Cyber Capability Developer-TS/SCI (Cybersecurity)

Location: Washington, DC metropolitan area, United States. On-site support is required based on customer access, system classification, and mission needs; the schedule is hybrid subject to customer direction and secure-environment access requirements. Travel may be required for mission workshops, technical working sessions, or program activities.

Company

Mission-focused consulting organization delivering cybersecurity and technical solutions for Federal challenges while prioritizing employee well-being and collaboration.

What you will do

• Design, provision, and maintain high-availability, multi-platform digital forensic tooling for incident response and threat analysis.
• Translate analytical and operational requirements into secure software utilities for constrained mission environments.
• Develop secure data-ingest pipelines, data-processing utilities, and automation that accelerate incident triage while protecting evidence integrity.
• Integrate commercial, GOTS, and custom-developed applications across mixed-vendor technical environments.
• Implement security hardening, secure coding, automated testing, logging, quality checks, and resilient delivery practices.
• Establish version control and CI/CD pipelines for capability builds, testing, deployment, patching, configuration updates, and rollback.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of relevant experience in cyber capability development, software engineering, digital forensics, systems automation, or a related discipline.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, software engineering, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
• U.S. Citizenship is required, with eligibility to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance with SCI access.
• Advanced proficiency in modern programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java, C#, Go, or Rust, including interfaces with user- and kernel-level components.
• Experience with software design, debugging, unit and integration testing, centralized source control, CI/CD, automated deployment, and configuration management.
• Experience with secure coding, forensic data handling, vulnerability remediation, security controls, automated quality checks, and collaboration with security and incident-response professionals.

Nice to have

• Experience developing cyber capabilities or digital forensic tooling for Federal, law enforcement, intelligence, cyber, or other mission-critical environments.
• Experience with high-availability, multi-platform systems in cloud, hybrid, or restricted operational environments.
• Experience with Git-based workflows, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, APIs, data stores, identity services, and automated patching.
• Current TS/SCI clearance and experience supporting secure on-site environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-focused work emphasizing curiosity, technical judgment, practical problem solving, shared ownership, and inclusive collaboration.
• Generous paid time off and federal holidays.
• Parental leave and comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
• 401(k) with company match, FSA/HSA options, and commuter benefits.