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: 2–3 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:

- 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 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.