Associate CNO Developer

About the role

MANTECH is looking for a highly motivated and qualified Associate CNO Developer in San Antonio, TX. This rewarding and challenging position supports the Department of War (DoW) to produce a wide range of capabilities to improve cyberspace operations and defend U.S. vital national security interests.

Responsibilities

• Perform research and development (R&D) of a software system that uses automated vulnerability research (AVR) to perform multi-faceted code analysis to discover security vulnerabilities within binary files across multiple architectures.
• Apply automation, expert systems, knowledge management, pattern recognition, machine learning, and other autonomous methods and techniques with a focus on:
• Automation of the vulnerability discovery within set(s) of binary files that span multiple architectures and come from a variety of sources and/or products.
• Capture the knowledge and insights of vulnerability researchers by using automation and data to apply characterization rules to identify security vulnerabilities.
• Suitability for weaponization of discovered vulnerabilities into operational code capable of delivering an effect.
• Design Application Programming Interface (API) workflows and develop APIs for secure intercommunication of technologies.
• Perform analysis of monolithic applications and system components and construct designs for modernizing and migrating applications and frontend/backend system code to a microservice-based architecture.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Kubernetes Operators to deploy containerized applications to a Kubernetes-based platform with AWS or similar cloud environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related major.
• Knowledge of computer architectures and assembly languages.
• Demonstrated experience with Python and scripting languages.
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker.
• Demonstrated experience with source control and code repository tools.
• Must be able to obtain TS/SCI security clearance.
• Physical requirements:
• Must be able to be in a stationary position more than 50% of the time.
• Must be able to communicate, converse, and exchange information with peers and senior personnel.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a computer.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of compiler theory.
• Knowledge of operating system design and function.