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Sr. CNO Developer

Shadowgate Partners, Inc.

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Annapolis Junction, MD
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Job Description

Base salary is $277,230, supported by an exceptionally strong retirement benefit. 401(k): 25% employer contribution, vested immediately ($69,308 per year).

Total compensation: $346,538 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contribution).

Our client is seeking a Sr. CNO Developer to take a leading role in designing, developing, testing, and maintaining advanced computer network operations (CNO) capabilities for high-priority mission requirements. The developer sets the technical direction on their work, mentors junior team members, and makes sure tools are ready for operational success.

Key responsibilities

Capability development:
- Take a leading role in designing, developing, testing, and maintaining advanced CNO capabilities for
high-priority mission requirements.
- Build in Windows (Visual Studio/.NET) and UNIX build environments.
- Make sure tools are ready for operational success before they are delivered.

Technical leadership:
- Bring senior technical expertise to design and implementation decisions.
- Mentor junior team members.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate is a senior CNO developer with deep systems programming and telecom experience
who naturally takes the technical lead and brings others along.

Required:
- Bachelor's degree plus 8 years of experience, master's degree plus 6 years, or 12 years of relevant
experience in the field.
- 6+ years programming in Assembly, C, C++, Java, Perl, and/or Python.
- 5+ years developing Windows applications (Visual Studio or .NET) and/or UNIX applications (make files
or comparable build environments).
- 4+ years programming CNO tools and techniques.
- Experience with 3GPP specifications and 4G/5G infrastructure.
- Understanding of network protocols and sockets, common CNO techniques, exploit mitigations such as
DEP and ASLR, and modern software engineering concepts.
- Experience with reverse engineering frameworks (e.g., IDA Pro, Ghidra, OllyDbg) and disassemblers/debuggers.
- TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph.

Compensation and benefits

Base salary is $277,230, supported by an exceptionally strong retirement benefit. 401(k): 25% employer contribution, vested immediately ($69,308 per year).

Total compensation: $346,538 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contribution).
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