Trusted Concepts - Employment

Employment

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We have a number of open technical positions in the areas of programming, database administration, and related fields. Trusted Concepts is looking for talented, motivated individuals to join us, and help grow our business. If you would like to submit your resume for our consideration, we will consider you as positions arise.

Please choose one of the positions below:

Current Openings:

+ Cloud Engineer / Developer

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

Trusted Concept is looking for a Programmer to support a prime contract that is focused on security and delivering highly secure features through applications, services and consulting. The work environment is dynamic, has an engaged customer, and defined user base. This innovative project offers opportunities with advanced coding techniques and technologies, as well as recommending new ideas and feature sets. The team needs middle tier and back-end developers for implementing new features on existing applications.

This is a large contract with a need for quality developers with diverse skills. All candidates with solid development backgrounds will be considered. Work is primarily within a cloud environment and the ideal candidate would have recent AWS and/or cloud experience.

Required Skills: Mid to Senior level developer; Java experience

Desired Skills : Linux, Docker, messaging/queuing technologies, experience with consuming and creating web services, VUE or javascript frameworks

Clearance: TS/SCI with polygraph

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Multiple - System Engineers

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

Trusted Concepts has a need for multiple System Engineers on various tasks and at different locations in Northern Virginia. A successful candidate will provide systems engineering expertise in support of both maintenance and new feature development tasks Additionally they will provide support in the areas of data extraction, transformation and load (ETL), data mapping, data extraction, analytical support, operational support, database support, and maintenance support of data and associated systems. As a member of the team, candidates will work in a multi-tasking, quick-paced, dynamic, process-improvement environment that requires experience with the principles of large-scale (terabytes) database development, large-scale file manipulation, data modeling, data mapping, data testing, data quality, and documentation preparation.

Required Skills:

BS or higher degree in systems engineering, computer science, information technology or related field.

Excellent organizational, coordination, interpersonal and team building skills.

Excellent communication (oral/written) skills with respect to team members, peers, and management with only general guidance.

Self-motivated with highly developed analytical and problem solving skills.

Must be able to work effectively under very broad direction with minimal supervision.

Full software development life cycle experience in a mission-centric environments (Requirements assessment, design, coding, testing and production support)

Desired Skills:

Focus on continual process improvement with a proactive approach to problem solving

Clearance: All positions require a Top Secret/SCI clearance with Active Polygraph.

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Mid-Level Software Eng - CLEARABLE

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

Trusted Concepts is looking for a Mid-Level Software Engineer to write code, tests, and debug complex software issues as needed. The ideal candidate is experienced in either data ingest/parsing, data ETL, data analytics, or modern frontend development. Recent experience in an agile team environment is required. At least 4 years of experience with Java, Python, and/or Frontend Development (Angular, React, or Vue) is required. Experience with one or more of the follow data systems is required: SQL, NoSQL, and/or Hadoop. This position requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other math/technology based specialty, additional experience will be accepted in lieu of a degree. Must have the ability to work in a team environment.

Desired experience would include work with: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) stack, Postgres SQL Database, and/or microservices and container-centric architecture.

Clearance: Clearable

Location: Chantilly, VA

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified

applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity,

sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status,

age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Front End Software Developer

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

Development position that is focused on creating new security services for a mission customer. The work environment is dynamic, has an engaged customer and defined customer base. This innovative project offers opportunities with advanced coding and security techniques and technologies, as well as recommending new ideas and feature sets. The ideal candidate has experience with Windows, C/C# and/or Rust. In addition, handling lower level development memory, graphic process unit (GPU) drives is also a plus.
Strong candidates have a solid background in Computer Science, Math, Physics or other highly technical experience and education/training.

Desired: GPU, Javascript, C/C++, GIT, Jira/Confluence

Clearance: TS/SCI and Polygraph

Location: Chantilly, VA

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity,
sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status,
age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ AWS Developer – DevOps

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

There are multiple DevOps positions supporting new application development and security services for mission customer. This is a large contract with a need for quality developers with diverse skills and supports a large network of applications and services. The work environment is dynamic, has an engaged customer and defined customer base. This position requires experience in Linux/Unix systems and will include development with AWS Tools such as Cloud Formation. Candidates with experience in either System Administration or Software Development are eligible. Experience with security within cloud environments is a plus.

Desired: Linux/Unix, AWS tools, scripting, Go, Javascript, Docker, GIT, Jenkins, Jira/Confluence, Elasticsearch, and messaging/queuing technologies

Clearance: TS/SCI and Polygraph

Location: Chantilly, VA

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified

applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity,
sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status,
age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Help Desk Support

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

We are seeking a help desk/support candidate to work within a dynamic work environment. Applications and service are deployed across a wide range of customers. The position requires troubleshooting, installation, customer support, outreach and running diagnostics. Strong customer relations skills are required. Other duties include testing, application guide development, security accreditation paperwork support and overall team support.

There is a strong need for candidates that can support a later shift with a work day ending at 7:00 pm.

Clearance: TS/SCI and Polygraph

Location: Chantilly, VA

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity,
sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status,
age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Hadoop/Spark Platform Lead

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

We are looking for a Hadoop/Spark Platform Lead to re-imagine the current operating environment, data storage and analytics platform. This position will help move petabytes of data from a simple distributed file system into an analytics platform that can drive their ability to distribute and analyze data more efficiently. This position will help import and model data into the platform, but also drive other team members to create new and interesting analytic capabilities. Though the position is looking specifically for Hadoop and Spark in current capabilities work, other technologies are free to be considered to include other distributed databases, ElasticSearch and/or Solr.

Required Skills: Senior developer - Hadoop, Spark, Java

Desired Skills: Solr, ElasticSearch, kafka, Docker EE, Kubernetes

Clearance: Required TS/SCI with polygraph

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Geo-spatial Developer

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

We are looking for a Geo-Spatial developer to work within a team of talented developers to help drive the transformation from a database appliance into new and interesting solutions for re-hosting hundreds of terabytes of data. The goal is to create data services and platforms to support real-time, mission-critical requirements around spatial data to help decision makers derive analytic value faster. The unique challenges around geo-spatial indexing and retrieval, the data size and speed, and the ability to derive a new platform make this an exciting opportunity for a developer looking to work with a mission customer. The ideal candidate will have experience with Solr, ElasticSearch and/or Hadoop.

Required Skills: Senior developer - Java

Desired Skills: Docker EE, Kubernetes, kafka

Clearance: Required TS/SCI with polygraph

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Cloud Systems Administrator

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

We are looking for a SysAdmin/DevOps for a prime contract that is focused on security and delivering highly secure features through applications, services and consulting. The work environment is dynamic, has an engaged customer, and a defined user base. The current project has numerous cloud environments to maintain and requires additional high-end SysAdmin and DevOps support for enhanced automation and configuration management. In addition, the SysAdmin/DevOps team handles creation of new environments which will involve coordination with outside groups, and architectural and security
design.

Required Skills: Linux, cloud experience, scripting experience

Desired Skills: Any experience with DevOps tools (e.x ELK, kibana), experience with cloud tools and
techniques (e.x. cloud formation), networking experience, physical server experience

Clearance: Required TS/SCI with polygraph

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status,age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

The company is looking for a critical O&M Lead for a prime contract that is focused on security and delivering highly secure features through applications, services and consulting. The work environment is dynamic, has an engaged customer, and a defined user base. The project has developed tools that need to be rolled out to large audiences across disparate platforms, networks, and organizations. This position will be responsible for creating and implementing a deployment plan for delivering the tools and applications to the community. Additionally, this position will handle troubleshooting and customer support for the deployed tools and applications.

Required Skills: Desire to own and manage complicated roll-out and customer support environment

Desired Skills: Troubleshooting experience with Windows and web environments, customer support
experience, previous technology roll-out experience

Clearance: Required TS/SCI with polygraph

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Operating System / Systems Developer

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

Trusted Concepts is looking for a Systems developer/security programmer for a position on a prime contract that is primarily focused on security and delivering highly secure features through applications, services and consulting. The work environment is dynamic, has an engaged customer and defined customer base. This innovative project offers opportunities with advanced coding techniques and technologies, as well as

recommending new ideas and feature sets. The ideal candidate will have experience developing security tools and be able to identify and mitigate security risks within an operating system or web-based platforms. This position is highly technical which poses unique challenges and requires a mind set to work with new technologies and security concepts to solve difficult problems.

Required Skills: Mid to Senior level developer looking to tackle difficult challenges

Desired Skills: C/C++ experience; Java experience; javascript experience; operating system experience and related concepts (e.x kernel, drivers, hypervisors), previous low-level coding experience, security or reverse engineering experience

Clearance: Required TS/SCI with polygraph

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Project Integrator

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

Trusted Concepts is building a team. We need a “Rock Star” that can be customer facing, with the ability to build relationships and position the business for further success. The right candidate has a deep technical knowledge base and can manage a team of both experienced and entry level engineers. Experience with multiple software projects is a must, along with a thorough understanding of Agile development. This person will be able to quickly integrate themselves into the customer space, learning the organizational structure and becoming an effective advocate for the program and the team. Must have the ability to: gather, analyze and compose technical information; conduct research and confirm the use of proper technical terminology. Have experience with translating technical information into a nontechnical clear and readable document, with the ability to present the information in multiple formats. Must be able to create a final deliverable document utilizing automated tools and research following meetings. Organization is required in coordinating a response to action items and technical data calls.

Experience documenting and capturing requirements including the coordination and facilitation of related meetings and technical discussions
Experience in coordinating an organized response to requirements and action items; including tracking project status, plans and drafting meeting minutes to include feature, functionality, planning and methodology.
Significant experience creating polished briefings including professional technical drawings/diagrams at the executive-level.
Ability to inspire team and lead brainstorming sessions
Experience dealing with high-level customer stakeholders and responding to their data calls in a timely efficient manner
Experience developing and supporting strategic planning and project management processes, tools and artifacts with customer stakeholders
Experience with standard office tools like MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and in MS Outlook for scheduling and tracking complex meeting arrangements

Desired Skills

Technical understanding of or direct experience with the customers IT infrastructure and Information Security fundamentals; collaborative tools and capabilities, such as wikis, blogs, especially as implemented in their environment
Familiarity with customer-specific workflow for implementing changes
Experience in gathering and defining requirements and working with customers as stakeholders
Experience in developing and supporting budget formulation processes including tools and artifacts
Experience with developing and maintaining end-user facing platforms (e.g. Sharepoint)

Clearance: TS/SCI with polygraph

Locations: Tysons/Chantilly

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified

applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity,

sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status,

age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ SIGINT Subject Matter Expert/Application Developer

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

Trusted Concepts is looking for a candidate with extensive SIGINT expertise and some coding skills. A thorough understanding of satellite scheduling and operation, especially geosynchronous satellites are needed. Experience with Satellite footprints, target windows, frequencies. Demonstrable understanding of SIGINT collection methods. A background in Mathematics/Physics or other math centered specialty is required.

This candidate should also have some programming skills; preferably in Java, C++, or Fortran (in that order). Backend programming, data engineering, data structure, scheduling applications are required.

Location: Herndon, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified

applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity,

sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status,

age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Job Description: Multiple positions and locations in Northern Virginia. A successful candidate will provide software design and developer expertise in support of both maintenance and new feature development tasks Additionally they will provide support in the areas of data extraction, transformation and load (ETL), data mapping, data extraction, analytical support, operational support, database support, and maintenance support of data and associated systems. As a member of the team, candidates will work in a multi-tasking, quick-paced, dynamic, process-improvement environment that requires experience with the principles of large-scale (terabytes) database development, large-scale file manipulation, data modeling, data mapping, data testing, data quality, and documentation preparation.

Clearance: Requires Top Secret/SCI clearance with Active Polygraph.

Required Skills:

BS or higher degree in systems engineering, computer science, information technology or related field.
Excellent organizational, coordination, interpersonal and team building skills.
Excellent communication (oral/written) skills with respect to team members, peers, and management with only general guidance.
Self-motivated with highly developed analytical and problem solving skills.
Must be able to work effectively under very broad direction with minimal supervision.
Full software development life cycle experience in a mission-centric environments (Requirements assessment, design, coding, testing and production support)
Excellent S/W design skills and knowledge of advanced data structures
Experience working with pre-existing and large code baselines

Desired Skills:

Experience with the following languages: Java/J2EE, C, C++, SQL, XML, XQuery, XPath, Ruby on Rails, HTML/XHTML, CSS, Perl, Shell Scripting
Knowledge of servers operating systems; Windows, Linux, AIX, UNIX, Linux Clusters, Grid Computing, Blade Centers
Strong problem solving skills
Ability to comprehend database methodologies
Focus on continual process improvement with a proactive approach to problem solving

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Software Engineer/Developer

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

We are looking for a Developer that is focused on creating new applications for a mission customer. The work environment is dynamic, has an engaged customer and defined customer base. This innovative project offers opportunities with advanced coding techniques and technologies, as well as recommending new ideas and feature sets. The ideal candidate is a full stack developer with Java, ElasticSearch and/or SOLR experience as well as utilization of open source libraries.

Required Skills: Mid to Senior level developer; Java experience

Desired Skills: Linux, Tomcat, Hibernate, Jira/Confluence, Jenkins, GIT, RDBMS, Vue, Angular, messaging/queuing technologies, experience with consuming and creating web services, additional javascript frameworks

Clearance: Required TS/SCI with polygraph

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Software Engineer/Developer (Front-End)

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

The company is looking for a Front-End Developer that will focus on creating new applications for a mission customer. The work environment is dynamic, has an engaged customer and defined customer base. This innovative project offers opportunities with advanced coding techniques and technologies, as well as recommending new ideas and feature sets. The ideal candidate is a front-end developer with Vue.js or Angular experience. This is a large contract with a need for quality developers with diverse skills and candidates with solid development backgrounds will be considered.

Required: Mid to Senior level developer; Java experience

Desired: Linux, SOLR, Jenkins, GIT, RDBMS, Jira/Confluence, Elasticsearch, messaging/queuing technologies, experience with consuming and creating web services, additional javascript frameworks

Clearance: Required TS/SCI with polygraph

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

+ Tester – Regular and Automated

Trusted Concepts is a Small Business dedicated to providing high-end information technology services to federal and commercial clients. Our strength is in our employees, and we invest in them through company-sponsored training, conference attendance, and education reimbursement. Unlike other defense contractors, if an employee is interested in other contracts or positions, we immediately strive to fulfill their request. And instead of a company structured around hierarchical titles and layered reporting, we focus on individual performance and personal preference.

This Tester position will support both regular and automated testing with an engaged customer and defined and growing customer base. Tests will disseminate to multiple platforms across multiple agencies and include new user bases. Experience in standard web tools including: search, retrieve and upload are required. This position will also contribute to the DevOps and System Engineer security accreditation paperwork process. Experience with automation tools is a plus.

Clearance: TS/SCI and Polygraph

Desired: Experience working with multiple platforms.

Trusted Concepts, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified

applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity,

sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status,

age, or any other characteristic protected by law.