Applications Engineer 4 (Active TS/SCI Clearance with Full Scope Polygraph Required)

J&T Business Consulting; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

J&T Business Consulting in Linthicum Heights, MD, seeks an Applications Engineer 4 with active TS/SCI clearance and full-scope polygraph. You will monitor security tool suites, administer databases, analyze vulnerabilities, and coordinate engineering changes for government IT GovCloud environments.

Responsibilities include evaluating commercial products, designing interfaces, deploying solutions, and training users on new tool capabilities for authorized agency personnel.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with a current polygraph required.
• Ten years minimum experience in a technical field related to the labor category.
• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Eight years with an Associate's Degree.
• Six years with a Bachelor's Degree; four with a Master's; two with a Doctorate.

Responsibilities

• Continuously monitor health and status of security tool suites in IT environments.
• Perform database administration to monitor and repair system health within the NISIRT.
• Analyze vulnerabilities within Enterprise IT/IC GovCloud tools and conduct gap analysis.
• Research and evaluate commercial products to eliminate vulnerabilities.
• Prepare technical analyses and engineering change proposals for government evaluation.
• Deploy security solutions across the IT Enterprise Network.
• Provide tool instruction/training for authorized users.

Skills

Security monitoring

Database administration

Vulnerability analysis

Gap analysis

Technical evaluation

Engineering change proposals

Interface design

Access control design

System deployment

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Associate's Degree

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Doctorate's Degree

Tools

COTS/GOTS hardware

GovCloud security tools

GUI/web interfaces

Job description

Applications Engineer 4 (Active TS/SCI Clearance with Full Scope Polygraph Required)

Linthicum Heights, United States | Posted on 08/10/2026

The Applications Engineer 4 shall possess the following capabilities:

• Continuously monitor the health and status of security tool suites through IT system management. Maintain, upgrade, refresh, and update to maintain full operational capacity.
  
• Conduct database administration to monitor, report, and repair any degradation of the health and status of the systems and tools within the NISIRT.
  
• Analyze any newly identified vulnerabilities and deficiencies within the Enterprise IT/IC GovCloud security tool suite; perform gap analysis.
  
• As a result of the gap analysis and at the direction of the Government, research and evaluate commercial products capable of eliminating the vulnerability or deficiency within the security tool suite.
  
• Conduct analysis of alternatives and present findings of analysis results to the Government in a Technical Analysis package for the Government's evaluation and Government's selection of a solution.
  
• Collaborate and coordinate with ancillary organizations to procure, deliver, dispose, and track and new HW/SW required for solution implementation.
  
• Prepare Configuration Plans, SW enhancement plans, engineer solutions to easily interface with GUI and/or web front-end interfaces
  
• Define, design, and incorporate interfaces to retrieve data from various scanning tools.
  
• Design, validate, and implement access controls as part of the systems and service solutions.
  
• Enhance, modify, and test COTS/GOTS and any applicable hardware to ensure interoperability and compatibility with existing Enterprise IT/IC GovCloud architecture; prepare Engineering Change Proposals applicable to any implemented system configuration change.
  
• Define, coordinate, and schedule testing, integration, implementation, and deployment activities with dependent external interface devices/owners.
  
• Deploy security solutions across the IT Enterprise Network. Install hardware and implement required software to ensure fully functional computer environment.
  
• Upon direction of the Government prepare and conduct security tool instruction/training with regards to newly deployed tool capabilities and functions for authorized users of the Agency Enterprise IT/IC GovCloud security tool suite.
  
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with a current polygraph is required
  

Desired Skills

• All experience and education will be in a technical field directly related to the labor category being proposed and all diplomas, GED certificates, and degrees will be from accredited institutions
  
• 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