Software Developer, Journeyman (Security Clearance Required)

Summary

ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider supporting complex challenges through technology and expertise. The Software Developer will support the research, development, automation, and deployment of cybersecurity analytic capabilities for a federal cyber security program, collaborating with cyber personnel, customers, subject matter experts, and researchers. The role also includes production support, analytics refinement, countermeasure selection, and oversight of other personnel.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with cyber personnel to understand manual analytic processes that are used to assist in the automation of those processes
• Create automated analytic capability sets (e.g., signature, behavioral, heuristic, anomalous, unsupervised-learning, predictive, and emerging)
• Develop new platforms to elicit operational effect
• Support the design, development, and deployment of production systems adhering to the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline
• Post-deployment support of continuous analysis through the full lifecycle of the capabilities
• Perform functions associated with the analysis of information, refinement of analytics and countermeasure selection, reviewing output, and making upgrades/improvements to the performance of the analytics and countermeasures

Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Development OR equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience, with at least an additional 5 years of applicable experience
• Position requires a minimum 1 year of Python Development experience
• Must have a minimum 1 year of professional development experience using AWS serverless architecture
• Demonstrated experience with federal cybersecurity requirements
• Experience with a variety of analytics (e.g., file, network, host-based, etc.)
• Active security clearance required as part of client contract requirements
• US Citizenship required as part of client contract requirements
• Experience with developing applications running on Big Data platforms such as Hadoop/Cloudera or Spark, Power BI
• Interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with various clients in order to explain and elaborate on technical details
• Experience within some or all of these capability areas: Intrusion Detection, Analytics, Information Sharing, Intrusion Prevention, Core Infrastructure
• Practical experience with the Databricks Intelligence Platform
• Practical experience with Splunk to include Splunk Machine Learning (ML)
• Machine Learning fundamentals and/or prior experience supporting ML efforts from a developer perspective
• Experience with shell scripting using Bash, PowerShell, or equivalent
• Experience with network monitoring tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, Zeek, SiLK, or YAF
• Experience within Cloud environments in or using technologies provided by AWS, Google, or Azure
• Experience with Linux operating system
• Experience with monitoring/diagnosing activity at the host, application, network, Internet protocol, database, source code, and LAN layers or other areas preferred
• Ability to prioritize and manage own workload
• Experience in analytics associated with analyzing databases, source code, hosts, middleware, application, Local Area Network (LAN), and Internet networks across Open System Interconnect (OSI) model
• Experience in developing real- or near real-time automation
• AWS certification (Developer, DevOps, and/or Application Architect, etc.)
• CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) or higher certification level preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Development OR equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience, with at least an additional 5 years of applicable experience
• Position requires a minimum 1 year of Python Development experience
• Must have a minimum 1 year of professional development experience using AWS serverless architecture
• Demonstrated experience with federal cybersecurity requirements
• Experience with a variety of analytics (e.g., file, network, host-based, etc.)
• Active security clearance required as part of client contract requirements
• US Citizenship required as part of client contract requirements

Nice to Haves

• Experience with developing applications running on Big Data platforms such as Hadoop/Cloudera or Spark, Power BI
• Interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with various clients in order to explain and elaborate on technical details
• Experience within some or all of these capability areas: Intrusion Detection, Analytics, Information Sharing, Intrusion Prevention, Core Infrastructure
• Practical experience with the Databricks Intelligence Platform
• Practical experience with Splunk to include Splunk Machine Learning (ML)
• Machine Learning fundamentals and/or prior experience supporting ML efforts from a developer perspective
• Experience with shell scripting using Bash, PowerShell, or equivalent
• Experience with network monitoring tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, Zeek, SiLK, or YAF
• Experience within Cloud environments in or using technologies provided by AWS, Google, or Azure
• Experience with Linux operating system
• Experience with monitoring/diagnosing activity at the host, application, network, Internet protocol, database, source code, and LAN layers or other areas preferred
• Ability to prioritize and manage own workload
• Experience in analytics associated with analyzing databases, source code, hosts, middleware, application, Local Area Network (LAN), and Internet networks across Open System Interconnect (OSI) model
• Experience in developing real- or near real-time automation
• AWS certification (Developer, DevOps, and/or Application Architect, etc.)
• CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) or higher certification level preferred

Benefits

• This role is primarily telework-based with occasional meetings at client locations (Arlington, VA or Pensacola, FL) or ICF facilities within the Washington DC metro area.