INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST (PLCYPLN)

Full Job Description

You will serve as an Information Technology Specialist (PLCYPLN) for FLT NUMER OCEANGPHY METEO CTR.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience and knowledge in management policies, practices, and procedures to provide logistics, financial, contractual and budgeting assistance oriented to the needs of he HPC Operations, Integration, and Maintenance division.

Experience and knowledge of and the ability to work in a clustered Linux environment as a system administrator.

Experience and knowledge of and ability to install COTS software into a Linux clustered environment.

Experience and knowledge of advanced IT planning principles, including vendor and product selection, project management, technical review, systems engineering, and technical judgement.

Experience and knowledge of business principles, crafting policy documents, writing position papers, creating presentations, responding to requests for data, creating, tracking and meeting objectives and standards, requirements creation, analysis, and mapping and ability to create, review analyze, and present budgetary information.

Experience and verbal skills sufficient to formulate written and/or oral presentations of findings that communicate clearly their import and significance.

Your experience must reflect skill in the following areas: attention to detail, customer service, oral communication, and problem solving.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/2200/information-technology-it-management-series-2210-alternative-a/ OR https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/2200/information-technology-it-management-series-2210-alternative-b/ .

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

• You will provide technical support spanning many phases of the Linux HPC environment.
• You will assure that the system design adheres to established FNMOC, Navy and DOD security policies.
• You will provide license management support to A2 (HPC and virtualized environments) including, but not limited to: RedHat Linux operating systems, Solaris Operating system, mathematical libraries, and interactive Data Language (IDL).
• You will provide license management support to TeamForge, General Parallel File system (GPFS), VMWare, Tivoli Storage Management, MATLAB, Portable Batch Scheduler (PBS), TeraScan, software compilers (Intel, GNU, etc).
• You will provide root cause analysis supporting software and/or hardware anomailies with feedback directed to responsible SME for problem resolution.
• You will provide maintenance to FNMOC job control utilities.
• You will provide system monitoring service to ensure awareness when A2 capacity issues are not exceeded.
• You will provide Configuration Control board (CCB) support by attending the weekly FNMOC CCB process.
• You will provide process improvement by performing support for system level configuration management (paperwork, etc.).
• You will develop N63 process standards ensuring compliance to understand protocol designed to improve ability to track hardware and system-level changes.
• You will provide HBSS Point Products Support for Linux environment ensuring the availability of these products (e.g. McAfee Agent, Host intrusion Prevention System, VirusScan Enterprise.