Application Engineer III (POD)

FLASH Technology Group•Annapolis Junction, MD

About The Position

As part of the Secure the Enterprise initiative, the Application Engineer III will help shift system security evaluation and authorization from a manual process to a model emphasizing automation, streamlined processes and approvals, continuous monitoring and assessment, and network data gathering throughout a project's life cycle. This blended role spans teams in ANDS and combines systems administration with operations support. The position provides 24/7 application support on a watch floor through a rotating 6 AM–6 PM / 6 PM–6 AM shift schedule. An active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
Proficiency in one or more of the following skillsets or technologies: monitoring/watch-floor operations; systems administration; cloud/AWS operations; dataflow/application support; or DevOps.
For monitoring/watch-floor operations: experience with tools such as Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, or CloudWatch.
For systems administration: experience in a Linux environment and ability to check system health, start, stop, and restart services, review logs, and safely reboot servers.
For cloud/AWS operations: experience supporting EC2 instances, service health checks, and basic operational troubleshooting.
For dataflow/application support: experience with data pipeline or dataflow tools such as Apache NiFi, Cribl, Kafka, Logstash, or similar, and monitoring application health, failed jobs, queues, data movement, and ingestion issues.
For DevOps: experience with Terraform, Ansible, GitLab Pipelines, or Docker.
Ability to work a rotating 6 AM–6 PM / 6 PM–6 AM shift schedule.

Responsibilities

Monitor and maintain application systems to ensure data reliability and accuracy.
Continuously monitor performance and proactively troubleshoot issues, including making system configuration or code-base changes when needed.
Track metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts, and application status to maintain system health, prevent downtime, and support optimal application performance.
Identify service degradation, failed dataflows, system errors, and application issues during watch-floor operations, and escalate as needed.
Perform basic Linux system administration, 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 using the AWS Console or AWS CLI to check instance health, review system status, restart or reboot servers, and assist with basic operational troubleshooting.
Provide 24/7 application support on the watch floor through a rotating shift schedule.