SES Space & Defense delivers satellite bandwidth, hosted payloads and managed SATCOM to government customers, running a carrier-grade Juniper and Cisco network (EVPN, RSVP-TE, IPv6) alongside VSAT and TDMA ground tech. Hiring is accelerating and balanced between engineering, ops and sales, with new Chief Engineer, PMO Director and Business Development Director roles. Terraform adoption over an AWS, Azure and Kubernetes base points to infrastructure-as-code moving into service delivery.
Notable leadership hires: PMO Director, Chief Engineer, Business Development Director
SES Space & Defense is a Reston, Virginia-based space solutions provider founded in 1973, offering satellite bandwidth, end-to-end SATCOM solutions, hosted payloads and managed services. Its customers are governments, with a strong focus on U.S. Department of Defense programs and an interest in growing in AFRICOM and EUCOM regions. The company has 51–200 employees and hires in the United States. Its offerings include FlexMove, FlexGov Secure and FlexAir. Back-office operations run on Deltek Costpoint, Salesforce, ServiceNow, ADP Workforce Now and SAP SuccessFactors.
Networking runs on Juniper MX, QFX, SRX and EX with Junos OS, plus Cisco, PAN-OS, VSAT and TDMA. Cloud and DevOps include AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes and GitLab, with Terraform being adopted.
SES Space & Defense is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, United States, and hires within the United States.
Yes, hiring is accelerating across engineering, operations and sales, including leadership roles such as PMO Director, Chief Engineer and Business Development Director.
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