Operations Engineer (Dept of VA)

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).