Systems Engineer: Mission-Critical Intelligence Ops

Arcfield; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 110,204 - 191,624; Full time

Job summary

Arcfield is seeking a Systems Engineer to join a skilled, long‑standing team supporting operational systems and environments. You will generate and execute testing procedures to verify end‑to‑end performance and review plans to ensure objectives are met.

You will collect data, produce metrics, monitor systems, and coordinate with government staff. The role requires advanced degrees (BS/MS/PhD), an active TS/SCI with polygraph, and strong communication and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MS or PhD preferred.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Strong analytical skills and domain knowledge.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non‑technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Support monitoring of enterprise data processing and the associated infrastructure to provide timely detection of potential errors and system issues
• Conduct first‑level analysis of testing results, coordinate and/or perform detailed in‑depth analysis of the results
• Identify any degradations in system performance. Support notifications to the government and associated personnel. Perform and/or support root cause analysis of observed issues
• Create and manage discrepancy reports, trouble tickets, or other forms of notification; track through to resolution; verify fixes are satisfactory
• Support routine and ad‑hoc scheduling of enterprise engineering tests
• Monitor planned outages and other activities which may impact system performance and data accuracy and report findings or issues to the government
• Plan, coordinate, and execute engineering tests following outages and events that may have impacted system performance or data accuracy
• Author Engineering Test Support Requests (ETSR) and design, plan, and conduct engineering evaluation test in support of enterprise operation and system deliveries
• Prepare engineering test reports and findings
• Ensure approaches to analysis are based on accepted scientific and mathematical practice

Skills

Analytical skills

Teamwork

Communication

Explain technical issues

Education

BS

MS

PhD

Tools

Python

Xmidas

Git

Confluence

Jira

Job description

Arcfield is seeking a Systems Engineer to join a skilled, long‑standing team supporting operational systems and environments. You will generate and execute testing procedures to verify end‑to‑end performance and review plans to ensure objectives are met.

You will collect data, produce metrics, monitor systems, and coordinate with government staff. The role requires advanced degrees (BS/MS/PhD), an active TS/SCI with polygraph, and strong communication and teamwork.