Ridgeline was founded in 2015 by a group of people with more than half a century of combined experience contributing to U.S. National Security. We understand our clients’ unique missions and we deliver innovative solutions to their most difficult challenges, filling critical technical gaps across the U.S. Government and business worlds. At Ridgeline, our capabilities extend from the classroom, where we provide the tools and training needed to work and communicate securely, to our engineered systems of specialized hardware and software that address critical security issues, and into Research and Development, where we dream, design, and build solutions to the threats of tomorrow. We iterate and deliver quickly – in the course of weeks or months, not years – and we’ve trained more than 1,000 people, deployed to over 50 countries, and managed systems with more than 2,000 end users.

Ridgeline is seeking a Senior Technical Advisor to join our team in Tysons, VA.  In this role you’ll report to Ridgeline’s Vice President of our Training and Advisory Services (TAS) group.  You’ll work to ensure that Ridgeline’s training and advisory offerings align with and compliment Ridgeline’s technology offerings.

What You’ll do:

• Focus on complex enterprise technology projects that intersect with TAS activities to lend TAS’s unique perspective to support the project and to leverage these projects for deliverables that advance TAS mission. Represent TAS throughout RI at the senior and working level, as required.
• hardware solutions for signature management challenges
• Author white papers, RFIs and proposals on signature management topics
• Periodically provide instruction to Ridgeline’s students, focusing on upper level courses
• Support TAS exercises and Red Cells
• Provide expert-level consulting support to customers with complex operational requirements (i.e. Mission Technology Solutions/advanced Technical Consultation)

What you’ll accomplish in the first six months:

• Master TAS training material at the 200 and 300 level to understand requirements and mission of RI’s most advanced customers.  Demonstrate readiness to teach 300 level courses.

• Minimum TS/SCI clearance, ability and willingness to obtain a polygraph
• Previous experience required in operations advising, technology consulting, and technical training
• Previous experience required working with the US Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and US Federal Law Enforcement clients.
• Sound communication and interpersonal skills to include delivering verbal briefings and written reports to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Sound business acumen

Desirable Education and Certifications but not required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Technical training and certification in fields of Cybersecurity, Electronic Warfare, Tactical Communications, Information Technology, ISR, and/or Technical Analysis.
• PMP Certification
• Previous experience providing technical support to programs operating overseas

Here are some Perks of being a Ridgeliner!

• Flexible and remote work schedules
• Flexible PTO + holidays
• 10% 401K contribution/match
• $2,000 annual tech/clothing allowance
• $2,500 annual training allowance
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurances
• Professional coaching services
• Get the technology you want to do your job
• We have free daily snacks & drinks

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Ridgeline International is committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.