Applications Engineer (24x7)

Lentech Inc.; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Lentech Inc. in Fort Meade, MD seeks a seasoned IT professional for a blended role spanning Systems Administration and Operations Support. The candidate will monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain cross-team application systems to ensure reliability and uptime.

Responsibilities include watchfloor monitoring with Grafana/Kibana/CloudWatch, AWS EC2 health checks, dataflow tooling like Apache NiFi/Kafka, and DevOps activities with Terraform, Ansible and Docker. Shift rotation 6am-6PM / 6PM-6AM.

Qualifications

• Active TS.SCI w/ FSP through MD required.
• 6+ years of experience required.
• Proficiency in monitoring/watchfloor tools (Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, CloudWatch).
• Linux system administration experience (health checks, service management, logs).
• Cloud/AWS operations experience (EC2, health checks).
• Dataflow/app support experience (NiFi, Cribl, Kafka, Logstash).
• DevOps tooling experience (Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Docker).

Responsibilities

• Blend role across all teams in ANDS including Systems Administration and Operations Support.
• Monitor data reliability, performance, and uptime; adjust configurations as needed.
• Track system health via logs, dashboards, metrics and alerts to prevent downtime.
• Support watchfloor ops by identifying degradations and escalating issues.
• Perform basic Linux admin tasks including service management and reboots.
• Assist with AWS/EC2 health checks and troubleshooting.
• Work rotating shifts 6AM-6PM / 6PM-6AM for 24/7 coverage.

Skills

Monitoring / Watchfloor Operations

Systems Administration

Cloud / AWS Operations

Dataflow / Application Support

DevOps

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Associate's Degree

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Doctorate Degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab Pipelines

Docker

Job description

Responsibilities

• This is a blended position across all teams in ANDS. The successful candidate will have skills crossing from Systems Administration, and Operations Support.
• Ensure data reliability and accuracy by monitoring and maintaining application systems. ontribute to operational success through continuous performance monitoring and proactive troubleshooting, to potentially include changes to system configuration, changes to the code base, etc
• Maintain system health by tracking metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts, and application status to prevent downtime and ensure optimal application performance
• Support watchfloor operations by identifying service degradation, failed dataflows, system errors, and application issues, and escalating as needed.
• Perform basic Linux system administration tasks, including checking service status, starting, stopping, and restarting services, reviewing logs, validating disk, memory, and CPU usage, and supporting server reboots.
• Support cloud-based operations by using the AWS Console or AWS CLI to check instance health, review system status, restart or reboot servers, and assist with basic operational troubleshooting.
• Work in a rotating shift schedule, 6AM-6PM / 6PM-6AM, to provide 24/7 application support on our watch floor.

Required

• Active and current TS.SCI w FSP through MD
• 6 YOE
• Prospective candidates must have proficiency in ONE or more of the following skillsets / technologies:
• Monitoring / Watchfloor Operations: Monitoring tools, such as Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, or CloudWatch.
• Systems Administration: Working in a Linux environment, ability to check system health, start, stop, and restart services, review logs, and reboot servers safely.
• Cloud / AWS Operations: Experience supporting EC2 instances, service health checks, and basic operational troubleshooting.
• Dataflow / Application Support: Data pipeline / dataflow tools such as Apache NiFi, Cribl, Kafka, Logstash, or similar; experience monitoring application health, failed jobs, queues, data movement, and ingestion issues
• DevOps: Terraform, Ansible, GitLab Pipelines, Docker.

Education

• Ten (10) years minimum experience and a High School Diploma/GED.
• Eight (8) years minimum experience and an Associate's Degree.
• Six (6) years minimum experience and a Bachelor's Degree.
• Four (4) years minimum experience and a Master's Degree.
• Two (2) years minimum experience and a Doctorate's Degree.

Salary range:$160,000 $170,000