Applications Developer

• Location: McLean, Virginia
• Type: Contract
• Job #3145

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

REQUIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE:
•Work closely with Sponsor and PM to gather requirements and contribute to the development of network-related features.
•Demonstrated experience designing and implementing cloud-based solutions including Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, and Monitoring.
•Demonstrated experience working across multi-cloud network environments.
•Apply your solid foundation of cloud networking using VNET, VPC, VPNs, firewalls, routing tables, ExpressRoutes, Direct Connects, networking protocols, and peering.
•Demonstrated experience with traffic engineering (AWS - VPC, transit gateway, CloudWatch and ELB) and (Azure - VNET, VPN gateway, Firewall, and Front Door).
•Have an understanding of cloud security principles and best practices, including identity and access management, encryption, firewall configurations, and network security groups.
•Participate in capacity planning, disaster recovery planning, and security audits.
•Create detailed documentation of network designs and configurations.
•Continuously monitor and analyze network performance metrics.
•Stay abreast on latest cloud services, features, trends, and best practices and provide recommendations on their adoption.
•Demonstrated experience with A&A workflows and tools.
•Demonstrated experience with Sponsor's security requirements and systems.
•Demonstrated experience monitoring system performance and recommending corrective action.

HIGH PRIORITY
This has been rescoped to a Cloud Engineering role.
This team is standing up a new network, so they need someone who has worked from ground zero standing up new network. Experience designing and implementing cloud-based solutions; cloud networking VNET, VPC, VPNs, firewalls; experience with A&A workflows and tools; cloud security best practices and system security principles for access management, encryption and networks.