Software and data engineering contractor for national security and cyber missions
Red Alpha is a Columbia, Maryland engineering firm building software, data and cyber systems for national security customers. Its stack mixes legacy-era tooling (Perl, Assembly, Puppet, Nagios, Backbone.js) with multi-cloud AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle, and it is now adopting Kubernetes, Docker, Istio and Rook, which points to a push toward containerized, on-prem cloud delivery. Hiring skews heavily senior and engineering-led, with secondary demand in data and security.
Red Alpha is a privately held software and systems development company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. It serves customers focused on national security, cyber security and digital transformation, and holds SBA 8(a) certification. Its capabilities span big data and visualization, cloud computing, machine learning, data science, enterprise development, UI/UX and technical advisement. The company has 51–200 employees and hires within the United States.
Red Alpha uses Python, Java, C#, .NET, C++, AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, Terraform, Ansible, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Kibana, Jenkins and ArcGIS Enterprise, and is adopting Kubernetes, Docker, Istio and Rook.
Red Alpha is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, United States, and hires within the US. It was founded in 2011 and has 51–200 employees.
Job posts point to computer network operations capability development, enterprise data representations, a cyber threat intelligence project, an on-prem cloud offering and support for AI application deployment.
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