Cybersecurity Systems Engineer

Location: Herndon, Virginia Type: Contract Job 3336 Title: Cybersecurity Systems Engineer Location: Herndon, VA Clearance: Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense. We are seeking a driven and highly technical Cybersecurity Engineer in Herndon, VA. The Cybersecurity Engineer will support the Cyber Investigations team as a reverse engineer/software engineer. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Automation of data acquisition, processing and scanning. Develop and maintain malware sandboxes and software plugins to enable malware investigations. Ability to reverse code to determine malicious behavior or uncover IOCs for detection. Automation/Scripting for cloud investigations (investigative methodology for response and opensource tooling) Isolate, review, analyze and reverse-engineer malicious binaries to determine functionality and capability. Analyze samples and provide written technical reports related to the scope, nature, and characteristics of the malicious code. 4 years of experience in malware analysis, reverse engineering, digital forensics or related position Experience with Python Experience with Intel x86/x64 assembly Experience with Windows operating system & architecture Experience with static analysis tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra and Binary Ninja Experience with debugging tools such as x64Dbg and WinDbg Experience with virtualization, sandboxing, and emulation tools like VMware, KVM, QEMU and others Experience with programming languages such as C, C++, .NET, Java, etc. Active/Current TS/SCI with polygraph clearance Experience with additional operating systems such as Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, etc. Working knowledge of Computer Network Exploitation (CNE), Computer Network Attack (CNA) and Computer Network Defense (CND) tools and techniques Knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework Knowledge of common digital forensic techniques and practices Experience with additional architectures such as ARM/ARM32 and MIPS Experience with other operating system file formats, such as ELF Experience with development and/or scripting utilizing Python and/or other programming languages Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity or similar technical field of study, or 6 additional years of experience in lieu of degre