Systems Engineer

Department: Data Analysis and Technology Services

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Herndon, VA

Description

REQUIRED:  TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
LOCATION:  Full-time, onsite in Herndon, VA

We are hiring for a highly skilled Systems Engineer who thrives in modern cloud‑native, data‑driven, DevSecOps environments. This role is ideal for an engineer who can design, deploy, and sustain complex systems across AWS, Linux/Unix platforms, and multi‑tenant architectures. You will work hands‑on with ElasticSearch, containerized services, automated deployments, cloud storage and compute, and advanced data processing pipelines.

Who We Are:
We offer advanced services in data science, data engineering, software engineering, AI solutions, cybersecurity, staff augmentation, and IT program management.

With a competitive salary range and industry-leading benefits, Ardent Principles offers more than just a job - we offer a career path filled with growth and opportunities. 

Passionate Integrity, Driven by Excellence
"Ardent Principles" signifies our unwavering commitment to excellence, driven by a profound passion and a strict adherence to ethical values. We believe that happy employees make for happy clients. Our mission is to act as a bridge between satisfied clients and fulfilled employees, ensuring that your job and well-being are our top priorities because your satisfaction leads to the success of our clients.

Join us and let's shape the future together!

Key Responsibilities

In this challenging yet rewarding role, you are an integral part of what brings our company's mission to life. You are primarily responsible for and/ or have demonstrated experience in, with or:

• Working with ElasticSearch.
• Using AWS to include S3, EBS, and EC2.
• Platform and application automated deployment.
• Cloud deployment, DevOps, containerization, web service and API management, and computing optimization.
• Cloud database, storage, virtualization, and network configurations
• Implementing DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines to support a multi-tenant environment.
• Incorporating automated software quality checks, security scanning, infrastructure-as-code, and other modern DevSecOps tools and practices.
• Working within cloud computing environments, Linux and Unix-based operating systems, and using ElasticSearch and Kibana.
• Using requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence.
• Maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing software, hardware and networks.
• Installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Monitoring system performance and troubleshooting issues.
• Developing and documenting scripts on Linux OS.
  Scripting Languages (SSH, Python, JavaScript).
• Developing in Java.
• Using advanced query functions in relational databases. 
• Using Apache Tomcat Application Servlets.
• Maintaining data across various systems and databases.
• Aggregating data across structured data files (JSON, XML, CSV, YAML, and XLSX) and handling and processing dirty data and unstructured data.
• Performing data analysis and data clustering.
• Using Git as a source code repository.
• Collecting and processing data, particular data presented in machine learning (translation skills not required).
• Using advanced query functions in relational databases.
• Using Javascripts & jquery to include but not limited to: D3, Vue.
• App development, deployment, and maintenance.

Highly Desired Qualifications

Other skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not mandatory to perform the work, include working with; using; familiarity with: 

• Working to accredit systems for the Sponsor's cloud environment according to the Sponsor's security requirements.
• Running DataCTRL ETL tool.
• Using NiFi to ETL data.
• Data Management.

What We Offer You

• Highly Competitive Salary: Recognizing and rewarding your expertise and contributions.
• Generous Paid Time Off: Providing ample time for rest, relaxation, and personal pursuits.
• Dedicated Training Budget: Supporting continuous learning and professional development.
• 100% Employer-Covered Family Vision, Dental, and Health Insurance: Ensuring comprehensive health coverage for you and your family.
• 100% Employer-Covered Life and Disability Insurance: Offering financial security and peace of