JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer - Senior
CLIENT: USGS – Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS)
LOCATION/HOURS: Remote – Mon – Fri 8am – 5pm MT (Periodic after hours and/or weekend support may be required related to system outages, upgrades, or scheduled maintenance.)
TRAVEL: Client is in Denver, CO, may require yearly in-person conference
CITIZANSHIP: US or Green Card/Permanent Resident (must pass background check)
PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
The Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS) program supports highly complex, distributed scientific data synthesis and analysis in partnership with remote USGS scientists and collaborators. Key elements of the SAS mission include developing national data products to enable USGS science; leading strategic research and informatics partnerships; creating innovative tools and technologies for scientific discovery, science data life cycle management, and rapid response to science issues; leading advances in biodiversity science and characterizing the biogeography of the nation; and implementation of digital library research and data services. Typical support areas include land cover and species distribution modeling, systematics, high performance computing, and effectively processing, managing and providing access to distributed large sets of scientific data (i.e. “Big Data”, down scaled model data, large regional land cover datasets, national species distribution data, species occurrence data, digital publications, etc.). SAS IT provides technical and operational support to the complete portfolio of SAS products/applications/tools. The SAS infrastructure consists of a local data center located at the Denver Federal Center and Cloud Hosting Services with Amazon Web Services as the cloud environment. SAS hosts over 200 Virtual machines in AWS and in our on-premises data center. On premise SAS is using a NetApp storage appliance and VMware for virtualization.
QUALIFICATIONS:
JOB FUNCTIONS:
Under general direction, participates as a technical expert in design development, coding, testing, and debugging new software or enhancements to existing software. Works with technical staff to understand problems with software and develops specifications to resolve them. Resolves customer complaints and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements. Participates in the development of software user manuals.
Performs a variety of systems engineering tasks and activities that are broad in nature and are concerned with major systems design, integration, and implementation. Provides quality assurance review and the evaluation of new and existing software products. Functional areas to be supported include but are not limited to: DevSecOps, System Administration, Database Administration, Network Administration, Web Server and Content Administration, Virtualization, Storage, Backups, and Cyber Security.
Products supported includes, but is not limited to scientific computing platforms, cloud computing platforms, science driven web sites, mobile applications, analysis databases, software deployments, system analysis and data release tools, best practices guides, end-user documentation, technical documentation, and security documentation.
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