Cherokee Federal

Business Analyst

• Provide policy, program, and business analysis support to the Army Office of Energy Initiatives (OEI)
• Assess federal legislation, Executive Orders, OMB guidance, Army directives, Department of War requirements, and other regulatory drivers affecting program execution
• Evaluate governance, processes, and business operations to improve efficiency, accountability, coordination, and delivery
• Translate complex information into actionable recommendations, executive products, and management reports
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Senior Management Analyst

Salesforce Consultant

• Design and maintain Salesforce org configuration, including objects, fields, page layouts, record types, validation rules, and permission sets
• Build and optimize automation using Flows and maintain legacy Process Builder/Workflow rules
• Configure Salesforce using declarative tools, including Flow, approvals, validation rules, page layouts, and Lightning App Builder
• Ensure declarative automation is scalable, maintainable, governed, auditable, and compliant
• Present oral and written briefings to government managers
• Produce executive-ready summaries and decision-support materials
• Manage the Salesforce security model, including profiles, roles, sharing rules, and permission set groups
• Build and configure OmniStudio components, including FlexCards, OmniScripts, DataRaptors, and Integration Procedures
• Design guided user experiences and data-driven interfaces using OmniStudio
• Optimize Integration Procedures and DataRaptors for performance
• Troubleshoot and debug OmniStudio components across environments
• Develop and maintain Apex classes, triggers, and asynchronous processes
• Build Lightning Web Components and integrate them with OmniStudio
• Write and consume REST/SOAP integrations and external-system callouts
• Author Apex unit tests meeting code coverage and quality standards
• Participate in the full SDLC: requirements gathering, design, build, testing, and deployment
• Use Git and CI/CD tools such as SFDX, Gearset, and Copado for deployments
• Translate business requirements into scalable declarative or programmatic solutions
• Document technical designs, data flows, configuration decisions, business rules, and processes
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Backend Engineer

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain Kubernetes deployments supporting cloud-based microservices architectures in AWS EKS
• Automate application deployment and scaling processes to improve operational efficiency
• Monitor Kubernetes cluster health, troubleshoot technical issues, and ensure availability, reliability, and performance
• Collaborate with development teams to support CI/CD pipelines and provide guidance on containerized application best practices
• Implement Kubernetes security best practices, including network policies and disaster recovery processes
• Manage and support containerized applications and associated Kubernetes infrastructure
• Apply Kubernetes networking concepts, including CNI plugins and ingress controllers such as Kubernetes Gateway
• Use Helm and Kustomize to manage the application layer within Kubernetes
• Manage and use observability tools such as Grafana and Istio
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues within Kubernetes environments
• Stay current with new Kubernetes features and tools and integrate appropriate technologies as needed
• Collaborate with customers, development teams, and other cross-functional stakeholders
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Senior Kubernetes Engineer

Security Engineer

• Provide program management and technical cybersecurity support for the DOT/FHWA Cyber Security Management Support program
• Plan, implement, operate, monitor, and report on cybersecurity activities strengthening FHWA information-system security
• Develop and manage project plans, schedules, risk registers, issue logs, communications plans, quality plans, and related documentation
• Coordinate and oversee program activities, tasks, milestones, staffing, finances, deliverables, and performance
• Track deliverables, document rejection reasons, and manage corrective actions through resolution
• Prepare monthly quality, performance, and project-status reports and briefings
• Host project kick-off and monthly status-review meetings; prepare agendas, minutes, and action-item tracking
• Coordinate transition-in activities with Government personnel, incumbent contractors, and stakeholders
• Manage staffing, personnel acquisition and retention, training, and labor-category compliance
• Maintain quality-control processes and conduct peer reviews
• Recommend improvements to operational efficiency, cost effectiveness, cybersecurity effectiveness, and program value
• Provide cybersecurity expertise in incident handling, vulnerability detection, remediation planning, secure application development, cloud environments, and cloud services
• Support the ISSM in maintaining the appropriate operational Information Assurance posture
• Review Elasticsearch logs and investigate cybersecurity incidents
• Support FHWA DevSecOps implementation and static-code vulnerability-scanner integration and management
• Maintain FHWA network, asset, group, and custom-group inventory in the DOT CDM BigFix tool
• Conduct and analyze vulnerability and compliance scans across Linux, Windows, and virtual environments
• Identify, assess, track, and support remediation of web application, database, network, and infrastructure vulnerabilities
• Perform dynamic web application security testing
• Maintain FHWA core-system documentation and support Authorization to Operate and privacy documentation
• Support FISMA, CFO, OIG, and GAO audits, evaluations, data calls, and inquiries
• Track and report audit findings, corrective actions, status, and resolutions
• Execute Information System Contingency Plan testing and provide contingency training
• Support tabletop and functional contingency tests, backup and recovery activities, and NIST contingency-planning guidance
• Analyze cloud-system security controls and support compliance with Federal cloud-security requirements
• Provide cybersecurity guidance and programmatic assistance to system owners, business sponsors, developers, infrastructure teams, and IT operations personnel
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Project Lead – Senior Information System Security Specialist

Operations

• Provide cybersecurity and Information Assurance expertise in support of the Agency’s Security Program
• Support cybersecurity incident-handling activities
• Assist with vulnerability detection and develop vulnerability-remediation strategies
• Provide expertise on secure application-development techniques
• Support secure baseline configuration validation, security audit-log monitoring, and static-code vulnerability scanner integration and management
• Support the security portion of DevSecOps implementation
• Develop and maintain cybersecurity architecture diagrams
• Develop processes, procedures, and Standard Operating Procedures for DevSecOps and cybersecurity activities
• Maintain inventories of network ranges, assets, groups, and custom groups in the DOT CDM BigFix tool
• Assist with remediation of cybersecurity issues identified through security reports
• Maintain core system documentation, technical guides, baseline-management documentation, and checklists
• Maintain and update cybersecurity handbooks, secure configuration procedures, incident-handling procedures, threat/vulnerability/risk monitoring SOPs, and continuous-monitoring risk management plans
• Coordinate with functional teams to collect audit and evaluation documentation and artifacts
• Draft responses for FISMA, CFO, OIG, GAO, and other audits or evaluations; track and report findings and recommendations
• Support Government suspense dates, cybersecurity data calls, and other Government inquiries
• Provide programmatic cybersecurity assistance and guidance to system owners
• Execute information-system contingency-plan testing per NIST guidance; provide training, capture lessons learned, and track corrective actions
• Support updates to information-system contingency plans based on testing results
• Review suspicious log activity to identify, investigate, and support response to cybersecurity incidents
• Help personnel understand ISCP roles and system-recovery responsibilities
• Support risk analysis and mitigation activities
• Provide recommendations addressing cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and risks
• Assist with cybersecurity awareness communications and outreach
• Perform other job-related duties within the program scope

Senior Cybersecurity Operations Analyst

Cloud Engineer

• Provide overall technical leadership and direction for cloud computing implementation efforts
• Support cloud-based solution design, development, migration, foundational cloud services, and cloud adoption initiatives
• Lead cloud pilot efforts and develop architectural concepts and models for federal government environments
• Support adoption of serverless cloud architecture related to DevSecOps and cloud adoption
• Support automation through DevSecOps, USDA eAuth integration, and Azure Security Center
• Support application intake into the CIO portfolio
• Strategically assess existing applications for support and service needs against CIO standards
• Conduct application rationalization
• Develop modernization plans and technical roadmaps
• Lead technical discussions with business owners
• Develop architecture diagrams
• Present solution recommendations for business problems in compliance with USDA/FS IT standards and investments
• Document new application needs and estimate resource requirements where directed
• Recommend opportunities to CIO management for avoiding duplicate systems, applications, and interfaces
• Draft CIO application support plans, including architecture diagrams
• Draft resource support plans with Scrum Master or Project Manager, detailing resources, skills, duration, and sequencing
• Present solution architecture to the architecture review board and/or CAB as needed
• Participate in weekly CIO meetings
• Document architecture tasks in GitHub

Senior App Solutions Cloud Architect

Director

• Develop integrated cost and price strategies for top-tier competitive pursuits from opportunity qualification through proposal submission
• Articulate bid and execution strategy nuances, including associated risks and rewards
• Establish independent assessments of competitive cost and price position, including price-to-win ranges, uncertainty, assumptions, sensitivities, and key risks
• Translate competitive price objectives into actionable targets and trade spaces for Engineering, Program Management, Capture, and executive leadership
• Identify technical, programmatic, contractual, financial, and supply-chain factors driving program cost
• Work with Solutions and Program Management teams to evaluate alternative technical and execution approaches that improve affordability while preserving customer value, mission performance, and execution credibility
• Assess whether bid strategies are supported by credible execution strategies and identify disconnects
• Distinguish competitive bid assumptions, executable program assumptions, and unsupported assumptions that may transfer risk into post-award execution
• Conduct scenario, sensitivity, and trade-space analyses affecting cost and price position
• Evaluate staffing, skill mix, productivity, schedules, development and integration strategies, risk-retirement approaches, and execution assumptions
• Challenge historical approaches and organizational assumptions that create uncompetitive cost structures
• Challenge aggressive pursuit assumptions that are not technically, programmatically, or financially credible
• Evaluate opportunities involving architecture, requirements, scope, schedule, staffing, productivity, make/buy decisions, supply chain, contract structure, fee, and risk
• Develop recommendations for executive decision points, articulating tradeoffs among probability of win, customer value, technical performance, execution risk, cost, price, and business outcomes
• Partner closely with Pricing while maintaining organizational independence; Pricing retains formal pricing process, model, validation, compliance, and submitted pricing responsibilities
• Partner closely with Capture while independently evaluating affordability and executability
• Use lessons learned and actual program performance to improve cost assumptions, estimating relationships, competitive assessments, and pursuit strategies
• Present independent findings and recommendations to senior and executive leadership
• Perform other assigned duties

Director, Corporate Cost and Price Strategy

QA Engineer

• Develop, maintain, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts across Salesforce configuration, customization, and integration work throughout the release lifecycle
• Work with government leads and Product Owners to understand acceptance criteria, clarify testing scope, and confirm release timing for new enhancement requests
• Perform functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing (UAT) support across sprints and Salesforce releases
• Validate declarative configuration and automation, including Flow, approvals, validation rules, page layouts, and Lightning App Builder
• Test custom development, including Apex, Lightning Web Components, and triggers, and perform backend validation using SOQL
• Validate integrations between Salesforce and external systems, including MuleSoft, REST/SOAP APIs, and middleware
• Log, track, and manage defects through resolution using Jira or Azure DevOps; document reproduction steps, severity, and expected versus actual results
• Verify data integrity, migrations, and reporting/dashboard accuracy, including exception paths and operational reporting needs
• Support Salesforce Public Sector Solutions activities, release readiness, deployment validation across sandboxes and production, and post-cutover stabilization
• Ensure test coverage and QA practices are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with governance, auditability, and compliance expectations
• Present oral and written briefings to government managers and produce executive-ready test summaries, defect reports, and quality status updates
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Salesforce Quality Assurance Tester

Support Engineer

• Provide support services to reduce a backlog of FOIA requests and reduce overall FOIA response times
• Access pre-scanned images of the records containing the information requested in the FOIA/PA request
• Validate the requestor entitlement for the information requested, redacting information and applying exemptions as necessary, preparing the appropriate responses, and electronically submitting to Government staff for approvals
• Verify responsive records correspond to request and correct subject
• Update the case note file
• Perform other job related duties as assigned

FOIA Analyst – Surge Support

Analyst

• Access pre-scanned images of the records containing the information requested in the FOIA/PA request.
• Validate the requestor entitlement for the information requested, redacting information and applying exemptions as necessary, preparing the appropriate responses, and electronically submitting to Government staff for approvals.
• Details of verification and review include information such as:
• - Subject/Requester name, address, information for accuracy.
• - Review Discussions.
• - Review Case Supporting Docs and/or Requester Docs.
• - If a correctional facility, do not print to CD (when applicable).
• - Confirm Consent, when applicable, dependent on the nature of the case.
• - Verify responsive records correspond to request and correct subject.
• - Determine if the request is a FOIA or PA.
• - Update the case note file.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

FOIA Analyst

Communications

• Provide technical editorial and writing support for a variety of materials, including social media posts, CDC INFO press releases, surveillance and webpage metrics reports, talking points, email blasts, factsheets, and PowerPoint presentations.
• Support and guide the implementation of public health communication projects, such as CDC’s Clean Slate initiative within CDC Moving Forward, along with other educational and communication activities.
• Develops timely and accurate training materials (job aids, PowerPoints, flow charts, videos, etc.) for port health station and external partners; delivers training during live and recorded training sessions with port health station staff.
• Analyze data from DGMH webpages and PDFs, writing comprehensive reports and presentations for the division (e.g., Quarterly Webpage Metrics Report, Communication Surveillance Reports).
• Attend and participate in meetings and training related to CDC Clean Slate and Digital First Editor; share key takeaways with the Office of the Director (OD) Communications team.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders—including health communicators, subject matter experts, program specialists, policy advisors, and directors—to identify strategic communication priorities and develop actionable items to support OD Comms and Branch Communicators.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Health Communications Specialist

Security Analyst

• Monitor and analyze security events utilizing Splunk Enterprise Security (ES).
• Build, maintain, and tune Splunk searches, correlation rules, alerts, and dashboards.
• Conduct incident response activities from detection through containment, eradication, recovery, and closure.
• Investigate endpoint security incidents utilizing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
• Perform endpoint policy management and incident investigations.
• Assess AWS cloud security telemetry utilizing GuardDuty, Security Hub, and related cloud security services.
• Identify threats, vulnerabilities, suspicious activity, and cloud misconfigurations.
• Execute alert triage, incident scoping, and escalation activities according to established playbooks.
• Recommend updates and improvements to operational procedures and incident response playbooks.
• Support threat hunting activities and detection engineering initiatives aligned to MITRE ATT&CK methodologies.
• Perform phishing investigations, alert enrichment, and forensic review activities.
• Conduct root cause analysis and document corrective actions following security incidents.
• Track incidents and operational tasks utilizing case management systems.
• Participate in tabletop exercises and operational readiness activities.
• Collaborate with Security Operations teams, Incident Response personnel, and federal stakeholders.
• Prepare reports and communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Cybersecurity Analyst

• Perform task management via ETMS2
• Coordinate task extension requests on behalf of DHA
• Pull reports as necessary
• Coordinate with Agency POCs for task assistance
• Conducts organizational studies and evaluations.
• Conducts work simplification and measurement studies.
• Prepares operations and procedures manuals to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

• Lead projects from prioritization through concept development and user story writing to supporting development, testing, and deployment.
• Work with government leads to manage scope of new project enhancement requests; clarify objectives, constraints, acceptance criteria, and release timing.
• Work with Product Owner and users to determine operational objectives of business needs and elicit requirements.
• Identify core business needs and decompose and document them in concepts of operation, story maps, briefings, and user stories; document business rules and construct workflow diagrams as needed.
• Translate complex business processes into clear and actionable user stories with thorough acceptance criteria, including exception paths and operational reporting needs.
• Support Salesforce Classic to Lightning migration activities, including discovery, gap analysis, Lightning experience redesign, readiness planning, and post-cutover stabilization.
• Configure and optimize Salesforce using declarative tools, with emphasis on Flow (record-triggered, screen flows, scheduled flows), approvals, validation rules, page layouts, and Lightning App Builder to reduce manual work and improve operational efficiency.
• Ensure declarative automation is scalable, maintainable, and aligned with governance, auditability, and compliance expectations in a regulated environment.
• Present formal and informal oral and written briefings to government managers; produce executive-ready summaries and decision support materials.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.