Careers
It's Time to Love Your Job
The PLEX team is a family and our family is a team. Our bleeding edge cybersecurity and technology experts are the most talented in their field. We are driven professionals with a passion for the work and an authenticity that is recognized in our industry … we work smart – and hard – laugh as much as possible and give the best fist-bumps in the community. But, as in our name, we recognize that you are a person.
Benefits
Towards that goal, we offer the following benefits:
- Flexible Time Off – Work when you want, take off whenever you want. There are no monthly minimums, but plenty of flexibility.
- Overtime & Bank Time – Get paid for every hour your work or bank it for use at a later time.
- Bonus Plan – Every employee is a participant in the PLEX Annual Bonus Plan.
- The PLEX Sabbatical – Employees receive gifts on their anniversary every year. However, when they hit the 5-year anniversary milestone, they really get rewarded! Read more on our PLEX Sabbatical page.
- Medical Insurance – PLEX offers national medical coverage with CIGNA and MetLife and pays 100% for employee coverage in all plans.
- Flexible Spending Accounts for Medical and Dependent Care
- Company-Sponsored Supplemental Insurance and Benefits such as Life Insurance and Disability coverage
- Employer-Sponsored 401(k) Retirement Plan with Pretax and Roth options
- Education and Training Benefit
- Employee Reward and Recognition – Whether it’s a birthday or anniversary, at PLEX you will not be overlooked. PLEX also provides employees with some cool Under Armour and North Face swag from our company store.
- The PLEX Ownership Program (The POP) – you become a part owner in the company!
PLEX Solutions LLC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer Committed to Diversity.
PLEX Solutions LLC provides equal opportunities to qualified employees and prospective employees without regard to age, race, color, religion. pregnancy, sex, national origin, veteran status, uniformed status, physical or mental disability, or other protected characteristics.
Opportunities
Our bleeding edge cybersecurity and technology experts are the most talented in their field. We are driven professionals with a passion for the work and an authenticity that is recognized in our industry … we work smart – and hard – laugh as much as possible and give the best fist-bumps in the community.
Cybersecurity Opportunities
Cyber Security Engineer
Required Skills/Experience:
- Minimum experience of three (3) years as a senior level, lead or related position, directing and supervising engineering and technical personnel on a major program, project, or activity related information technology, ethical hacking, cybersecurity and/or Information Assurance.
- Must possess a BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer and Information Security, Computer Security or Network Administration from accredited college or university.
- Provide technical and engineering support in exploitation and/or remediation of infrastructure and computer systems.
- Possess an understanding of information assurance, with expertise in computer and telecommunications networks including system and cyber warfare.
- Assist in researching tools and developing new concepts for structural awareness and vulnerability assessment to support CNO efforts.
- TS/SCI clearance a must.
Cyber Operations Specialist
Required Skills/Experience:
- Possess at least three (3) years of recent experience related to network traffic analysis, network security, interconnecting technologies, malware analysis, ethical hacking and/or network penetration testing.
- Provide technical and engineering support in exploitation and/or remediation of infrastructure and computer systems.
- Possess understanding of Information Assurance, with expertise in computer and telecommunications networks including system and cyber warfare.
- Possess a BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer and Information Security, Computer Security or Network Administration from accredited college or university.
- TS/SCI clearance a must.
Cyber Vulnerability Engineer
Required Skills/Experience:
Assist in researching new concepts for developing situational awareness and vulnerability tools in support of Computer Network Operations (CNO) efforts in the following areas:
- Systems vulnerability
- Sensor self-defending networks
- Effects based capabilities
- Reverse engineering of systems exploitation
Lead a team of up to two additional personnel with similar experience.
BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer and Information Security, Computer Security or Network Administration.
Demonstrated subject matter expertise in the discipline of cyber vulnerability analysis, with 5 years of recent experience directing and supervising engineering and technical personnel on a major program, project, or activity related to information technology, ethical hacking, cybersecurity and/or Information Assurance.
TS/SCI Clearance a must
Embedded Software & Digital Hardware Engineering Opportunities
Embedded Software Engineer
Required Skills/Experience:
Develop embedded and vulnerability tools in support of Computer Network Operations (CNO) efforts.
BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
3+ years experience with C, C++, and/or Python on embedded systems such as Linux, Windows, iOS, or Android.
TS/SCI Clearance a must
Vulnerability Researcher
Required Skills/Experience:
Assist in researching new concepts for developing situational awareness and vulnerability tools in support of Computer Network Operations (CNO) efforts in the following areas:
· Systems vulnerability
· Sensor self-defending networks
· Effects based capabilities
· Reverse engineering of systems exploitation
BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
Demonstrated expertise in the discipline of cyber vulnerability analysis, with 3+ years of recent experience 3+ years experience with C, C++, and/or Python on embedded systems such as Linux, Windows, iOS, or Android.
Experience with RE tools such as IDA Pro or Ghidra
TS/SCI Clearance a must
FPGA Engineer
Required Skills/Experience:
Designs and tests new integrated circuits and hardware components for a wide variety of signal processing applications and research. Designs, documents, and develops code (to include firmware) for digital signal processors or other programmable hardware devices such as Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware. Analyzes the function of existing integrated circuits and hardware components for the purpose of reverse engineering the hardware and firmware. Conducts the necessary hardware engineering and related functions to modify and adapt vendor-manufactured hardware to meet special Government needs and contingencies.
BS in computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
3+ years experience with VHDL.
TS/SCI Clearance a must
Software Engineering Opportunities
Cloud Software Engineer
Required Skills/Experience:
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Five (5) years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software, development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing and problem diagnosis/resolution.
- Four (4) years of experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C++.
- Distributed scalable Big Data Store (NoSQL) such as Hbase, CloudBase/Acumulo, Big Table and so forth.
- Shall have experience with the Map Reduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig and so forth. Shall have experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
- Shall have experience with serialization such as JSON and/or BSON.
- Three (3) years of experience developing software for Windows (2000, 2003, XP, Vista) or UNIX/Linux (Redhat versions 3-5) operating systems.
Senior Cloud Software Engineer
Required Skills/Experience:
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Eight (8) years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software, development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing and problem diagnosis/resolution.
- Six (6) years of experience developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C++.
- Shall have experience with distributed scalable Big Data Store (NoSQL) such as Hbase, CloudBase/Acumulo, Big Table and so forth.
- Shall have experience with the Map Reduce programming model and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig and so forth.
- Shall have experience with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Shall have experience with serialization such as JSON and/or BSON.
- Three (3) years of experience developing software for Windows (2000, 2003, XP, Vista) or UNIX/Linux (Redhat versions 3-5) operating systems.
- Shall have experience on the design and development of at least one (1) Object Oriented system.
- Three (3) years of experience in software integration and software testing, to include developing and implementing test plans and test scripts.
- Shall have demonstrated technical writing skills and shall have generated technical documents in support of a software development project.
- Shall have demonstrated work experience in at least four (4) of the desired qualities below.
Desired Skills (Must have demonstrated work experience in at least four (4) skills below):
- Experience deploying applications in a cloud environment.
- Understanding of Cloud Scalability.
- Hadoop /Cloud Certification.
- Experience designing and developing automated analytic software, techniques and algorithms.
- Experience developing and deploying: analytics that include foreign language processing; analytic processes that incorporate/integrate multi-media technologies, including speech, text, image and video exploitation; analytics that function on massive data sets, for example, more than a billion rows or larger than 10 Petabytes; analytics that employ semantic relationships (i.e., inference engines) between structured and unstructured data sets; analytics that identify latent patterns between elements of massive data sets, for example more than a billion rows or larger than 10 Petabytes; analytics that employ techniques commonly associated with Artificial Intelligence, for example genetic algorithms.
- Experience with taxonomy construction for analytic disciplines, knowledge areas and skills.
- Experience developing and deploying: data driven analytics; event driven analytics; sets of analytics orchestrated through rules engines.
- Experience with linguistics (grammar, morphology, concepts).
- Experience developing and deploying analytics that discover and exploit social networks.
- Experience documenting ontologies, data models, schemas, formats, data element dictionaries, software application program interfaces and other technical specifications.
- Experience developing and deploying analytics within a heterogeneous schema environment.
Principal Software Engineer
Work closely with customers to understand system requirements and features. Implements system interfaces and features as defined by system architecture guidelines. Work as a collaborative member of an agile development team to produce system components based on 90 day spin cycle with 2 week iterations.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop code, unit and integration tests.
- Design and run integration and end-to-end tests to verify performance against requirements.
- Analyze and interpret test results to characterize component behavior.
- Participate as a collaborative member of an Agile team.
- Participate in all aspects of the SCRUM process (planning, collaboration, lessons learned).
Required Skills/Experience:
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Twenty (20+) years of experience as a software developer.
- Fifteen (15+) years of direct experience with Java development.
- Ten (10+) years of experience with WebLogic and/or JBOSS application servers.
- Ten (10+) years of experience with JEE development.
- Experience with development of Servlets, JSP’s, Struts, EJB’s required.
- Experience with AJAX Single Page Interface technologies such as JavaScript, GWT, EXT-JS and JQuery.
- Must be comfortable working in either Windows or Linux based environments.
Power BI Developer
The Power BI Developer will design, build, and configure cutting-edge, visually compelling, applications, dashboards, user interfaces, and reports. They will directly support the business intelligence, data-driven storytelling, analytics, and account insights needed for successful outcomes. They will take the initiative to understand our client’s data landscape, project roadmap, and create impactful reports, dashboards, user-interfaces, and data visualizations with Power BI. They will play a key role in the development of data objects, logic, and metrics needed to support dashboard requirements.
This position is based in Huntsville, AL.
Responsibilities:
- Develop Reports and Dashboards, System Testing and Deployment of reporting solution for the customer.
- Design, code, test, debug, and document.
- Provide hands-on design, development, visualizations, dashboards, and reports.
- Design and develop code, unit and integration tests.
- Establishes plans, schedules, and processes to manage on-time delivery of projects.
- Produces regular progress reports of all activities for review and planning.
- Build advanced user and usage reporting capabilities.
- Ingest data from a wide variety of sources and preform ETL to clean and process data for final consumption into Power BI.
- Follow the latest Power BI releases and capabilities.
- Assist, instruct, and coordinate the work of future developers.
Required Skills/Experience:
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Expert in MS Power BI.
- Solid understanding of DAX with significant experience coding complex DAX expressions
- Advanced knowledge of SQL, writing and debugging SQL queries
- extracting from and querying large and diverse databases
- Advanced understanding of stored procedures
- Skills in data cleansing, profiling, modeling, integration, analysis
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in data modeling, data architecture and data warehouse design.
- Power BI administration expertise
System Engineering Opportunities
Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Analyzes user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications.
- Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities. Guides users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies.
- Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology. Incorporates new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations. Develops technical documentation.
- Develops system Architecture and system design documentation.
- Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans. – Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts.
- Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility. – Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
Candidate Requirements:
- Fourteen (14) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
- TS/SCI required.
- The candidate should be a proactive, detail-oriented self-starter with excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE)
Required Skills/Experience:
- Minimum experience of three (3) years as a senior level, lead or related position, directing and supervising engineering and technical personnel on a major program, project or activity related to computer software development at user and kernel level, computer programming and/or computer digital forensics.
- Proven experience in providing top level technical expertise, including performing in-depth and complex software systems programming and analysis.
- Familiarity with design architectures, to include software, hardware and communications to support current and future requirements and interfaces
- Ensure compliance with open systems standards and agency architectures. Determine technical requirements based on interaction with users.
- Proven knowledge of enterprise architectures. Identify, assess and present options for meeting functional and technical requirements, including hardware and software.
- Experience in formulating and defining specifications for operating system applications or modification and maintenance of existing applications, using engineering releases and utilities from manufacturer.
- Knowledge in creating detailed design specifications for use by staff and help planning project schedules and technical directions.
- Develop software design documents and technical white papers to assist in selecting development tools.
- Responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation. Instruct, direct and check other task personnel work.
- Experience in conducting QA reviews and evaluation of existing and new software products.
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer and Information Security, Computer Security or Network Administration from accredited college or university.
- TS/SCI clearance a must.
Systems Administrator
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required
- 3 years experience as a Linux SA on either desktop or servers
- IAT Level II cert (i.e. Security+) preferred
- TS/SCI is a must
Back Office Support
Staffing Coordinator
PLEX is seeking a driven staffing coordinator to augment our fast-paced mission support team.
PLEX Solutions LLC is a Software and Cybersecurity focused company that supports government customers and commercial clients. We have been named a Top Workplace for 2022 and 2023 by Washington Post Magazine. We pride ourselves in hiring individuals who are top of their class.
The PLEX Staffing Coordinator should embody the following core skills and traits:
· High energy, detail oriented, and motivated individual with excellent communication, interpersonal, time management, and problem solving skills
· Exceptional attention to detail and ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast pace environment
· Aptitude to learn and become the SME for the internal Agile Onboarding staffing tool / portal; handling the creating of job listings and be able to navigate through complex customer staffing portals
· A basic understanding of technical concepts. The ability to learn how to differentiate between system and software engineer roles, scripting languages and environments, cybersecurity landscapes and the customer mission space
· Ability to dissect candidate resumes and create qualifying customer labor category templates, determines skill set and years of experience match and creates compelling, well written representation of a candidates work history for submission to the customer
· Ability to follow the staffing process through to completion, follow up with candidates, coordinate interviews, submit templates, engage with security and assist with onboarding activities
· A deep knowledge of professional writing, able to analyze resume and position data at a high level and make decisions, effective communication skills, positive relationship building skills, a passion for business growth
Requirements:
Must be a US Citizen
Minimum of 2 years industry experience
Bachelor’s degree: English, Marketing, Communications, etc.
Must be local and be willing to commute to Columbia MD or Ft Meade MD daily if needed
Clearance not required but would be a plus!
Junior Culture Coordinator
Seeking a highly organized, motivated and creative individual to handle marketing events, employee recognition and other administrative duties as assigned. This position would mostly be working out of our Columbia, MD office and remote, with occasional travel to Northern VA.
PLEX Solutions LLC is a Software and Cybersecurity focused company that supports government customers and commercial clients. Our employees are mostly in MD and VA with others scattered around the country. Communication and employee recognition are very important to the company mission. We have been named a Top Workplace for 2022 and 2023 by Washington Post Magazine. Fostering a diverse and inclusive culture is a top priority. We will look to the culture coordinator to update our LinkedIn page and other social media accounts as necessary, come up with creative and fun events, produce our quarterly newsletter and celebrate employee achievements. The ideal person knows how to multi-task and handle the pressure of a fast-paced environment.
Job Duties include:
• Oversee the ordering and tracking of PLEX Marketing items
• Design flyers/invitations for all corporate events
• Create and post multiple LinkedIn posts every week
• Be the PLEX Social Medial Guru – keep the company in good news across platforms
• Produce quarterly Newsletter
• Organize Marketing/Networking events for BU’s as needed
• Maintain and update the company store
• Oversee Birthday/Anniversary Recognition, including the coordination of gifts
• Come up with creative event ideas for PLEX and employees
• Plan PLEX participation in community or charity event each year
• Assist Exec Leadership as needed including general office duties – ordering supplies, running errands, etc
Requirements:
Must be a US Citizen
Must be 21 or over due to managing events
Bachelor’s degree: English, Marketing, Communications, or relative degree
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
Willing to travel when needed
Junior Financial Analyst
The Junior Finance Analyst works closely/daily with our Contracts and Finance teams, as well as PLEX leadership supporting customer operations. We’re in pursuit of an individual who thrives in a team environment, takes initiative, is motivated by the opportunity to learn and help solve challenges, and can move between numerous, unrelated tasks seamlessly. This is a junior level position to support our growing Mission Support team and is a great opportunity for the right person to learn internal business operations and move up within our quickly growing organization. Position is located in Columbia, MD.
Job Description:
- Project Control Support for PLEX Solutions division
- Project setup & maintenance
- Invoice generation & AR follow up
- Timesheet POC:
- Send out reminders for PLEX & prime timecards
- Ensure that all timecards are submitted by the end of the month for payroll processing
- Approve/enter time in Vendor systems
- Accounting system (Unanet) support for PLEX
- Assist Finance Lead as needed
Requirements:
- Individual must be willing and able to obtain a government sponsored security clearance. A security screening will be conducted by the PLEX FSO to include a background check. US Citizenship is required.
- Able to effectively multi-task & prioritize
- Well versed Microsoft Office Suite
- Strong written/oral communication skills
- Well organized, self-motivated
- Strong MS Excel skills
- Ability to pick up tools and processes quickly
- Willing to roll their sleeves up, be a team player and eager to tackle new challenges
- Position on-site in Columbia, MD
Preferred
- Previous finance knowledge/experience through a degree in Finance
- 0-2 years on the job experience in a related field
- Cost proposal experience
- Experience with Unanet systems a plus
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General Opportunities
General
Don’t see a specific position that meets your skill set? Are you PLEX material? We would like to have a chat with you. Drop us a line and send over your resume via the contact form on this page.
PLEX Solutions LLC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer Committed to Diversity.
PLEX Solutions LLC provides equal opportunities to qualified employees and prospective employees without regard to age, race, color, religion. pregnancy, sex, national origin, veteran status, uniformed status, physical or mental disability, or other protected characteristics.
Working
with Us
People have families and interests outside of the PLEX family. So do we. We believe in work-life balance, letting our talented leaders lead and doing it all while we watch our kid’s soccer game or tackle a 25 mile bike ride. We love our people. You’ll love your job. That’s why you should join PLEX.