IT Specialist

This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS) with one vacancy in Silver Spring, MD; Scituate, MA; Newport News, VA; Key West, FL; Alpena, MI; San Francisco, CA; Monterey, CA; Galveston, TX; or Port Angeles, WA.

As an IT Specialist (Applications Software), you will perform the following duties:
Develop and maintain software and database systems using understanding of, applications, and platforms. Provide updates, upgrades, and improvements to existing hardware and software and perform database maintenance. Develop new applications using advanced programming languages. Work with relational databases (e.g., information systems) to create summary data, analyses, and reports.
Develop and maintain software applications for permitting and natural resource management activities. Work with geospatial data, applications, and platforms. Ensure that data collection and creation comply with all applicable data quality and industry standards. Provide customer support applications and address various issues such as augmentation, maintenance, and problem resolution.

Research and analyze customer requirements and provide support in the creating of high-level complex system (cloud-based application software and database) designs.

Support collaborative programming projects. Maintain project resource requirements, determine scheduling, and adhere to unique protocols to meet mission objectives. Assess cloud-based application requirements and provide recommendations on technologies utilized in implementing system designs. Conduct maintenance of cloud-based applications.
Ensure updates are performed to meet application programming and Information Assurance requirements. Conduct rigorous testing on both the cloud application/database and operating system. Adhere to technical guidance for the development of systems software to support multiple secure configurations.

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