Computer Scientist Security Clearance

Position: COMPUTER SCIENTIST with Security Clearance
Location: Stennis Space Center

Duties
* You will be responsible for engineering solutions and maintaining the information technology (IT) environments supported by the Division.
* You will monitor system performance, accessibility, and system logs to ensure operational availability.
* You will analyze users' software application needs to define and document middleware requirements.
* You will design solutions to meet middleware requirements while maintaining cybersecurity compliance.
* You will maintain a software configuration guide to improve the software transition to the supported IT environments. Requirements Conditions of employment
* Must be a US Citizen.
* Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
* Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
* New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
* Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
* Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
* Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
* MSP/PPP applicants must currently hold the required security clearance.
* This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
* Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
* This position is subject to work an uncommon tour, including nights, weekends, and holidays to meet mission requirements. Overtime or night differential pay and/or unusual duty hours may be required. Qualifications In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of SPECIALIZED experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:
* Experience in system/software administration tasks such as installing, patching, configuring, integrating, testing and monitoring of web servers, geospatial web applications on Linux or Windows operating systems.
* Experience maintaining cybersecurity compliance strategies for information assurance vulnerabilities, and monitoring systems to ensure operation availability.
* Experience with Linux system administration and ability to operate in a Linux command line mode.
* Experience analyzing and resolving operational issues related to software and systems.
* Experience building and securing software/system solutions to meet organizational and user requirements.
* Experience working with IT personnel to resolve issues related to design, implementation and operations. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:
Applicants must posses:
Bachelor's degree in computer science or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions. Evaluation of

Education:

Applicants should have sufficient knowledge to understand the fundamental concepts and techniques of computer science. Courses designed to provide an introduction to computer science techniques and methodologies, to problems of system design, and to other specialized fields are acceptable. Courses or experience in teaching elementary, business, or shop mathematics are not acceptable. Additional…