Field Applications Engineer

Field Application Engineer

Our client, a government contractor, is seeking an experienced Field Application Engineer to work as a liaison between their engineering team and the federal customer environment where their product is deployed. This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role that requires QA, validation, and system administration work. This position is 50% onsite at the client location in southern Maryland, and you will be required to obtain a security clearance. As such, only US Citizens can be considered for this role.

Responsibilities

• Be a primary day to day onsite support engineer for the production deployments (in and out of SCIF)
• Work with internal software engineering team to improve the product deployment and client experience
• Design and conduct software deployment testing and validation procedures

Qualifications/Background Profile

• Experience with DISA STIGs
• Linux System Administration (prefer RHEL)
• Experience with automation tools, such as Ansible, Bash, Python
• Experience interfacing with technical and non-technical customers and stakeholders
• Experience with on-prem and cloud environments
• Ability to read and analyze application logs to assess application health

This job is Hybrid Remote.

Pay Range: Salary $140,000.00 to $160,000.00

We offer several comprehensive benefits package including health and life insurance, paid and unpaid time off, and retirement and savings plans to qualifying employees.

Sparks Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy, citizenship, family status, genetic information, disability, or protect veteran status.