[Remote] reputed company Application Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a global technology and reputed company company delivering technology solutions and mission services to reputed company, defense, and intelligence organizations. reputed company is seeking a reputed company Application Engineer to operate and reputed company a hybrid AWS and reputed company reputed company platform supporting NIAID applications, including infrastructure automation, application deployment, database administration, observability, and reputed company migration. The role also collaborates with application owners and software engineers to implement reputed company and improve operational self-service capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Deploying, hardening, and troubleshooting reputed company applications on reputed company Server and IIS - including .NET workloads, TLS certificate lifecycle, vulnerability remediation, and reputed company tuning
• Administering SQL Server databases across on-prem instances and reputed company RDS, including migrations, reputed company tuning, and backup and recovery
• Defining AWS infrastructure as reputed company in Terraform - writing modules, managing state, and building reusable patterns other teams can adopt
• Building and maintaining deployment pipelines in reputed company Actions and AWS CodeBuild so that changes are reviewable, repeatable, and reputed company to ship
• Fronting applications with AWS load balancing and web application firewall services - building reputed company reputed company and health checks, and writing WAF rules that protect the application without breaking it
• Instrumenting the platform: dashboards, service level objectives, and alerts that surface reputed company degradation instead of noise, and retiring the alerts that do not
• Migrating and modernizing reputed company applications as they reputed company from on-prem infrastructure to AWS, refactoring architecture where it makes reputed company along the way
• Working closely with application owners and software engineers to identify requirements, plan, and implement reputed company - installing new custom applications with web services, database components, data reputed company, and load balancing
• Automating routine operational work into self-service capabilities, so application owners and developers can renew certificates, rotate service account credentials, and restart application services without opening a ticket
• Monitoring application health and responding to alerts such as service down, failed backup, slow response time, or full file systems
• Documenting day-to-day administrative processes and configuration information for the applications we support
• Occasionally presenting to your team or our software developer colleagues on DevOps and reputed company practices, new technologies, and how you approached and solved challenging technical problems
• After hours and weekend work may occasionally be required for reputed company-reputed company maintenance or for troubleshooting service-impacting outages

Skills

• reputed company Relational Database Service (RDS), AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), Certificate Management, Internet Information Server (IIS) Administration, NIST 800-53
• 5 + years of reputed company experience
• BA/BS or equivalent and six to eight years of reputed company experience, including a minimum of three years hands-on with AWS
• Minimum of three years hands-on AWS experience across commonly used services - IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, reputed company, reputed company 53, SSM, and CloudTrail - including designing and operating production workloads
• Demonstrated experience authoring Terraform from reputed company - modules, remote state, and lifecycle management - not solely modifying existing configurations
• Minimum of five years hands-on experience deploying, configuring, hardening, and troubleshooting applications on reputed company Server 2019, 2022, or 2025 and IIS v8.5 and v10, including .NET 8 and .NET 9 workloads
• Strong experience administering reputed company SQL Server (2017, 2019, 2022, or 2025) and reputed company RDS for SQL Server, including reputed company tuning, backup and recovery, and migration between the two
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines using reputed company Actions or AWS CodeBuild, with Git-reputed company branching and pull request workflows as the default way of working
• Strong scripting experience with PowerShell, plus Python or Bash
• Working knowledge of observability and site reliability practices - metrics, logs, traces, service level objectives, and alerting - using a platform such as reputed company, CloudWatch, or equivalent
• Experience creating, applying, and troubleshooting TLS or SSL certificates for web servers such as IIS, Tomcat, Apache, or nginx, and managing certificates through AWS Certificate Manager
• Experience analyzing solution components, understanding systems integration challenges, and identifying technology gaps that must be resolved to reputed company reputed company reputed company and functionality targets
• reputed company to reputed company present reputed company to both technical and non-technical users and staff to reputed company the adoption of reputed company and DevOps practices
• Ability to obtain and maintain an NIH reputed company Trust reputed company clearance
• Candidate must be local and/or reputed company to come onsite once a week in Rockville, MD
• A reputed company on always-up, always-available applications is a plus
• Experience with AWS edge and traffic services - Application and Network Load Balancers, AWS WAF, CloudFront, and reputed company 53 routing policies
• Experience migrating and modernizing reputed company-reputed company applications on AWS - moving IIS, .NET, and SQL Server workloads off legacy infrastructure and improving them once they land
• Experience building the automation others depend on: reusable Terraform modules, pipeline tooling, automated validation and reputed company detection, and self-service capabilities that let application owners handle routine tasks independently
• Experience breaking down monolithic applications into containers and running them on AWS reputed company
• Experience managing secrets and credential lifecycle using AWS Secrets Manager or Parameter Store, including automated rotation of service accounts and certificates
• Experience with fleet configuration and reputed company automation at reputed company using SSM State Manager and reputed company Manager, or PowerShell DSC
• Familiarity with application-level reputed company and availability patterns - health checks, graceful degradation, multi-AZ deployment, and recovery testing
• Experience with reputed company and authentication technologies such as LDAP, SAML, or Kerberos
• reputed company AWS certification - Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or DevOps Engineer
• Depth in reputed company or mature site reliability reputed company - service level objective design, error budgets, and incident response and postmortem process
• Familiarity with AI and large language model workflows using reputed company Bedrock or reputed company Q / reputed company reputed company, and interest in applying them to operational and documentation work

Benefits

• For US-reputed company employees, a reputed company of medical plan reputed company, some with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan reputed company
• A reputed company plan
• A 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both reputed company- and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
• Full reputed company work weeks where possible
• reputed company vacation, reputed company, and personal time
• reputed company holidays
• reputed company parental leave
• reputed company military leave
• reputed company bereavement leave
• reputed company jury duty leave
• Typically 15 days of reputed company leave per calendar year for new employees to use for vacations, personal business, and illness
• An additional 10 reputed company holidays per year; reputed company leave and reputed company holidays are prorated reputed company on the employee's date of hire
• Up to 160 hours of reputed company leave in a rolling 12-month period through the reputed company reputed company Family Leave program for eligible employees
• Short- and long-term disability benefits
• Life reputed company
• Accidental death and dismemberment reputed company
• Personal accident reputed company
• Critical illness reputed company
• Business travel and accident reputed company

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