New Hires

Please submit your resume to careers@myacuity.com and let us search for you. We will contact you when a position that is aligned with your experience is available.

Several reasons why you should consider Acuity:

• Tangible opportunities for advancement/development
• Quality reputation with customers
• High visibility within the Customer work site
• Team and customer focused
• Directly supporting customer mission requirements in contrast to being part of a large corporate IT organization
• Established program infrastructure and process
• Cutting edge technology
• Large knowledge bases to leverage and grow
• Move within/across organization and projects fluidly
• Variety of duties
• Flexible hours (within reason)
• Relatively flexible work environment
• 401K Match
• Cutting edge technology
   

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Open Opportunities:

Technical Training Specialist II

In support of our client in Arlington, Virginia, Acuity, Inc. is seeking a Technical Training Specialist.

Responsibilities:

• Candidate will be required to work as part of a training team to teach proprietary Government application software to Department officers, family members, security officers, and locally engaged staff.
• Develops, organizes, and delivers technical training programs and related materials in support of customers and/or company employees
• Works with customer and functional organizations to establish course content and objectives
• Prepares lesson plans from engineering documentation, field service requirements, or software documentation
• Ensures course material reflects current product features
• Instructs participants in both classroom lectures and laboratory sessions
• Follows up to determine applicability of course material

Qualifications:

• Requires excellent organizational skills, the ability to interact positively with a variety of clients, and solid training delivery
• Strong interpersonal skills

Education / Years of Experience Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, and four (4) years experience in technical training or similar position. Experience may be substituted for educational requirements, and education may be substituted for years of experience.

Software Test Engineer

In support of our Federal Government Client, Acuity Inc. is seeking a Software Test Engineer in Washington, DC.

Responsible for ensuring high-profile software applications used by senior officials and their staff have the highest software quality. Develop test plans and test scripts based on requirement documentations, using industry best practices. Execute test cases and test plans using manual and automated methods. Identify, isolate, and document software defects independently. Maintain and expand existing test documentation, including test plans, test cases or scripts, and defect reports. Provide project manager with evidence to proceed with a software release. Assist with on-going process improvement efforts to ensure test planning, execution, and reporting methods are effective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience with software quality assurance or software engineering experience, including exposure to the full product development and quality assurance test cycles from requirements through post-release.
• 3+ years of experience in test automation with a commercial test tool package in a Windows client/server environment, including load/stress testing.
• Knowledge of defect tracking systems.
• Knowledge of QA methodologies within software development environment.
• Ability to be a team player and to demonstrate flexibility and capability of multi-tasking.
• Ability to formulate and implement effective test strategies and identify areas for efficiency gain through automation testing.
• Ability to design and enhance automation test scripts for functional and load/stress tests.
• Ability to give input and do research into new testing technologies and techniques.
• Ability to mentor and train others both formally and informally.
• Experience with the Agile process.
• Knowledge of VBScript or other scripting languages.
• BA or BS degree preferred.

Clearance: Ability to obtain Secret clearance

Help Desk Analyst

Acuity, Inc. is seeking a Top Secret cleared (or Secret cleared; clearable to TS) Help Desk Support professional to support our client in Washington, DC (Metro accessible). The qualified candidate will provide tier 1 and tier 2 information system solutions and technical support in personal computer/client server support, systems programming, applications design and development, database design and administration, telecommunications and network support and administration.

The successful candidate will have expert experience in a Windows environment, and must have strong troubleshooting skills with various hardware and software applications (MS Office, Adobe Acrobat, IE, Netscape, etc.)

Required Experience: 

• Must be able to use SMS to remotely troubleshoot desktop systems;
• Must have experience inspecting and testing secure fax systems;
• On-site invetory for IT assets
• Inspection and testing of VTCs
• Inspection and testing of peripherals (scanners, senders, etc...)
• Inspection and testing of workstations
• Must have a solid knowledge of utilizing TCP/IP in LAN environment;
• Must understand Department of State security policies and procedures;
• Maintain a high level of customer service, and possess excellent communications skills

Clearance: Top Secret

IT Project Manager/Project Analyst

The individual shall provide program management support and technical assistance for the implementation of BMCs Remedy Suite of Applications.  Candidates should have an understanding of ITIL.  Experience with incident management, change management, IT asset management are preferred, but not required.

Program support activities may include the following:

• Provide assistance throughout the project lifecycle in creating and/or reviewing technical documentation, technical services, project tracking, project reviews, and technical reviews and reporting related to enterprise IT project rollouts
• Ensure that project scope, costs, and timelines are managed and deviations are reported as necessary
• Attend periodic meetings as determined by project needs
• Compile Weekly Activity Reports (WAR) regarding the systems/services being implemented
• Provide project updates and attend weekly project status meetings.

Remedy Developer

Acuity is seeking a Remedy developer to support the development and administration of a Remedy-based ITSM solution.  The successful candidate will interact with the client to define requirements, support testing of releases, and provide occasional off-hours support.  The successful candidate will perform the work described at the client site located is Rosslyn, VA.

Qualifications (Required):

• Minimum of 3 years experience working with BMC Remedy and associated applications
• ITIL Foundations Certification
• Bachelor’s degree
• Clearable; i.e., able to obtain a U.S. Security clearance

Qualifications (Preferred):

• Advanced (postgraduate) degree
• Experience working with BMC ITSM 7.0, 7.6
• Intermediate ITIL certifications

Required Skills:

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Strong presentation skills (using MS Visio and MS PowerPoint)

Senior SharePoint Administrator

Acuity, Inc. seeks a dynamic, self-motivated individual with experience and skills as a Senior SharePoint Administrator. This position is part of our State Department team and is located in Washington, DC.

The Department of State is strategically committed to fully utilize SharePoint so bring your experience in analysis, design, development, implementation and maintenance of SharePoint infrastructure, as well as, system health analysis, back-up/restore, security, governance and disaster recovery issues, to fully optimize SharePoint throughout the organization.

This is a high profile position which requires an experienced technical SharePoint subject matter expert who understands business requirements and can work closely with users, and our custom development team, so in addition to technical acumen, strong communication and interpersonal skills are needed.

Responsibilities:

• Planning standalone, single-server and multi-server farm deployments in a VMware and physical server eco-systems, including content isolation, and trusted solutions.
• Implementing SharePoint governance and SharePoint information architecture.
• Translating information architecture to a physical and virtual architecture.  
• Formulating a Business Connectivity Services strategy, planning both a Microsoft Excel Services Strategy and an InfoPath Forms Services strategy.
• Planning for Service Applications, Web applications, and Content Databases.    
• Administration of SharePoint users, groups, and service accounts.  
• Planning security for site collections and for secure sockets layer (SSL).  
• Planning for the integration of multiple authentication sources and types including NTLM authentication, Kerberos, Forms-Based Authentication (FBA), Claims Authentication (Identify and Access Management), and planning for Secure Store service.
• Planning patching and maintenance along with knowledge of best practices for patching SharePoint 2010.  
• Preparation of test plans for patching and maintenance.  
• Planning records management, information management policies, information rights management.  Document management, metadata planning, information management policies (IMPs), implement data taxonomy structure, web content management (WCM) and Information Rights Management (IRM).
• Administering the User Profile Service and planning for MySites.  Understanding user profiles and organization profiles, audiences, MySites, and social tags.  
• Experience with SharePoint 2010 capacity planning and scaling both within a single farm and between two separate farms including consideration of storage, number of users, bandwidth utilization, intranet and extranet, and hardware.  Scaling Web Farm and Services Infrastructure.   
• Experience with hardware upgrades, for example:  32- to 64-bit.  OS upgrades, in-place upgrade and database attach upgrades; MOSS upgrade, and SQLServer upgrade.
• Designing a test and QA implementation plan, migrating content databases, moving content between farms, moving content to and from the farm, moving content within the farm, and rollback
• Consideration of physical, virtual, and logical topologies in planning disaster recovery.  
• Deploying and testing SharePoint Recovery Strategy, including back-up and restoring SharePoint content.  Managing the Recycle Bin.  
• Developing and testing recovery strategy and implementation plan, server recover, site recovery, granular backup and recovery strategy (farm, farm configuration, site collection, Web applications, Secure Store Service, snapshots, content database, configuration database, custom features, solutions, code, service site, list, document library, performance site collections, and Recycle Bin).

Required Skills:

• Exceptional communication and organizational skills
• Experience with SharePoint 2010 enterprise content management and web content.
• Experience with SharePoint Server 2007/2010 and SharePoint object models.
• Experience with Moss 2007 Shared Services Provider (SSP) and SharePoint 2010 service applications.  
• Experience with administering Active Directory, SQL Server and SharePoint user and group security principals.
• Understanding of SharePoint 2010 logical taxonomy, i.e., service applications, Web applications, content databases, site collections, permission of sites and site administration.  Use of Content Deployment.
• Knowledge of best practices for deploying libraries, folders, and documents sets. Understanding availability metrics and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO).  Backup and recovery of the SP Farm.
• Experience with site collection security, taxonomy of SharePoint security groups, managed accounts, and site security.
• Experience in using Microsoft and third-party performance monitoring tools.  
• Experience with SharePoint Unified Logging Service (ULS) including how to set up ULS and how to effectively review the data.
• Use of SharePoint Health Analyzer.  Use of SQL Server Management Studio and rebuilding SQL Server indices.  Search maintenance.
• Experience with metadata and content types.
• Experience with planning and maintaining enterprise wikis, Blogs, and personalization sites.
• Experience designing Web Front End NLB strategy, SQL Server Failover Clustering strategy, implementing Database Mirroring (high availability and high protection), and whole farm failover cluster.
• Experience architecting, installing, implementing, troubleshooting, maintaining, and reporting MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 farms.
• Experience migrating from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 farms.
• Experience with AvePoint.

Desired Skills:

• Certified MCITP – SharePoint Administrator
• Microsoft .NET Framework, C#, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, XML Web Services, User Controls and Custom Controls.
• Knowledge and experience using XML and complex XML schemas.
• Understanding and experience in Object Oriented Programming, Design Patterns and RDBMS concepts.
• Experience in software engineering approaches for the project life cycle.
• Experience with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Powershell.
• BS degree in related field; MS desired.
• 5 or more years as a SharePoint Administrator in the Federal space.
• Secret clearance
  

Management Analyst

In support of our client in Washington, DC, Acuity, Inc. is seeking Management Analysts.  We are seeking candidates to work fulltime at our client site location.

Duties and experience required include, but are not limited to the following:

• Analyzes business or operating procedures to devise most efficient methods of accomplishing work
• Plans study of work problems and procedures, such as organizational change, communications, information flow, integrated production methods, inventory control, or cost analysis.
• Gathers and organizes information on problem or procedures including present operating procedures.
• Analyzes data gathered, develops information and considers available solutions or alternate methods of proceeding.
• Organizes and documents findings of studies and prepares recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures or organizational changes.
• Confers with personnel concerned to assure smooth functioning of newly implemented systems or procedure.
• May conduct operational effectiveness reviews to ensure functional or project systems are applied and functioning as designed.
• May develop or update functional or operational manuals outlining established methods of performing work in accordance with organizational policy.   

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• Familiar with management consulting and process reengineering templates, jargon and processes
• Prior consulting experience – it doesn’t matter if it is small or large firm experience    
• Prefer someone with PMP certification
• Excellent writing, presentation and facilitation skills
• Must be proficient with the entire Microsoft Office Suite and with Microsoft Project and Visio
• Ability to support Manager with various tasks as required

Web Content Manager

Acuity, Inc. seeks a dynamic, self-motivated individual with experience and skills in web content management, writing and editing for the web, graphic design and site management. This position will be located in Washington, DC.

The website content manager will be responsible developing the voice for all aspects of the organization’s online presence. In addition to writing, editing, and proofreading site content, this person will also work closely with the technical team to maintain site standards with regard to new development.

The content manager will work closely with technical, business development, and marketing members of our organization, so strong communication skills are needed. The ideal candidate will also have experience managing online marketing and outreach campaigns. Tasks require a strong attention to detail and ability to work under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities:

• Create, develop and manage content for organization’s web presence (requires working with content management software)
• Coordinate web projects across departments
• Maintain a consistent look and feel throughout all web properties
• Working with a cross-departmental team, maintain and develop the master content calendar for all web properties
• Copyedit and proofread all web content
• Oversee freelancers, including writers, copyeditors and community outreach organizers
• Keep current with emerging web technologies through relevant blogs, listservs, and events
• Assure web-based information is archived for future needs and reference
• Track and report on all site metrics
• Work cooperatively with key team members, clients and vendors

Required Skills:

• Exceptional communication and organizational skills
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite (5.5 or earlier version), HTML, and CSS.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Proven ability to build consensus and work effectively within a cross-departmental team.
• 3-5 years experience managing content and production for high traffic websites
• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Technical Writing or a related field

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Equal Opportunity Employment
It is Acuity’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. Acuity does not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected classification. Acuity also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees. Acuity prohibits the harassment of any individual and further prohibits the harassment of any individual based on any of the aforementioned legally protected classifications. 

Affirmative Action Policy
Acuity reaffirms its longstanding policy of providing equal opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status or other category protected by federal, state, or local law. This policy extends to recruiting, recruitment advertising, and/or other communications media, hiring, rates of pay and other compensation, benefits, overtime, job classifications and assignments, training, work conditions, promotions, transfers, demotions, terminations, disciplinary and other employee treatment, and all other terms, conditions, or privileges of employment.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants applying to Acuity
Acuity is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online systems, you may use the alternative methods described below to contact us about your interest in employment at Acuity:

By Mail:
Acuity, Inc.
12930 Worldgate Drive, Suite 100
Herndon, VA 20170

VA Office Phone: 703-766-0977
D.C. Office Phone: 202-204-3062  

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