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Principal Systems Engineer

ClearEdgeAnnapolis Junction, Maryland, United StatesHybrid, Onsite
Join ClearEdge and be a part of a dynamic team that solves some of the DoD’s most complex technical challenges. Every day, ClearEdge empowers our customers in government and industry with innovative, data-driven solutions.
Check out our extremely competitive benefits package at www.clearedgeit.com/careers/, which includes a $10k annual training/education benefit, 10% 401k contribution fully vested on day one, annual health and technology allowance, and access to a state-of-the-art technology lab. We also offer monthly TechConnect and DeepDive collaboration sessions with our entire technical staff.

Your Mission:


Improve the software developer experience! Remove barriers to innovation and effectiveness, enabling software engineers easy access to the tools they need to make the most mission impact.On this prime contract program, System Engineers with engaging personalities use their broad technical knowledge and experience to solve problems across a diverse software engineering user base.

You will excel in this role if you are:


  • An Agile practitioner that embraces iterative product and process improvements
  • A subject matter expert that can naturally and effectively manage interactions with software engineers
  • Customer-experienced focused and able to create a brand that clearly states that “we listen to you”
  • Exceptional at analyzing complex workflows and solving hard problems
  • Outcome-focused and enjoy seeing the results of your hard work being incorporated by mission users
  • Ready to join a vibrant team that continuously handles new challenges

A day in the life consists of:


  • Interacting with product teams and stakeholders to implement established guidance, practices, and standards into viable processes and solutions
  • Gathering and analyzing user requirements across multiple DoD agencies
  • Establishing and sharing best practices and principles to guide better productivity
  • Providing engineering analysis to ensure adherence to foundation requirements (e.g. compliance, Section 508, architecture, quality, technical) 
  • Developing artifacts to support wide range of engineering activities

Must have:


  • TS/SCI with polygraph clearance
  • Bachelor’s Degree in related field with 20 + years of related experience
  • Success working across a broad spectrum of stakeholders
  • Excellent communication and technical documentation skills
  • Understanding of software and infrastructure engineering best practices
  • Comprehensive Agile process and tool experience
  • Experience working directly with Intelligence Community (IC) mission customers 
  • Experience optimizing workflows
  • AWS Experience
  • Container (Docker) and Container Orchestration understanding
  • Understanding of open-source libraries and tools

Nice to have:


  • Strong DevOps and System Administration background
  • Experience with software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment with multiple toolsets such as Ansible, Chef, Containers, Kubernetes
  • Hands-on software/system engineering experience (e.g., Linux scripting, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, databases, software development)
  • Experience working with, deploying, and managing Linux-based OS systems
  • Software product testing experience

About us:We are an experienced advanced analytic development company providing Cyber solutions to current and emerging missions.Our Core Values of Honesty, Integrity, Loyalty, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility, and Accountability drive our mission and vision and are the heart of what we do each day. We combine our Core Values with the three key elements of people, technology, and integrity to repeatedly deliver stellar results within our primary competencies.  ClearEdge is also pleased to share that we have recently expanded our prime and subcontract presence into new cyber markets! If this position does not fit your skillset, please visit our Careers page to explore our current openings, or contact a ClearEdge recruiter at careers@clearedgeit.com.

ClearEdge is an equal opportunity employer.Apply for this job

Life at ClearEdge

ClearEdge is a mission-driven technology thought leader grown out of the Intelligence Community that provides software engineering, big data, cloud, data analytics, data visualization, and data science solutions and services. As a small business, we are personally committed to responding to our customers' requirements by attracting and retaining only top-tier engineers and field experts. At ClearEdge, we understand that our employees are the key to our success. Armed with the industry's best and brightest talent, we seek to find the most interesting and challenging projects. Our goal is to use our talents to help clients find clear, effective solutions to their data problems in an efficient and cost effective manner. Follow us on Twitter: @ClearEdgeIT (https://twitter.com/ClearEdgeIT) Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClearEdgeIT
Thrive Here & What We Value* Collaborative Environment* Externalfacing Aspects* Industry Events and Positions* DoD 8720 Certifications* ClearEdge Leadership Team* Core values of Honesty, Integrity, Loyalty, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility, Accountability* People, Technology, Integrity for stellar results in primary competencies* Expanding prime and subcontract presence into new Cyber markets* Monthly TechConnect and DeepDive collaboration sessions with entire technical staff

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