Summary
IT Specialist (OS/SYSADM) Open Systems Storage Engineer position(s) are being filled through the Office of Personnel Management's delegated Direct Hire Authority, open to all U.S. citizens. Selections made under this bulletin will be processed as new appointments to the civil service. Current civil service employees would, therefore, be given new appointments to the civil service. Under the provisions of the Direct Hire Authority, Veterans Preference and the "Rule of Many" do not apply.
Duties
This announcement serves as public notice. Applications submitted be placed into a pool and will remain on file for selection as positions become available.
Vacancies may be filled for up to 6 months after the closing date of this announcement. Applicants may not receive notifications of referral status until the full 6-month eligibility period has elapsed.
Applications may be gathered from additional recruitment sources. These will be added to the pool created by this announcement.
How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. Please make sure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your evaluation. Information not specifically stated in your resume cannot be assumed. Information that is copied or restated language from the vacancy announcement or rating criteria will not be considered. If this occurs, you may be found ineligible. Duties of This Position Serves as the Agency's expert in the deployment mainframe or client server computer system data storage infrastructure and uses this expertise to develop addressing schema and hardware/software configurations to obtain the optimum configuration for a given project or workload. Serves as the leading technical authority in area of data storage, data recovery and data storage management and provides advice to SSA components on technical capabilities and limitations, configuration, and other related matters Participates as required in all major mainframe or client server computer system and data storage procurement efforts, providing expert configuration data to ensure any proposed complement and configuration of hardware and software results in meeting predetermined Agency processing requirements. Resolves the most difficult and intricate computer hardware/software configuration or performance problems resulting from design and/or deployment inadequacies of the melding of new design and/or deployment inadequacies or melding of new technologies with Legacy operating methods/procedures or software. Evaluates new mainframe or client server data storage infrastructure technologies and determines their functionality relative to SSA's plans.