Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) has responsibility for operations and maintenance of nine applications supporting the Background Investigation Enterprise Systems (BIES). The program supports modernization efforts by migrating systems to a secure cloud environment and modernizing software that captures, processes, and retains background investigation information for personnel seeking access to sensitive information
Task Description:
The Application Administrator will support the day-to-day operation, monitoring, and maintenance of a distributed enterprise application platform hosted in a cloud environment. Responsibilities include:
Monitor application health, system performance, alerts, and logs to ensure operational availability.
Administer user accounts, permissions, security roles, and access requests.
Troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues and coordinate resolutions with development and engineering teams.
Support software deployments, patching, maintenance activities, and system upgrades.
Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and audit/compliance records.
Required skills/Level of Experience:
Active Top Secret (TS) clearance or TS eligibility with ability to complete adjudication/transfer requirements.
Five years of experience working in fast paced agile software development environments that have brought code to production.
Either: Experience engineering production microservices in Spring Boot, including secure connections, automated test coverage OR Recent experience engineering with major Angular Versions (component architecture, RxJS, modern build tooling) with strong component test coverage, builds for automation, and documentation.
Hands on experience building or working in event driven architectures, including message producers/consumers, topic & stream partitioning, and delivery ordering/retries/back pressure.
Strong relational data skills, including schema design query optimization, and performant interfaces with production relational databases. Strong written and verbal communication skills.
U.S. Citizenship required.
Nice to have skills:
Security+ certification.
Experience implementing durable, long-running workflows, including modeling multistep business processes with activity/task decomposition, automatic retries, and failure recovery.
Working in AWS Gov-Cloud environments, developing applications, microservices, and fault tolerant capabilities.
Working with Kubernetes for application development and microservice deployment.
Other Requirements:
U.S. Citizenship required.
Security+ certification within two months preferred/required by project guidance.
Top Secret clearance required on Day 1.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Washington, DC (Remote)
Salary
$60
Skills
Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
Application Hostingunmatched
Automationunmatched
Background Investigationunmatched
Business Modelunmatched
Business Processesunmatched
Cloud Computingunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
CompTIA Security+unmatched
Database Designunmatched
Distributed Applicationsunmatched
Documentationunmatched
Enterprise Applicationsunmatched
Identify Issuesunmatched
Machine Toolunmatched
Microservicesunmatched
Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
Process Modelingunmatched
Query Optimizationunmatched
Relational Databases (RDBMS)unmatched
Software Administrationunmatched
Software Developmentunmatched
Software Patchesunmatched
System Migrationunmatched
Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
Test Automationunmatched
Testingunmatched
United States Citizenunmatched
User Account Administrationunmatched
Writing Skillsunmatched
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