Software Systems Operations Administrator

Responsibilities

• Monitor daily production and distribution activity in ODPS including diagnosing errors in log files and identifying missing or incorrect products.
• Collaborate with OEL science‑team members to integrate complex standalone scientific processes within the ODPS framework to produce new processing workflows.
• Collaborate with the OEL web team to resolve issues related to ODPS.
• Collaborate with the OEL AWS‑cloud team to coordinate and manage data flows from ODPS to designated AWS‑based S3 buckets.
• Support a variety of processing tests for the OBPG science team within the ODPS framework without impacting near‑real‑time (NRT) processing activity.
• Perform administrative configuration in ODPS to support new processing and storage hardware, missions, data types, data‑ingest workflows.
• Respond to user posts in the OB‑DAAC forum.
• Collaborate with the OBPG system engineers to resolve hardware and network issues that affect ODPS, i.e., services unresponsive, disk errors, permission issues.
• Compose technical documentation for the ODPS software components and operational procedures.

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) and a minimum of 5 years of related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proficiency operating and developing in a Unix/Linux environment (including Bash scripting, SSH, and file system management).
• Strong proficiency in SQL for RDBMS (SAP ASE or similar highly preferred).
• Experience maintaining code using version control systems (e.g., Git, Subversion/SVN).
• AWS experience or AWS certification.
• Python proficiency.
• Scientific-based background or knowledge of handling large scientific datasets.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Familiarity with web development concepts as they relate to application support.