MTS-C Software Engineer

ABOUT THE SEI:
This position is for the world-renowned CERT Coordination Center. The CERT/CC is a major international reporting center for Internet security problems. Staff members provide technical advice and coordinate responses to security compromises, identify trends in intruder activity, work with other security experts to identify solutions to security problems, and disseminate information to the broad community. The CERT/CC also analyzes product vulnerabilities, publishes technical documents, conducts research, and presents training courses.

SUMMARY:
The Information Operations team within the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) facilitates the flow of security threat information between stakeholders, including internal technical analysis teams, vendors, partners, sponsors, researchers, and other collaborators. We are staffing a small team that will be responsible for the architecture, design, development, and deployment of systems to collect, aggregate, and summarize security information from a variety of public and private sources and then dynamically redistribute that information and subsequent analyses to interested parties.

The successful candidate will serve as a hands-on technical leader in the architecture, design, development, and deployment of a variety of systems that support the CERT/CC?s core business activities. In general we will be applying web services and SOA concepts to our development efforts. The individual in this position will be responsible for a combination of in-house development and integration of 3rd-party (including open-source) systems.


MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education/Training: BS in Computer Science or Software Engineering with eight (8) years of applicable experience, MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering with five (5) years of applicable experience, or PhD in Computer Science or Software Engineering with 3 years applicable experience.

Experience: Candidates should have at least three (3) years of experience in developing enterprise applications within a small team and will be able to demonstrate experience in:
- full-lifecycle development from conceptual design to deployment
- systems integration
- the creation of mission-critical information storage and retrieval systems (e.g., CRM, financial, or publishing systems)
- use of source code control, configuration management, and problem tracking tools


Skills/Abilities: Successful candidates will:
- apply sound software engineering practices to system design and development (e.g., systematic approach to system specification, architecture, design, development and documentation of code, configuration management, inspections and testing, packaging and deployment)
- be expert in at least one enterprise-class language (e.g., Java, C++, C)
- have significant experience in other high-level languages (e.g., Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP)
- interact effectively with others via both written and verbal communications
- take a leadership role in technical projects


Mobility: Primarily sedentary, long periods of sitting, some bending, stretching and lifting up to several reams of paper. May have to travel to other campus locations, travel to customer sites.

Environmental Conditions: Normal office conditions; however, close contact with CRT for prolonged periods of time.

Other: Candidate must pass a background investigation, be eligible to obtain a United States DoD Secret Clearance, and be a U.S. citizen.


ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

(1) Participate in the analysis, architecture, design, prototyping, development, and deployment of software tools to support CERT/CC?s operational mission.

(2) Perform some project management for small-team development efforts.

(3) Contribute to conferences and meetings; participate in strategy discussions; contribute to customer presentations; stay up to date in software engineering methods and tools.



To apply, please go to the Careers@CarnegieMellon site at: https://secured.kenexa.com/cmu/cc/Home.ss and apply directly to position 1835.