Systems Engineer

Ardent Principles, Inc.•Chantilly, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are hiring for a Systems Engineer with the technical depth and systems‑thinking mindset to drive complex solutions from concept through deployment. This role requires an engineer who can translate customer and product requirements into fully integrated system architectures—balancing performance, security, schedule, and cost while ensuring every component aligns with mission and operational constraints. We offer advanced services in data science, data engineering, software engineering, AI solutions, cybersecurity, staff augmentation, and IT program management. Passionate Integrity, Driven by Excellence Ardent Principles offers a competitive salary range and a comprehensive, industry‑leading benefits package designed to support long‑term stability and employee well‑being. We provide more than a position—we offer a workplace committed to excellence, integrity, and mission‑focused impact. 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 as we continue building the future of secure, high‑impact solutions.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

Nice To Haves

Linux administration and scripting languages including Bash and Python.
Analyzing customer requirements and providing technical expertise on cloud cluster computing techniques and technologies.
Designing software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses and manage their implementation.
Working with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
Designing and customizing software for client use in a cloud environment with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

Ensuring the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
Preparing documentation such as program-level, user-level, and security documentation.
Performing as an Agile Scrum Master.
Translating detailed design into computer software.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and MS Azure cloud technologies.
Jenkins, Github, Docker, and orchestration tools such as Ansible, CloudFormation, or Terraform.