This position is located within the Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS), National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) with 1 vacancy located in Boulder, CO.
This position is also announced under vacancy number NWS NCEP-25-12568287-DE, which is open to all US Citizens or Nationals. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both. Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards.
For all positions individuals must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below. The employing agency is responsible for identifying the specific level of proficiency required for each competency at each grade level based on the requirements of the position being filled.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government.Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
To qualify for the 2210 series:
- Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
- Customer Service - Works with clients and customers to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations.
- Oral Communication - Expresses information effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information.
- Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives.
To qualify at the GS-13:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: In addition to meeting the IT Competencies above, applicants must also possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all the following:
- Modernize legacy applications using modern development languages such as Java, Python, SQL to prepare web-based products for containerization and cloud hosting.
- Assess stakeholder needs and translate business requirements into technical specifications for development using demonstrated Agile development frameworks such as SCRUM or Kanban.
- Create web-based applications and content management systems such as Drupal, WordPress to create, manage and maintain new and existing internal and external-facing web-platforms in a cloud-hosted environment.
- Use structured and unstructured databases such as SQL Server, PostGres, MongoDB and data/object storage solutions to improve organizational cloud-readiness.