Data/Cloud Engineer

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Eligibility Requirements

US Citizenship

Career Category

Engineer

Math and Statistics

Job Summary

  • This job is a civilian position and does not require military service (including commission and enlistment)
     
    WHAT IS ATEC?

    ATEC is the Army’s independent test and evaluation organization. We are a team of Civilian and Military personnel working together to provide America’s Military with the best equipment to win and return home safely. At ATEC, we have a saying: If a Soldier rides, wears, shoots, or deploys it, we test it. ATEC is at the forefront of testing and evaluating technologies of the future from autonomous aerial/ground vehicles to hypersonic weapons. Each day, top scientists and engineers test and evaluate cutting-edge equipment. Our workforce is highly technical and skilled, comprised of more than 8,500 military, civilian, and contract personnel. Engineers, scientists, technicians, researchers, and evaluators work with innovative, advanced technologies in 24 testing and research locations across the U.S. States and around the world. If you are a civilian who wants their work to make a difference, we look forward to hearing from you. For more information on ATEC, salary, benefits, etc., visit: https://www.atecciviliancareers.com.
     
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    PLACE OF WORK: This position is located at the U.S. Army Evaluation Center (AEC), Analytics, AI, & Digital (AAIDED), Digital Engineering Division, APG, MD.   The mission of the U.S. Army Evaluation Center (AEC) is to plan, support, conduct, and provide independent evaluations, assessments, and experiments in order to provide essential information to decision-makers supporting the American Warfighter.
     
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    Control Point Statement: The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) is participating in an alternate personnel system known as the Acquisition Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). Among other features, the Demonstration Project replaced GS grade levels with occupational families and pay bands. The band NH-04 is equal to the former GS-14 Step 01 through GS-15 step 10. ATEC uses salary control points to allow for differentiation in the level of positions within the same broad band. Therefore, the salary for this position will be set no higher than $186,304.

Job Responsibilities

Serves with AEC CDAO to provide expertise and knowledge of test capabilities and test data across ATEC and provide oversight on implementing enterprise data and digital initiatives across ATEC. 

Serves as a Senior Data/Cloud Engineer for data management in AEC, pioneering technical development of leading-edge testing for the U.S. Army Evaluation Center (AEC). In this capacity, has responsibility for design, development, and fielding of a broad-based knowledge system that incorporates a holistic concept of data acquisition, data reduction, data-basing, and data mining for the purpose of supporting the acquisition system, the logistics operations, and warfighter. To achieve this goal, the incumbent mentors, and coordinates, the efforts of professional and technical personnel engaged in a major Department of Defense-wide initiative to provide "cradle-to-grave" data and information on Army inventory fielded to support the test & evaluation (T&E) mission. 

Works across ATEC and the T&E community to understand the data operations and build common solution to enable more efficient and effective T&E in support of Army development and acquisition. Maintains technical proficiency and applies new methods related to data science, system analysis, and T&E. 

Responsible for providing the technical expertise for meeting the exceptionally difficult and challenging data and analysis issues and initiatives across the organization. Technical challenges encompass a broad and diverse software effort to be directed and/or completed by the incumbent. Software efforts include, embedded data reduction, on-site data acquisition and processing, data basing of acquired data, secure access to dispersed databases, archiving, data mining, etc. 

Ensures data is effectively collected, curated, analyzed, and visualized to inform across AEC data driven decisions. Incumbent assists with development and implementation of data engineering concepts and utilizes tools such as Microsoft Power Automate, Power BI, SQL, R, machine learning methods, SysML, Python and other tools as needed. Responsible for performing research, analysis and methodology/model development projects on data requirements and architecture. 

Recommends and develops new methodologies to integrate data sources and systems. Analyzes complex data elements, systems, data flows, dependencies, and relationships to conceptualize physical and logical data models. Improves data reliability, efficiency and quality for T&E missions, organizational goals and future planning. Reduce or eliminate manual reporting for processing requirements

Contributes to development and implementation of data management and governance policies to make T&E data VAULTIS (Visible, Accessible, Understandable, Linked, Trustworthy, Interoperable, and Secure). Contribute to cloud infrastructure development, deployment, and modernization efforts within AEC to identify business functions, data analysis capabilities, and system evaluation practices to transition capabilities into the ATEC cloud ensuring linkage and interoperability across ATEC.

Understands, implements, and contributes methodology development for analysis and evaluation of emerging technologies, networks, and concepts. This could include, but is not limited to, Live Virtual Constructive (LVC) testing, Real Time Test Analytics (RTTA), Army operational networks at each echelon, system-of-systems interoperability, tactical radio networks, hybrid cloud solutions, automated data pipelines and analytics. 

 

Job Qualification

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED. You will be evaluated based on your level of competency in the following areas:

  • Data Science theories/principles.

    Computer programming

    Analytical methods

    Communication (oral/written)

    Your resume may be submitted in any format and will be used to determine eligibility and qualifications for this position based on the evaluation criteria described above. 

    ***For qualifications determinations, your resume must contain hours worked per week and dates of employment (i.e. hours per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked incomplete, and you may not receive consideration for this position.***

     If your resume includes a photograph/inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility/qualifications determinations, and you may not be considered for this vacancy.

    For additional information on what to include in your resume see https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/faq/application/documents/resume/what-to-include/

     You will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your application. If determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your application will receive no further consideration. 

Conditions of Employment

  • This position requires the incumbent to be able to obtain and maintain a determination and eligibility for a Top Secret security clearance, or access, for the duration of employment
  • This position requires temporary duty travel (TDY) up to 25% of the time
  • Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
  • A trial/probationary period may be required.
  • You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
  • Direct deposit of pay is required.
  • Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
  • Multiple positions may be filled using this announcement.
  • Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
  • Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations. For more information on PCS, click here. When you perform a Civilian PCS with the government, the Internal Revenue Service(IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit here for more information.
  • This is a Defense Acquisition Workforce (AWF) position. The employee must meet the DoDI 5000.66 requirements applicable to the Career Category/Functional Area and the Career Level Certification assigned on the sequenced position Conditions of Employment data fields in the header of the PD/PRD.  
  • The incumbent is required to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, (5CFR Part 2634, Subpart I, Confidential Financial Disclosure Reports) upon entering the position and annually, in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R, Joint Ethics Regulation, dated 17-Nov-2011.
  • The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command has various incentives that may be available for highly qualified candidates. These include Recruitment Incentives, Relocation Incentives, Student Loan Repayment, and Credit for Leave Accrual. Incentives may be authorized IAW agency policy.
  • Remote work is not authorized

Travel Requirements

Greater than 20% Travel