Salary Range: 250000 to 300000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Responsibilities

• Join a team of engineers designing, developing, testing, and maintaining Windows, Unix, and/or Mobile CNO capabilities in support of the Annapolis Junction, MD’s mission requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum sixteen (16) years of experience in relevant field, or Bachelor’s Degree plus twelve (12) years of experience, Master’s Degree plus ten (10) years of experience, or PhD plus eight (8) years of experience,
• Minimum twelve (12) years’ experience programming in Assembly, C, C++, Java, Perl, and/or Python,
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience programming CNO tools,
• Minimum five (5) years of experience leading, managing, and/or supervising teams in support of CNO capability development,
• Minimum four (4) years of experience programming techniques to evade host and/or network-based IDS, and
• Minimum four (4) years’ experience in network sockets programming and application-level protocols.
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• Specialized Qualifications: 
• Experience with designing and writing code in C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, or similar along with Python,
• Experience reading or writing assembly (x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS, SPAC, or others),
• Experience with debuggers such as gdb, WinDbg, OllyDbg, 
• Experience with reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, HexRays, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, or objdump,
• Understanding of network protocols and sockets, OS internals, common CNO techniques, exploitation mitigations such as DEP and ASLR, and modern software engineering concepts, 
• Experience with project management best practices such as Scrum and Kanban methodologies, and
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) along with understanding of basic configuration management principles.
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• Labor Category Requirements: CNO Analyst/Programmer IV
• Minimum sixteen (16) years of experience in computer science, information systems, or network engineering, or Bachelor’s degree plus twelve (12) years of experience, Master’s degree plus ten (10) years of experience, or Ph.D. plus eight
• (8) years of experience
• Minimum twelve (12) years of experience programming in Assembly, C, C++, Java, Perl, or Python
• Minimum twelve (12) years of experience developing in one (1) or more of the following: Windows applications using Visual Studio or .NET environments; Unix/Linux applications using make files or comparable build environments
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience with programming CNO tools
• Minimum five (5) years of experience leading, managing, and or supervising teams in support of CNO capability development
• Minimum four (4) years of experience programming techniques to evade host and or network-based intrusion detection systems
• Minimum four (4) years of experience in network sockets programming, including developing packet-level programs; expert packet-level understanding of IP, TCP, and application-level protocols
• Expert ability in UNIX and or low-level Windows internals, including but not limited to the OS runtime linker/loader, object file formats (e.g., PE, COFF, ELF), file system internals (e.g., NTFS, ext2, btrfs), OS-specific mandatory and discretionary access control mechanisms, and or process and thread APIs and data structures.
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