Operations Engineer (Java, Oracle, AWS & WebLogic)
REI Systems2 years ago
Sterling, VA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day operational and technical support for FDA enterprise applications across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
- Monitor application health, availability, performance, logs, and operational stability, and troubleshoot incidents, defects, integrations, and performance degradation.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement sustainable fixes to reduce recurring production incidents.
- Develop, debug, maintain, and enhance Java and Java EE applications, RESTful APIs, backend services, and integration components.
- Support Oracle Database operations, including SQL and PL/SQL development, query optimization, execution-plan analysis, connectivity troubleshooting, and database-related issue resolution.
- Support Oracle WebLogic deployments, configuration, monitoring, JDBC data sources, JVM troubleshooting, connection pools, and application server upgrades or patching.
- Support Java applications hosted in AWS using services such as EC2, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, and IAM.
- Support releases, deployments, patches, upgrades, post-deployment validation, documentation, incident management, and production maintenance.
- Develop scripts and utilities for application support and operational automation, and collaborate with development, infrastructure, DBA, QA, architecture, and federal stakeholder teams.
- Participate in production support rotations, including evening, weekend, and after-hours coverage in a 24x7x365 environment.
- Contribute to application modernization, cloud migration, security compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience in enterprise application development, application operations, or production application support.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java, enterprise Java applications, Oracle Database, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle WebLogic Application Server, and AWS.
- Experience troubleshooting production application issues, analyzing logs, performing root cause analysis, debugging Java applications, and resolving performance and integration problems.
- Understanding of REST APIs, web services, enterprise integrations, application monitoring, incident management, and production support processes.
- Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems, basic command-line troubleshooting, application deployment, configuration management, release support, and Git.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Preferred experience includes Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, WebLogic administration, AWS services, Oracle performance tuning, Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Shell scripting, Bash, Python, federal applications, modernization, cloud migration, and legacy enterprise systems.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum, ITIL-based processes, application security, access controls, vulnerability remediation, FISMA, NIST guidelines, federal cybersecurity requirements, and AI-assisted development tools is preferred.
- Eligible to obtain a public trust clearance and able to work independently, collaboratively, and flexibly in a mission-critical production support environment.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with two days per week or as needed in the REI Sterling office.
- Professional development, meaningful projects, and flexibility to spend time with family and friends.
- Participation in production support rotations, including evening, weekend, and after-hours coverage as operational needs require.
- Support for mission-critical FDA applications operating in a 24x7x365 environment.
About REI Systems
REI Systems provides full-lifecycle software engineering, data analytics, and modernization services to U.S. federal, state, and local agencies and nonprofits, including grants and case management solutions and cloud implementations. The privately held, 100% employee-owned firm delivers consulting and systems integration and supports programs at agencies such as the FDA. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, it focuses on open source, SaaS, and application modernization.