--- title: 'Application Engineer 3 (24x7) at Wyetech' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/application-engineer-3-24x7-wyetech-ft-meade-z71jpks7z8yj' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-27' --- # Application Engineer 3 (24x7) at Wyetech - **Company:** Wyetech - **Location:** Ft Meade, MD - **Compensation:** $64–$87/hr - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/wyetechllc/1c50e4a1-59fd-4966-8bcf-9488c8db7360 ## Job description At Wyetech, you’ll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry. Designs software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses and manages their implementation. Manages software development and support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, other accepted design techniques and Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools. Estimates software development costs and schedule. Reviews existing programs and assists in making refinements, reducing operating time and improving current techniques. Formulates and defines specifications for software applications or modifies and maintains existing applications using engineering releases and utilities from the manufacturer. Responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation. Instructs, directs, and checks the work of other task personnel. Responsible for quality assurance review and the evaluation of existing and new software products. As part of the Secure the Enterprise initiative, develop capabilities to shift from the current manual system security evaluation and authorization process to a new model that emphasizes automation, streamlined processes and approvals, continuous monitoring and assessment, and network data gathering across the entire life cycle of a project. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: This is a blended position across all teams in ANDS. The successful candidate will have skills crossing from Systems Administration, and Operations Support. •Ensure data reliability and accuracy by monitoring and maintaining application systems. •ontribute to operational success through continuous performance monitoring and proactive troubleshooting, to potentially include changes to system configuration, changes to the code base, etc. •Maintain system health by tracking metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts, and application status to prevent downtime and ensure optimal application performance. •Support watchfloor operations by identifying service degradation, failed dataflows, system errors, and application issues, and escalating as needed. •Perform basic Linux system administration tasks, including checking service status, starting, stopping, and restarting services, reviewing logs, validating disk, memory, and CPU usage, and supporting server reboots. •Support cloud-based operations by using the AWS Console or AWS CLI to check instance health, review system status, restart or reboot servers, and assist with basic operational troubleshooting. •Work in a rotating shift schedule, 6AM-6PM / 6PM-6AM, to provide 24/7 application support on our watch floor. Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph). Capabilities - Ensure data reliability and accuracy by monitoring and maintaining application systems. - Contribute to operational success through continuous performance monitoring and proactive troubleshooting, to potentially include changes to system configuration, changes to the code base, etc. - Maintain system health by tracking metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts, and application status to prevent downtime and ensure optimal application performance. - Support watchfloor operations by identifying service degradation, failed dataflows, system errors, and application issues, and escalating as needed. - Perform basic Linux system administration tasks, including checking service status, starting, stopping, and restarting services, reviewing logs, validating disk, memory, and CPU usage, and supporting server reboots. - Support cloud-based operations by using the AWS Console or AWS CLI to check instance health, review system status, restart or reboot servers, and assist with basic operational troubleshooting. - Work in a rotating shift schedule, 6AM-6PM / 6PM-6AM, to provide 24/7 application support on our watch floor. Required Qualifications - TS/SCI with agency appropriate polygraph - All experience and education will be in a technical field directly related to the labor category being proposed and all diplomas, GED certificates, and degrees will be from accredited institutions. - Ten (10) years minimum experience and a High School Diploma/GED. - Eight (8) years minimum experience and an Associate's Degree. - Six (6) years minimum experience and a Bachelor's Degree. - Four (4) years minimum experience and a Master's Degree. - Two (2) years minimum experience and a Doctorate's Degree. Required Technical Skills - Prospective candidates must have proficiency in one or more of the following skillsets / technologies: - Monitoring / Watchfloor Operations: Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, CloudWatch, or similar monitoring tools; dashboard monitoring, alert triage, log review, incident escalation, and shift turnover support. - Linux / Systems Administration: Comfortable working in a Linux environment; ability to check system health, start, stop, and restart services, review logs, and reboot servers safely. - Cloud / AWS Operations: C2E, HCI, AWS, Lambda, AWS Console, or AWS CLI experience supporting EC2 instances, service health checks, and basic operational troubleshooting. - Dataflow / Application Support: Apache NiFi, Cribl, Kafka, Logstash, or similar data pipeline / dataflow tools; experience monitoring application health, failed jobs, queues, data movement, and ingestion issues. - DevOps: Terraform, Ansible, GitLab Pipelines, Docker The Benefits Package - Wyetech believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one, ensuring immediate ownership of retirement funds. Additional benefits include: - Wyetech provides a generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations. Employees have the flexibility to adjust their PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year, ensuring it meets their evolving needs. Full-time employees have the option to participate in a variety of voluntary benefit plans including: - A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA) - Vision and Dental - Life and AD&D Benefits - Short and Long-Term Disability - Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances - Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services Company Environment & Perks - Employee Referral Bonus Eligibility up to $10,000 - Mobility Among Wyetech-supported Contracts - Various contract and work locations throughout Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and OCONUS - Various team-building events throughout the year such as: monthly lunches, summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party. - Employees receive two complementary branded clothing orders annually. Wyetech, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Affirmative Action Statement: Wyetech, LLC is committed to the principles of affirmative action in all hiring and employment for minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans. Accommodations: Wyetech, LLC is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you need any accommodations during the application or interview process, please contact Brittney Wood. at 844-WYETECH x727 or staffing@wyetech.com. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to all candidates. ## About Wyetech ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Wyetech is a privately held computer engineering services firm that provides high-quality software, systems, and cybersecurity talent to solve the nation’s toughest problems for federal and commercial customers. - **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held) - **Headquarters**: Odenton, Maryland, United States - **Founded**: 2007 - **Founders**: Mark Goss ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Software Development, Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Data Analysis, Cybersecurity, Intelligence Analysis (Signals Intelligence, Information Assurance, Computer Network Operations) - **Target customers**: Federal government (Intelligence Community, Department of Defense) and commercial customers; B2B/Government, primarily cleared contracting. - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Engineering happiness for customers, with the happiness shared by our talented workforce.” Also: “To provide the best possible environment for employees to thrive and provide stellar services and solutions for our customers and their respective missions.” ## Products & Services - **Core Service – Engineering Staffing & Solutions**: Wyetech places highly vetted, quality engineering talent (internal referrals only) on government contracts. Disciplines include Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Data Analysis, and Cyber Security. - **Proprietary Data Lake Tool – JCRSD**: An internal platform for which Wyetech is building a foundational AI integration framework and agentic platform using Python, Kubernetes, and large language models (LLMs) with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, reusable AI skills, and safety guardrails. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric – Annual Revenue**: USD $20,446,821 (estimated) - **Key Metric – Total Funding**: Not applicable (private, bootstrapped since founding) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: None publicly listed; primary clients are federal agencies (Intelligence Community, DoD). Notable alumni destinations include BrainTrust Holdings, GliaCell Technologies, Lorica AI, Dragos, Inc., and others. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount growth of +4.5% YoY (29 employees as of latest data) - 145 active job postings (though monthly posting trend declined -39.1%) - Expanding into AI integration and agentic platforms for existing government contracts - Multiple office locations across Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii, and OCONUS ## Competitive Advantages - **High Quality, Referral-Based Talent Pipeline**: Wyetech only hires through internal referrals and rigorous screening, ensuring a consistently high-caliber workforce that customers recognize. - **Deep Cleared Talent Pool**: Focus on U.S. Citizenship and active TS/SCI security clearances with polygraph gives them a competitive edge in the cleared government contracting space. - **Retirement Benefit Uniqueness**: Automatic 20% of gross compensation contributed to a SEP IRA with immediate vesting – an unusually generous benefit in the industry. - **Small Company Culture, Large Contract Reach**: Ability to support contracts nationwide while maintaining a tight-knit, employee-focused culture. ## Strategic Focus - **AI Integration & Platform Modernization**: Investing heavily in building foundational AI integration frameworks and agentic platforms for their proprietary JCRSD Data Lake tool, leveraging Python, Kubernetes, and LLMs. - **Talent Acquisition & Retention**: Continued hiring of cleared engineering talent across multiple disciplines (software, systems, network, cyber) to support growing contract needs. - **Employee Experience**: Maintaining a “world-class, truly unique employee experience” through competitive benefits, generous PTO (up to 200 hours annually), referral bonuses ($10,000), and frequent team-building events. ## Why Work Here - **Culture Highlights**: Employee-focused mission (“engineering happiness”), small company feel with strong collaboration; regular team events (monthly lunches, summer picnic, holiday party). - **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid options available (e.g., 1-2 days per week in Columbia, MD for some roles); also supports various contract locations and telework opportunities. - **Notable Perks**: - **Automatic 20% SEP IRA contribution** with no employee match required and immediate vesting - Up to 200 hours of PTO per year with flexibility to adjust at start of each year - Choice of medical plans (with HSA option), vision, dental, life/AD&D, short/long-term disability - Employee referral bonus up to $10,000 - Two complementary branded clothing orders annually - Mobility across contracts and locations - **Engineering Culture**: Hands-off, innovative environment; engineers build secure, scalable AI frameworks and work with cutting-edge tech (Kubernetes, LLMs, MCP) in a mission-focused context. ## Sources 1. 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