Application Support Engineer

About Concept Plus
Concept Plus is a mission-focused technology solutions provider that transforms IT concepts into impactful solutions for federal agencies. Headquartered in Fairfax, VA, we bring the agility, responsiveness, and customer intimacy of a small business combined with the quality and infrastructure of a larger firm.

Recognized as an award-winning Oracle partner, we have delivered innovative solutions across Defense, Intelligence, Civilian, Health IT, and Tribal sectors. Our highly certified experts build systems that drive efficiency, accelerate modernization, and ensure mission outcomes with certainty.

We offer competitive pay, comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, paid life insurance, paid time off, 11 paid holidays, performance bonuses, tuition reimbursement, unlimited training, and the opportunity to thrive in a collaborative, flexible, and innovative environment.

For more information, visit www.conceptplus.com.

About the role

Concept Plus is seeking an Application Support Engineer who will be responsible for supporting the sustainment of Applications/Services providing the backend administration and support in client infrastructure.

What you'll do

The Application Support Engineer may plan, design, develop, migrate, install, or implement various technology products, or enhance computer programs. This individual applies knowledge of software and programming to deploy or migrate and test applications and produce the necessary outcome for clients. Roles and responsibilities included but are not limited to:

• Support acceptance testing of applications in target cloud environment
• Support application bug fix for migration-related application defects
• Structure and coordinate with application functional owners for the required testing of applications prior to, during, and post migration
• Report and resolve issues related to infrastructure and application migration activities
• Determine the Definition of Ready for work items to be slotted into a Sprint activities
• Deliver working software or acceptable deliverables in every iteration/activities
• Help the Product Owner break larger work items (Epics, User Stories) into smaller User Stories based on functionality activities.
• Estimate Product Backlog items (Epics, User Stories), Decompose User Stories into smaller, actionable Tasks, Estimate Tasks during Sprint Planning, Commit to Sprint delivery based on the Definition of Done, Adhere to the Definition of Done activities.
• Report daily status & impediments during Daily Stand-Up activities.
• Escalate impediments, Frequent (daily) communication with and demonstration of progress to the Product Owner activities.
• Maintain all boards (Scrum) activities.
• Maintain project management tool (JIRA).
• Ability to work productively in a team environment and participate as a positive and cooperative team member.
• Strong verbal, written, organizational and documentation skills.

Required Qualifications

• US Citizen
• Active Secret Clearance
• Bachelors Degree
• 5+ years’ practical experience
• Experience in the following:
• • Installing Application client tools on VDI Images/Pools
  • STIG experience
  • CDRL documentation experience
  • VMware VDI
  • Microsoft Windows Server Administration
  • Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Octane
• Strong verbal, written, organizational and documentation skills.
• Active CompTIA Security+ Certification
• Active IASAE L2 certification (i.e. CISSP, CCNA, CAP, CASP+ CE, CCISO, CND, CSSLP, CYSA+, GSLC, SSCP)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a Windows and Linux Environment, Administration and configuration of ALM Octane, UFT, LoadRunner, Dynatrace, ReadyAPI, VMWare/Horizon

Concept Plus is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. As such, we will give your application full consideration without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.