Tools Developer

Job Description

Description

INTRODUCTION: The Customer has an environment dedicated to tradecraft innovation and is a unique addition to the Intelligence Community (IC). This office incorporates new and emerging commercial technologies, along with tailored and specific technical and analytic capabilities in order to achieve its core mission. Partnerships with tradecraft schools and mission elements drive discovery and definition of projects suitable to Customer’s capabilities. The Customer provides an environment for concept incubation, prototype evaluation, and pilot execution in the effort to advance technical intelligence, tradecraft, capabilities, and techniques. The efficiencies gained by collocating technical tradecraft capabilities with new employee training and development provides a comprehensive perspective of exactly what new employees may encounter when they go to the field. SCOPE: a. Blank Slate Development: Based on Customer provided requirements, the Contractor, when applicable, shall employ blank slate development for all elements of a new tool and avoid code reuse with respect to any previous tools developed by the Customer, or the greater IC. Diversity validation will be conducted at the Customer’s discretion and may produce specific enhancement requests. b. Proof-of-Concept Productization: Based on Customer direction, the Contractor shall productize previously developed or Customer provided proof-of-concept capabilities into tools that satisfy operational requirements. c. Tool Repurposing: Based on Customer direction, the Contractor shall identify open-source capabilities, or characterize Customer provided tools, that support operational requirements. The Contractor shall determine the modifications needed for a tool to be viable for operational use and conduct development of a repurposed capability to be delivered to the Customer. As directed by Customer, the Contractor shall ensure the development, deployment, implementation, operation, and support of Customer technical information systems and projects complies with security policies and procedures. The Contractor shall be required to communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries, to include other contractor teams. The Contractor shall be required to work with Customer staff and contractor personnel, as well as external stakeholders.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Contractor team ensures that all developed applications and modifications to existing Customer applications operate in compliance with applicable documents. Compliance standards could include security accreditation, program management control gates, integration with external services (e.g., access control, auditing), patching and maintaining current versions of software, outage reporting, accessibility requirements, internal-use software reporting, auditing, logging, solution reconstitution testing, and technical directives. Planned activities shall be coordinated with all stakeholders and approved by the Customer. a. The Contractor Team shall, within an Open-source Environment utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML), develop the ability to correlate data from various sources to create real time pattern of life predictability. b. The Contractor Team shall support ongoing development on tools to gather data from various COTS sensor-based sources and develop systems to return data to Customer. c. The Contractor Team shall support transitioning developed tools and systems to Customer’s Enterprise system. d. The Contractor Team shall follow policy requirements related to application retooling and development. e. The Contractor Team shall support tool implementation on Customer’s Enterprise system. f. The Contractor Team shall modify applications to meet compliance with the Customer’s architectural and Authorization and Accreditation (A&A) process. g. The Contractor Team shall develop tools to enable technology starting from various initial maturity levels. h. The Contractor Team shall develop and support scalable and secure functionality into software applications. i. The Contractor Team shall study how to use Machine Learning to simulate human learning activities, to improve their performance by data analyzing without following the instructions of the program. j. The Contractor Team shall develop data framework for data analysis to support end-user data discovery and data correlation. k. The Contractor Team shall design, setup and perform technical demonstrations. l. The Contractor Team shall incorporate multiple technologies for novel solutions. m. The Contractor Team shall enact ad-hoc technical experiments to test tradecraft concepts. 

Tools Development (~1 FTE) a. The Contractor shall collaborate with team members, customers, service providers and developers to identify requirements; identify new opportunities as technologies develop to recommend for implementation. b. The Contractor shall analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. c. The Contractor shall advise customer about, or perform, maintenance of software systems. d. The Contractor shall analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan specifications and layouts. e. The Contractor shall confer with IT professionals/project managers to design system, define performance requirements, interfaces and obtain information on limitations and capabilities for IT projects. f. The Contractor shall consult with customers about software system design and maintenance. g. The Contractor shall consult with customers or other departments on project status, proposals, and technical issues such as software system design and maintenance. h. The Contractor shall consult with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software, develop specifications and performance requirements and resolve customer problems. i. The Contractor shall coordinate installation of software system. j. The Contractor shall coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure specifications are met. k. The Contractor shall design, develop, and modify software systems and measure outcome and consequences of design. l. The Contractor shall design, develop, and maintain tools within various network environments, including the cloud environment. m. The Contractor shall develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation. n. The Contractor shall estimate software development costs and schedule for tools development. o. The Contractor shall evaluate factors such as reporting formats required, cost constraints, and need for security restrictions to determine software/hardware configuration. p. The Contractor shall modify existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware, or improve performance. q. The Contractor shall prepare reports and correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, and status. r. The Contractor shall review existing programs and assist in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improve current techniques. s. The Contractor shall store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements. t. The Contractor shall train users to use new or modified equipment. 

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Software Development - Develop tools to enable technology starting from various initial maturity levels

Qualifications

Required Skills:

1. Demonstrated experience describing complex technical matters to non-technical trained staff.

2. Demonstrated experience in the design, setup and operation of technical demonstrations.

3. Demonstrated experience incorporating multiple technologies for novel solutions.

4. Demonstrated experience enacting ad-hoc technical experiments to test tradecraft concepts.

5. Demonstrated experience with Open source Operating systems (i.e. CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux).

6. Demonstrated experience with implementing Docker containers and Vagrant environments to ship and deploy software packages.

7. Demonstrated experience with JavaScript.

8. Demonstrated experience with Java EE.

9. Demonstrated experience with Python.

Desired Skills:

1. Demonstrated experience or understanding of cellular network operations/exploitation.

2. Demonstrated experience or understanding of vehicle systems telematics.

3. Demonstrated experience with VMware or equivalent.

4. Demonstrated experience or understanding with Python AI/ML.

5. Demonstrated experience or understanding with OpenCV.

6. Demonstrated experience with scikit-learn, tensorflow, or pytorch.

7. Demonstrated experience or understanding with Software Defined Radios (SDR) and related software (KISMET, GNURadio, rtl_433).

8. Demonstrated experience with JavaScript UI libraries such as vuetify, leaflet and pixi.js.

9. Demonstrated experience with opensource video analytic and CCTV tools (i.e. OpenMPF, Shinobi, MotionEye, and/or ffmpeg).

10. Demonstrated experience with ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, and x86, x64 architectures & assembly.

11. Demonstrated experience developing and writing code for soho/mobile devices.

12. Demonstrated experience understanding the design and programming for systems integration of complex systems.

13. Demonstrated experience implementing ICD directives.

14. Demonstrated experience documenting networks and diagraming networks.

15. Demonstrated experience with Sponsor’s network and security requirements for Approval to Develop (ATD) and Authority to Operate (ATO).

16. Demonstrated experience or knowledge of using JIRA and Confluence for tracking and managing project progress.

17. Demonstrated experience building production grade applications on relational and unstructured streaming data.

18. Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Professional), and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

19. Experience being responsible for developing and maintaining an cloud-based environment that contains data of the highest sensitivity.

20. Experience primarily working independently as the single point of failure for all systems administration work on the environment.

21. Experience performing security assessments to identify and correct weaknesses or deficiencies within the information system and its environment of operation.

22. Experience being directly involved in processing all customer efforts through the various facets of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Assessment & Authorization (A&A) processes.

23. Experience performing system configuration and patch management on live critical systems.

24. Experience implementing corrective actions to address identified vulnerabilities, negotiate and coordinate with the program on an acceptable mitigation plan, and then verifying those mitigations were effectively implemented.

25. Experience acting as a point of contact (POC) with department personnel and performing requirements gathering and application design to support operational facing customer needs in an Agile methodology.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
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