9%
401(k) match
Cybersecurity engineering
Reverse engineers, forensics, network operators
Taking something apart to find out how it was built, and reading what a failure left behind. The work that does not get written up afterwards.
You would not be
a number here.
We are a small Maryland business doing the hardest technical work the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense have. There are few enough of us that everyone knows what everyone else is working on.
$9,500
Education, every year
100%
Company paid health cover
- Where the work is
- Maryland and Northern Virginia
- Also hiring
- Texas and nationwide
- Clearance
- Required for most roles
- Open reqs
- None, and that is deliberate
What you would
actually work on
Our customers bring us the problems that did not work the first three times. If it were easy they would have done it in house.
Software engineering
Builders of long lived systems
Cloud and service oriented architectures, DevSecOps, embedded work, microservices, and high performance computing.
Systems engineering
People who design before anyone codes
Requirements that survive contact with reality, and life cycle plans somebody will actually follow.
Data science
AI and ML on real mission data
Messy, classified, and nothing like a benchmark set. The interesting problems are in the data.
Infrastructure and engineering support
The people everything else depends on
Cloud, systems and network administration, databases, HPC, automated test, and virtualization.
Everyone says competitive benefits.
Here is the whole list.
You are an engineer. You would rather read the figure than the adjective, so nothing below is an adjective.
9%
401(k) match
Up to nine percent of salary. Not a tiered ladder you climb for four years first.
$9,500
Education and training, per year
Certifications, coursework, conferences. Annual, not once.
100%
Company paid, for you
Medical, dental, and vision. Short and long term disability. Term life.
3%
Performance bonus
Plus overtime compensation on billable hours.
Fox Fund
Yearly expense allowance
Yours to spend, every year.
Time away
Family support
How you work
About clearances
Nobody in this corridor explains this part, so here it is plainly.
Most of our roles need one
The work sits inside customer spaces, so the clearance requirement is real and it is not something we can waive. It is the first thing worth checking before you spend time on an application anywhere in this industry.
If you already hold one
Say which level and when it was last adjudicated. That single line moves your resume further in ten seconds than a page of summary will.
If you do not hold one
Write to us anyway and say so. We will tell you honestly whether there is a path for the work we have, rather than leaving you to guess. A straight no is more useful to you than silence, and you will get one if that is the answer.
Coming out of the military, or out of school
Tell us what you have actually built or operated, not what you are certified in. Both groups tend to undersell the hands-on part, which is the part we read for.
There is no req
to apply against
That is on purpose, and it is the part most people find strange at first.
A job posting describes a slot somebody wrote down six months ago. It is a poor way to find out what an engineer is good at, and a worse way to find out what they want to be doing next. So we skipped the postings and read resumes instead.
Send a resumejointheden@slyfox‑solutions.com
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Step one
You send a resume to The Den
Include your clearance status and where you can work. Those two facts decide most of it.
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Step two
A person reads it
Not a keyword filter. We are still small enough that this is literally true.
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Step three
We match you against real work
Against the programs we hold and the ones we are bidding, based on what you are good at and what you want next.
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Step four
You talk to the people you would work with
Including at least one person who does the job you are being considered for.
Who is on the
other end of it
When we say a person reads your resume, these are the people. A company this size can name them, so it should.
Michelle Flesher
Director of Personnel
Runs hiring. Her background is human resources, recruitment, management and operations, with a long view of how the Intelligence industry actually moves.
Jimmy Hawkins
Sr. Program Manager
Forty years in the Intelligence Community as an engineering technician, computer scientist and leader. Describes his main job as the health and welfare of the workforce.
Sydney Walker
HR Engagement Specialist
Oversees the benefits listed further up this page, and organizes the social calendar that decides whether any of it feels real.
David Walker
President and CEO
Started as a cyber engineer in Computer Network Operations thirty years ago, built and sold a 120 person company before this one, and named this one after a sailboat.
Two SlyFoxians,
at length
Unedited, including the parts that ramble. There are three more on the homepage.
I worked at Dave's first company for over seven years, so I was very excited at the possibility to work with him again at SlyFox. The contract I was working on was ending in about a month and Dave found a great position for me and a coworker even before the company was really ready to go live. Four years later, my friend and I are still thriving in the position, and I have enjoyed watching SlyFox grow into a supportive organization with a very personal and social touch.
The leadership here presents a family-like atmosphere that strives to approach each employee's interaction with great attention, love and admiration. After welcoming my second child, it was extraordinary how supportive SlyFox was in helping improve my work life balance in an effort to help my family get situated. The generosity SlyFox has given to my family made us feel like a top priority of theirs. The SlyFox leadership team and company perks are unmatched.
Enjoy the journey
is on the list
It is the sixth line of a credo that was written before there was any reason to put it on a website.
The other six are integrity, honoring commitments, loyalty and support, passion and excellence, ingenuity and resourcefulness, and communicating with transparency. They are not posters. Two of the five people who run this company share a last name with its founder, and the charities we back are children's hospitals rather than conferences.
The credo in full, and where the name came fromSend it even if
you are not sure.
The worst case is a straight answer about whether there is a path. That is still more than most firms in this corridor will give you.