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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).



