[ES_JOBS_NET] US Geological Survey - Computer Scientist, Menlo Park CA

[Brody, Jeff A]

Job opportunity with the USGS

Applications are due 07/27/2020!



The USGS Earthquake Science Center has an open position for a Computer Scientist



The Earthquake Science Center (ESC) of the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program is seeking a Computer Scientist with
systems administration experience and fluency in programming languages, to support our real-time seismic monitoring projects.
This position is being offered in Menlo Park, CA.


The successful applicant will be responsible for systems administration of on-premises, cloud-based and

virtualized computing environments, along with contributing to ancillary activities of maintaining and
contributing to the development of software for automated data acquisition, processing and quality control.
Primary duties will be to operate and maintain the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning (shakealert.org) system,
a mission-critical, distributed system that rapidly detects earthquakes and generates and issues alerts.
Secondary responsibilities will be to contribute in the engineering and development of new software applications,
new features for deployed applications and enhancing existing functions and coding defect repairs to deployed applications.


As a Computer Scientist within the Earthquake Science Center, some of the specific duties will include:



* Serves as the lead system administrator for systems used in the earthquake monitoring computing environment.


* Operates, troubleshoots, and maintains computer systems for the development, testing, integration, production,
   and distribution of rapid automatic earthquake  products in an on-call, 24/7 operational environment.

* Participates in leading and contributing to implementations and management of virtualized and cloud-based
   computing environments from inception to completion and serve as the subject matter expert for emerging cloud
   services and architectures.

* Contribute to the development of seismic data process and analysis applications and their integration into the
   workflow including adaptations for future hardware architectures.

* Employs modern software engineering principles and system design techniques to the next generation of software.



Apply online at



Open to all US citizens:

   https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/572965200


Open to current & former federal employees with status:

   https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/572964900



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