Open Systems Storage Engineer-DHA

Full Job Description

IT Specialist (OS/SYSADM) Open Systems Storage Engineer position(s) are being filled through the Office of Personnel Management's delegated Direct Hire Authority, open to all U.S. citizens.

Selections made under this bulletin will be processed as new appointments to the civil service. Current civil service employees would, therefore, be given new appointments to the civil service.

Under the provisions of the Direct Hire Authority, Veterans Preference and the "Rule of Many" do not apply.

Resumes exceeding two pages in length will not be considered, please visit the new resume guidance for more information. READ ALL SECTIONS OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IN ITS ENTIRETY.

THIS INFORMATION IS CRUCIAL TO SUBMITTING A SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION.

If you are qualifying based on education please make sure you follow the instructions in the Education Section of this announcement including uploading a transcript with an award/confer date failure to due so can disqualify you for further consideration.

Applicants must qualify for the series and grade of the posted position.

Experience must be IT related; the experience may be demonstrated by paid or unpaid experience and/or completion of specific, intensive training (for example, IT certification), as appropriate.

Your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, abilities, and proficiency of any required competencies to perform the specific position for which you are applying.

To qualify for the 2210 IT Specialist series, the applicant must demonstrate the following competencies: Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; know about available products and services; and is committed to providing quality products and services.

Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience at the GS-13 level, or equivalent, which is in or related to the work of the position to be filled and has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

Such experience must include work that involves managing the implementation of Open Systems storage infrastructure, advanced Open Systems data storage administration skillsets, Open Systems storage maintenance, and Open Systems storage operations.

Serves as the Agency's expert in the deployment mainframe or client server computer system data storage infrastructure and uses this expertise to develop addressing schema and hardware/software configurations to obtain the optimum configuration for a given project or workload.

Serves as the leading technical authority in area of data storage, data recovery and data storage management and provides advice to SSA components on technical capabilities and limitations, configuration, and other related matters Participates as required in all major mainframe or client server computer system and data storage procurement efforts, providing expert configuration data to ensure any proposed complement and configuration of hardware and software results in meeting predetermined Agency processing requirements.

Resolves the most difficult and intricate computer hardware/software configuration or performance problems resulting from design and/or deployment inadequacies of the melding of new design and/or deployment inadequacies or melding of new technologies with Legacy operating methods/procedures or software.

Evaluates new mainframe or client server data storage infrastructure technologies and determines their functionality relative to SSA's plans.

PLEASE NOTE: Specialized Experience is REQUIRED and must be explicitly documented/described in your resume or you will be disqualified from further consideration. Major Duties:

• This announcement serves as public notice. Applications submitted be placed into a pool and will remain on file for selection as positions become available.
• Vacancies may be filled for up to 6 months after the closing date of this announcement. Applicants may not receive notifications of referral status until the full 6-month eligibility period has elapsed.
• Applications may be gathered from additional recruitment sources. These will be added to the pool created by this announcement.