Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking an Applications Developer with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Herndon, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE PROJECT

The Sponsor provides highly-technical centralized cybersecurity services for its organization to include Cyber Defenders, Cyber Assessors, and Information Systems Security Managers (ISSMs). The Sponsor requires specialized support in software development to prototype cybersecurity tools and utilities primarily for executive reporting of cyber metrics and trending and facilitating efficient Authorization and Assessment (A&A) efforts.

THE ROLE

• The Contractor shall support cyber defense staff projects that includes automation of systems inventory, vulnerability scanning, and status reporting.
• The Contractor shall support internal enterprise-connected systems and systems outside the organization’s network (IP-based) to proactively identify vulnerabilities accessible for exploitation by external parties from the internet.
• The Contractor shall work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of development tools and technologies.
• The Contractor shall work on customer-facing dashboard presentations using cutting-edge open-source frameworks, system inventory and scanning services, and back-end Java based systems using the latest DB technologies.
• The Contractor shall maintain system requirements and development process documentation.
• The Contractor shall monitor report generation and delivery.
• The Contractor shall provide recommendations for cybersecurity service enhancements, and assist with other requested deliverables.
• The Contractor shall contribute to daily, weekly and monthly status reporting.
• The Contractor shall identify solutions and tools that would provide an efficient, streamlined, and scalable approach while maintaining a high quality of service.
• The Contractor shall collaborate with in-house development teams across the enterprise.
• The Contractor shall help build, deploy, and enhance front-end capabilities with a UI/UX mindset.
• The Contractor shall develop API integrations with multiple big data sources.
• The Contractor shall develop, deploy and implement backend database of normalized findings.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience with cybersecurity information technology, security applications, and networking basics (TCP/IP, DNS, web and email protocols).
• Demonstrated experience reviewing reports and providing a basic analysis of findings and results.
• Demonstrated experience with network and vulnerability scanning using tools such as Nmap and Rapid7 Nexpose.
• Demonstrated experience remediating a wide variety of system vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrated experience identifying solutions for enhancing responses to request for information.
• Demonstrated experience using Python & Typescript/React JS.
• Demonstrated experience with Docker Containers and Bastion Sessions.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS and core services.
• Demonstrated experience using Git and GitHub development processes.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience working with APIs and writing scripts to push and pull data in a database.
• Demonstrated experience creating and deploying a database.
• Demonstrated experience communicating software and system design issues to customers.
• Certifications: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related discipline or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience creating ad-hoc scripts in Python and JSON.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting network connections/scanning.
• Demonstrated experience using JIRA or another ticketing system to track task status.
• Demonstrated experience with the DevOps lifecycle and coordinating requirements with development teams.
• Demonstrated experience with the following coding and programming areas:
• Python and python frameworks (e.g., Django, Flask or Pyramid).
• Front-end technologies (e.g., HTML5, Javascript, Node.js, React).
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM).
• Relational/Non-relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB).
• Docker containers.
• UNIX/Linux OS and CLI.
• RESTful API.
• Demonstrated experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) development [Natural Language Processing (NLP), or Machine Learning (ML)].
• Demonstrated experience communicating written and verbally in a team setting.

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. 

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution; 
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.