Applications Engineer – Cloud & Systems Ops (Watchfloor)

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

Job summary

Lentech, Inc. is seeking a blended role across multiple teams in ANDS to support systems administration and operations. The successful candidate will monitor, maintain, and optimize application systems to ensure reliability and performance.

Responsibilities include data health monitoring, watchfloor support, Linux administration, and AWS-based troubleshooting, with a rotating 24/7 shift schedule to maintain continuous operations.

Qualifications

• Active TS.SCI clearance with current FSP through MD.
• 6 years of experience minimum.
• Proficiency in monitoring/watchfloor tools: Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, CloudWatch.
• Systems administration in Linux; service management and log review.
• Cloud/AWS operations: EC2, health checks.
• Dataflow / application support: NiFi, Cribl, Kafka, Logstash.
• DevOps: Terraform, Ansible, GitLab Pipelines, Docker.

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.
• Maintain system health by tracking metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts, and application status to prevent downtime.
• Support watchfloor operations by identifying service degradation, failed dataflows, system errors, 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.

Job description

Lentech, Inc. is seeking a blended role across multiple teams in ANDS to support systems administration and operations. The successful candidate will monitor, maintain, and optimize application systems to ensure reliability and performance.

Responsibilities include data health monitoring, watchfloor support, Linux administration, and AWS-based troubleshooting, with a rotating 24/7 shift schedule to maintain continuous operations.