Production Control Engineer - AWS / Linux / Batch Operations

First Soft Solutions
  • Washington, DC
  • $140,000
  • Instant Apply
1 day ago

Job Description

Work Authorization: U.S. Citizens Only (No Dual Citizenship)
Clearance: Must be eligible for Public Trust

Position Overview

We are seeking a Production Control Engineer to support reliable execution, scheduling, monitoring, recovery, and operational control of mission-critical applications and batch-processing workloads.

The successful candidate will bring strong production operations experience, Linux troubleshooting, scheduling expertise, scripting, and AWS knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

  • Monitor, manage, and support enterprise batch-processing and scheduled production workloads.
  • Configure and troubleshoot automated job scheduling, dependencies, and workflow execution.
  • Investigate failed jobs, processing delays, service incidents, and operational exceptions.
  • Execute restart, recovery, escalation, and incident resolution procedures.
  • Develop scripts for monitoring, job automation, operational reporting, and troubleshooting.
  • Support AWS and Linux production environments.
  • Coordinate with infrastructure, application, DBA, DevOps, and operations teams.
  • Maintain runbooks, production documentation, operational logs, and incident records.
  • Support change management, production deployments, and service availability.
  • Identify opportunities for improved job reliability and production automation.

Mandatory Qualifications

  • 4 7 years in production control, batch operations, or related enterprise production support.
  • Hands-on enterprise batch processing and job scheduler experience.
  • Strong Linux operating system knowledge.
  • Shell scripting and Python experience.
  • Familiarity with AWS infrastructure and cloud operations.
  • Experience troubleshooting incidents, job failures, and operational dependencies.
  • Knowledge of production recovery procedures and change management.
  • Strong analytical and cross-team communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with enterprise workload automation platforms.
  • Experience supporting regulated or federal production environments.
  • Knowledge of monitoring tools, CI/CD processes, and disaster recovery.
  • Familiarity with FISMA and NIST requirements.

Numbers & Facts

LocationWashington, DC
Salary$140,000

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
  • Analysis Skillsunmatched
  • Automationunmatched
  • Change Managementunmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
  • Continuous Integrationunmatched
  • Control Engineeringunmatched
  • Database Administrationunmatched
  • DevOpsunmatched
  • Disaster Recoveryunmatched
  • Documentationunmatched
  • FISMA - Federal Information Security Management Actunmatched
  • Identify Issuesunmatched
  • Linux Operating Systemunmatched
  • Operational Controlunmatched
  • Production Controlunmatched
  • Production Scheduleunmatched
  • Production Supportunmatched
  • Production Systemsunmatched
  • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
  • Reliability Engineeringunmatched
  • Schedule Developmentunmatched
  • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
  • U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)unmatched
  • Unix Shell Programmingunmatched
  • Workload Automationunmatched

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