PRODUCTION OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE ENGINEER
Job Overview: Customer: Internal Revenue Services (IRS) Location: Remote, with occasional onsite support for meetings, deployments, production activities, or knowledge transfer as required. Clearance: No clearance required. Position Summary Provide production operations, application sustainment, release support, troubleshooting, and incident response for enterprise applications supporting IRS Common API Services. Required Experience
- 7+ years supporting enterprise applications
- Production Operations & Maintenance
- Incident management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Application troubleshooting
- Production deployments
- Vulnerability remediation
- Performance monitoring
- Release implementation
- Operational documentation
- ServiceNow or similar ticketing tools
- Linux
- Java application support
Preferred Experience
- IRS production environments
- Federal Government operations
- Monitoring tools such as AppDynamics or ELK
- OpenShift
Education Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Clearance No clearance required. Security Requirements:
- No active Secret or Top Secret security clearance is required.
- Candidates must be eligible to obtain IRS Staff-Like Access following contract award.
- Personnel requiring access to IRS facilities, systems, or Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) information must successfully complete the IRS personnel security process before beginning work. This includes:
- IRS suitability determination
- FBI fingerprinting
- Background investigation (SF-85/SF-85P, as applicable)
- Tax compliance verification
- U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency verification
- Execution of required Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and IRS security forms
Notes:
- Strong preference for candidates with IRS or Federal Government IT modernization experience.
- Experience with enterprise Java development, APIs, middleware, OpenShift, and microservices will be highly competitive.
Benefits include but are not limited to:
- Tuition reimbursement
- Competitive 401(k) plan
- Competitive Health Benefits
- 11 Paid Holidays!!
- 15 PTO Days!
- Veteran Hiring Preference