Federal Web Services Engineer – Mission-Critical Ops

Unissant; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Unissant, Inc. seeks a Web Services Engineer to support a newly awarded federal health program.

You will engineer and support runtime environments and service infrastructure to keep agency web services available, secure, and reliable. The ideal candidate brings practical delivery experience, good judgment, and a collaborative approach to maintaining Federal business applications while improving technical capability.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in production app and web service environments.
• Understanding of middleware runtimes, HTTP services, certificates, and connectivity.
• Ability to troubleshoot OS, network, runtime configuration, and application dependency issues.
• Experience with monitoring, incident response, patching, and controlled configuration changes.
• Experience using scripts or automation to maintain consistent environments and repeatable operational tasks.
• Ability to coordinate secure releases with various teams.
• Document work clearly and protect sensitive program information.

Responsibilities

• Inventory service runtime configurations, environments, dependencies, certificates, and operational support procedures.
• Configure and maintain approved middleware and web service environments in coordination with application engineers.
• Monitor service health, availability, capacity, and performance; investigate alerts and incidents.
• Implement approved runtime patches, configuration changes, certificates, and access controls.
• Coordinate deployments, environment validation, rollback procedures, and recovery testing with delivery teams.
• Troubleshoot network, platform, configuration, and downstream connectivity issues.
• Maintain runbooks, configuration baselines, monitoring evidence, and handoff documentation.
• Coordinate with Government stakeholders and teams; report blockers promptly.

Skills

Middleware

HTTP services

Automation

Incident response

Deployment coordination

Documentation

Federal IT experience

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Splunk

SiteScope

xMatters

Cloud platforms

Containers

Job description

Unissant, Inc. seeks a Web Services Engineer to support a newly awarded federal health program.

You will engineer and support runtime environments and service infrastructure to keep agency web services available, secure, and reliable. The ideal candidate brings practical delivery experience, good judgment, and a collaborative approach to maintaining Federal business applications while improving technical capability.