Remote Senior Software Developer, Cyber Analytics

ICF; Pensacola (FL); On-site; USD 119,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is actively recruiting for an experienced Senior Software Developer to support a large federal cyber security analytic program. The role emphasizes developing automated analytics, working with customers and researchers, and contributing to production systems under CI/CD practices.

The successful candidate will typically have 12+ years of software development experience or 10+ with a Master’s, strong Python and AWS serverless skills, and an active U.S. security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ or Master’s degree with 10+ years of experience in software development.
• Minimum 3 years of Python Development experience
• Minimum 3 years of professional development experience using AWS serverless architecture
• Familiarity with federal cybersecurity requirements
• Experience with a variety of analytics (e.g., file, network, host-based, etc.)
• Ability to prioritize and manage own workload
• Active security clearance required as part of client contract requirements
• US citizenship required due to contract requirements

Responsibilities

• Work closely with cyber personnel to understand manual analytic processes that are used to assist in the automation of those processes
• Create automated analytic capability sets (e.g., signature, behavioral, heuristic, anomalous, unsupervised-learning, predictive, and emerging)
• Develop new platforms to elicit operational effect
• Support the design, development, and deployment of production systems adhering to the CI/CD pipeline
• Post-deployment support of continuous analysis through the full lifecycle of the capabilities
• Perform functions associated with the analysis of information, refinement of analytics and countermeasure selection, reviewing output, and making upgrades/improvements to the performance of the analytics and countermeasures

Skills

Python Development

Cybersecurity knowledge

Analytical thinking

Time management

Education

Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years or Master’s with 10+ years in software development

Job description

ICF is actively recruiting for an experienced Senior Software Developer to support a large federal cyber security analytic program. The role emphasizes developing automated analytics, working with customers and researchers, and contributing to production systems under CI/CD practices.

The successful candidate will typically have 12+ years of software development experience or 10+ with a Master’s, strong Python and AWS serverless skills, and an active U.S. security clearance.