Junior Scientific, Oceanographic, and GIS Application Programmer

Business Operational Concepts (BOC) is a recognized leader in providingTechnical and Program Management Services Information Technology and Support.

BOC has enabled their Government and Commercial clients to achieve their organizational initiatives through the application of high quality innovative and cost-effective professional services and solutions. We provide a positive working environment with opportunities for advancement in our growing Federal sector workforce.

We offer an excellent compensation package which includes a generous salary insurance (medical dental etc.) paid leave 401k plan and arecommitted to the diversity we bring to the marketplace and believe customer satisfaction comes first.

JOB SUMMARY:

Business Operational Concepts (BOC) is currently seeking a seeking a Junior Scientific Oceanographic and GIS Application Programmer to work with our federal client. The ideal candidate will work for an agency that operates approximately 285 desktop/laptops a mix of 90 physical and virtual Linux servers (i.e. development testing and production environments) 25 physical and virtual Windows servers storage devices and a mix of network devices. The agency operates a Linux server farm located in the cloud in AWS and hosts more than 60 scientific oceanographic and geospatial applications which provide real-time scientific oceanographic and geospatial information to warn of pending storms and storm surge and support marine addition a real-time Continuity of Operations (COOP) infrastructure is located in the cloud via AWS with the capacity for pr works for an agency that operates approximately 285 desktop/laptops a mix of 90 physical and virtual Linux servers (i.e. development testing and production environments) 25 physical and virtual Windows servers storage devices and a mix of network devices. The agency operates a Linux server farm located in the cloud in AWS and hosts more than 60 scientific oceanographic and geospatial applications which provide real-time scientific oceanographic and geospatial information to warn of pending storms and storm surge and support marine addition a real-time Continuity of Operations (COOP) infrastructure is located in the cloud via AWS with the capacity for providing a rolling three days of real-time data without a database structure and the potential of becoming a hot or warm site.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The ideal candidate will provide scientific oceanographic engineering and Geospatial Information System (GIS) application programming system design and system maintenance support services to ensure the efficient operation of computing resources.

• Develop new enhance and maintain existing CO-OPS software applications and adhere to the CO-OPSs change management and governance procedures.
• Create new and maintain existing software applications in various programming languages including Python Java Javascript Fortran C/C Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) CSS shell scripting and related technologies including charting tools such as HighchartsGNU plot Mapping API tools (Google Maps Esri Leaflet) Content Management System (i.e Wordpress) ArcGIS SQL Single-Sign-on (i.e. ActivClient) and AWS technologies such as Elastic Beanstalk S3 command line interfaces etc.
• Collaborate with CO-OPS users to derive application requirements.
• Ability to port legacy systems to new operating systems recommend improvements in application design to improve application performance and security and provide accurate and reliable oceanographic data ingestion and dissemination services to ensure high data quality.
• Provide troubleshooting and operational support to ensure data availability and accuracy.
• Address bug fixes for related applications and optimize applications in the cloud.
• Support the software life cycle elements including but are not limited to

• requirement analysis
• design
• testing
• implementation
• documentation
• maintenance
• training
• Maintain consistency across the development testing and production environments including the configuration libraries required for the specific scientific and GIS programming languages and technologies.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required (Minimum) Qualifications Education Certification Experience and Skills

• Must have a minimum of 1-3 years of demonstrated IT development experience
• Develop enhance and maintain existing CO-OPS software applications and adhere to the CO-OPSs change management and governance procedures.
• Experience working with users to derive application requirements.
• AWS Cloud experience
• MS Office suite experience
• Excelled oral and written communication skills
• Ability to interact with senior level management both at the customer and corporate levels.

Preferred Qualifications Education Certification Experience Skills Knowledge and Abilities

• N/A