What are the responsibilities and job description for the Operations Engineer (Dept of VA) position at TalentRemedy?
Job Title: Operations Engineer, Department of Veterans
Affairs
Location: Remote. The candidate must live in the
Washington, DC metropolitan area (the SOW also permits Austin, TX) to attend
in-person meetings as needed. Local travel to those meetings is not
reimbursed.
Clearance Required: Public Trust (VA background
investigation, Tier 2 or Tier 4 per position risk designation). U.S.
citizenship required per the SOW.
Salary Range: $110,000-$115,000
Employment Type: Full-time
Travel: Less than 5% (local meetings only; no TDY
expected or funded)
Position Overview:
Our client seeks a mid-level
Operations Engineer to support batch operations, system maintenance,
troubleshooting, and automation for the VA iFAMS (Momentum) Operations &
Maintenance program.
This hands-on technical role keeps nightly and cyclical
processing running, including payment disbursement and file processing. The
engineer resolves escalated operational issues and automates repetitive work
with Government-approved tools.
Key qualifications and responsibilities include:
- Strong SQL, Perl, Shell scripting, and Linux experience in a production
operations environment.
- Experience
with Control-M or similar enterprise job schedulers (Autosys,
Tidal, Tivoli): building, monitoring, and troubleshooting batch job
streams.
- Knowledge
of payment disbursements, data validation, and file processing (inbound and outbound interface files, reconciliation, error handling).
- Perform
preventive, corrective, and adaptive maintenance and provide Tier 2/3
support for escalated incidents and problems.
- Familiarity
with GitHub, Jira, Agile methods, and automation tools.
- Preferred:
Java, Selenium, OpenShift, APIs, and RPA experience.
- Preferred:
experience supporting a federal financial or ERP system (Momentum, Oracle,
SAP).
Salary : $110,000 - $115,000