Remote Database & App Support Engineer - Secret Clearance

Computer World Services Corp.; North Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Computer World Services Corp. (CWS) seeks a Journeyman Database and Application Support Engineer to support database availability, application operations, service restoration, component upgrades, and recovery validation for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.

The engineer diagnoses outages and API issues across database, application, middleware, server, network, cloud, and security components, coordinating with IT operations and software teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Minimum of six years of relevant database or enterprise IT experience.
• Experience diagnosing database availability, application dependencies, and API-related outages.

Responsibilities

• Monitor availability, performance, health, and recoverability of databases and applications.
• Diagnose outages, failed services, connection issues, and API problems across components.
• Coordinate with operations and software teams to resolve defects and validate corrections.
• Support outage response, incident timelines, and post-incident actions.
• Assist with backups, replication, failover, and disaster recovery activities.
• Execute upgrades, validations, and rollback steps for DB, app, middleware, and servers.

Skills

Database support

Application support

Incident response

PowerShell

Python

SQL

Bash

TLS certificates

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Oracle

PostgreSQL

MySQL

AWS RDS

Azure SQL

IIS

Apache

Tomcat

WebLogic

JBoss

.NET

Java

Job description

Computer World Services Corp. (CWS) seeks a Journeyman Database and Application Support Engineer to support database availability, application operations, service restoration, component upgrades, and recovery validation for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.

The engineer diagnoses outages and API issues across database, application, middleware, server, network, cloud, and security components, coordinating with IT operations and software teams.