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Application Engineer III

  • Fort Meade, MD
Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled Application Engineer III to join our team!

Qualifications:
  • Six (6) years of experience supporting projects and programs similar in scope and complexity
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph dated within the last 6 years
Duties and Responsibilities:
  • As part of the Secure the Enterprise initiative, develop capabilities to shift from the current manual system security evaluation and authorization process to a new model that emphasizes automation, streamlined processes and approvals, continuous monitoring and assessment, and network data gathering across the entire life cycle of a project
  • This is a blended position across all teams in ANDS, with skills spanning Systems Administration and Operations Support
  • Ensure data reliability and accuracy by monitoring and maintaining application systems
  • Contribute to operational success through continuous performance monitoring and proactive troubleshooting, which may include changes to system configuration or the code base
  • Maintain system health by tracking metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts, and application status to prevent downtime and ensure optimal application performance
  • Support watch floor operations by identifying service degradation, failed dataflows, system errors, and application issues, and escalating as needed
  • Perform basic Linux system administration tasks, including checking service status; starting, stopping, and restarting services; reviewing logs; validating disk, memory, and CPU usage; and supporting server reboots
  • Support cloud-based operations by using the AWS Console or AWS CLI to check instance health, review system status, restart or reboot servers, and assist with basic operational troubleshooting
  • Work a rotating shift schedule (6AM-6PM or 6PM-6AM) to provide 24/7 application support on the watch floor
Required:
  • Proficiency in ONE or more of the following skillsets / technologies:
    • Monitoring / Watch Floor Operations: monitoring tools such as Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, or CloudWatch
    • Systems Administration: experience working in a Linux environment; ability to check system health, start, stop, and restart services, review logs, and reboot servers safely
    • Cloud / AWS Operations: experience supporting EC2 instances, service health checks, and basic operational troubleshooting
    • Dataflow / Application Support: data pipeline / dataflow tools such as Apache NiFi, Cribl, Kafka, Logstash, or similar; experience monitoring application health, failed jobs, queues, data movement, and ingestion issues
    • DevOps: Terraform, Ansible, GitLab Pipelines, Docker