Defense tech contractor building power systems and mission-critical IT infrastructure
RCT Systems operates three divisions serving DoD, intelligence, and commercial sectors: power electronics and hybrid/electric vehicle systems; mission IT and cyber security; and ISR architectures. The tech stack reflects a hybrid legacy-to-cloud transition — heavy on CICS, Windows, and on-premises infrastructure alongside AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation). Senior-heavy hiring (24 of 28 open roles) concentrated in engineering and security signals sustained demand for specialized DoD compliance and real-time systems expertise rather than headcount growth.
RCT Systems is a privately held defense and space contractor headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, with 51–200 employees. Founded in 2002, the company has three operational divisions: Power Systems (power electronics, hybrid/electric propulsion, renewable energy integration), Mission Systems (IT infrastructure, cyber security, mission applications for the U.S. intelligence community and DoD), and ISR Systems (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance support for distributed architectures). The company serves the Department of Defense, U.S. intelligence agencies, federal government customers, and commercial clients. Active projects span cloud-native architecture migration, identity and access management, high-availability failover design, FPGA/DSP algorithm development for power converters, and log aggregation pipelines — indicating simultaneous investment in modernization and legacy system sustainment.
RCT Systems uses CICS, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, AWS Lambda, Elasticsearch, Python, Linux, and Bash. Legacy systems run Windows, MySQL, and PHP. FPGA/DSP work uses Altera tools; real-time simulation uses OPAL-RT.
RCT Systems is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The company is privately held and was founded in 2002.
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