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Radiant Solutions is seeking an independent proficient Systems Administrator to help our team in Springfield, VA support our customer. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology and able to learn quickly. The focus of this position will be to contribute to the development of the data management, user workflow, security authentication, and service call architecture code that comprises a family of applications built on this software suite. Additionally, tasking will include work with a team of analysts and technologists on emerging data science techniques, and contributions to important endeavors to address critical needs of the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and other government agencies.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Experience administering Kibana, and Jupyter Notebooks
- Experience submitting SWAP requests, installing software and updates, and IRQ/CRQ
- Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages
- Experience with development tools such as Git, Eclipse, IDEA
- Experience with Linux
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment
- Experience with Webservers and securing web applications
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Radiant Solutions is seeking an independent proficient Systems Administrator to help our team in Springfield, VA support our customer. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology and able to learn quickly. The focus of this position will be to contribute to the development of the data management, user workflow, security authentication, and service call architecture code that comprises a family of applications built on this software suite. Additionally, tasking will include work with a team of analysts and technologists on emerging data science techniques, and contributions to important endeavors to address critical needs of the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and other government agencies.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of relevant experience
- Experience administering Kibana, and Jupyter Notebooks
- Experience submitting SWAP requests, installing software and updates, and IRQ/CRQ
- Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages
- Experience with development tools such as Git, Eclipse, IDEA
- Experience with Linux
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment
- Experience with Webservers and securing web applications
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Radiant Solutions is growing and we are looking for motivated data evangelists who are passionate about delivering new and innovative solutions for our customers. The ideal candidate needs limited direction, is passionate about technology and is curious about earth sensing and the new space economy.
We are seeking a data scientist for our applied modeling team.
- You will be applying the latest machine learning techniques to extract insights from geospatial data.
- You will have access to an enormous corpus of training data and will work to build the best models through bake-offs, hyperparameter searching, and incremental learning techniques.
- You will quantitatively assess model performance and document the overall life-cycle.
- You will work with other members of the data science and engineering teams to improve data science products and experiences.
- Additionally, you will be developing rapid prototype solutions as needed for the focused collection, parsing, managing, analyzing, and visualizing large sets of disparate data to extract meaningful insights.
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- Install, configure, and maintain Unix-based operating systems.
- Analyze and resolve problems associated with the server hardware, storage, network, and applications
- Install and administer security controls
- Monitor and manage system resource utilization and planning
- Support configuration management processes and procedures
- Perform OS and network performance tuning
- Support approved OS and software upgrades
- Attend and support planning meetings
- Maintain user accounts and group assignments
- Perform and coordinate preventive maintenance
- Perform backup operations and archive management
- Provide customer support including, but not limited to, systems administration for assigned servers, application support and hardware configuration
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Aeronautical Specialist - Job Location US-MO-St. Louis
Radiant Solutions is seeking multiple Aeronautical Specialists who are the best and the brightest to join our team in St. Louis, MO for Aeronautical Terminals Production.
The Aeronautical Specialist duties shall include, but are not limited to, converting worldwide aeronautical data into digital and graphic formats for use in flight operations in accordance with product specifications. You will receive training in digital flight procedure coding and aeronautical chart production to the required specifications.
- Analyze and evaluate aeronautical chart products and aeronautical information publications
- Create and maintain digital procedure coding for terminal instrument fight procedures and aeronautical chart products
- Maintain a good working knowledge of international aeronautical and flight procedure practices.
- Ensure all production quality processes are followed at all times.
- Coordinate with team to ensure any required data corrections or non-conformances are properly resolved
- Contribute as a team member with the production and updating of aeronautical charts.
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Radiant Solutions has an immediate full-time opening for a Software Engineer in Reston VA. We are looking for motivated engineers who are passionate about building innovative solutions for our customers. The ideal candidate needs limited direction, is passionate about technology and is curious about earth sensing and the new space economy. A willingness and desire to pick up new technologies or languages quickly is a must. We are seeking an expert who will work hand-in-hand with a multi-disciplinary, rapid software development team to bring creative and fun concepts to life.
Responsibilities
Develop rapid prototypes and design/implement complex cutting-edge systems with a focus on collecting, parsing, managing, analyzing, and visualizing large sets of data to extract meaningful insights. Work with NoSQL database technologies, emerging data science techniques, and contribute to important endeavors addressing critical customer needs.
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Radiant Solutions is searching for a Front-end Developer in Reston, VA. We have an immediate full-time opening for a person with these skills on our Rapid Development team. We need an expert who can work hand-in-hand with a multi-disciplinary software development team to bring creative and fun concepts to life. As a member of our Rapid Development team you will build both functional prototypes and production level capabilities for our valued clients.
Essential Functions
- Collaborate with customers and other Rapid Development team members & customers to define and implement innovative solutions for application aesthetic and experience.
- Engineer front-end web applications that leverage modern frameworks, e.g. React, Polymer and Angular v2.0 or newer.
- Make innovative and engaging design and user-experience decisions.
- Conceptualize original ideas that adhere to simplicity and user friendliness in solving complex design challenges.
- Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, and process flows to communicate ideas for stakeholder discussions.
- Conduct user research and user testing.
- Consistently implement new technologies, trends, and best practices to keep designs fresh.
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Radiant Solutions is seeking an independent proficient Systems Administrator to help our team in Springfield, VA support our customer. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology and able to learn quickly. The focus of this position will be to contribute to the development of the data management, user workflow, security authentication, and service call architecture code that comprises a family of applications built on this software suite. Additionally, tasking will include work with a team of analysts and technologists on emerging data science techniques, and contributions to important endeavors to address critical needs of the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and other government agencies.
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Radiant Solutions has an urgent and immediate need for a MASINT Systems Engineer to join our team in Reston, VA.
General Summary
- Full-time MASINT Systems Engineer will provide engineering expertise as part of a cross-functional team for terrestrial-based technical collection. Engineer will advise the customer on the development process for specialized MASINT technology. The ideal candidate will have recent hands-on experience with small-scale hardware development projects. The ideal candidate will be able to work independently, quickly understand complex technical concepts and make assessments, and articulate recommendations to the customer.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary engineering expert on a cross-functional team
- Provide technical input into full project life-cycle, including: requirements definition, developer oversight, and testing and evaluation
- Serve as the technical interface to an external sensor developer
- Assess technical solutions provided by external developers and provide recommendations to the government
- Translate technical assessments to technically-varied audiences
- This position will involve occasional CONUS travel
To be qualified you must be a US Citizen and must have an active TS/SCI. Poly highly desired.
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Radiant Solutions is seeking an individual who will join the Security Team in Chantilly, VA, and function as an Information System Security Officer. The individual is responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise vision, strategy, and program to ensure information assets and technologies are adequately protected and will work in our Chantilly and Herndon, VA offices.
Note: US citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph are mandatory for this position and required for consideration.
Responsibilities
• Plan, develop, deploy and maintain small/medium windows networks
• Support contracting requirements with "day-to-day" responsibilities for Collateral and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) activities within all facilities
• Maintain, coordinate and receive applicable documentation in order to discharge the necessary security duties and responsibilities to support internal and external customers (directives, regulations, manuals policies, procedures and guidelines)
• Monitor and enforce compliance with all SOPs (i.e. recommend changes) and other applicable security rules and regulations (i.e. NISPOM, DCIDs, ICDs and other applicable documents)
• Develop and maintain an information System (IS) security program and implement and enforce IS security policies
• Review weekly bulletins/advisories/vulnerability alerts that impact security of site information systems
• Ensure that periodic testing is conducted to evaluate the security posture of the ISs
• Ensure approved procedures are in place for scanning, media tracking, clearing, purging, patch management, declassifying, and releasing memory, media and output;
• Maintain a repository of all ISSO approved system accreditations/certifications documentation and modifications;
• Coordinate IS security inspections, tests and reviews
• Ensure proper protection and corrective measures have been taken when an IS incident or vulnerability has been discovered, and report to the ISSM immediately
• Ensure development and implementation of an effective IS security education, training and awareness program
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Radiant Solutions has an immediate opening for a Web Developer to join our team in McLean, VA.
We are looking for candidates to join a high profile analytic tool development environment. The successful candidate will contribute to building a web application that provides data capture, mapping, visualization and analytic tools. This developer will work in a flexible team environment; they will have the opportunity to work in a full-stack capacity or specialize in front end/back end/ETL type capacities, as their skills are most appropriate.
Responsibilities may include (but are not limited to):
- General software development in a secure environment utilizing a variety of languages and platforms
- Operating in AWS/C2S
- PostgreSQL/PostGIS database interaction
- Package management/dependency management tools
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Radiant Solutions has an exciting opportunity for an innovative software developer to assist with Cloud-based processing methods and tools; specifically technical support, application knowledge, and domain expertise for users or company software products, systems, and applications. This is a full-life cycle systems development opportunity that will challenge your software coding skills, while helping to solve tough big data problems.
Additionally, you will have the opportunity to:
- Engage professionally with individuals of any rank/grade/position across IC, DoD and/or coalition organizations.
- Work with the software/product development team and customers to elicit, analyze, and verify new requirements and enhancements.
- Support software test activities including regression, system, and integration testing and assist in software development quality assurance efforts.
- Assist with marketing demonstrations, customer training, and meeting/briefing support, if required.
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This position will develop, populate and analyze a database containing geospatial data and documents. This position requires knowledge of available government furnished information sources and how to effectively mine data from these disparate sources into a single database. The candidate must have a strong background in conducting all source and open source research and must be able to adapt to a fluid set of requirements.
- Continually develop and populate a geospatial database based on changing customer requirements
- Classify unstructured text into a structured database
- Utilize government furnished gazetteers and other resources to derive coordinates from text
- Provide analysts with data and trends from the database in support of regular and ad hoc analytic products
- Perform data acquisition from multiple sources
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Radiant Solutions has an immediate opening for a Senior Human Geographer to work south of Springfield, VA, in Quantico, VA. The Senior Analyst – Human Geographer is responsible for collecting, maintaining, and integrating geospatial data to include Human Geography (HG) data and analysis concerning regions of the world.
Duties shall include, but are not limited to:
- Acquire, manage, and make available all geospatial derived HG data and raw data sources obtained for assigned area
- Research, evaluate, and geospatially enable human terrain foundation themes to be used for analysis
- Utilize their understanding of the human geography themes, regional knowledge, and culture to create and provide current and relevant human geography and context analysis
- Obtain, exploit, and disseminate GEOINT data for the benefit of the NGA and IC
- Create HG data from scratch, obtaining classified and open raw sources and using ArcGIS in order to integrate these raw data sources into new HG datasets
- Analyze geospatial, imagery, and intelligence information to determine correlation between people and facilities using geospatial data and imagery, resulting in context analysis reporting
- Develop and deliver relevant and timely HG information, models and tools that enable human geography analysis available to the widest audience possible
- Collaborate with Social Scientists and subject matter experts to develop planned Human Geography training that is intended to further facilitate the integration of both socio-cultural analyses into geospatial intelligence and the integration of human geography into multiINT analysis
- Provide human geography “value-added-decision-advantage” information in the form of datasets and visualization products that result in the creation of intelligence reports and GEOINT Notes (GNs)
- Work with Human Geographers in creating country assessments
- Work with Microsoft Office (Word and Excel), Google Earth, ESRI/ArcGIS Suite including ArcMap for creating, editing and processing geospatial data and ArcCatalog for data maintenance and metadata creation
- Attend relevant HG working groups, tradecraft meetings and cultural/regional enrichment that deepen and enhance subject matter or technical expertise
- Assist in the implementation of educational seminars for onsite personnel on modeling capabilities, to include the conceptual and theoretical basis for the models for government staff and mission partners
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Overview
Radiant Solutions has an urgent and immediate need for a TECHINT Fusion Analyst to join our team in Reston, Virginia.
To be qualified you must be a US Citizen and must have an active TS/SCI. Poly highly desired.
General Summary
- Full-time mid-level TECHINT Fusion Analyst Senior will multi-INT fusion analysis in support of a hard target mission.
Responsibilities
- Support the development, processing, and evaluation of multi-discipline exploitation and signature tools, models, databases, reports and products
- Create data products and support/develop associated systems which heavily utilize technically-derived data from multiple sources to include MASINT, IMINT, OSINT, SIGINT, and HUMINT
- Lead the assessment of developmental integrated software
- Ensure new procedures, products, signatures, and processes meet customer requirements and are understood by non-technical consumers
- Prepare and review the quality of technical reports and briefs
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Incredible leadership (give autonomy and empower) and excellent team in the making!
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The user interface (UI)user experience/(UX) specialist will be the visualization expert for the multi-disciplinary team. The UI/UX developer will articulate user needs and is responsible for maintaining a user-centered approach in software solutions created by the team. The UI/UX Specialist owns all facets of design: interaction, UI, visual, product, motion, prototyping, etc. The UI/UX Specialist creates, prototypes, builds, and refines consumer apps and services through icons, creates A/B tested landing sites, logically arranges UI elements, and provide front-end development. The UI/UX Specialist designs visualizations, info-graphics, and other digital products. The UI/UX Specialist maintains design consistency and coherence across tools, products, etc. and manages the organization style guide. Unlike other environments, the typical deliverable timetables are measured in hours and often require rapid iterative feedback cycles. As a project-wide asset, the UI/UX Specialist must have organizational and time management skills, including the ability to work independently and prioritize effectively.
Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite 5, Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, Fireworks, InVision, or other
Specialist owns all facets of design: interaction, UI, visual, product, motion, prototyping, etc. The UI/UX Specialist creates, prototypes, builds, and refines consumer apps and services through icons, creates A/B tested landing sites, logically arranges UI elements, and provide front-end development. The UI/UX Specialist designs visualizations, info-graphics, and other digital products. The UI/UX Specialist maintains design consistency and coherence across tools, products, etc. and manages the organization style guide. Unlike other environments, the typical deliverable timetables are measured in hours and often require rapid iterative feedback cycles. As a project-wide asset, the UI/UX Specialist must have organizational and time management skills, including the ability to work independently and prioritize effectively.
REQUIRED
- Education – Bachelors Arts or Bachelors of Science in UI, Web, Graphic Design or related field (e.g. Computer Graphics, Web Development)
- Proficiency in creating UI design concepts for applications and web sites
- Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite 5, Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, Fireworks, InVision, or other design tools
- Fluency converting your designs into fully compliant HTML 4 and CSS files
- Proficiency in designing and building products and features for desktop, native or web
- Proficiency in developing visual identity systems, data visualizations, visual design, illustrations, etc.
- Proficiency in conducting user testing and analytical research
- Proficiency in prototyping tools like Framer, Pixate, Form, or similar
- Proficiency in end-user application instrumentation, time-per-task etc., to identify and improve complex end-user and machine interaction and experience
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Want to join some of the best and the brightest teams as we build out a BRAND NEW cell supporting SOCOM (super IMPACTFUL life-changing work)???
If you want to be as tactically CLOSE to the MISSION, without actually being in the military, this is a terrific opportunity to making a difference in saving lives and helping the greater good!
Incredible leadership (give autonomy and empower) and excellent team in the making!
The Data Base Administrator serves as a Database Engineer (DBE) and is the central contributor in designing and implementing major pieces of core database infrastructure. The DBA/DBE acts as the internal "database expert" within the multidisciplinary agile development team and serves as the point of contact for all things database. The DBA/DBE influences the deployment strategy and operational strategy for the organization's use of databases. The DBA/DBE designs major core database services such as replication, data high availability, disaster recovery, implementation of database techniques and features to support service scalability, and performance and stability for SaaS platforms. The DBA/DBE works closely with the agile development team to test and deploy infrastructural enhancements. Resolves complex technical issues and improve system availability, resiliency, and performance. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical and business skills in the area of database engineering specialization. The DBA/DBE designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks, etc.
REQUIRED PROFICIENCY WITH THE FOLLOWING
- Designing and creating database structures including normalized, de-normalized, and data warehouse database topologies
- Performing optimization of database to increase performance
- Preparing database environment(s) for application deployments
- Taking proper measures to insure optimum database security; experience with PKI and Kerberos based authentication and authorization schemes and role-based access constructs
- Creating and updating database documentation in support of the database platform
- Providing product and new technology research and evaluation
- Upgrading database products based on vendor specifications
- Tracking work using an industry level tracking system such as Jira, Redmine, etc.
- Developing appropriate queries to retrieve data from the database, looks into the security issues of the data and develops structures, procedures and triggers
- Preparing and maintaining reports of the entire backend development life cycle
- Multiple differentiated storage technology; must be able to identify, define, and tune appropriate storage technology including Flash-based storage, Internet Small Computer Systems Interface Storage Area Network (iSCSI SAN), Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), Clustered filesystems, Infiniband, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and Fiber Channel storage
- Multibit character encodings and international or multilingual data types
- Implementing and deploying geospatial relational database solutions including spatial index manipulation and geography and geometry transforms
- Production-level Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) development using a combination of scripting technology (Perl, Python, etc.), High-Level Languages (Java, C#, etc.) and Object Persistence Frameworks (Hibernate, Spring, OpenJPA, etc.)
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Want to join some of the best and the brightest teams as we build out a BRAND NEW cell supporting SOCOM (super IMPACTFUL life-changing work)???
If you want to be as tactically CLOSE to the MISSION, without actually being in the military, this is a terrific opportunity to making a difference in saving lives and helping the greater good!
Incredible leadership (give autonomy and empower) and excellent team in the making!
Give us a SHOT! APPLY TODAY!
The Cloud Engineer improves the reliability and performance of cloud applications and cloud infrastructure deployed on Amazon Web Services, building the next generation of web applications and systems infrastructure, focusing on automation, availability, and performance. The CE is the internal "cloud expert" and specialist within the multi-disciplinary agile development team. The CE will manage both strategic cloud initiatives as well as immediate operational activities. The designing, building, implementing, and managing of the in-house commodity based cloud/distributive-computing infrastructure is the chief responsibility of the CE. The CE is the chief architect and administrator for the cloud software stack to include frequent reconfiguration as new or more optimal configurations are identified. The CE directs the effective ETL processes associated with the architecture. The CE collaborates closely with the ASDs, TTDs, and the end user analysts to write and implement cutting edge big data algorithms and analytics. The CE engages in software solution planning and creation to ensure applicable cloud resources are most effectively applied. The CE identifies where processes can be optimized through automation. The CE ensures that the cloud capability is leveraged to its fullest extent and available to the maximum user base. In conjunction with the DBE and other ADT members, the CE insures that the cloud data stores and processes are replicated based on industry best practices. The CE rapidly executes tasks and frequently iterates to insure maximum user input and feedback. The CE ensures the interoperability of the in-house capability with outside partners. The CE plans and implements big data transfer protocols, utilities, and infrastructure pipes.
REQUIRED
- Education – Bachelors Arts or Bachelors of Science in Computer Science or related fields (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering)
- COMPTIA Security+ certification or CISSP certification
- Proficiency in two or more of the following programming languages: C#, Java, .NET, Python, Perl, Ruby, or similar
- Familiarity with current Agile methods
- Proficiency with the following
- Multiple operating systems including: UNIX, Linux, Windows, Cisco IOS, etc.
- Managing and advanced SQL query writing, data retrieval, data mining from relational databases such as Oracle (PL/SQL), MySQL, Postgres and MS SQL Server (T-SQL)
- Machine learning, data mining, and knowledge discovery
- Analytic algorithm design and implementation
- ETL processes; including document parsing techniques
- Networking, compute, and storage technologies
- Using or designing RESTful APIs, SOAP, XML
- Developing large cloud software projects, preferably in Java, Python or C++ language
- Java/J2EE, multithreaded and concurrency systems
- Multi-threaded, big data, distributive cloud architectures and frameworks including Hadoop, MapReduce, Cloudera, Hive, Spark, Elastic Search, etc. for the purposes of conducting analytic algorithm design and implementation
- NoSQL database such as Titan, Mongo, Cassandra, and hBase
- AWS Services (EC2, Network, ELB, S3/EBS, etc.)
- Processing and managing large data sets (multi TB scale)
- Container configuration and implementation -Docker or similar
- HTML4, Javascript/Web development experience, any usage of Javascript frameworks such as AngularJS, jQuery
- Web services environment and technologies such as XML, KML, SOAP, and JSON
- Proficiency in trouble-shooting in very complex distributed environments including following stack traces back to code and identifying a root cause
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Want to join some of the best and the brightest teams as we build out a BRAND NEW cell supporting SOCOM (super IMPACTFUL life-changing work)???
If you want to be as tactically CLOSE to the MISSION, without actually being in the military, this is a terrific opportunity to making a difference in saving lives and helping the greater good!
Incredible leadership (give autonomy and empower) and excellent team in the making!
Give us a SHOT! APPLY TODAY!
The Security Systems Engineer (SSE) protects organizations’ data and systems through risk analysis, enterprise security solutions, continuous enhancement of protection profiles and manage configuration management. The SSE secures the network perimeter through the operations of the firewall, virtual private networks (VPNs), intrusion detection system and intrusion prevention system (IDS/IPS), network access control (NAC), data loss prevention (DLP) and enterprise anti-virus solutions. The SSE is responsible for the secure design of the local area network (LAN), virtual LAN (VLAN), wide area network (WAN) and all endpoints. In conjunction with the Network Engineers, the SSE is the systems designer or operator responsible for the security of all clients and servers. The SSE develops and hardens custom applications. The SSE ensures all security relevant information system software, hardware, and firmware is maintained and documented in accordance with pertinent Configuration Management Plans.
As a member of the multi-disciplinary agile development team, the SSE conducts all aspects of Information Assurance of systems to include the following:
- Analyze existing and future systems, review security architectures, and develop engineering solutions that integrate information security requirements to proactively manage information protection
- Apply security risk assessment methodology to system development, including assess and audit network penetration testing, antivirus deployment, and risk analysis
- Conduct Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) activities, including forensic analysis
- Engineer and deploy network defense countermeasures such as anti-virus, anti-spam, and intrusion detection and prevention system solutions
- Analyze Information Assurance (IA) security events, including threat model development and resulting security risk analysis of systems
- Review and assess information security events and logs via sophisticated security information and event manager
- Maintain Agency public key infrastructure system. Implement security designs in hardware, software, data and procedure
- Conduct certification and accreditation planning and testing
- Ensure information systems (at the local site) are operated, maintained, and disposed of in accordance with internal security policies and practices outlined in pertinent information systems concepts of operations (CONOPS) and the local System Security Authorization Agreements (SSAA)
- Monitor the system recovery processes to ensure security features and procedures are properly restored
- Ensure all information system security-related documentation is current and accessible to authorized individuals
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Radiant Solutions is searching for a Front-end Developer in Charlottesville, VA. We have an immediate full-time opening for a person with these skills on our Rapid Development team. We need an expert who can work hand-in-hand with a multi-disciplinary software development team to bring creative and fun concepts to life. As a member of our Rapid Development team you will build both functional prototypes and production level capabilities for our valued clients.
Essential Functions
- Collaborate with customers and other Rapid Development team members & customers to define and implement innovative solutions for application aesthetic and experience.
- Engineer front-end web applications that leverage modern frameworks, e.g. React, Polymer and Angular v2.0 or newer.
- Make innovative and engaging design and user-experience decisions.
- Conceptualize original ideas that adhere to simplicity and user friendliness in solving complex design challenges.
- Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, and process flows to communicate ideas for stakeholder discussions.
- Conduct user research and user testing.
- Consistently implement new technologies, trends, and best practices to keep designs fresh.
Relocation assistance available.
A little about the area. Charlottesville is located in the foothills of the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains. Charlottesville and the surrounding area are a healthy balance of both urban and rural localities amendable to many different lifestyles. Charlottesville's rich artistic, natural, and cultural history is showcased in an assortment of first-rate museums, galleries, wineries, breweries, shops, restaurants, and parks making Charlottesville a spectacular location for work, play, outdoor activities, raising a family, and simply enjoying a high quality of life. Charlottesville is also home to the University of Virginia, a top national university that has community offerings to include athletic, artistic, cultural, and educational events in addition to a renowned medical center.