Southern Maryland’s Trusted Legacy for Over 25 Years: Join Us at SMX – Where Commitment Meets Mission Excellence!

With You, We All Achieve More

With You, We All Achieve More

SMX is always seeking individuals, in and around Southern Maryland, with expertise (or interest) in the following areas:

  • Data Science, especially proficiency in manipulating, interpreting, and visualizing customer data and information.
  • Software Engineering and Programming, particularly those with experience supporting aircraft programs and weapons systems for both existing and emerging military aircraft.
  • IT infrastructure, including assistance with migrating our DoD clients’ workloads to the Cloud environment across all levels of classification.

Jim Knoll

Lead Program Manager

“SoMD it is the perfect place for employees to broaden their experience levels supporting customers based out of Washington DC and supporting the planning and management of National level programs.”

Jack Pappenattick

DevOps Team Lead

“I feel valued as an employee here. For me, that feeling of value and respect is something that I need to be successful at my job. SMX is a good place to start or continue your career growth journey.”

Aaron Kline

Data Center Operations Manager

“SMX prioritizes internal growth, paving the way through training and career development to allow our current employees every opportunity to progress and grow their careers in the direction of their choosing. SMX provides a vast range of job opportunities, with SoMD and NAS PAX new opportunities provided every day!”

Check out some of our technical capabilities in Southern Maryland

Find Your Next Career at SMX

SMX is seeking an Application System Administrator to join our team. This role is critical in supporting the design, documentation, deployment, and maintenance of innovative application solutions that align with the evolving needs of our organization and its clients.    The ideal candidate brings a strong blend of technical proficiency, creative problem-solving, and clear, effective communication. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our systems are robust, scalable, and aligned with strategic goals. This position will be onsite at the client location in Patuxent River, MD. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather application requirements Learn more
SMX is looking for a highly motivated System Administrator to administer Linux Application Servers for our NAVAIR customer. You will join a team of highly driven, supportive, and skilled professionals engaged in supporting across the NAVAIR community.   This position will be onsite at Patuxent River NAS in Patuxent River, MD.    Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Performs the installation, integration, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, security implementation, and configuration of software applications in a classified environment Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence/Atlassian, TWS, Artifactory, Jenkins, Mailman, SonarQube, VoIP, ACAS, and more Troubleshoot and resolve software issues Provides support through a ticketing system to application owners, developers, Learn more
SMX is seeking a skilled Network and Computer Systems Administrator to be part of our Information Technology Team supporting NAWCAD at Patuxent River, MD.  The Administrator tasking includes operations, administration, maintenance, compliance, break/fix, activities for servers, appliances, storage devices on premise, in labs and in cloud environments. Essential Duties and Responsibilities:   Provide IT Administration support for virtual and physical computers/servers/appliances or other devices including but not limited to install, config, maintenance, compliance, and decommissioning  Support VMware systems hosting virtualized workstations and/or servers  Support Windows and/or Linux based systems  Support Windows Active Directory  Support routing, switching and other site to Learn more
SMX is looking for a highly motivated Network Engineer (mid or senior level) with demonstrated experience to perform Network Engineering, Design, and Analysis for for use in operational environments. As the Network Engineer, you will join a team of highly driven, supportive, and skilled professionals engaged in supporting critical programs across the NAVAIR community. This is an onsite role providing support for our client at Patuxent River NAS, MD. The Network Engineer will:  Serve as the Network Subject Matter Expert for all PMA-262 SW products Plan Networks / NetConfig roadmap for all SW products (Ports Protocols Services Matrix updates for new capabilities, Learn more
SMX is looking for a highly motivated Network Engineer (mid or senior level) with demonstrated experience to perform Network Engineering, Design, and Analysis for for use in operational environments. As the Network Engineer, you will join a team of highly driven, supportive, and skilled professionals engaged in supporting critical programs across the NAVAIR community. This is an onsite role providing support for our client at Patuxent River NAS, MD. The Network Engineer will:  Serve as the Network Subject Matter Expert for all PMA-262 SW products Plan Networks / NetConfig roadmap for all SW products (Ports Protocols Services Matrix updates for new capabilities, Learn more
SMX is seeking an experienced and mission-driven Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst. In this role, you’ll play a critical part in protecting our clients’ networks by analyzing real-time data, performing threat correlation, and escalating incidents that could impact operations. This position will be onsite at the client location in Patuxent River, MD. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Detect and identify intrusions and anomalous activity across monitored environments Use cyber defense tools to monitor and analyze systems for malicious activity Document and escalate impactful incidents in accordance with escalation protocols Analyze threats to determine attack vectors, exploited vulnerabilities, and potential data loss Learn more
SMX is seeking a talented Senior Network Operations Administrator to join our team. In this role, you’ll work with tools like SIEMs, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems. You’ll also help manage encryption systems like PKI, ensure networks meet DoD security standards, and assist with audits and compliance. This position will be onsite at the client location in Patuxent River, MD. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Review security monitoring tools and investigate suspicious activity across IT systems and networks for potential signs of compromise and related threat intelligence Evaluate and support the ongoing effectiveness of Information Assurance (IA) Defense-in-Depth operations and strategies Learn more
SMX is looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to support the Acquisition Program Office in oversight of Software Engineering activities. You will join a team of highly driven, supportive, and skilled professionals engaged in supporting program management, technical, or business case analysis across the NAVAIR community.  The Senior Software Engineer will:  Establishes, shapes, ensures compliance and continuous improvement for software development and software sustainment policies and procedures Serves as a part of the government software acquisition management team on large complex software intensive weapon system programs.  Interact a wide diversity of software stakeholders. Apply discipline of computer science Learn more
SMX is looking for a highly motivated Senior Systems Administrator with demonstrated experience to support the development phase of a project relative to software supporting aircraft and weapons systems. This role will provide onsite support to our government client at Patuxent River Naval Air Station.  As the Senior Systems Administrator, you will join a team of highly driven, supportive, and skilled professionals engaged in supporting across the NAVAIR community.  The Senior Systems Administrator will: Provide engineering solutions for various and unique problem sets and customers in a government software hosting facility. Deploy and maintain physical and virtual hardware infrastructure, to Learn more
SMX is looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer (Mid-Senior) with demonstrated experience to perform Software/Systems Engineering for the sustainment phases of a project relative to mission planning software supporting aircraft and weapons systems. In this role, you will join a team of highly driven, supportive, and skilled professionals engaged in supporting program management, technical, or business case analysis across the NAVAIR community. This is an onsite role providing support for our client at Patuxent River NAS, MD. The Software Engineer will:  Analyze computer science, engineering, and other software engineering problems to develop and implement solutions to complex applications problems, Learn more

Benefits Highlights

  • 100% 401K match on the first 5% of your contribution with match immediately 100% vested
  • 160 Hours (4 weeks) PTO and 11 Federal holidays recognized
  • Three different medical plans through Cigna
  • Paid Military leave up four weeks
  • Paid Parental Leave up to four weeks
  • Access to Training & Development resources
  • Optional Flexible Spending Plans
  • Fringe Benefits include Concierge Services, Employee Assistance Program, Legal Plan, and more!

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