Defense communications and cyber infrastructure for global military operations
Trace Systems operates a defense-focused engineering org (82 engineers across 201–500 employees) deploying Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, and Forcepoint into mission-critical DoD environments across six combatant commands. The hiring velocity is accelerating—192 roles posted in the last 30 days—with heavy junior (89) and mid-level (60) hiring balanced against only 17 leads, suggesting rapid team expansion to support distributed edge and cloud cross-domain solutions.
Trace Systems provides digital transformation, assured communications, and cross-domain solutions for the U.S. Department of Defense and global coalition partners. The company operates across CENTCOM, AFRICOM, EUCOM, INDOPACOM, SOUTHCOM, and NORTHCOM with embedded field teams in deployed locations including Iraq, Afghanistan, and other contingency environments. Core service lines span cybersecurity, SATCOM and hybrid communications, networking, enterprise IT, and systems integration. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Trace maintains geographic footprints across North and South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Indo-Pacific regions to support rapid-response and short-notice mission requirements.
Trace Systems posts roles across 13 countries: United States, Italy, Djibouti, Qatar, Kuwait, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Iraq, United Kingdom, Kenya, and Greece. This geographic spread mirrors its global combatant command coverage.
Core security and networking: Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Juniper, Forcepoint, Blue Coat, BGP. Development: ASP.NET, Entity Framework, Visual Studio, Java (Tomcat, NetBeans). Infrastructure: VMware Cloud Foundation, TACACS+, UNIX. Collaboration: Jira, Confluence, Git, SharePoint.
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