About the Role

We are looking for a Network System Administrator who can balance hands-on IT support with modern automation and DevOps practices. This role is responsible for managing our IT infrastructure, supporting end-users, and building efficient, secure systems to scale with the company. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable troubleshooting a laptop issue, provisioning accounts, or writing automation scripts to streamline workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Microsoft 365 Administration: Manage accounts, permissions, licensing, and security configurations.
• Device Management: Configure, flash, and deploy laptops and other hardware; maintain device lifecycle processes.
• Corporate IT Infrastructure: Build, administer, and maintain networks, servers, virtualization platforms, and cloud services.
• Security & Compliance: Monitor alerts/logs, respond to incidents, ensure data security, and maintain backups.
• Performance & Troubleshooting: Diagnose outages, resolve performance bottlenecks, and investigate system issues.
• Access Provisioning: Manage account creation, permissions, and access control across SaaS and on-prem systems.
• Vendor Coordination: Collaborate with third-party providers for hardware, software, and networking needs.
• Project Delivery: Support IT/DevOps projects, ensuring on-time and successful delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Network/System Administrator, IT Support Specialist, or similar role.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 administration.
• Familiarity with device imaging, configuration, and deployment.
• Solid understanding of network infrastructure, virtualization, firewalls, and VPNs.
• Strong troubleshooting ability across systems, hardware, and networks.
• Excellent communication skills and a proactive, service-oriented mindset.

Preferred Skills

• DevOps & Automation: Experience with Ansible, Packer, scripting (Python, Bash), and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Software Development: Exposure to Golang, Python, or other modern programming languages.
• Security Monitoring: Experience reviewing alerts/logs, troubleshooting incidents, and implementing security improvements.
• Network Engineering: Skilled in building and administering networks, VPNs, and virtualization environments.
• Systems Administration: Familiarity with Linux and Windows server administration.
• Compliance & Security Frameworks: Understanding of CMMC compliance requirements, NIST 800-171, and related cybersecurity standards.
• Project Management: Ability to plan, coordinate, and execute IT/DevOps initiatives.
• Certifications: Industry certifications (e.g., CompTIA Network+, Microsoft 365 Certified, Security+, AWS/Azure) are a plus.

Full Time in Arlington, VA or Colorado Springs, CO Office

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‍Job Summary

‍This role is ideal for a backend engineer with a deep specialization in protocol parsing and/or network topology—someone with strong development experience and a passion for understanding and optimizing complex network environments. You’ll play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining high-performance backend services that drive our network security and analytics solutions.

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

‍Travel:Regular International Travel Required

‍Clearance:Top Secret Clearance Required

‍Key Responsibilities‍

• Design and implement high-performance backend systems focused on protocol parsing and topology analysis.
  
• Develop and optimize custom network protocol parsers for deep packet inspection and security analytics.
  
• Build and maintain network-related backend services, APIs, and data processing pipelines.
  
• Model and analyze network topologies, mapping relationships between nodes, endpoints, and data flows.
  
• Optimize network parsing operations for speed and efficiency.
  
• Work with C++, Go, Rust, or Python to develop scalable and efficient solutions.
  
• Ensure high-throughput, low-latency performance for real-time network traffic analysis.
  
• Utilize tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, and traceroute to troubleshoot and optimize network-related services.
  
• Collaborate with security analysts and engineering teams to enhance network monitoring and detection capabilities.
  

Key Qualifications‍

‍Deep Knowledge of Network Protocols:‍

• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, BGP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and other networking standards.
  
• Expertise in parsing and interpreting low-level protocol data structures and payloads.
  
• Experience with custom or proprietary protocol design and decoding.
  

Software Development Expertise:‍

• Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or C/C++.
  
• Experience building and maintaining network-intensive backend systems, services, and APIs.
  
• Familiarity with asynchronous processing and concurrent programming patterns.
  

Topology Analysis and Modeling:‍

• Understanding of network topology concepts, including network segmentation, routing, and peering.
  
• Skills in modeling complex network environments and mapping relationships between network entities.
  
• Ability to design and implement systems that maintain and visualize network topology data.
  

Performance and Scalability Focus:‍

• Experience optimizing network parsing operations for high efficiency.
  
• Familiarity with scaling backend systems to handle high-throughput, low-latency networking scenarios.
  
• Knowledge of load balancing, caching strategies, and distributed systems design as it relates to network data.
  

Security and Compliance Awareness:‍

• Understanding of secure protocol design, encryption standards, and handling of sensitive data.
  
• Awareness of regulatory requirements and industry standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR, NIST guidelines).
  

Problem-Solving and Debugging Skills:‍

• Strong analytical skills to diagnose and troubleshoot complex network and protocol-related issues.
  
• Ability to trace packet flows, identify bottlenecks, and resolve discrepancies in protocol implementations.
  
• Proficiency with network monitoring and diagnostic tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, and traceroute.

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Do you take pride in building database systems that are fast, reliable, and rock-solid under pressure? We’re looking for an experienced database engineer who knows how to design and optimize architectures that handle demanding workloads with ease. Whether in the cloud or on-premise, you’ll be responsible for crafting systems that deliver high performance, scalability, and reliability for mission-critical applications. This role offers the opportunity to own database infrastructure end-to-end, from designing efficient data models to optimizing performance on specialized ultra-high-performance hardware.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement high-performance relational database systems for cloud and on-premise environments.
• Design and optimize systems to handle large-scale, concurrent workloads with low latency and high availability.
• Develop and maintain strategies for database replication, partitioning, and scaling to ensure fault tolerance and seamless growth.
• Tune database configurations, queries, and indexes for peak performance under heavy workloads.
• Build and automate robust backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions to ensure data integrity and business continuity.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design schemas and data models that balance performance, maintainability, and scalability.
• Monitor and troubleshoot database performance and reliability issues, providing proactive solutions before they impact operations.
• Stay current with advancements in database technologies, bringing new ideas and best practices to the team.

Requirements

• Actively hold, or be open to attaining, a Top-Secret security clearance.
• 7+ years of experience designing and managing relational database systems in production environments.
• Proven expertise in optimizing database performance and managing systems under high-concurrency workloads.
• Strong understanding of database internals, execution plans, and advanced query optimization techniques.
• Experience designing and maintaining highly available systems, including replication and failover mechanisms.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation tools (e.g., Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible) for database management and deployment.
• Hands-on experience with both cloud-native database solutions and on-premise hardware optimized for performance.
• Familiarity with distributed database systems and scaling strategies for large datasets.
• A systematic approach to monitoring, incident response, and maintaining production-grade reliability.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and mentor less experienced team members.

Bonus Points

• Expertise in advanced database security practices, including encryption, access control, and auditing.

• Experience implementing hybrid cloud/on-prem database solutions or other complex architectures.

• Contributions to open-source database tools or frameworks.

• Solid understanding of storage systems and how hardware impacts database performance.

At Cyberspatial, we design and build systems that protect critical infrastructure and national security. As a Systems Engineer Intern, you’ll work alongside experienced engineers to gain hands-on experience with Linux-based systems, focusing on performance, security, and compliance. This internship offers an opportunity to learn how secure, reliable, and high-performance systems are designed, built, and maintained in real-world environments.

Responsibilities

• Assist in customizing and configuring Linux systems for performance, security, and compliance.
• Support product security efforts, including vulnerability scanning, compliance tracking, and patch management.
• Contribute to performance tuning and system-level configurations (CPU, memory, I/O, etc.).
• Help maintain documentation for system processes, security policies, and compliance workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering mentors to troubleshoot system issues and propose improvements.
• Stay curious and up to date with the latest Linux security practices and performance techniques.

Qualifications

• Current college student pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
• Familiarity with Linux (coursework, labs, or personal projects).
• Exposure to scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or Go).
• Interest in system security, compliance, and performance optimization.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and willingness to learn from senior engineers.
• Ability to communicate clearly and document technical work.

Preferred (Not Required)

• Experience with Linux security tools (SELinux, AppArmor) or system performance tools (perf, sysstat).
• Exposure to version control (Git) and CI/CD concepts.
• Prior experience building or modifying Linux systems in coursework, labs, or side projects.

Full time, Remote