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SMX is seeking a Linux Systems Administrator to support a fast-paced environment. The selected candidate will work closely with customers, fellow team members, and other System Administrators in support of Missile Defense Agency. This role involves identifying and executing projects and tasks that require advanced technical support and quick turnaround. The administrator will also participate in weekly and bi-weekly meetings to keep customers informed on task progress, project updates, and any concerns. Essential Duties & Responsibilities Work collaboratively to provide input and solutions to meet business requirements Responsible for the creation and maintenance of Ansible playbooks and other administrative shell scripting Effectively analyze and resolve problems involving interaction between applications, server hardware/firmware/OS and storage by working with cross functional teams and equipment vendors with minimal supervision Taking ownership of issue as assigned and resolved in a timely manner Taking ownership of incidents and service requests via ticketing queue and seeing that the requests are completed in a timely manner Attend meetings with current and incoming customers for technical advice on proposed projects Patching, Maintenance and Infrastructure Support Required Skills/Experience Required Clearance: Secret Experience with RHEL 8/9 and/or CentOS Knowledge of DoD Information Assurance practices, including Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) and Risk Management Framework (RMF) process Security+ or other relevant IAT Level II/III certification Desired Skills/Experience Bachelor’s Degree in a related field is preferred Experience with Solaris Experience with Red Had Identity Management Experience with Red Hat Satellite Experience with Ansible Bash Scripting Independent research using vendor-specific and third party sources Experience with escalating vendor support Cloud-based certifications Application Deadline: 8/18/2025 #cjpost #LI-ONSITE The SMX salary determination process takes into account a number of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories, relevant prior work experience, specific skills, education and certifications. At SMX, one Learn more
SMX is seeking a skilled Management Analyst to be part of our Information Technology Team supporting NAWCAD at Patuxent River, MD. The Management Analyst tasking includes studies and evaluation, designing systems and procedures, conducting work simplification and measurement studies and preparation of operations and procedural manuals to assist the management team in creating and increasing efficiencies and effectiveness of operations. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Conduct organizational studies and evaluations Design systems and procedures for operations Conduct work simplification and measurement studies Prepare documentation such as process and procedures for operations Provide expertise in an assigned area such as logistics, financial management, configuration/change management, talent management or within a specific technology area Required Skills: Clearance Required: Secret, Non-NISP to start. The applicant selected may be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information Ability to maintain a Secret Clearance Must be able to interact with peers, management, and senior engineers in a constantly evolving environment to ensure a positive customer experience and atmosphere in the workplace Associate degree in a relevant discipline 3+ years of related IT experience required Desired Skills: Past DoD experience Bachelor’s degree #cjpost At SMX®, we are a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling your mission. From priority national security initiatives for the DoD to highly assured and compliant solutions for healthcare, we understand that digital transformation is key to your future success. We share your vision for the future and strive to accelerate your impact on the world. We bring both cutting edge technology and an expansive view of what’s possible to every engagement. Our delivery model and unique approaches harness our deep technical and domain knowledge, providing forward-looking insights and practical solutions to power secure mission acceleration. SMX is an Equal Learn more
SMX is seeking a skilled Management Analyst to be part of our Information Technology Team supporting NAWCAD at Patuxent River, MD. The Management Analyst tasking includes studies and evaluation, designing systems and procedures, conducting work simplification and measurement studies and preparation of operations and procedural manuals to assist the management team in creating and increasing efficiencies and effectiveness of operations. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Conduct organizational studies and evaluations Design systems and procedures for operations Conduct work simplification and measurement studies Prepare documentation such as process and procedures for operations Provide expertise in an assigned area such as logistics, financial management, configuration/change management, talent management or within a specific technology area Required Skills: Clearance Required: Secret, Non-NISP to start. The applicant selected may be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Ability to maintain a Secret Clearance Must be able to interact with peers, management, and senior engineers in a constantly evolving environment to ensure a positive customer experience and atmosphere in the workplace. Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline 7+ years of related IT experience required Desired Skills: Past DoD experience #cjpost At SMX®, we are a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling your mission. From priority national security initiatives for the DoD to highly assured and compliant solutions for healthcare, we understand that digital transformation is key to your future success. We share your vision for the future and strive to accelerate your impact on the world. We bring both cutting edge technology and an expansive view of what’s possible to every engagement. Our delivery model and unique approaches harness our deep technical and domain knowledge, providing forward-looking insights and practical solutions to power secure mission acceleration. SMX is an Equal Opportunity employer including Learn more
SMX is seeking a skilled Manager / Operations Manager to be part of our Information Technology Team supporting NAWCAD at Patuxent River, MD. The Operations Manager tasking includes leading, managing and administering contractual delivery of services to our customer as the main point of contact. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Analyze requirements, status, budget, and schedules Perform management, technical, or business case analysis Collect, compete, organize, and interpret data relating to project acquisition and product programs Track program/project status, budgets, resources, and schedules Required Skills: Clearance Required: Secret, Secret to start. The applicant selected may be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Ability to maintain a Secret Clearance Must be able to interact with peers, management, and senior engineers in a constantly evolving environment to ensure a positive customer experience and atmosphere in the workplace Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline 7+ years of related IT experience required Desired Skills: Past DoD Program Management experience PMP certification #cjpost At SMX®, we are a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling your mission. From priority national security initiatives for the DoD to highly assured and compliant solutions for healthcare, we understand that digital transformation is key to your future success. We share your vision for the future and strive to accelerate your impact on the world. We bring both cutting edge technology and an expansive view of what’s possible to every engagement. Our delivery model and unique approaches harness our deep technical and domain knowledge, providing forward-looking insights and practical solutions to power secure mission acceleration. SMX is an Equal Opportunity employer including disabilities and veterans. Selected applicant may be subject to a background investigation and/or education verification.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 advanced level 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 site network connectivity components Create STIG checklists and ACAS scans in support of the Navy RMF process and NIST standards Install and support Operating Systems and Applications throughout the lifecycle Perform backup and recovery functions Prepare, update, and audit standard operating procedures, event response procedures and/or maintenance instruction documents Required Skills: Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI eligible, Top Secret to start. The applicant selected may be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information Ability to maintain a Top Secret/SCI eligible Clearance Knowledge of DoD Information Assurance practices, including Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) Must be able to interact with peers, management, and senior engineers in a constantly evolving environment to ensure a positive customer experience and atmosphere in the workplace Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline 7+ years of related IT experience required Experience with Windows and Linux based Operating Systems DoD 8570 compliant (IAT Level 2) (Examples of minimum acceptable certifications-CCNA Security, CySA+, G SEC, Security+ CE, SSCP) Desired Skills: Past DoD Program Management experience #cjpost At SMX®, we are a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling your mission. From priority national security initiatives for Learn more
SMX is seeking a driven and talented Mid-Level Unix Administrator. This team member will work with a group of UNIX/Linux Systems Administrators at the Patuxent River Data Center (PRDC). The UNIX team member will ensure that all systems on Department of Defense (DoD) networks are appropriately patched and configured to the organizationally defined hardening policies. The UNIX team member will ensure that National Help Desk incidents and service requests are completed/resolved in a timely manner as well as work on ad-hoc projects involving different systems and applications across the Data Center. Responsibilities Responsible for assisting with operating system and security patching efforts across multiple DoD Enclaves. Responsible for assisting with the mentoring and training more junior UNIX/Linux System Administrators on completing tasks and implementing new technologies. Work collaboratively with other Data Center teams to provide Unix/Linux based solutions to meet business requirements. Responsible for the creation and maintenance of Ansible playbooks and other administrative shell scripting. Effectively analyze and resolve problems involving interaction between applications, server hardware/firmware/OS and storage by working with cross functional teams and equipment vendors with minimal supervision. Participating in an on-call rotation. Taking ownership of outages and seeing that the issue is resolved in a timely manner. Taking ownership of incidents and service requests via ticketing queue and seeing that the requests are completed in a timely manner. Attend meetings with current and incoming customers for technical advice on proposed projects. Required Skills and Experience Clearance Level Needed: Must be able to obtain and maintain DoD Top Secret Clearance (Interim Secret required to start) On-site requirement: 1 day/week (Pax River, MD) Security+ certification required to start Minimum of 3+ years of related IT experience required Detail-oriented and able to manage multiple assignments autonomously and in a team setting. Proficient with clear and concise verbal and Learn more
SMX is seeking a MOSA Architecture Engineer to join our elite team supporting the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) Project Office. In this role, you will serve as a MOSA Architecture Engineer focused on the weapon system development architecture for the FLRAA PMO. The engineer provides avionics architecture engineering support integrating the tenants of Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA) in new rotary wing aviation development program. The ideal candidate has at least 15 years of experience as a systems engineer supporting aviation systems and subsystem specification, acquisition, development, and testing on aviation platform. Responsibilities for the MOSA Architecture Engineer include: Supporting the FLRAA Project Office as a systems architecture engineer during the development of system/subsystem specifications, reference/system architectures, program briefings, white papers, and other products Providing technical support in the development of FLRAA aircraft mission systems architectural design and development Assists in the design and implementation of short and long-term strategic goals for managing and maintaining systems and software Develops architectural specification requirements and Performance Work Statements (PWS) based on FLRAA Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) business objectives and technical goals Researches and identifies technology products required for solution delivery and assesses contractor provided proposals for technical merit Establishes, implements, and documents the technology integration or migration strategies Provides engineering review of all contractor technical efforts, including S&T and IR&D, and represents the FLRAA Project Office during technical reviews covering mission systems Required Skills and Experience: Clearance Required: Secret Minimum of BS+15 years of work in a technical field(s) related to aviation with a strong foundation in MOSA Substitutions: MS in Engineering and 12 years of experience; PhD in Engineering and 8 years of experience Experience with design, verification, and qualification of aviation systems Experience in modular design, interface management, and open systems architecture Knowledge of Modular Opens Systems Learn more
SMX is seeking a MOSA Systems Engineer to join our elite team supporting the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) Project Office. In this role, you will serve as a MOSA Systems Engineer focused on the weapon system development architecture for the FLRAA PMO. The engineer provides avionics architecture engineering support integrating the tenants of Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA) in new rotary wing aviation development program. The ideal candidate has at least 15 years of experience as a systems engineer supporting aviation systems and subsystem specification, acquisition, development, and testing on aviation platform. Responsibilities for the MOSA Systems Engineer include: Supporting the FLRAA Project Office as a systems architecture engineer during the development of system/subsystem specifications, reference/system architectures, program briefings, white papers, and other products Providing technical support in the development of FLRAA aircraft mission systems architectural design and development Assists in the design and implementation of short and long-term strategic goals for managing and maintaining systems and software Develops architectural specification requirements and Performance Work Statements (PWS) based on FLRAA Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) business objectives and technical goals Researches and identifies technology products required for solution delivery and assesses contractor provided proposals for technical merit Establishes, implements, and documents the technology integration or migration strategies Provides engineering review of all contractor technical efforts, including S&T and IR&D, and represents the FLRAA Project Office during technical reviews covering mission systems Required Skills and Experience: Clearance Required: Secret Minimum of BS+15 years of work in a technical field(s) related to aviation with a strong foundation in MOSA Substitutions: MS in Engineering and 12 years of experience; PhD in Engineering and 8 years of experience Experience with design, verification, and qualification of aviation systems Experience in modular design, interface management, and open systems architecture Experience with Modular Open Systems Learn more
SMX is seeking an Enterprise Architect for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) who will lead and support technical teams to architect, build, deploy, and migrate cloud solutions across public cloud environments to support enterprise clients. Serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for AWS, Azure, and GCP and will help shape and grow our public and hybrid cloud offerings. This role is 100% remote. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Apply technical knowledge and expertise across multiple teams to architect and design solutions that meet business and IT needs, create solution roadmaps, drive proofs of concept, and ensure long term technical viability of cloud migrations, leveraging key technologies where appropriate. Advocate and define cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems Support and nurture Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and other partner relationships Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates Lead architecture through hand-on evaluations, defining standards, designing solution and reference architectures that solve stated business objectives. Optimize solutions to improve performance and scalability, while providing efficiencies and reducing operating costs Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations Act as a Subject Matter Expert to the organization for end-to-end cloud architecture including networking, provisioning, and management Provides technical guidance and mentoring to the Solutions Architecture team, directly overseeing Solutions Architects and Cloud Engineers Advocate and drive adoption of standard methodologies to ensure standardization of solution architecture outputs across the enterprise Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technologies, and services Required Skills: Certified in any of the following: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Azure Solutions Architect Expert Google Certified Professional – Cloud Architect Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture 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 site network connectivity components Create STIG checklists and ACAS scans in support of the Navy RMF process and NIST standards Install and support Operating Systems and Applications throughout the lifecycle Perform backup and recovery functions Prepare, update, and audit standard operating procedures, event response procedures and/or maintenance instruction documents Required Skills: Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI eligible, Top Secret to start. The applicant selected may be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information Ability to maintain a Top Secret/SCI eligible Clearance Knowledge of DoD Information Assurance practices, including Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) Must be able to interact with peers, management, and senior engineers in a constantly evolving environment to ensure a positive customer experience and atmosphere in the workplace. Highschool diploma or higher Less than 3 years of related IT experience Experience with Windows and Linux based Operating Systems DoD 8570 compliant (IAT Level 2) (Examples of minimum acceptable certifications-CCNA Security, CySA+, G SEC, Security+ CE, SSCP) Desired Skills: Past DoD system administration experience #cjpost At SMX®, we are a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling your mission. From priority national security initiatives for the DoD to Learn more
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