Application Engineer

Full Scope; College Park (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Flexible spending account

Health insurance

Health savings account

Paid time off

Referral program

Vision insurance

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Full Scope is seeking an Application Engineer to design, develop, implement, and maintain software tools for security and GovCloud environments in Columbia, MD. The role emphasizes formal specifications, data flow analyses, and CASE tools to manage development and support activities.

The candidate will lead design, coding, testing, and documentation, while guiding team members, ensuring QA, and evaluating software products within a highly secure environment.

Qualifications

• Must have technical field experience corresponding to the labor category.

Responsibilities

• Monitor health and status of security tool suites in IT systems.
• Maintain, upgrade, and update systems to ensure operational capacity.
• Perform database administration to monitor and repair health.
• Analyze vulnerabilities in Enterprise IT GovCloud tool suite and perform gap analysis.
• Research and evaluate commercial products to address vulnerabilities.
• Coordinate testing, deployment, and interfaces with external devices/owners.
• Deploy security solutions across the IT Enterprise Network.
• Provide security tool training to authorized users.

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Associate's Degree

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Doctorate Degree

Job description

Job Title: Application Engineer

Location: Columbia, MD

Required Clearance: TS/SCI w/ Full-Scope Poly

Salary: Competitive

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Application Engineer to design, develop, implement, and maintain software tools and subsystems in support of software reuse and domain analyses. As anApplication Engineer you will utilize formal specifications, data flow diagrams, and Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to manage software development and support activities. You will estimate development costs and schedules, review existing programs for improvements, and formulate specifications for software applications. Additionally, you will be responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation. In this role, you will provide guidance to other team members, ensure quality assurance, and evaluate software products.

Key Responsibilities

• 1. Continuously monitor the health and status of security tool suites through IT system management.
• 2. Maintain, upgrade, refresh, and update systems and tools to ensure full operational capacity.
• 3. Conduct database administration to monitor, report, and repair any degradation of system health and status.
• 4. Analyze newly identified vulnerabilities and deficiencies within the Enterprise IT/IC GovCloud security tool suite, performing gap analysis.
• 5. Research and evaluate commercial products to address identified vulnerabilities or deficiencies.
• 6. Conduct analysis of alternatives and present findings to the Government for evaluation and selection of a solution.
• 7. Collaborate and coordinate with ancillary organizations for procurement, delivery, disposal, and tracking of new hardware/software required for solution implementation.
• 8. Prepare configuration plans and software enhancement plans, ensuring seamless integration with GUI and/or web front-end interfaces.
• 9. Define and design interfaces to retrieve data from various scanning tools.
• 10. Design, validate, and implement access controls as part of system and service solutions.
• 11. Enhance, modify, and test Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) software and hardware for interoperability and compatibility with the existing Enterprise IT/IC GovCloud architecture.
• 12. Prepare Engineering Change Proposals for any system configuration changes.
• 13. Define, coordinate, and schedule testing, integration, implementation, and deployment activities with external interface devices/owners.
• 14. Deploy security solutions across the IT Enterprise Network, installing hardware and implementing required software for a fully functional environment.
• 15. Conduct security tool instruction and training for authorized users of the Agency Enterprise IT/IC GovCloud security tool suite.

Requirements

• - All experience and education should be in a technical field directly related to the labor category.
• - Minimum of ten (10) years of experience and a High School Diploma/GED.
• - Minimum of eight (8) years of experience and an Associate's Degree.
• - Minimum of six (6) years of experience and a Bachelor's Degree.
• - Minimum of four (4) years of experience and a Master's Degree.
• - Minimum of two (2) years of experience and a Doctorate's Degree.

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance
• Relocation assistance