IT Specialist (SYSADMIN/APPSW)

The NLM Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) is seeking to recruit two (2) IT Specialist (SYSADMIN/APPSW) positions listed below. 

 

The IT Specialist candidates will be expected to:

• Serve as the expert intermediary between the systems administration and application functions/teams in the Applications Branch (e.g., developers, networking team, infrastructure security team, infrastructure systems team).
• Coordinate projects and activities, and manage the deployment, maintenance, and upgrade process of applications developed by different development groups and teams.
• Work with software application developers to architect, configure, and troubleshoot application servers and the software running on the developed applications.
• Oversee and ensure systems administration, patching, networking, and provisioning support of application servers within the OCCS applications platform.
• Manage approximately 400 application servers in support of the NLM mission and ensure support for applications residing on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
• Direct and oversee provisioning and patching scripts for on-premises application servers and AWS Cloud.
• Create, maintain, and administer automated testing frameworks that allow in-depth testing of User Interfaces, modules, and security of custom software applications across multiple programming languages and platforms.
• Maintain the integrity, security, and availability of NOSQL databases and database-like technologies, and troubleshoot server issues, including tuning performance, isolate and fix application problems, and apply security patches.
• Analyze and evaluate new systems engineering technologies, and develop and coordinate lifecycle development processes and tools to facilitate agile development methodologies.
• Identify future-state objectives for the development environment, and provide guidance on best practices to maintain the development environments and support the rapid development and testing of web based solutions.
• Provide analysis and guidance on program related information technology (IT) issues or problems where new analytical techniques must be developed to identify and evaluate findings.
• Identify and maintain firewall rules needed to allow application communication, and create and maintain approximately 2500 firewall rules in support of application network communication.

 

HOW TO APPLY:

Applications (resume and vacancy questions) MUST be received online via USAJOBS: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/712814500 & https://www.usajobs.gov/job/712815600

Open and closing dates: 03/16/2023 to 03/20/2023

Announcement Number: NIH-NLM-DE-23-11856362 and NIH-NLM-MP-23-11856376

Please contact Douglas Bruno, Human Resources Specialist: brunoda2@mail.nih.gov for more information.