CORTEK® Inc. is committed to recruiting, developing and retaining teams of diverse Subject Matter Experts that will provide our customers with the Core Technical expertise they need to be successful. At CORTEK, we believe that our future is in the hands of our employees and we know that our customers give us the toughest of their challenges and they “Expect Success” from us, each and every time.
Our diverse team of talented professionals “Delivers Success.”
OPENINGS
International Relations Project Manager (Rosslyn, VA)
(Full Time; Travel 50%)
CORTEK, Inc. is seeking a highly-qualified individual to join our consultant team in the field of National Security Policy and Strategy at the Project Manager level. The candidate will join a dynamic team as a strategic advisor to a Department of State foreign engagements program, providing innovative ideas for delivering on the DOS mission at the strategic and implementation level. The candidate will develop processes for engaging foreign partners in the areas of CBRN/WMD assistance and emergency response, and provide the DOS client with expert analysis to build relationships, develop solutions, and create sustainable products.
This individual will be the onsite Team Lead and has responsibility for overseeing the activities of the contract requirements on a day-to-day basis. The individual will oversee efforts of the Program’s engagement portfolio and shall possess broad knowledge and experience with CBRN matters. Responsible for project schedules and coordinating the efforts of the other full-time contract employees on the team.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and provide support to implementation of international engagements
- Provide day-to day operational and contract admin support
- Develop strategic end-states and implementation plans
- International Affairs Analysis
- Write reports and prepare Briefings
- Draft and disseminate policy guidance
Required Education/Certifications
- Minimum BA/BS in International Relations, Public Health, Emergency Management, National Security, Business, or related field.
Required Skills/Experience
- 5+ years of experience in CBRN, WMD, Counter Terrorism, or International Relations.
- Experience working and interacting with government officials in DoD, DOS, DOE, and DHS.
- Experience using Microsoft Office Suite.
- Management and/or leadership of staff
- Active Secret Security Clearance Required
Desired Skills/Experience
- Highly motivated self-starter with ability to work independently.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Critical thinking and creative problem solving.
- Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Possession of excellent analytical skills.
- Foreign language capabilities are preferred.
- Experience with maintaining budgets and forecasting costs
- Experience coordinating and conducting international travel
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects
- Experience drafting and implementing national level policy
Junior Analyst/Regional Coordinator (Rosslyn, VA)
(Full Time)
CORTEK, Inc. is seeking a highly qualified individual to join our consultant team in the field of National Security Policy and Strategy at the Junior Consultant level. The candidate will join a dynamic team as a strategic advisor to a Department of State foreign engagements program, providing innovative ideas for delivering on the DOS mission at the strategic and implementation level. The candidate will develop processes for engaging foreign partners in the areas of CBRN/WMD assistance and emergency response, and provide the DOS client with expert analysis to build relationships, develop solutions, and create sustainable products. This position is located in Rosslyn at the Department of State Building.
Responsibilities
- Manage multi-year complex foreign assistance programs with foreign governments.
- Conduct table top exercises on CBRN and WMD response architectures.
- Attend U.S. Interagency meetings to discuss DOS priorities and foreign policy strategy.
- Draft national level policy on CBRN and WMD issues.
- Conduct assessments of foreign government CBRN and WMD capabilities.
- Provide logistical support for international travel and conferences.
Desired Skills
- Highly motivated self-starter with ability to work independently.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Critical thinking and creative problem solving.
- Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Possession of excellent analytical skills.
- Foreign language capabilities are preferred, but not required.
Required Education and Skills
- Minimum BA/BS in international relations, Chemistry, Biology, Public Health, Emergency Management, National Security, or Business.
- 2+ years of experience in a professional work environment.
- Experience working and interacting with government officials in DoD, DOS, DOE, and DHS.
- Experience using Microsoft Office Suite.
- Active Secret Security Clearance.
Analyst/Writer (Northern Virginia)
This position provides program support to a Department of Defense (DoD) customer. Efforts include assisting the team with writing and editing programmatic documentation and assisting with report development.
Required Education/Certifications
- High School graduate (with 5 years of experience) or Bachelor Degree with 0+ years of experience. A degree in Business, English or Logistics is a plus.
Required Skills/Experience
- Ability to write well given a template and relevant information
- Ability to plan, organize and execute all aspects of required support functions
- Record of high performance; work and/or academic
- Good verbal skills
- Professional appearance and demeanor
- Proficient with the MS Office Suite
- Ability to obtain a secret clearance
Desired Skills/Experience
- USMC Program Office Experience
- Familiarity with TFSMS and TLCM-OST
- Working knowledge of DoD 5000 series acquisition documents and the DoD acquisition process
- Defense Acquisition University (DAU) courses
- Program Management Professional (PMP)
CBRN Planner (Northern Virginia)
(Full Time; DoS)
The CBRN Planner supports a Department of State client in the design and implementation of an International CBRN Response framework. The CBRN planner provides research and analysis in interagency overseas response capabilities; threat credibility evaluations; scenario development for exercises; concept development for deployable capabilities; drafts, edits, and reviews national level policy documents; and participates as an overseas-deployable member of the Department of State CBRN Incident Response Team, including crisis locations and austere environments. (Candidates will be required to have or obtain a security clearance.)
Required/Desired Education
- Must have a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree from an accredited institution in political science, international relations, consequence or emergency management, or equivalent professional experience.
Required/Desired Experience
- Must have demonstrated the ability to write policy and decision making documents for senior USG leaders.
- Must have demonstrated the ability to think critically and apply analytical skills to problem solving in a government environment.
- Prior military service with CBRN or Combatting Weapons of Mass Destruction experience on an operational or strategic level staff highly desirable.
Desired Skills/Experience
- Must be knowledgeable about and have the ability to articulate accurately and completely CBRN technical and planning concepts and capabilities at joint working groups and scenario development and strategy meetings.
- Must be able to travel on short notice and stay for extended periods in crisis areas and austere environments supporting the USG in providing foreign partners with assistance.
- Must understand the USG policy documents for CBRN response and Combatting WMD.
- Must be knowledgeable of Department of State’s general mission; as well as U.S. Interagency CWMD community, policies, and doctrine, particularly DoD current implementing documents, orders, instructions, regulations, and joint doctrine.
- Must have strong knowledge of the principles of emergency management such as the National Incident Management System, Incident Command System, and the National Response Framework, as well as familiarity with exercises and scenario development in an OCONUS environment.
- Must have the ability to coordinate with other organizations regarding proposed future concepts and the impact those concepts will have on the clients mission.
- Shall possess a current SECRET security clearance, with the ability to gain a TS/SCI based on at least an SSBI.
- Experience using Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability (HPAC) and Area Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres (Aloha) and other current WMD computer simulations modeling tools.
- Possess ability to develop plausible threat scenarios and provide coherent reports on vulnerabilities and mitigation measures.
- Capability to prepare and present informational material regarding WMD and hazardous materials.
- Possesses an understanding of DoD and Federal, State and local doctrine and guidelines on WMD defense and associated security, safety, and reliability programs.
- Understand force protection and emergency management programs as they apply to managing WMD incidents and response measures and be knowledgeable of current WMD/CBRNE R&D programs.
- Knowledge of health effects, CBRN/Hazmat detection, identification sampling, Emergency Response and Consequence Management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
- Preparation of power-point presentations, reports, and white papers.
Technical Writer/Editor (Northern Virginia)
Required Education/ Professional Certifications
- A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in an engineering, scientific, business, or technical discipline or five (5) years of relevant experience.
Required Experience
- Minimum of two (2) years of experience in gathering, analyzing, and composing technical information into clear, readable documents to be used by technical and non-technical personnel.
- Minimum of two (2) years of experience in composing technical documents including, user’s manuals, training materials, installation guides, and reports in accordance with technical documentation guidelines and standards.
- Minimum of two (2) years of experience in editing functional descriptions, system specifications, user’s manuals, special reports, or any other customer deliverables and documents ensuring grammatical correctness.
Desired Experience
- Experience conducting research and ensuring use of proper technical terminology.
- Experience with editing functional descriptions, system specifications, user’s manuals, special reports, or any other customer deliverables and documents ensuring grammatical correctness.
Network Enabled Mission Command (NEMC) Analyst (Northern Virginia)
(Full-Time)
Will serve as an advisor to Government personnel on all specified aspects of Network Enabled Mission Command (NEMC) operational capabilities and activities. Responsibilities include:
- Provide military/resource analysis, supporting the prioritization, synchronization, and integration of Army MC, tactical networks, and Information Technology Portfolios.
- Will also be responsible for strategic planning, requirements /capabilities development, test and evaluation events (if applicable), integration and acquisition management of MC and Network enabling systems. Review and analyze operational impacts of requirements/capabilities development, testing and evaluation plans (as applicable), resourcing, testing, and acquisition.
- Attend meetings and workgroups, develop and present briefings.
Required/Desired Education
- A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and 6 years of relevant experience or 10 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
Required/Desired Experience
- At least 6 years of progressive experience in how the Army operates, to include Army staff experience, from both an operational and financial perspective.
- Working knowledge and experience in Army and Joint Capabilities Integrated Development Systems (JCIDS) / requirements approval process, Army resourcing processes (Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE), Army test and evaluation processes (if applicable), and Department/Army acquisition processes especially as these processes apply to the Mission Command (Command and Control) and Networked / Information Technology Systems and portfolios.
- Expertise in tactical radio systems and tactical satellite communications systems.
- Ability to simultaneous management of multiple complex tasks and activities.
- Demonstrated history of developing innovative solutions for complex issues.
- Understanding of Army organization, Joint doctrine and OSD processes.
- Ability to prepare HQDA EXORDS and prepare/brief statistical data, prepare reports, briefings, executive summaries, information papers and command level correspondence, and present briefings to General Officers.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
Cyber Engineer (Northern Virginia)
(Full Time)
(Candidates will be required to have or obtain a security clearance.)
Required/Desired Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or Computer/Software
Required Experience
- Engineering from an accredited institution (or at least ten (10) years of specialized experience in the following areas) plus at least four (4) years of directly related experience in three of the following areas:
A. Technical cyber defense issues to include Computer Network Attack (CNA), Computer Network Defense (CND), Computer Network Defense-Response Actions (CND-RA), Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) and Computer Network Operations (CNO).
B. Analysis of advanced cyber threats, network defense environments and Intelligence Community capabilities.
C. Vulnerability analysis and assessments for cyber missions.
D. Computer Network Defense (CND) Infrastructure Support, Penetration Testing, Computer Forensics, Reverse Engineering, Information, Assurance Compliance, Systems Requirements Planning, Systems Development, Software Engineering, Test and Evaluation, Enterprise Architecture, Network Services, Systems Security Analysis.
Senior Cyber Analyst (Northern Virginia)
(Full Time)
(Candidates will be required to have or obtain a security clearance.)
Required Experience
Five (5) years specialized experience performing work in at least four of the following areas:
A. Defense Information System Agency (DISA) network management tool sets that are utilized to monitor and manage the Defense Information System Network (DISN) and other enterprise services.
B. DoD Computer Network Defense (CND) data and tool sets.
C. Network Management and Network Operations Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
D. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and other Industrial Control Systems and analyzing and assessing these systems.
E. Network management tool sets used to monitor and manage Commercial Provider enterprise services.
F. Comprehensive gap analysis of policy, procedures, and configurations.
G. Analysis of advanced cyber threats, network defense environments and Intelligence Community capabilities.
Cyber Analyst (Northern Virginia)
(Full time)
(Candidates will be required to have or obtain a security clearance.)
Required Experience
Two (2) years of specialized experience performing work in at least two of the following areas:
A. Defense Information System Agency (DISA) network management tool sets that are utilized to monitor and manage the Defense Information System Network (DISN) and other enterprise services.
B. DoD Computer Network Defense (CND) data and tool sets.
C. Network Management and Network Operations Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
D. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and other Industrial Control Systems and analyzing and assessing these systems.
E. Network management tool sets used to monitor and manage Commercial Provider enterprise services.
F. Comprehensive gap analysis of policy, procedures, and configurations.
G. Analysis of advanced cyber threats, network defense environments and Intelligence Community capabilities.
If interested in a position, you can contact:
Melanie McCauley
Northern Virginia Recruiter
CORTEK, Inc.
Email: mmccauley@cortek.com
Phone: 540-891-8315
Fax: 540-891-5320
Betsy Chase
Fredericksburg Recruiter
CORTEK, Inc.
Email: bchase@cortek.com
Phone: 540-891-8315
Fax: 540-891-5320
