Paragon Systems is committed to providing software and hardware solutions services to the US Intelligence community and have consistently expanded our capabilities over the years to include a broad range of support activities in the secure systems arena. Our commitment to evolving our business plan and services so that we maintain our innovativeness and growth extends to the vision we have for our employees as well.

Below are open positions that we have available. If you would be interested, please send a chronological resume in a WORD document, along with the position interested in and salary requirement.

Excellent Pay and Company Benefits for Full Time Employees


  • Health Insurance - 100% premium paid by Paragon for you and your family (spouse & children)
  • Dental Insurance - 100% premium paid by Paragon for you and your family (spouse & children))
  • Vision Insurance - 100% premium paid by Paragon for you and your family (spouse & children)
  • Life Insurance, Short and Long Term Disability, paid Holidays, sick leave, vacation pay
  • Tuition reimbursement, Commuter Benefits, Medical Savings Account, 401K

Full Time Positions Available



SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER (TEAM LEAD)


Experience: Must have 7+ years of relevant experience
Education: Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 5 years experience in software development, or Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 7 years experience in software development.

Description & Key Skills Required:
Senior position for Java application develop (coding), maintenance, or extension of one of several Java applications. Many of these applications are or shall be developed under the JBOSS J2EE environment, using the Eclipse IDE with Struts, Tiles, Spring, Hibernate, LDAP, Apache Slide (WebDAV) and others involve development associated with a GOTS tool and the Oracle J2EE environment.
Possess outstanding communication and leadership skills. Leads, defines, and executes software engineering activities within a project. Activities may consist of development planning, performance management, capacity planning, testing and validation, benchmarking, information engineering, and development and staffing. Responsibilities include participation in the technical review/evaluation of various projects, generation of formal presentations, and maintenance of thorough and accurate documentation.

Required Experience:
  • Hands on SW development experience
  • Ability to perform any/all task within the software lifecycle (design, development, unit/class testing, maintenance, documentation.
  • Ability to function as part of a development team to include the use of a version control system.
Desired Skillset:
  • Experience using Struts Programming with Tiles
  • Experience with JavaScript
  • Web Service development experience
  • JBOSS development experience
  • Eclipse experience
  • Experience using CVS as a member of a development team
  • Basic UNIX/Solaris and Windows system administration skills (e.g., loading software, creating accounts)
  • Exposure to UML design constructs (Use Cases and Class diagrams)
  • Understanding of SQL with JDCB programming
  • Experience with WebDAV
  • Image processing and JPEG formats
  • LDAP Experience
(1) Open Position

Oracle DBA


Experience: Must have 5 years of related experience.
Education: Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 5 years experience in software development, or Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 7 years experience in software development.

Description & Key Skills Required:
The candidate's primary responsibility will be to provide database administration support. Additionally the candidate will perform some software engineering duties to support the integration of additional functionality into the system and/or modify existing system functionality. The primary role of this position is to provide Operations and Sustainment support to a production operational system that has an Oracle Database.

Working, and practical, knowledge of Oracle Database administration functions, database structures and design; Develop and maintain scripts and programs for data exchanges and interfaces with external systems; Coordinate format requirements for data interfaces with mission critical systems; Technical POC for interface requirement issues; Provide general technical and network administrative support; Provide monthly status to the Technical POC; Provide metric reporting to client management; Provide monthly status to the Team Lead; Demonstrated user-centered service philosophy.

Must Have:
  • Database administration, including experience with backup and recovery; SQL, PL/SQL; Support of database synchronization; System migration and interface support; Provide technical analysis and implementation support for system and functionality upgrades; Experience with Unix operating system and Unix scripting; Requires working knowledge of hardware, software and system analysis.
Desirable Skillset:
  • Hands on SW development experience
  • Ability to perform any/all task within ORACLE/DBA lifecycle (design, development, unit/class testing, maintenance, documentation).
  • Ability to function as part of a development team to include the use of a version control system.
(1) Open Position

Designer Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Applications


Education/Experience:
Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 5 years experience in software development, or Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 7 years experience in software development.

Description & Key Skills Required:
Position for Designer ESB Applications must have experience in the following areas: We Services design and development, JAVA and .NET programming, and Web development. The candidate must have working knowledge of the following standards and protocols: J2EE, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, XML, W3C XML ? encryption, W3C XML ? signature, SAML, WS-Security, XSLT, WebDAV, and XHTML.

Possess outstanding communication, defines, and executes software engineering activities within a project. Activities may consist of development planning, performance management, capacity planning, testing and validation, benchmarking, information engineering, and development and staffing. Responsibilities include participation in the technical review/evaluation of various projects, generation of formal presentations, and maintenance of thorough and accurate documentation.

Must Have:
  • Hands on SW development experience
  • J2EE
  • SOAP
  • WSDL
  • UDDI
  • XML
  • .NET
Desirable Skillset:
  • Hands on SW development experience
  • Ability to perform any/all task within the software lifecycle (design, development, unit/class testing, maintenance, documentation.
  • Ability to function as part of a development team to include the use of a version control system.
(1) Open Position

Windows System Administrator (Senior-Level)


Experience: Must have 5+ years of system administration experience in a Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory Environment and Exchange Administration Experience
Education: BA/BS Degree or equivalent (8+ years experience)

Description: This position is responsible system administration of Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory Integrated servers. The candidate will also be responsible for administering the interface of Network Appliance with the Windows servers.

Key Skills Required:
  • Windows 2000/2003 server administration experience
  • Active Directory
  • DNS
  • Exchange
  • Network Appliance
  • Strong teamwork skills
  • Excellent Interpersonal Skills
Desired Skillset:
  • SMS
  • Veritas Netbackup
(1) Open Position

UNIX Administrator (Mid/Senior-Level)


Experience: Must have 4+ years of Solaris system administrator experience and be familiar with dealing directly with mid-level server platform hardware
Education: BA/BS Degree or equivalent years in experience (6+ years experience)

Description & Key Skills Required:
This position is responsible for system administration for UNIX servers. The candidate will also be responsible for administering and troubleshooting UNIX environment problems

Must have the following skills:
  • System administration experience with Solaris 7,8,9
  • Experience building servers up to the V880 architecture and networking to the LAN
  • Basic TCP/IP understanding
  • Experience attaching external storage servers and configuring storage using third party tools
  • Experience applying security tools
  • Basic DNS/BIND skills
  • Volume Manager experience
  • Experience performing network backups (Netbackup)
  • Strong teamwork skills
  • Excellent Interpersonal Skills
Desired Skillset:
  • Disk mirroring experience
  • Understanding of the various shell capabilities (sh, csh, ksh, etc.)
(1) Open Position

VMWare Engineer


The qualified individual should have 3+ years of direct VMWare 2x and 3x expertise in addition to excellent analytical and communication skills, both verbal and written.

Education: Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 5 years experience in software development, or Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 7 years experience in software development.

Description & Key Skills Required: Verifiable experience in medium to large scale computing environments in the Intelligence community.
Knowledge of DoDIIS and DCID 6/3 security requirements and limitations imposed by these policies as well as the security implications of a virtual infrastructure. Hands-on experience administering infrastructures composed of Windows 2003, Solaris 8 ? 10 (as well as other UNIX flavors) and Linux (SuSE/RedHat or derivatives). Knowledge and experience with HP ?P? and ?C? class blade server architectures. Hands-on experience with VMWare VI3; installation and configuration of ESX 3x and Virtual Center 2x. Proven implementation experience with all high availability features of VI3 including VMotion, HA, Virtual SMP, DRS, Vswitch design, advanced performance troubleshooting, command line utilities, working knowledge of the VMFS file system (including configuration and management), creating clones, images and templates, resource allocation, resource pools, and system monitoring.

Ability to implement and explain VMWare's Virtual Switch technology; port aggregation, NIC teaming/bonding, VLAN trunking, and port groups as it relates to HP's blade enclosure/Ethernet pass through and Cisco IOS. Solid understanding of SAN technology and how VI3 is implemented with shared storage be it fiber channel, iSCSI, NFS or CIFS. RDM vs VMFS strategies for performance and optimization across Oracle 10g, MS SQL Server 2005 and MSCS clusters. Hands-on experience with physical to virtual conversions using native tools and/or third party products. Solid understanding of various methods to back-up virtual machines as well as COOP/DR strategies utilizing VMotion, HA, SAN snapshots, LUN replication, etc.
Must Have:
  • Working knowledge of Network Appliance (NetApp) storage solutions and Brocade FC Switches would be very beneficial. VMWare and operating system certification is a plus but not required. Knowledge of Microsoft Cluster Services, Oracle 10g, Oracle RAC, BEA Weblogic/AquaLogic, SharePoint, Active Directory/DNS, Sun Identity Management Suite, ERSI ArcGIS.
Desirable Skillset:
  • Hands on SW development experience
  • Ability to perform any/all task within the hardware lifecycle (design, implementation, testing, maintenance, and documentation.)
  • Ability to function as part of a large team function as part of a large team
(1) Open Position

Technical Writing and Testing Support


Education/Experience:
Associates or Bachelors Degree in English or computer science (or a technical degree) or equivalent work experience may be substituted.

Description & Key Skills Required:
The successful candidate will participate in and provide guidance for the development of documents and presentations for delivery order teams; develop templates for software development projects; coordinate review sessions; attend development meetings; perform in depth editing of draft documents and briefings; make the final check before products are delivered to the customer, guidance will include writing styles, naming conventions, references, and terminology to be used in documents and briefings; establish, coordinate, and implement review procedures for all documents and presentations/briefings that will be exposed to external audiences across IITM-2 Program to support the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI).
Must have at least five years experience as a senior technical writer drafting, reviewing, editing documents and briefings. Must have an engineering knowledge/background. Must be highly skilled in the Microsoft Office suite of applications, in particular MS Word and Power Point. Supports the integration and testing process through execution of test procedures and documentation of findings. Involved in initial creation of test plan.

Must Have:
  • Understanding of technical writing principles.
  • Ability to write effectively and to capture procedures and guidelines
  • Ability to communicate effectively with engineering team
  • Ability to manage and create templates in Microsoft Word for use by the development team
Desirable Skillset:
  • Should have experience supporting senior-level organizations, ability to work under short deadlines and ability to operate comfortably in a high-energy, multi-vendor environment.
(2) Open Positions

Technical Writing and Testing Support


Education/Experience:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 5-7 years experience in software development.

Description & Key Skills Required:
The qualified candidate will perform IV&V software tests, define test parameters, design test scripts, interpret test results and analyzes test results. The candidate will be responsible for investigating and analyzing unique or customer-related issues relating to test failure and following up with the customers and IITM-2 development team. Maintain responsibility for formal test planning, test design, test scheduling, test execution, and test reporting. Write test plans, test scripts, and procedures, design test cases, produce test reports, and perform test executions and problem reporting. Implement review procedures for all documents and presentations/briefings that will be exposed to external audiences across IITM-2 Program to support the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI).

Must Have:
  • Working knowledge of configuration management and IV&V testing concepts, plans, and scripts.
  • Familiarity with SQL, Visual Basic or other languages.
  • Demonstrated experience applying recognized quality assurance standards (e.g., SEI-CMM/CMMI, ISO 9000, ITIL, etc.) to IT projects.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office applications.
Desirable Skillset:
  • Should have experience supporting senior-level organizations, ability to work under short deadlines, and ability to operate comfortably in a high-energy, multi-vendor environment.
(1) Open Position

XML Data Modeling Engineer


Education/Experience:
Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 5 years experience in software development, or Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 7 years experience in software development.

Description & Key Skills Required:
Assist in the development, successful implementation, adoption, and maintenance of a unified XML data model. Assist in developing plans, schedules, to implement XML source data, XSLT and XSLFO scripts, and CMS Ant build scripts. Develop "how-to" documentation that explains the data model and development process. The XML Modeler is responsible for modeling content metadata as XML objects. This role is responsible for gathering business requirements for data models and also implementing these models
In addition, this role is responsible for developing and maintaining XSL transforms for the interoperability between computer systems that have custom XML and non-XML data inputs and outputs. Collaborate with Metadata Manager to gather business requirements for content and content metadata, and capturing and maintaining business rules related to XML based data modeling and transformations. This role is expected to stay current with emerging XML technologies, XML-based data modeling best practices, and external XML standards for the news and media industry. Lastly, the role is expected to participate in news and media industry standards bodies and provide recommendations to the development team on leveraging XML technologies to optimize metadata performance in the enterprise.

Must Have:
  • A basic understanding of web services (SOAP, WSDL?s) and XML schema?s is required.
  • Ability to function as part of a development team to include the use of a version control system.
  • Experience in web service design and development, the use of XML, and Web Services Description Language (WSDL).
  • Working knowledge of XML, XSD Schemas, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT), WSDL Development
  • Working knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL) Development
  • Working knowledge of Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
  • Working knowledge of Java API for XML Processing (JAXP)
  • Working knowledge of Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB)
Desirable Skillset:
  • Ability to perform any/all task within the software lifecycle (design, implementation, testing, maintenance, and documentation.)
  • Ability to function as part of a large team.
  • XML Data Model Architect
(2) Open Positions

MIDL Developer


Experience: Must have 5 years of related experience.

Education: Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 5 years experience in software development, or Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related discipline) with 7 years experience in software development.

Description & Key Skills Required:
The candidate's primary responsibility will be the design and development of the Maritime Intelligence Data Layer (MIDL), a federated data layer for the enterprise. The federated data layer will provide both JDBC and web service interfaces to external applications for backend data sources. Backend data sources can include relational databases (usually Oracle) and external web services.
The MIDL will be implemented using Composite Information Server. It is developed using:
SQL views and procedures using a language based on Oracle PL/SQL.
Web services which can be incorporated as both as published procedures and backend data stores.

The candidate will support the definition and execution of software engineering activities within a project. Activities may consist of applications development, performance management, capacity planning, testing and validation, benchmarking, information engineering, and development. Responsibilities include participation in the technical review/evaluation of various applications development, generation of formal presentations, and maintenance of thorough and accurate documentation.

Must Have:
  • A solid understanding of RDBMS design and implementation issues include schema design, indexing and advanced SQL query capabilities (unions, inner/outer joins, soundex) is required.
  • This position requires solid SQL development skills developing database views and stored procedures. Composite SQL is based on Oracle PL/SQL, so Oracle PL/SQL development skills would be appropriate.
  • A basic understanding of web services (SOAP, WSDL?s) and XML schema?s is required.
  • Ability to perform any/all task within the development lifecycle (design, development, unit/class testing, maintenance, documentation).
  • Ability to function as part of a development team to include the use of a version control system.
Desirable Skillset:
  • Some Java coding experience
(1) Open Position

Requirements and Testing Engineer



Experience:
Knowledge of requirements and testing methodologies
Knowledge of software and web developments

Education: BA/BS Degree or equivalent years of experience

Description & Key Skills Required:
Responsible for developing the windows-based software requirements to support the software engineering process and managing the implementation of these requirements to support the Client in Suitland, MD. Developed and delivered the following test products according of schedule: Detailed Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Data Requirements, Test Strategy Briefing (from application development through application test), and an over-all test schedule. Prior to developing test materials verified that all software requirements were verifiable and quantifiable. Performs assigned portions of design, documentation, and implementation that require knowledge of information systems, web applications development, web site construction, web site administration, and related systems concepts for effective development of the requirements and the correct testing of their implementation. Generates technical reports and related documentation as required.

Desirable Skillset:
  • Advanced Microsoft Office Suite
  • Excellent Oral and Written communication

Requirements and Testing Engineer


Systems Engineer
Herndon, VA

Experience:
Knowledge of requirements and testing methodologies
Knowledge of engineering knowledge, familiar with COTS, hardware and networking

Education: BA/BS Degree or equivalent years of experience

Description & Key Skills Required:
Responsible for developing the hardware and networking requirements to support the systems engineering process and managing the implementation of these requirements to support the Client in Herndon, VA . Performs assigned portions of design, documentation, and implementation that require knowledge of information systems and related systems concepts for effective development of the requirements and the correct testing of their implementation. Generates technical reports and related documentation as required. Familiar with CISCO switches, Content Services Module (SSL/Load balancing), 650x switches, firewalls, routers, cabling etc.
EMC storage familiar with DNX1000/3000 storage and the EMC NAS gateway product. Familiar with SRDF.

Desirable Skillset:
  • Advanced Microsoft Office Suite
  • Excellent Oral and Written communication


RESEARCH ANALYST



Experience: Minimum of 3 years experience in the following:

MS Office Suite tools
Multi-source analysis

Education: High School diploma, Associate Degree or Bachelor Degree Description & Key Skills Required: Performs duties as a Research Analyst by performing day-to-day operations, data analysis, verification, update, and user support of mission essential databases. Duties include data input, data analysis, creating records and data quality control services required to process multi-source electronic video, and hard copy imaging on small ships into a mission essential database.

Minimum required:
High School diploma, Associate Degree or Bachelor Degree
Photoshop
MS Office Suite tools

Desirable Skillset:
  • Advanced PowerPoint
  • Advanced Photoshop
  • Gale Lite
  • Excellent Oral and Written
  • Communication

SENIOR TECHNICAL ENGINEER



Experience: Must have 7 years of related experience.

Education: Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline with 7 years experience in system engineering or BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or 10 years experience in system engineering.


Description & Key Skills Required:
Senior position to provide technical supports with enterprise design and architectural analysis that establish the foundation for a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Provides Enterprise SOA technical evaluation, standards development and implementation, and technology insertion. Conducts technical evaluations and document results on proposed solutions for GOTS and COTS. Conducts technology evaluation and verification of performance of prototypes, initial installations, and testing. Develops, recommends, and evaluates Enterprise Database Architecture solutions; such as high availability, clustering/Grid, monitoring, and storage solutions. Provides senior level support to ensure technical interoperability to enable Enterprise Architecture that is Standards based.

Possess outstanding communication and leadership skills. Leads, defines, and executes system engineering activities within a project. Activities may consist of development planning and WBS, performance management, capacity planning, testing and validation, benchmarking, and information engineering. Responsibilities include participation in the technical review/evaluation of various projects, generation of formal presentations, and maintenance of thorough and accurate documentation.

Must Have:
  • Hands on system engineering experience
  • Ability to perform any/all task within the system engineering lifecycle (design, development, document ..., etc).
  • Ability to function as part of a system engineering team to include the use of a version control system
  • Desirable Skillset:
  • Experience using system engineering tools.
  • Experience with SOA engineering tools.
  • Experience with databases architecture solutions.
  • Experience with interoperability Enterprise Architectural standards.
  • Basic UNIX/Solaris and Windows system engineering skills.
  • Exposure to UML design constructs (Use Cases and Class diagrams).
  • Understanding of system engineering prototyping and benchmarking.