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# Application Lead :: Washington, DC (Remote)

- **Company:** ARK Solutions, Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $72,800.0 - $83,200.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Extract Transform Load (ETL), Database Queries, Log Analysis, Software Vulnerability Management, Apache Kafka, Splunk, Servicenow, Confluent
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/uscdc24b0b2371a99c4e2096f32de9225c/eaa

## About the Role

* Strong SQL skills and hands-on Linux/UNIX operations experience.
 * Experience with Kafka/Confluent and integration/data movement patterns.
 * Experience supporting multi-environment application operations across on-prem and cloud.
 * Proficiency with ServiceNow and vendor support escalation management.
 * Monitoring/log analysis experience with Splunk Enterprise.
 * Working knowledge of Agile delivery and related tools.
 * Ability to produce and maintain technical documentation.
 * Strong communication and facilitation skills, especially under pressure.

## Description

* Lead cross-team coordination to maintain environment stability and readiness for release/testing.
 * Manage environment change activities, ensuring compliance with governance processes.
 * Create and manage ServiceNow requests/incidents; handle vendor support cases for timely resolution.
 * Coordinate patching, vulnerability remediation, and system upgrades with security/infrastructure teams.
 * Handle critical incident management for high-severity outages, including triage and post-incident actions.
 * Maintain and ensure accuracy of key technical artifacts.
 * Ensure effective monitoring/alerting and analyze trends to improve reliability.
 * Identify and implement automation improvements and drive cloud/supplier cost optimization.


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