Computer Systems Analyst

Job Title: Computer Systems Analyst

Location: Monterey, CA at a Government facility/site

Clearance: Secret

Program: FNMOC IT

Company/ Program Description:

Centuria, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), has been delivering IT, Engineering, and Scientific solutions to the Federal Government since 2002. During our three decades of service, we have earned the trust and respect of our government clients for the simple reason that we have great people who are experts in their fields and take pride and ownership in everything they do.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: This role will be supporting the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC), under the direction of the Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command at Monterey, CA at a Government facility/site. You will significantly contribute to their End-to-End Data Flow Monitoring project. End-to-End Data Flow Monitoring will provide FNMOC with support for engineering End-to-End Data Flow Monitoring of critical operational information technology (IT) functions by analyzing FNMOC’s networks, data, and systems connected to NIPRNET.

Job Responsibilities:

•Initiate, oversee, and provide minutes for FNMOC (Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center) Data Flow Monitoring meetings to develop specific monitoring task requirements, analysis, planning, engineering, and testing activities.

•Monitor and analyze network and systems to find predictable problems that FNMOC can readily monitor with expansion of existing software tools or enhancements, specifically looking for incremental solutions with rapid return on investment.

•Ensure proposed and implemented solutions are compatible with both planned and installed FNMOC systems and software solutions, as well as the use of only DoD and Navy authorized software, to enable the successful transition into the FNMOC operational environment. Includes software and system planning, software

review board presentations, and technical exchanges with others, as necessary.

•Facilitate updates to operations through FNMOC’s configuration management processes, with modifications as necessary to install software on FNMOC’s systems.

•Perform and assist in the testing of the identified systems and software solutions on FNMOC’s systems, to include configuring software and systems, running a controlled test, archiving results for analysis, analyzing test results, and writing the test result report.

•Document all proposed and implemented changes to data structures, software configuration, and operating procedures.

•Respond to monitoring problems reported by the Command Systems Watch Officer (CSWO). Where applicable, identify, troubleshoot, and correct the operational problems.

•Investigate what monitoring and tools are used by other operational centers. Analyze the tools found for applicability at FNMOC.

•Establish, implement and document requirements for information assurance integrity of data in accordance with US Government computer systems monitoring access policies, including all related equipment, networks and network devices are provided only for authorized US Government use and will be maintained accordingly.

•Provide input towards the monthly status report (MSR).

Job Requirements:

•Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a curriculum or major field of study which provides substantial knowledge useful in managing large, complex AIS projects is closely related to the work to be automated, and/or in a computer science, information system, physical science, engineering or a mathematics-intensive discipline.

•Have 5+ years of increasingly complex and progressive experience in performing

systems analysis, development, and implementation of business, mathematical, or scientific settings using a variety of information technology resources.

•Must have managed or had significant involvement with complex or substantive information technology projects including one year of experience in management and supervision.

•Experience taking on an existing prototyping effort and/or codebase.

•Familiarity working within a Linux environment using RHEL 8.

•Experience with Shell/PERL scripting

•Strong background with Python and Jupyter Notebooks. In particular:

o Experience as a data engineer, Python developer, and/or data analyst/scientist; experience munging/manipulating/analyzing text data.

o Experience with setting up and working within virtual environments.

o Experience utilizing regex (Regular Expressions).

o Experience working with large volumes of unstructured and/or semi-structured text data/log files (the customer’s log files do not have a standard format, so the next engineer will need to modify functionality to look for several keywords across many documents of heterogeneous formatting)

o Basic math/statistical knowledge (i.e., familiarity with Bayes’ theorem, understanding of priors/posteriors, sampling, distributions, etc.)

o Experience graphing/visualizing results and data analysis (ability to anticipate/make inferences about various failure modes/failure categories and suggest additional areas of exploration/work; ability to “follow where the problem takes you”, theoretically)

•Formulate and define system scope and objectives for assigned projects.

•Prepare detailed specifications for programs.

•Responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation.

•Has full technical knowledge and responsibility for all phases of applications systems analysis and programming.

•Understands the business or function for which application is designed.

•Duties also include instructing, directing and checking the work of other systems analysts and programming personnel.

•Responsible for quality assurance review.

•Responsible for directing and monitoring the work of team members.

•Ability to communicate professionally and respectfully, early, often, and proactively.

•Must have a DoD Secret Clerance

•Must have a CompTIA Sec+ or willingness to obtain within 60 days of hire.