Operations Engineer; Dept of VA)

Job Title:

Operations Engineer, Department of Veterans
Affairs

Location:

Remote. The candidate must live in the
Washington, DC metropolitan area (the SOW also permits Austin, TX) to attend
in-person meetings as needed. Local travel to those meetings is not
reimbursed.

Clearance Required:

Public Trust (VA background
investigation, Tier 2 or Tier 4 per position risk designation). U.S.
citizenship required per the SOW.

Salary Range: $110,000-$115,000

Employment Type:

Full-time

Travel:
Less than 5% (local meetings only; no TDY
expected or funded)

Our client seeks a mid-level
Operations Engineer to support batch operations, system maintenance,
troubleshooting, and automation for the VA iFAMS (Momentum) Operations &
Maintenance program.

This hands-on technical role keeps nightly and cyclical
processing running, including payment disbursement and file processing. The
engineer resolves escalated operational issues and automates repetitive work
with Government-approved tools.

• - Strong SQL, Perl, Shell scripting, and Linux experience in a production
  operations environment.
• - Experience
  with Control-M or similar enterprise job schedulers (Autosys,
  Tidal, Tivoli): building, monitoring, and troubleshooting batch job
  streams.
• - Knowledge
  of payment disbursements, data validation, and file processing (inbound and outbound interface files, reconciliation, error handling).
• - Perform
  preventive, corrective, and adaptive maintenance and provide Tier 2/3
  support for escalated incidents and problems.
• - Familiarity
  with Git Hub, Jira, Agile methods, and automation tools.
• - Preferred:
  Java, Selenium, Open Shift, APIs, and RPA experience.
• - Preferred:
  experience supporting a federal financial or ERP system (Momentum, Oracle,
  SAP).