Application Engineer - Power Platform Developer

Responsible for the deployment, provisioning, hardening, and optimization of

cloud infrastructure and related cloud services. Utilizes scripting and

infrastructure technologies for environment orchestration. Collaborates with

cross functional teams for the deployment and ongoing support of cloud services

to both internal stakeholders and clients.

* Ensures mission‑critical federal applications are prepared to handle

increased demand, peak usage periods, and high‑volume operational workloads.

* Responsible for forecasting capacity needs, conducting performance analysis,

identifying bottlenecks, and implementing strategies that improve application

scalability, stability, and responsiveness.

* Works closely with cloud, infrastructure, network, and application teams to

ensure systems remain resilient, available, and performant during surge

scenarios.

* Reviews operational requirements with project teams, management and client

services groups for deployment and ongoing support.

* Develops documentation for best practices as it relates to server

infrastructure and cloud computing operational experience.

* Assist with identifying and planning of potential new cloud services,

features, and capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• * Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent relevant work experience
• * Minimum of 5-7 years in relevant field
• Other Job Specific Skills
• * Experience conducting load, stress, and performance testing for enterprise
• applications.
• * Ability to analyze system performance, traffic patterns, and resource
• utilization across application, database, and infrastructure layers.
• * Understanding of scaling approaches including autoscaling, caching, queuing,
• and connection management.
• * Familiarity with monitoring tools, logging systems, and performance
• dashboards.
• * Understanding of federal operational requirements such as uptime
• expectations, continuity planning, and controlled change windows.
• Specific Skills
• * Experience supporting scalability efforts for public‑facing or high‑traffic
• federal systems.
• * Knowledge of cloud‑native scaling capabilities (AWS, Azure, or GovCloud
• equivalents).
• * Background in optimizing application architectures for high availability and
• low latency.
• * Ability to design and run performance simulations for surge scenarios.

Compensation

Ranges

Compensation

ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple

factors; including but not limited to, location, skill set, level of education,

certifications, client requirements, contract-specific affordability, government

clearance and investigation level, and years of experience. The compensation

displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is

unique to each role. Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall

compensation and benefits package for employees.

EEO Requirements

It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex,

disability, age, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be

considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to

these fundamental policies.

All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is

done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age. All

decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.

Physical Requirements

The physical requirements described in "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" above

are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully

perform the primary functions of this job. (For example, "light office duties'

or "lifting up to 50 pounds" or "some travel" required.) Reasonable

accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualifying disabilities,

who are otherwise qualified, to perform the primary functions.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature

and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not

designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all

duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to

this job.