CYBERSPACE WARFARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

Skills

Years of Experience

1. Master’s degree in engineering, systems engineering or computer science. A bachelor’s degree and 5 years of recent experience in system engineering, capability development and implementation in a military context will be considered in lieu of a master’s degree.

2. Professional cyberspace-related certification in CIS security and cyber defence disciplines, as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Security Expert or ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

3. Proven recent (at least five within the last ten years) post-degree hands-on experience in authoring specifications, architectures, functional analysis and designs, preferably in the area of military information and cyber systems (Experience at the level of management, overseeing, participating, supporting or using shall not be accounted for).

4. Post-degree hands-on experience in architecture development, preferably using NATO Architectural Framework (NAF) or similar standard (e.g. TOGAF), and preferably applied to military/NATO systems. Experience at the level of management, overseeing, participating, supporting or using shall not be accounted for.

5. Post-degree hands-on experience (team management, oversight, contribution, support or use will not suffice) in the development/coding of large software systems (> $50M and > 100,000 lines of code) preferably for cyberspace operations capabilities (including cyber situational awareness, cyber-Command and Control, Cyber Threat Intelligence), including rapid prototyping and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) development.

6. Hands-on experience, at the level of developer and programmer (team manager, architect, contributor, support, user community, etc. will not suffice) of complex tools and applications using the following technologies (do not score on technologies for abilities are less than at the “expert” level):

a. DevSecOps

b. Cloud services (Azure, AWS, etc.)

c. Containers (Docker, Kubernets) and Virtual Machines (VMware, Hyper-V, etc.)

d. Development environments (GitHub / GitLab, VS, etc.)

e. Programming languages (Python, Java, etc.)

f. Databases and Data Lakes (AWS S3, SQL, etc.)

g. AI for development / AI coding / Vibe coding (Cursor, Replit, GitHub Copilot, Lovable, etc.)

7. Participation of 5 or more years (during the last 7) in large program teams, preferably related to the development of military cyberspace capabilities, in two or more of the following roles:

a. engineering team management

b. systems engineering (requirements, architectures, design)

c. product development

d. planning and coordination of large multinational events