Production Control Engineer

Job Type
Full-time

Description

Position Summary:

The Production Control Engineer supports the daily operation, monitoring, and execution of the EDGAR production environment. This role ensures scheduled production processing completes accurately and on time, identifies and resolves operational issues, coordinates recovery activities, and helps maintain reliable production operations.

This position is intended for 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.
- Provide clear status communications 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.

Leadership Growth Responsibilities:

As the engineer grows into the role, responsibilities will expand to:

- Serve as a senior escalation point for Production Control issues.
- Coordinate daily activities and workload across the PC team.
- Lead incident response and recovery during critical production events.
- Identify operational risks before they impact EDGAR processing.
- Mentor junior Production Control personnel.
- Drive improvements in monitoring, automation, documentation, and operational controls.
- Coordinate across application development, DBA, infrastructure, AWS, and support teams.
- Help establish operational metrics that improve reliability, efficiency, and production stability.
- Gradually assume responsibility for day-to-day leadership of the Production Control team.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Inadev Corporation does not discriminate against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, or national origin

INTEGRITY AND COMPLIANCE NOTICE:

All information provided by applicants must be complete, truthful, and accurate. Any intentional misrepresentation of skills, experience, credentials, or identity may result in removal from consideration for this and future employment opportunities.

For positions supporting U.S. federal government contracts, applicants may be subject to background investigations and employment eligibility verification in accordance with federal regulations. Providing false information during this process may be subject to review and action as required under applicable federal laws and security regulations.

Inadev is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and a federal contractor committed to compliance with all applicable EEO, OFCCP, and federal hiring standards.

Requirements

Non-Technical Requirements:

- Must be a U.S. Citizen.
- Must be willing to work a HYBRID Schedule (3-4 Days) in Reston, VA & client locations in the Washington D.C. area as required.
- Ability to pass a 7-year background check and obtain/maintain a U.S. Government Clearance
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Must be able to prioritize and self-start.
- Must be adaptable/flexible as priorities shift.
- Must be enthusiastic and have passion for learning and constant improvement.
- Must be open to collaboration, feedback and client asks.
- Must enjoy working with a vibrant team of outgoing personalities.

Required Qualifications:

- 4–7 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/recovery, and production operations.
- Experience analyzing application and system logs and troubleshooting production failures.
- Experience with 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.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership, coordinate resources, and drive technical issues through resolution.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience supporting federal government or highly regulated systems.
- Experience with enterprise job scheduling or workload automation platforms.
- Experience with 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.
- Previous experience mentoring junior engineers or acting as a technical lead.

Success Profile:

The ideal candidate is a hands-on Production Control Engineer with strong leadership potential. The individual will initially focus on mastering EDGAR production operations, production schedules, processing dependencies, monitoring, recovery, and incident response.

Salary Description
$115,000-$125,000 (based on pertinent experience)