Production Control Engineer – EDGAR

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Job Title: Production Control Engineer EDGAR

Job Number: QBA1027-6

Position Type: Full-Time

Location: Hybrid Reston Virginia and client locations in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area

Days Remote: 23 days remote

Position Summary:

The Production Control Engineer will support the daily operation monitoring and execution of the EDGAR production environment. This role is responsible for ensuring scheduled production processing completes accurately and on time identifying and resolving operational issues coordinating recovery activities and maintaining reliable production operations.
This position is suited to an experienced hands-on engineer with the potential to grow into a leadership role within the Production Control team.
Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor and support daily EDGAR production processing scheduled jobs workflows and operational activities.
• Execute and monitor production schedules to ensure critical processing completes successfully and on time.
• Identify failed delayed or abnormal production processes and coordinate troubleshooting and recovery.
• Analyze system logs monitoring alerts job output and application diagnostics to identify production issues.
• Coordinate incidents and escalations across application database infrastructure cloud and operations teams.
• Support production deployments maintenance activities system restarts and operational readiness.
• Maintain production runbooks operating procedures checklists schedules and recovery procedures.
• Track recurring production issues and support root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks and production checks using scripting and automation tools.
• Communicate status updates clearly during production incidents and critical processing windows.
• Ensure effective shift turnover and knowledge transfer across the Production Control team.
• Follow established incident problem change security and production management procedures.
• As responsibilities expand serve as a senior escalation point coordinate daily team activities lead incident response and recovery and identify operational risks.
• Mentor junior Production Control personnel and drive improvements in monitoring automation documentation and operational controls.
• Coordinate with application development database administration (DBA) infrastructure AWS and support teams.
• Help establish operational metrics to improve reliability efficiency and production stability.
• Gradually assume responsibility for the day-to-day leadership of the Production Control team.

Minimum Experience:

• 47 years of experience in Production Control production operations application support batch operations or a related technical field.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production applications.
• Strong knowledge of batch processing job scheduling dependencies monitoring restart and recovery procedures and production operations.
• Experience analyzing application and system logs and troubleshooting production failures.
• Experience working in Linux/Unix environments and scripting.
• Working knowledge of AWS and cloud-hosted environments.
• Understanding of incident problem and change management.
• Ability to troubleshoot across application infrastructure database and operational layers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills particularly during production incidents.
• Ability to take ownership coordinate resources and drive technical issues through resolution.

Mandatory Skills:

• Production Control production operations application support or batch operations experience.
• Mission-critical production application support.
• Batch processing job scheduling job dependencies monitoring and restart/recovery.
• Production incident troubleshooting and log analysis.
• Linux/Unix environments and scripting.
• Working knowledge of AWS and cloud-hosted environments.
• Incident problem and change management.
• Cross-layer troubleshooting across applications infrastructure databases and operations.
• Strong communication ownership and incident coordination skills.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience supporting federal government systems or highly regulated environments.
• Experience with enterprise job scheduling or workload automation platforms.
• Python Shell scripting or similar automation technologies.
• Familiarity with AWS monitoring and logging capabilities.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases.
• Knowledge of ITIL-aligned production support practices.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or serving as a technical lead.
• Leadership potential including incident leadership escalation management workload coordination and operational improvement.