Junior Application Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions•Albuquerque, NM

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Junior Application Engineer to support a major national laboratory. The successful candidate shall be proficient in custom computer programming, commercial-off-the-shelf application configuration and customization, report development, dev-ops, scripting, and testing. This role involves providing technical support to clients, testing applications, maintaining hardware, and responding to customer requests. The Application Engineer will also analyze complex system requirements, design software tools and subsystems, and manage software development and support processes. The candidate will gather functional requirements, document processes, and could start learning some application development.

Requirements

AS/AA in relevant discipline plus minimum 2 years or more years of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q Clearance.
US Citizenship is Required.
Must reside in the Albuquerque area as work is performed onsite.
Experience troubleshooting hardware IT issues.
Experience gathering IT requirements.
Ability to translate customer needs into technical requirements.
Basic understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Experience troubleshooting desktop applications.
Process documentation and technical writing.
Analytical and critical-thinking skill.
Basic understanding of software architecture concepts.

Nice To Haves

.Net development experience
SQL experience

Responsibilities

Assist in enhancing the overall functionality of software by improving software architecture, supporting existing software, and engineering hardware components that optimize various technologies.
Provide technical support to clients.
Test applications.
Maintain hardware.
Respond to customer requests.
Analyze complex system requirements.
Design software tools and subsystems.
Manage software development and support processes using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, other accepted design techniques and Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools.
Estimate software development costs and schedule.
Review existing programs and assist in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improving current techniques.
Gather functional requirements.
Document processes.
Learn application development.