Jobs at Ardent Principles, Inc.

Build and maintain full-stack applications using Angular, TypeScript, Java, Spring, RESTful services, and non-relational databases. Develop software designs, system interfaces, automated tests, and DevOps workflows. Support Agile delivery through technical project management, schedule estimation, stakeholder coordination, program reviews, and lifecycle software development. This is a full-time onsite role in Chantilly, Virginia requiring an active TS/SCI clearance with a full-scope polygraph.

Oversee Tier 1 and Tier 2 technical operations supporting enterprise networking, cybersecurity monitoring, and Azure environments. Manage maintenance windows, infrastructure changes, outages, service restoration, vendor escalations, and monitoring coverage. Track operational trends and identify improvements to automation, escalation processes, and service effectiveness. Coordinate with carriers, ISPs, OEMs, Microsoft, cloud providers, and managed service providers while supporting secure, stable mission infrastructure.

The Network Engineer performs advanced troubleshooting across network, cloud, infrastructure, and security environments. Responsibilities include correlating Microsoft Sentinel and Azure data, resolving complex incidents, coordinating with carriers, ISPs, vendors, and cloud providers, validating service availability after maintenance, reviewing implementation impacts, monitoring operational changes, escalating issues, and recommending improvements to monitoring, processes, and automation.

Designs, develops, deploys, and maintains secure custom applications in AWS environments. Responsibilities include supporting data collection and exploitation workflows, leading agile teams, assisting diverse users, creating training and documentation, translating user needs into technical requirements, managing source code repositories, addressing security vulnerabilities, maintaining accreditation, administering databases, and performing data preparation and application operations.

Lead agile development teams that design data collection and exploitation workflows. Translate user needs into actionable technical requirements, guide development teams, tailor user assistance, train users on enterprise technologies, and create documentation and instructions for data-driven workflows. Collaborate on application deployment and production maintenance while supporting diverse user communities.

Designs, implements, and secures AWS and Azure mission environments, including networking, logging, provisioning, VPNs, and security controls. Performs Android emulation, reverse engineering, mobile application exploitation, data collection, fingerprinting, signature analysis, and deconfliction. Configures Cisco routers, LAN switching, and VLANs while supporting accreditation, security assessments, system hardening, and structured and unstructured data analysis. The role is full-time onsite in Chantilly, Virginia, and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph.

Perform cloud security assessments and TEMs, design/review cloud systems (AWS/Azure/Oracle/GCP), analyze scans with Rapid7/Nessus/Qualys, manage POA&Ms, support RMF A&A activities, use compliance tools (Xacta 360, Risk Vision, RSA Archer), prepare security packages/reports, and provide project management and metrics for compliance.

Perform cloud security assessments and technical exchange meetings, evaluate AWS/Azure/Oracle/GCP architectures, analyze vulnerability scans (Rapid7, Nessus, Qualys), manage POA&Ms, use compliance tools (Xacta 360, Risk Vision, RSA Archer), support NIST RMF activities, prepare security packages and technical briefings, and perform information system security engineering and project management tasks.

Perform cloud security assessments and system integration for AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, or GCP. Facilitate technical exchange meetings, analyze continuous monitoring scan findings (Rapid7, Nessus, Qualys), manage POA&Ms, use compliance tools (Xacta 360, Risk Vision, RSA Archer), support A&A/SCAs under NIST RMF, and produce program metrics, technical reports, and briefings.

Designs and builds test automation frameworks, writes and executes automated test scripts, and performs manual functional, regression, and integration testing. The role supports cloud-based applications using AWS, Kubernetes, Java, Spring Boot, and Angular. Responsibilities include preparing test cases, scripts, and data; conducting accessibility testing; collaborating in Agile environments; and using tools such as Selenium, Cypress, and JIRA to improve software quality.

Analyze complex data using qualitative and quantitative methods across business analytics, statistics, data validation, and visualization. Build Tableau visualizations, prepare and combine data from diverse sources using Python, Tableau Prep Builder, SQL, and Excel, and translate customer requirements into system specifications. Document processes, demonstrate solutions to technical and non-technical audiences, and decompose ambiguous problems into actionable plans.

Develop and maintain ServiceNow applications and workflows, provide O&M support, and create Business Rules, scripts, ACLs, catalog items, portals, notifications, reports, and APIs. Support MySQL, PHP, Windows Server configuration, and Microsoft SQL Server administration. Work in Agile environments, track issues in JIRA, and incorporate information security policies into requirements documentation. This is a full-time onsite role in Chantilly, Virginia requiring an active TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph.

Designs and builds AWS resources using CloudFormation and SDKs, develops object-oriented applications, creates Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, and supports containerized solutions with Docker and orchestration tools. The role also requires extensive Bash scripting, GitHub workflow expertise, and collaboration with teams of varying technical maturity. This is a full-time onsite position in Herndon, Virginia requiring an active TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph.

Design, develop, and deploy cloud-based software that integrates LLMs, semantic search, and RAG workflows. Build React single-page apps and Node.js/Express APIs, implement Elasticsearch and data pipelines for vector search, and work in a Lean Agile environment onsite while meeting security clearance requirements.

Designs and builds reliable, scalable AI solutions that automate workflows and business processes. Responsibilities include data modeling, software architecture, machine learning model training, pre-trained model integration, and applying advanced mathematics, probability, statistics, and algorithms. The role also supports secure AI solutions for sensitive Intelligence Community data, ETL pipelines, AWS implementations, and leadership of AI/ML initiatives. This is a full-time onsite position in Chantilly, Virginia requiring an active TS/SCI clearance with a full-scope polygraph.

Develop and maintain cloud-native AWS solutions using Python, with a focus on geospatial data capabilities, automated workflows, and scalable compute resources. Provision EC2 instances, deploy Lambda functions, manage S3 storage, and configure IAM authorization. Use GitHub and potentially AWS CDK, containers, search engines, SQL/NoSQL databases, and other cloud platforms. The position is full-time and onsite in the Reston or Chantilly, Virginia area and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with a full-scope polygraph.

Develop and maintain web solutions using JavaScript/HTML/CSS and ServiceNow or low-code platforms. Translate business processes into technical requirements, perform systems evaluation and process improvement, manage change/release lifecycles, and produce technical artifacts. Work onsite supporting program/project management and customer outreach. Requires active TS/SCI with full‑scope polygraph.

Review and adjudicate classified records for release under FOIA, the Privacy Act, EO 13526, and Mandatory Declassification Review. Perform analytical reviews, manage multiple priorities, provide customer service to sponsors, collaborate with team members, and use MS Office and other systems to process requests while ensuring policy and sponsor requirements are met.

Develop and enhance secure, scalable Salesforce and Java-based solutions across the full product lifecycle. Implement front-end SPA features (JavaScript/TypeScript, jQuery, HTML/CSS) and back-end services (Java, REST, JDBC, Oracle). Work in Agile teams using CI/CD, DevOps practices, and AWS (S3, RDS, EC2, ECS). Contribute to design, development, quality, deployment, and maintenance while improving team performance.

Expert-level Data Scientist to design and evaluate NLP and deep-learning solutions. Responsibilities include building transformer-based models, performing advanced statistical analyses, leveraging GPUs, using Python NLP toolkits and SQL, managing version control/CI, and communicating results to senior leadership to support mission-focused research.