Production Control Engineer

Inadev•Reston, VA

12d•$115,000 - $125,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Production Control Engineer supports the daily operation, monitoring, and execution of the EDGAR production environment. The role ensures scheduled production processing completes accurately and on time, identifies and resolves operational issues, coordinates recovery activities, and helps maintain reliable production operations. It is intended for an experienced, hands-on engineer with the potential to grow into a leadership role within the Production Control team. Initially, the engineer will focus on mastering EDGAR production operations, schedules, processing dependencies, monitoring, recovery, and incident response. As the engineer develops, the role may expand to include senior escalation, incident leadership, team coordination, mentoring, operational risk identification, and day-to-day leadership of the Production Control team.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen.
Must be willing to work a hybrid schedule (3–4 days) in Reston, VA, and at client locations in the Washington, D.C. area as required.
Ability to pass a 7-year background check and obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Clearance.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Ability to prioritize and self-start.
Adaptability and flexibility as priorities shift.
Enthusiasm and passion for learning and continuous improvement.
Openness to collaboration, feedback, and client requests.
Enjoy working with a vibrant team of outgoing personalities.
4–7 years of experience in Production Control, production operations, application support, batch operations, or a related technical field.
Experience supporting mission-critical production applications.
Strong knowledge of batch processing, job scheduling, dependencies, monitoring, restart and recovery, and production operations.
Experience analyzing application and system logs and troubleshooting production failures.
Experience with Linux/Unix environments and scripting.
Working knowledge of AWS and cloud-hosted environments.
Understanding of incident, problem, and change management.
Ability to troubleshoot across application, infrastructure, database, and operational layers.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly during production incidents.
Demonstrated ability to take ownership, coordinate resources, and drive technical issues through resolution.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting federal government or highly regulated systems.
Experience with enterprise job scheduling or workload automation platforms.
Experience with Python, Shell scripting, or similar automation technologies.
Familiarity with AWS monitoring and logging capabilities.
Experience with SQL and relational databases.
Knowledge of ITIL-aligned production support practices.
Previous experience mentoring junior engineers or acting as a technical lead.

Responsibilities

Monitor and support daily EDGAR production processing, scheduled jobs, workflows, and operational activities.
Execute and monitor production schedules to ensure critical processing completes successfully and on time.
Identify failed, delayed, or abnormal production processes and coordinate troubleshooting and recovery.
Analyze system logs, monitoring alerts, job output, and application diagnostics to identify production issues.
Coordinate incidents and escalations across application, database, infrastructure, cloud, and operations teams.
Support production deployments, maintenance activities, system restarts, and operational readiness.
Maintain production runbooks, operating procedures, checklists, schedules, and recovery procedures.
Track recurring production issues and support root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
Automate repetitive operational tasks and production checks using scripting and automation tools.
Provide clear status communications during production incidents and critical processing windows.
Ensure effective shift turnover and knowledge transfer across the Production Control team.
Follow established incident, problem, change, security, and production management procedures.
Serve as a senior escalation point for Production Control issues as responsibilities grow.
Coordinate daily activities and workload across the Production Control team.
Lead incident response and recovery during critical production events.
Identify operational risks before they impact EDGAR processing.
Mentor junior Production Control personnel.
Drive improvements in monitoring, automation, documentation, and operational controls.
Coordinate across application development, DBA, infrastructure, AWS, and support teams.
Help establish operational metrics that improve reliability, efficiency, and production stability.
Gradually assume responsibility for day-to-day leadership of the Production Control team.