• Creates teaching outline in conformance with selected instructional methods, utilizing knowledge of specified training needs and effectiveness of training methods.

• Guides the successful completion of major training programs and may function in a project leadership role.

• Develops highly advanced training solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.

• Applies highly advanced knowledge for the planning and designing of instructional methods and materials.

• Provides highly advanced knowledge in identifying training needs and recommends highly advanced training solutions by working with business leaders and critical stakeholders.

• Provides advanced knowledge and guidance on the structure and improvements of the on-site and/or in-house training classes, seminars, self-study, lectures, demonstrations, simulation exercises and discussion groups for customers and/or employees.

• Develops highly advanced measurement tools to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction or training interventions.

• Maintains current knowledge of relevant and highly advanced training trends and technology.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+14yrs

• Associates+12yrs

• Bachelors+10yrs

• Masters+8yrs

• PhD+6yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification.

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested. 

Solutions Architect Level 4:

• Responsible for providing business and technical architectural guidance to development teams, business groups, and customers for existing and new products and services

• Identifies solutions based on business and technical criteria, analyzes alternatives based on trade space, and implements designs

• Research current and emerging technologies and process methodologies and proposes changes and tailoring where needed

• Assesses the system and business process architectures currently in place and works with staff to recommend improvements

• Ensures technical architecture teams deliver efficient and effective system solutions to support business goals and objectives

• Develops, enhances, and maintains established service design procedure and process by applying process frameworks and methodologies

• Prepares and presents test plan, technical presentations, and analyst briefings

• Identifies customer requirements, analyzes alternatives, and conducts product recommendations related to software, platform, and network configurations

• Provides updates to stakeholders on project cost, schedule, and quality in comparison to stakeholder objectives

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+12yrs

• Associates+10yrs

• Bachelors+8yrs

• Masters+6yrs

• PhD+4yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification.

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested. 

Software Developer Level 4:

• Researches, designs, develops, tests, and/or modifies enterprise-wide systems and/or applications software
  Performs all phases of the software development lifecycle.

• Analyzes user/business needs and functionality to plan and design software systems to meet those needs.

• Creates a variety of models and diagrams that show programmers the software code needed for an application.

• Performs software updates, refinement, testing, and debugging to meet business needs.

• Provides analysis for reports on software project specifications, activities, or status.

• Advises on the software or system for optimal documentation and future maintenance and updates.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+12yrs

• Associates+10yrs

• Bachelors+8yrs

• Masters+6yrs

• PhD+4yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification.

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested. 

Quality Assurance Analyst Level 4:

• Develops and applies quality standards in accordance with company and customer requirements

• Develops and conducts related tests and certificates of analysis

• Ensures compliance is followed throughout quality assurance process

• Liaisons with external suppliers to meet quality standards.

• Documents the quality testing process

• Contributes and provides guidance on the completion of advanced quality assurance projects

• Designs and contributes to the performance of advanced quality assurance tests and creates certificates of analysis

• Identifies advanced potential risks and compliance issues and provides innovative solutions

• Implements and provides advanced guidance with implementing the quality standards and the execution of compliance on every stage of the process

• Liaises with external vendors, contractors or suppliers and provides advanced solutions to any quality issues regarding products or services

• Develops and implements advanced quality assurance strategies and regulations

• Provides guidance for the quality trainings and the quality testing documentation process

• May provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced analysts

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+12yrs

• Associates+10yrs

• Bachelors+8yrs

• Masters+6yrs

• PhD+4yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification.

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment. We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested. 

Project Manager Level 4:

• Provides technical, administrative, and operational leadership to assigned project or tasks. Reviews status of projects and budgets, manages schedules, and prepares status reports

• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives

• Responsible for scope, cost, schedule, and performance of assigned project or task(s)

• Manages or directs resources required to perform assigned project or task(s)

• Provides technical, administrative, and operational management of assigned project or tasks, including contract and subcontractor management

• Typically supervises assigned staff, may include subordinate supervisors

• Participates in the development of technical project plans, proposals, reports, and task order and administrative reporting

• May also perform high level technical services on assigned tasks

• Conducts planning and provides recommendations to client on task workload

• Manages risk tracking process

• Attends customer meetings and may serve as client liaison

• Interacts with vendors, other agencies, and other client staff on behalf of the client

• Coordinates development of deliverables and products

• Ensures quality assurance of project deliverables

• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned

• Participates in special projects as required

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+12yrs

• Associates+10yrs

• Bachelors+8yrs

• Masters+6yrs

• PhD+4yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training:

• DoD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAM Level III Baseline Certification

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested.

Program Manager Level 5:

• Manages and is responsible for the successful completion of he overall administrative, technical, cost, quality and schedule performance of the contract.

• Supervises assigned technical and administrative staff, including subordinate supervisors, and performs personnel actions including hiring and performance evaluation.

• Directs program activities to meet client and organization work objectives and serves as a liaison with clients to coordinate activities, negotiate tasks, and solve problems.

• Assures quality of program products, services, and deliverables, including participating in reviews, audits, and site visits.

• Performs development activities at all stages, including the preparation and review of technical and cost engineering change proposals.

• Performs program financial management services, including financial analysis, budget and cost quote preparation, cost management, reconciliation, and profit enhancement.

• Coordinates and monitors sub-contractor activities and administers subcontractor deliverables and finances.

• Develops, reviews, and approves plans, schedules, consulting agreements and other program documents.

• Prepares and provides various reports and technical reviews to senior management as requested.

• Ensures compliance with relevant government policies and standards.

• Focused on multiple areas high complexity.

• Manages a large team of multiple disciplines.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+14yrs

• Associates+12yrs

• Bachelors+10yrs

• Masters+8yrs

• PhD+6yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training:

• DoD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAM Level III Baseline Certification

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested. 

Program Analyst Level 6:

• Develops project schedules to meet project requirements and determining resource requirements

• Communicate any issues, problems, or additional information to project managers and project stakeholders and recommend solutions

• Monitor and evaluate project timeline and activity and report on progress to project managers

• Performs a variety of complex administrative and analytical tasks in support of one or more high profile contract programs

• Develops plans, including budgets and schedules, and monitors tasks to meet contractual/project requirements for assigned program(s)

• Establishes and defines program plan requirements and directs or performs in-depth studies to determine optimum program plans

• Monitors and reports performance against plans to ensure that contractual, cost, and schedule objectives are met

• Interacts regularly with high-level customers and other industry representatives to ensure conformance to customer requirements

• Performs business development activities

• Participates in special projects as required

• May provide guidance and work leadership to less experienced analysts and may have supervisory responsibilities

• May serve as a mentor to experienced analysts

• May serve as a mentor to experienced analysts

• May serve as team or task lead(Not a people manager)

• Recognized as a subject matter expert in a specific area

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+16yrs

• Associates+14yrs

• Bachelors+12yrs

• Masters+10yrs

• PhD+8yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested. 

Program Analyst Level 4:

• Develops project schedules to meet project requirements and determining resource requirements.

• Communicate any issues, problems, or additional information to project managers and project stakeholders and recommend solutions.

• Monitor and evaluate project timeline and activity and report on progress to project managers.

• Performs a variety of complex administrative and analytical tasks in support of one or more high profile contract programs.

• Develops plans, including budgets and schedules, and monitors tasks to meet contractual/project requirements for assigned program(s).

• Establishes and defines program plan requirements and directs or performs in-depth studies to determine optimum program plans.

• Monitors and reports performance against plans to ensure that contractual, cost, and schedule objectives are met.

• Interacts regularly with high-level customers and other industry representatives to ensure conformance to customer requirements.

• Performs business development activities.

• Participates in special projects as required.

• May provide guidance and work leadership to less experienced analysts and may have supervisory responsibilities.  May serve as a mentor to experienced analysts.

• May serve as a mentor to experienced analysts.

• May serve as team or task lead. (Not a people manager).

• Recognized as a subject matter expert in a specific area.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+12yrs

• Associates+10yrs

• Bachelors+8yrs

• Masters+6yrs

• PhD+4yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested. 

Data Analyst Level 4:

• Develops, analyzes and models operational, economic, management, accounting, and other organizational data to quantify the competitive performance of business segments, evaluate potential operational changes, and design new approaches and methodologies.

• Applies and integrates statistical, mathematical, predictive modeling and business analysis skills to manage and manipulate complex, high-volume data from a variety of sources.

• Guides the successful completion of major programs and may function in a project leadership role.

• Analyzes organizational data and conducts advanced statistical analysis.

• Develops technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.

• Models and evaluates the potential impact of data changes.

• Develops innovative strategies and quantifies the competitive performance of the organization's operations and/or markets.

• May coach and review the work of less-experienced professionals.

• May serve as a team or task leader.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+12yrs

• Associates+10yrs

• Bachelors+8yrs

• Masters+6yrs

• PhD+4yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Data Analyst:

Job Description Summary:

We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Data Analyst to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for identifying, defining, collecting, and reporting on key performance metrics to drive data-based decision making and continuous improvement across the organization. You will also be involved in process analysis andimprovement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and quality:

• Contributes to the completion of major programs and may function in a project leadership role.

• Develops data-driven solutions to complex business challenges.

• Utilizes advanced tools and computational skills to interpret, connect, predict and make discoveries in complex data and deliver recommendations for business and analytic decisions.

• Uses predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, efficiencies, process improvements, and other business outcomes.

• Works with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.

• Performs additional duties as assigned.

• May coach and review the work of less-experienced professionals.

• May serve as a team or task leader. (Not a people manager)

• Designs, research, and develops highly advanced processes, which may result in new product/business opportunities for the company.

This position has alternate locations in the National Capital Region.

Level 3:

• Develops, analyzes and models operational, economic, management, accounting and other organizational data to quantify the competitive performance of business segments, evaluate potential operational changes, and design new approaches and methodologies.

• Applies and integrates statistical, mathematical, predictive modeling and business analysis skills to manage and manipulate complex, high-volume data from a variety of sources.

• Contributes to completion of specific programs and projects.

• Analyzes organizational data and conducts advanced statistical analysis.

• Applies mathematical calculations to recommend solutions to technical problems of high complexity.

• Models and evaluates the potential impact of data changes.

• Performs additional duties as assigned.

• Develops innovative strategies and quantifies the competitive performance of the organization's operations and/or markets.

• May coach and review the work of less-experienced professionals.

Responsibilities:

• Identify, define, and establish key performance metrics and indicators relevant to the organization's goals and objectives.

• Develop data collection methodologies and systems to gather accurate and reliable metrics.

• Collect and analyze data from various sources, ensuring data integrity and accuracy.

• Prepare comprehensive reports, dashboards, and presentations to effectively communicate metric findings to stakeholders and management.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and align metrics with business objectives. 

• Conduct process analysis to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement. Recommend and implement process improvements to enhance operational efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction.

• Collaborate with teams to ensure the successful implementation of process changes and monitor their effectiveness.

• Continuously monitor and evaluate service delivery processes to identify opportunities for improvement and optimize customer experience.

• Contribute to the development and implementation of quality assurance and quality control measures to ensure adherence to established standards.

• Conduct quality inspections, identify defects or deviations, and recommend corrective actions to maintain high-quality standards.

• Stay updated with industry best practices, emerging trends, and technologies related to metrics analysis, process improvement, and quality assurance.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in metrics analysis, reporting, process improvement, and quality assurance.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, analyze, and interpret complex data sets.

• Proficient in data visualization techniques and tools to effectively present findings.

• Solid understanding of process analysis methodologies and continuous improvement concepts.

• Knowledge of quality assurance principles, methodologies, and best practices.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills to convey complex information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically and propose innovative solutions.

• Detail-oriented with a strong focus on data accuracy and attention to detail.

• Proficient in using data analysis software, spreadsheet applications, and business intelligence tools.

• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+10yrs

• Associates+8yrs

• Bachelors+6yrs

• Masters+4yrs

• PhD+2yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training and Certifications:

• IAT II – Required to start on program.

• CSSP Analyst - Required to start on program.

• GMON – Required within 180 days of start date.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested. 

Cyber Security Analyst Level 6:

• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave.

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.

• Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.

• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.

• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.

• Researches and evaluates new concepts and processes to improve performance.

• Analyzes cross-functional problem sets, identifies root causes and resolves issues.

• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.

• May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals.

• May serve as a team or task lead.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+16yrs

• Associates+14yrs

• Bachelors+12yrs

• Masters+10yrs

• PhD+8yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested. 

Cyber Security Analyst Level 5:

• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave.

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.

• Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.

• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.

• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.

• Researches and evaluates new concepts and processes to improve performance.

• Analyzes cross-functional problem sets, identifies root causes and resolves issues.

• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.

• May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals.

• May serve as a team or task lead.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+14yrs

• Associates+12yrs

• Bachelors+10yrs

• Masters+8yrs

• PhD+6yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed.

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Cyber Security Analyst Level 4:

• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave.

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.

• Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.

• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.

• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.

• Researches and evaluates new concepts and processes to improve performance.

• Analyzes cross-functional problem sets, identifies root causes and resolves issues.

• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.

• May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals.

• May serve as a team or task lead.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+12yrs

• Associates+10yrs

• Bachelors+8yrs

• Masters+6yrs

• PhD+4yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training and Certifications:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

This is a future position that may come open but is not open at the present moment.  We are willing to prescreen personnel for these positions if you are interested.

Cyber Security Analyst Level 3:

• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave.

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.

• Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.

• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.

• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations, and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.

• Researches and evaluates new concepts and processes to improve performance.

• Analyzes cross-functional problem sets, identifies root causes, and resolves issues.

• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware, and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks, or leaks.

• May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals.

• May serve as a team or task lead.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+10yrs

• Associates+8yrs

• Bachelors+6yrs

• Masters+4yrs

• PhD+2yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Cyber Security Analyst:

Level 1:

• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave.

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.

• Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.

• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.

• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.

• Understands and applies more advanced processes to daily activities.

• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+6yrs

• Associates+4yrs

• Bachelors+2yrs

• Masters+0yrs

• NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training and Certifications:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Cyber Security Analyst-Level 0:

• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave.

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.

• Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.

• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.

• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations, and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.

• Understands and applies more advanced processes to daily activities.

• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.

Education and Experience:

• HSD/GED+4yrs

• Associates+2yrs

• Bachelors+0yrs

NOTE:  Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.

Training and Certifications:

• Incident Detect Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User / DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Incident Response Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent / Splunk Core Certified User /  DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Incident Responder (CND-IR) Baseline   Certification

• Defense Countermeasure Team Members: GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Infrastructure Support (CND-IS) Baseline Certification

• Malware Analysis Team Members: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Cyber Defense Fusion Team Members: GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) or equivalent DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Analyst (CND-A) Baseline Certification

• Security Auditing Team Members: DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M IAT Level III Baseline Certification DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M CNDSP Auditor (CND-AU) Baseline Certification.

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Senior Principal DATA ENGINEER:

The selected candidate will perform data engineering associated with synchronizing new and existing systems for DIA as part of the Five Eyes partner alliance. The candidate will have experience performing data engineering associated with database pipelines and schemas for a multimillion-dollar program that supports DoD and the IC.

Basic Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree with 9+ years of relevant experience OR a Master’s degree with 7 years of relevant experience OR a PhD with 4 years of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of experience maybe considered in lieu of the degree requirement.

• Advanced understanding of database schemas.

• PostgreSQL, Python, Java or Scala.

• Understanding the concepts of data lake, data warehousing including Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes and data modeling is essential. Familiarity with cloud-based storage and computing platforms such as Azure, and AWS.

• Proficiency in version control systems such as Git and understanding the concepts of branching, merging, and tagging is essential.

• Experience with integrating data from various sources such as web services, APIs and file systems

• Knowledge of distributed computing technologies like Hive, Hadoop and Spark

• Willingness to work 100% onsite in a secure environment; telework is not available for this position.

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Desired:

• Experience implementing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).

• Experience with data release to foreign partners.

• Experience with Elasticsearch.

• Experience with Immuta.

• Experience supporting the Five Eye community.

Integration Engineer (Senior-Level):

Overall Assignment Description: 

Senior-level Integration Engineers are responsible for leading the development of program and project integration solutions across the enterprise and determining integration/interface requirements. They work with systems engineers, solutions architects and programmers to ensure applications and systems interoperate to deliver end-to-end mission solutions and maintain the integrity of the system-of-system enterprise.

This position has an alternate location of Chantilly, VA.

Duties include:

• Provides a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of hardware and software components.

• Plans, coordinates, and documents solutions to total systems or subsystems using internally created and/or commercial off-the-shelf products.

• Analyses, designs, tests, and evaluates network systems such as Cloud Resident computing capabilities, satellite networks, local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), the Internet, intranets, and other data communications systems ranging from a connection between two offices in the same building to a globally distributed network of systems.

• Plans and coordinates data management practices to treat and handle data as a resource.

• Assists Government in managing system development efforts, moves or modernization changes including analysis, telecommunications (LAN, WAN, voice, video), planning, cabling, IT and cloud requirements, network security measures, and other factors.

• Oversees the work of Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Integration Engineers.

Skills and Experience:

Required Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 year's experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Senior level experience as a Integration Engineer.

• Senior-level working experience in government or industry in data base management or Big Data analysis.

Desired Education and Experience:

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS SCI and the willingness to take a polygraph if needed.

Seeking a Web & Automation Developer to design and build custom programs that enhance user engagement on public-facing websites while supporting internal team functionality. This role spans the full development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and design through production deployment, and requires strong expertise in programming and server software operations.

The ideal candidate develops modern web applications using both packaged and custom solutions, creating intuitive front-end interfaces that connect seamlessly to databases. He or she should be proficient in technologies such as HTML, SQL, Python, Java, JavaScript, and ColdFusion, and leverage frameworks like Angular or React to build user-friendly, scalable applications. Experience designing dynamic, database-driven interfaces for real-time information sharing and developing secure external web portals is essential.

This position also involves working with graphics, layout, and scripting while ensuring compatibility and integration across diverse technologies. The developer will collaborate within an Agile Scrum team environment and build loosely coupled Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to expose data to a variety of consumers.

Duties may include:

• Adhere to prescribed processes and guidelines for web development workstations and the development environment to include: requesting approval for software download/installation, software configuration, and software version control.

• Manage and maintain content for a web presence on three domains (internal facing web page and documents, external facing web-page and documents) to include site design, content updates, collecting web metrics, and supporting access by external customers.

• Participate in the development of a consolidated business process, integrating and replacing the current project management capabilities; provide installation, customization, support, maintenance, license updates, and monitoring of the consolidated business web presence after implementation.

• Incorporate automated and manual test management capabilities that identify, standardize and import test objectives, test procedures, test plans, test documentation, releases and cycles structure, and design of overall and low level process flows.

• Provide database design, development and maintenance (Oracle, PostGreSQL, or other as specified) for Test related web projects.

Experience/Education

Required:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Software Engineering or a related science/engineering field, or equivalent work experience. 

• 8 years of web development experience with a BS - OR- 12 years of experience without a degree.

• Strong written and oral communication skills. 

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment, with a willingness to learn, solve problems, and adapt in a dynamic setting. 

• Ability to adhere to prescribed processes and guidelines for web development workstations and environments, including software approvals, configuration management, and version control. 

• Experience managing and maintaining web content across multiple domains (internal and external), including site design, updates, web metrics collection, and user access support. 

• Experience participating in the development and implementation of consolidated business processes and web-based project management solutions, including installation, customization, maintenance, licensing, and monitoring. 

• Experience incorporating automated and manual test management capabilities, including test objectives, procedures, plans, documentation, release cycles, and process flow design. 

• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, or others as specified) in support of test-related web applications. 

Desired:

• Experience with independent testing, data verification and validation

• Experience administering and maintaining enterprise IT infrastructure, including servers, operating systems, and network services; managing user accounts, permissions, system security, backups, and troubleshooting to ensure high availability and performance

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Tool Development and Automation Engineer (Mid):

Position Description:

Test Tool Development and Automation Engineer will code and generate scripts, test code, support the operations and sustainment of test tool services, support code security accreditation, and documentation.  The candidate will work directly with test engineer subject matter experts to document and implement automation requirements to support test event execution. 

Further, the candidate may also need to:

• Conduct engineering analysis to identify all tasks (both manual and analytic) associated with assessment of system capabilities and interfaces, product checkout, and architecture checkout.

• Conduct engineering analysis to identify candidate tasks for automation.

• Automate selected tasks through code/script generation, or by identifying existing in-house or commercially available solutions (including open-source alternatives); identify opportunities to consolidate tasks or processes to maximize efficiency or minimize cost.

• Develop tools that support objectives such as: functionality testing (UI and API), step automation, automated system monitoring, load testing, performance profiling, test objective and test data management, etc.

• Implement accepted automation solutions in the managed test, integration, and production environment across multiple networks as directed.

• Design and develop automation scripts, tools, or applications, and appropriate test scenarios to verify the performance, capacity, and scalability of services and capabilities, as identified by the customer.

• Provide the expertise to analyze output of automated test tools, scripts, applications, and processes to evaluate against established criteria and develop a recommendation to the government and product vendor.

Additional desired activities within this role are:

• Provide support of test automation capable of creating and running scripts within government furnished automation and testing tools (e.g. Micro Focus ALM Octane, POSTman, TestComplete , SoapUI, Micro Focus Unified Functional Test, Micro Focus LoadRunner, etc.) development.

• Provide web application design, development, and maintenance for test related web and tools projects.

• Hands on experience in script creation and maintenance in one or more of the following areas: API testing, UI/Acceptance Testing and Performance Testing.

• Hands-on development experience in at least one major programming language (e.g. JavaScript, Python, Java, VBScript).

• Provide support and expertise to automate product quality assessment tools and workflows for the full range of traditional and non-traditional imaging systems, products, and data formats.

• A strong systems administration background in Windows and Linux.  Candidate will need to install, configure, and patch testing services maintained by the test automation team on premise and in the cloud.

Required Experience/Education:

• 5-8 Years with BS/BA, or 3-6 Years with MS/MA.

• Experience in supporting all aspects of the Testing phase of the Software Development Lifecycle.

• Experience in at least one high level programming language (e.g. Java, JavaScript, Python, Go). Demonstrated ability to use the example programming languages to create, modify, and execute automated test cases, test suites, and data integration between test tool Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Sr. Systems Engineer

The DoD AI Program Office leads the integration of AI capabilities into the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG). This role ensures the end-to-end engineering and integration of AI-driven solutions, overseeing the development of systems infrastructure, including hardware and software implementation.

Duties May include:

• Lead requirements engineering, solutions development, and systems integration across NSG, ASG, and Federal Agencies.

• Provide technical planning, scheduling, reliability, and resiliency analysis for enterprise AI solutions.

• Support requirements traceability, architecture analysis, and workflow optimization, including cloud service capabilities.

• Advise on solution design modifications based on evolving mission requirements and technology advancements.

• Conduct Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Action (CoA) assessments, Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.

• Oversee operational technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.

• Lead the integration of a DoD AI/ML program across NGA, Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE), and the Intelligence Community (IC).

• Provide technical oversight to Mid- and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.

• Demonstrate deep understanding of DIE, NSG, ASG, and NRO enterprises.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.

• 6+ years of experience in the DoD and/or Intelligence Community.

• 12+ years of experience in government or industry supporting:

  • DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBE Process, or

  • Systems engineering for large, complex System of Systems or Service-Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

Technical Expertise:

• Strong understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle and SAFe development.

• 6+ years of experience working with Department of Defense Architectural Framework (DoDAF) standards.

• Experience working with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

• Proficiency in systems engineering tools and methodologies.

Desired:

• Advanced Education & Certifications:

  • Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or a related STEM field.

  • Software Development Framework certification.

• Technical Expertise & Tools:

  • Knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), tools, and languages.

  • Experience engineering solutions with:

    • Cloud-based technologies

    • Big Data (structured/unstructured)

    • Automation, Augmentation, and Artificial Intelligence

  • Expertise in geospatial intelligence and related disciplines.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Systems Engineer (Senior):

Overall Assignment Description: 

Senior will be responsible for overseeing engineering activities of an organization's information systems. The Systems Engineer – Senior also plans, designs, develops, evaluates, tests, and integrates an organization's systems infrastructure, including the implementation and design of hardware and software. 

Duties include: 

• Assists the Government in providing requirements engineering, solutions engineering,  scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies. 

• Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. 

• Assists the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology. 

• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions. 

• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs. 

• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities. 

•  Assists in conducting Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments. 

• Assists the Government in operational technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design. 

• Operates at the level of integrating Maven across other Programs at NGA, the DIE, and the IC.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the current DIE, NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises. 

• Oversees and coordinates the work of, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.  

Skills and Experience: 

Required: 

• Senior level experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or system engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments. 

• Demonstrated experience with systems engineering lifecycle. Understanding of the Digital Engineering Framework and Configuration Management 

• 6+ years working experience working with Department of Architectural Framework (DoDAF) standards 

• Demonstrated working experience working with Model Base System Engineers (MBSE)

• Demonstrated working experience with systems engineering tools 

Desired: 

• Masters in Systems Engineering or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, 

• physics, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, Computer Science, 

• Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.

• Knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages. 

• Software Development Framework certification. 

• Demonstrated experience in the field of geospatial intelligence. 

• Demonstrated experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies. 

• Demonstrated experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

• Demonstrated experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, other related disciplines and on requires a minimum of 10+ years of work experience 6 years of which is in the DoD and/or Intelligence Community. 

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Test Systems Engineer (Senior):

Overall Assignment Description:

Senior-level Test Systems Engineers assist in leading Application, System and Integration Testing teams performing test and evaluation across NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. This task is focused on providing technical advisory support to identify capabilities, tools, technologies, and new agile methods and techniques ready to adapt to current innovations within AI R&D for Test and Evaluation (T&E) Automation and Verification of AI 

models. 

Duties include: 

• Perform appropriate diagnostic testing on AI/ML systems and applications, measuring performance and efficiency on said systems/applications, documentation, and maintenance solutions for systems or subsystems and making recommendations to the government. 

• Create and maintain technical framework to execute specifications to pass system level  integration 

• Prepare and publish presentations and participate in conferences, webinars, and online events

• Design and Develop quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method tools, techniques, and methodologies to analyze, assess, benchmark, and monitor AI risk and related impacts. 

• Assists the Government in providing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies. 

• Assist Government in the creation of foundation of AI Assurance capabilities, including thorough formal methods for trusted and trustworthy eXplainable AI (XAI) and /or Independent Verification & Validation methodologies (IV&V) for AI (beyond T&E), T&E/V&V-As-a-Service

• Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology towards AI Assurance for best AI Governance. 

• Formulate descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive insights/algorithms and translate technical specifications into development code. 

• Conduct statistical analysis and interpreting the results to guide the government’s decisionmaking process.

• Create and lead algorithm governance process that leverage metrics to ensure performance and compliance with the principles established by the DOD and the ODNI  Document procedures for installation and maintenance, complete programming, perform testing and debugging, define and monitor performance metrics. 

• Rapidly iterate AI models and results to refine and validate approach for accuracy and repeatability. 

• Create, Develop and Define business processes and acceptance criteria to support testing and evaluation.

• Author test planning documentation to include test cases and reports and experience running test scenarios within Dev/Test Environment and identify and report potential issues 

• Develop deep learning frameworks and models, GPU acceleration, model optimization, real-time streaming data, and distributed computing.

• Develop test procedures to support the AI model independent verification and validation approach and sync with cross functional groups for alignment.

• Evaluate and test the front to end acceptance criteria of the full AI model architecture to provide feedback to the developer teams and the government 

Skills and Experience: 

Required: 

• Senior level working experience in understanding scripting, statistics, and a have computer vision background .

• 10+ years’ experience with three or more of the following: JMeterand, Jenkins, Docker, Postman, Swagger, Nexus, Apigee or GitHub/GitLab (or equivalent software packages), Java, Bash, Curl,  XML, JSON, SQL, Python, Javascript, or AWS or C2S. 

• Experience in both quantitative and qualitative analysis to support sound metrics to uphold the confidence of the AI model assurance. 

• Senior level working experience with traditional, Agile, and DevOps development practices and associated testing strategies. 

• Experience using Test Driven Development leveraging computer programming languages to include but not limited to; Python, C++, Matlab, R, Java 

• Experience in the field of geospatial intelligence 

• Knowledge of AI Assurance, T&E or V&V-As-a-Service, and XAI. 

• Experience designing quality engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and  Artificial Intelligence technologies 

• Experience coding and developing test and evaluations for AI programs 

• Experience in SAFe framework and Model Based Systems Engineering 

Desired: 

• Demonstrated experience in Atlassian products such as Confluence and JIRA 

• Demonstrated experience working with NGA Enterprise solutions to include CI/CD pipeline and DevSecOps 

• Demonstrated experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies. 

• Demonstrated experience with internal and external program transitions and technical capabilities

• Demonstrated experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent expert level work experience as a Test Systems Engineer. 

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

Systems Integrator Expert-Level- This is a future position that may come open in the future. We are currently building our pipeline.

Support the Government by leading and overseeing the integrity of the NSG/ASG systems-of-systems enterprise.  They lead and oversee planning, implementation approaches, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, systems or subsystems using defined processes and tools. 

Duties may include: 

• Leads and performs systems integration activities across the NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.

• Leads and oversees a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of for cloud, on premise, and hybrid services, infrastructure and security domains. 

• Oversees the preparation of engineering plans and site installation technical design packages.

• Guides the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Integrators. 

Education and Experience

Required:

• 18 year's of experience

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience

• Expert-level systems integration experience working in government or industry integrating large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.

• Experience with the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) Product Definition Document (PDD) and its Addenda.  This includes experience modifying these documents and completing the approval process.

• Experience with national and international standards supporting NSGPDD-specified product definitions, especially the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS). 

• Experience with NGA to mission partner interface control documents and specifications.

• Experience with the testing of electro-optical imagery and the products derived from it.

• Experience guiding Working groups and standards forums to define product.

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program. 

• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.

• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.

Systems Integrator (Expert):

Overall Assignment Description:   

Expert Systems Integrators support the Government by leading and overseeing the integrity of the NSG/ASG systems-of-systems enterprise.  They lead and oversee planning, implementation approaches, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions for total cloud services, systems or subsystems using defined processes and tools.  They provide end-to-end system development life cycle support to the program.  

Duties include:  

• Assists with leading and performing systems integration activities across the NSG, ASG and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. 

• Assists with leading and overseeing a total systems perspective including a technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud services, infrastructure and security domains.   

• Assists with overseeing the preparation of engineering plans and site installation technical design packages. 

• Oversees the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Integrators.   

Skills and Experience: 

Required: 

• Expert system integration working experience in government integrating large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments. 

• Expert working experience on oversight and guidance on hardware, software, and network functions with appropriate performance and security criteria. 

• Expert ability to understand all the different components of developing or deployed solutions, and the ability to develop plans for older technology to be coupled and/or replaced with newer technology. 

• Expert experience in the analysis of application and network logs, and writing middleware code to make components work together, and to develop unit testing of the middleware and complete end-to-end testing of the applications. 

• Expert work experience to solve immediate application issues, and clearly identify shortfalls and plans to implement long-term design modifications, and proven work experience to creatively learn new technology. 

• Expert experience in developing technical documents to propose alternative solutions, document the implemented design, and define test cases. 

Desired: 

• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.

• Expert working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), or IC Program Architecture Guidance (PAG). 

• Expert understanding of automation efforts related to Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) to include computer vision algorithm development, geospatial modeling, and/or observation management/database management.  

• Expert work experience transitioning systems from applied research into operations systems or pilot activities to support enterprise modernization. 

• Expert understanding of the differences and challenges of machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence in relation to supporting resilient GEOINT solutions. 

Education and Experience:

• 12 to 18 years' experience.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Expert level work experience as a Systems Integrator.  

Security Clearance:

• DoD Approved Clearance and Poly