Federal defense contractor for IT, test and evaluation, and cyber programs
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal contractor whose stack mixes HPC file systems (Lustre, BeeGFS, GPFS), DoD security tooling (ACAS, Nessus, Checkmarx) and requirements tools like IBM DOORS, pointing to classified engineering and test work. Hiring skews senior and heavily toward engineering and security, matching recurring pain points around RMF, ICD and audit compliance, though overall hiring velocity is slowing.
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is a privately held, employee-owned government contractor founded in 1975 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia. It delivers information technology, test and evaluation, engineering and analysis, and training services. Its federal customers sit mainly in defense, federal law enforcement and federal healthcare. The company employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people across the United States and also recruits in Canada. Active work spans naval shipbuilding support, mission programs and secure system operations.
Its stack includes Python, Perl, Oracle, SAP, VMware, AWS GovCloud, Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory, SonarQube, Jira, Confluence, IBM DOORS, LabVIEW and HPC file systems like Lustre, BeeGFS and GPFS.
Yes. Security is its second-largest hiring area after engineering, with tooling such as ACAS, Nessus, Metasploit, Burp Suite and Checkmarx and a focus on RMF and federal cyber compliance.
Job posts reference NISSC 3 program support, DDG 51 Flight III new construction ships, ServiceNow integration with third-party systems, new UGS technologies and urgent depot-level maintenance integration.
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