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)
Position Overview:
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.
Key qualifications and responsibilities include:
- 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 GitHub, Jira, Agile methods, and automation tools.
Preferred:
- Java, Selenium, OpenShift, APIs, and RPA experience.
- Experience supporting a federal financial or ERP system (Momentum, Oracle, SAP).