Applications Engineer III

Job Responsibilities

• Monitor application systems to ensure data reliability, availability, and operational accuracy.
• Perform continuous monitoring and proactive troubleshooting to maintain application performance and system health.
• Identify and resolve operational issues through system configuration changes, application updates, or escalation as appropriate.
• Maintain critical enterprise services that enable 24x7 mission operations.
• Support watch floor operations by identifying service degradation, failed dataflows, system errors, and application issues.
• Support cloud-based operations using the AWS Console or AWS CLI to monitor instance health, review system status, restart services, and perform basic operational troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across software development, systems engineering, systems administration, and operations to maintain reliable enterprise services.
• Contribute to Secure the Enterprise initiatives by supporting automation, continuous monitoring, and operational excellence.

Minimum Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required.
• Proficiency in one or more of the following technical areas:
• Monitoring / Watch Floor Operations: Experience with Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, CloudWatch, or similar monitoring platforms, including dashboard monitoring, alert triage, log analysis, incident escalation, and shift turnover.
• Linux / Systems Administration: Experience administering Linux systems, including monitoring system health, managing services, reviewing logs, rebooting servers, and validating CPU, memory, and disk utilization.
• Cloud / AWS Operations: Experience supporting AWS environments using the AWS Console or AWS CLI, including EC2 instance monitoring, service health checks, Lambda, C2E, HCI, and basic operational troubleshooting.
• Dataflow / Application Support: Experience with Apache NiFi, Cribl, Kafka, Logstash, or similar data pipeline technologies supporting data movement, ingestion, queue monitoring, and application health.
• DevOps: Experience with Terraform, Ansible, GitLab Pipelines, and Docker.

Why Join Quevera?

• Award-Winning Culture
• Outstanding Benefits
• Career advancement through our structured iQTouch Program
• Up to 6% 401(k) match
• Additional 4% profit-sharing contribution, at company discretion

About the Role

This is a blended engineering role supporting software development, systems engineering, systems administration, and operations.

Schedule

Shift Schedule: Rotating 12-hour shifts (6:00 AM – 6:00 PM / 6:00 PM – 6:00 AM).

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical coverage (optional plan)
• Competitive options for Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Employer-paid life insurance
• $5,000 annually for education, training, certifications, and professional development

Pay

N/A

Schedule

Rotating 12-hour shifts (6:00 AM – 6:00 PM / 6:00 PM – 6:00 AM)