Scientific Programmer

Responsibilities

• Provide reports of all reduced data to the test team for evaluation.
• Administer database structures, standards, controls, procedures, and documentation.
• Assist application development staff and users with database solutions to business problems, data architectures, database management system facilities, and capabilities.
• Analyze, test, troubleshoot, and evaluate existing network systems such as LAN, WAN, and Internet systems or segments of network systems.
• Perform network maintenance to ensure networks operate correctly with minimal interruption.
• Design, operate, and maintain database inputs, searches, queries, and reports to ensure data products are collected and presented clearly and understandably.
• Work and coordinate with customers and subject matter experts to verify instrumentation collected required data for delivery to the Data Authentication Group or evaluator.
• Provide input to instrumentation designers to ensure instrumentation can receive process and output desired data products to support stimulation, simulations, and harvested data requirements.
• Verify operational level performance of instrumentation to ensure stimulation and simulation requirements are met.
• Provide input to Engineering Technical package.
• Implement and maintain database concerning access methods, batch processes, device allocation, validation checks, organization, protection and security, documentation, and statistical methods, including maintenance of database dictionaries and integration of systems through database design.
• Maintain expertise in the use of automated tools for database design and implementation.
• Maintain and document JCL, shell scripts, and batch processes.
• Ensure documentation is complete and up to date.
• Develop and apply procedures for periodic database backup.
• Provide software development.
• Perform unit testing and integrated testing of modules.
• Develop system scripts to support system development, data collection, reduction, management, analysis, and reporting.
• Assist in configuration and maintenance of ADP connected to the LAN.
• Troubleshoot system problems and work with vendor support.
• Perform hardware and software upgrades and patches.
• Establish and maintain a regular backup schedule.
• Track and address security vulnerabilities.
• Configure and maintain network and communications software.
• Develop and maintain HTTP and FTP sites using scripts for the distribution of research products, including data, documents, and source code.

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics Science, or equivalent.
• Active Secret Clearance required.
• Familiarity with programming languages such as Python, SQL, C#, R, PHP, Oracle, Linux, and Microsoft Access.

• Preference will be given to Calista shareholders and their descendants and to spouses of Calista shareholders, and to shareholders of other corporations created pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, in accordance with Title 43 U.S. Code §1626(g).

Additionally, it is our policy to select, place, train and promote the most qualified individuals based upon relevant factors such as work quality, attitude and experience, so as to provide equal employment opportunity for all employees in compliance with applicable local, state and federal laws and without regard to non-work related factors such as race, color, religion/creed, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, genetic information, or other protected status.

When applicable, our policy of non-discrimination applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, training, transfer, promotion, placement, layoff, compensation, termination, reduction in force and benefits.

It is Calista and Subsidiaries' business philosophy and practice to provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities.