Web Developer

Description 20 hours per week
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.
Web Development  The Web Development, which includes SharePoint Development, shall: a. Collaborate with team members, customers, service providers and developers to identify requirements; analyze to determine technical requirements b. Communicate with network personnel or web site hosting agencies to address hardware or software issues affecting web sites c. Confer with Customer to prioritize needs, resolve conflicts, and choose solutions d. Create searchable indices for web page content e. Create web models or prototypes that include physical, interface, logical, or data models f. Design and implement web site security measures such as firewalls or message encryption g. Design, build, or maintain web sites, using authoring or scripting languages, content creation tools, management tools, and digital media h. Develop databases that support web applications and web sites i. Develop system interaction or sequence diagrams j. Develop web site maps, application models, image templates, or page templates that meet project goals, user needs, or industry standards k. Document technical factors such as server load, bandwidth, database performance, and browser and device types l. Develop or validate test routines and schedules to ensure that test cases mimic external interfaces and address all browser and device types m. Execute unit and functional test plan and document test results n. Establish appropriate server directory trees o. Evaluate code to ensure that it is valid, is properly structured, meets industry standards and is compatible with browsers, devices, or operating systems p. Evaluate or recommend server hardware or software for Customer consideration q. Identify or maintain links to and from other web sites and check links to ensure proper functioning r. Identify problems uncovered by testing or customer feedback, and correct problems or refer problems to appropriate personnel for correction s. Incorporate technical considerations into web site design plans, such as budgets, equipment, performance requirements, or legal issues including accessibility and privacy t. Install and configure hypertext transfer protocol ( servers and associated operating systems u. Monitor security system performance logs to identify problems and notify security specialists when problems occur v. Perform web site tests according to planned schedules or after any web site or product revisions w. Provide clear, detailed descriptions of web site specifications such as product features, activities, software, communication protocols, programming languages, and operating systems software and hardware x. Recommend and implement performance improvements y. Register web sites with search engines to increase web site traffic z. Renew domain name registrations aa. Research, document, rate, or select alternatives for web architecture or technologies bb. Select programming languages, design tools, or applications cc. Write supporting code for web applications or web sites.
CORE COMPETENCIES: Web Development - Work to develop and deploy useful and visually compelling interfaces that display complex data and allows end users to interact and obtain key intelligence from data displayed. Qualifications Required Skills: 1. Demonstrated experience deploying and developing cloud-based systems from the ground up using CloudFormation and Cloud Development Kit (CDK) with knowledge of one or more services including: • Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) • Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) • Fargate • Application Load Balancer (ALB) • Simple Storage Service (S3) • Route53 • Relational Database Service (RDS) • Identity Access Management (IAM) • Simple Notification Service (SNS) • Simple Queue Service (SQS) • Lambda • Elastic Block Storage (EBS) • CloudWatch • CloudTrail • Config • Secret Manager • Key Management Service (KMS)
2. Demonstrated experience with deploying and developing Spark Streaming
3. Demonstrated experience developing and deploying machine learning algorithms with Scikit-Learn, SciPy and MUKH.
4. Demonstrated experience with developing user interfaces with Typescript using the Vue framework with the open-source Leaflet and PixiJS libraries.
5. Demonstrated experience using Node.js and a working understanding of UI hydration techniques.
6. Demonstrated experience using Git and Gitlab.
7. Demonstrated experience collecting and managing requirements from users in a formal and ad hoc manner.
8. Bachelor's Degree or 4 years' experience in Computer Science or related field.
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 Customer'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 a 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.



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