26-117: Fire Weather Testbed Cloud Developer

Cloud Developer Position

The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University (CSU) seeks to fill a full-time Cloud Developer position designed to conduct collaborative research with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) located at the Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) in Boulder, CO. The individual in this position will work in the NOAA/OAR/GSL Weather Informatics and Decision Support (WIDS) Division's Fire Weather Testbed (FWT).

This position will be responsible for setting up and maintaining cloud applications and solutions to support FWT experiments, including installing experimental software packages and data sources.

This is a full time position, funded for two years, and an option to renew contingent upon satisfactory performance and available funding. The individual in this position will help design, develop, test, and refine applications in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud architecture for the FWT. The FWT is a team that conducts experiments testing the readiness of prototype fire weather tools and software for operational implementation.

In addition to setting up and maintaining the cloud environments, this individual will work with outside organizations to install their tools and software for testing and, where necessary, assist in implementing and developing the FWT cloud platform. This includes working with various operating systems, meteorological and environmental data sources, and third-party software packages. The individual in this position will ensure the availability of installed software during FWT experiments.

This position reports to the Sr Software Engineer.

• Technical Leadership & Cloud Architecture:
  Develop, implement, and maintain the FWT's cloud architecture. Take the lead on software requests from the FWT team, suggesting architectural design changes to improve cloud implementations.
• Data Retrieval & UI/UX Integration:
  Build full-stack mechanisms to retrieve, parse, and seamlessly integrate meteorological and environmental datasets into intuitive UI/UX platforms for scientific research and model verification.
• System Deployment & Security:
  Collaborate with systems engineers, cloud specialists, and security experts across OAR and GSL to deploy scalable solutions that strictly meet NOAA security boundary requirements.
• Application Adaptation:
  Install, configure, and adapt third-party software applications to be cloud-native or run efficiently in a cloud environment, managing associated data feeds and access controls.
• Scientific
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with research scientists and external developers to develop technical requirements for deployments, translating scientific needs into functional web interfaces and R&D tools.
• Mentorship & Administration:
  Provide knowledge, guidance, and training to the team on AWS Cloud Services. Assist with the management of FWT cloud systems and complete annual reports documenting project status and milestones.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States by the start of the position because CIRA will not sponsor any type of visa for this position now nor in the future.
• This position requires onsite presence three (3) days/week with the option to telework two (2) days/week (contingent upon satisfactory performance), because it requires significant collaboration with on-site teams.
• This full-time position in Boulder, CO, requires a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI), tier 1 federal background check and a NOAA Common Access Card (CAC)  for systems access. Therefore, only US citizens and lawful permanent residents with a physical USCIS "Green Card" are eligible.

• The individual in this position will not supervise employees.

NOTE:

In the body of your resume, please specifically address all required qualifications when describing your work experience. A resume that fails to specifically address the qualifications of this position may not be further considered after review by the search committee.

• Education & Experience:
  
  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related…