Computer Engineer_

Scott Afb

Summary The position(s) covered by this vacancy announcement is in the Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). For more information please see: AcqDemo This position is part of the Air Force Elements, U.S. Transportation Command. The incumbent will be responsible for engineering, designing, documenting, and sustaining enterprise level services and security for USTRANSCOM's Cloud environments. Responsibilities This position is being filled under Direct Hire Authority 5 U.S.C. § 9905, dated 6/23/2023 As a Computer Engineer at the NH-0854-3 some of your typical work assignments may include: Serve as an expert professional computer engineer for cloud and on premise systems responsible for engineering, designing, documenting, and monitoring information systems. Serve as the cloud technical expert on the strengths and limitations of proven concepts, practices, and technologies of a broad and complex subject matter field of software development lifecycles, software interfaces, and enterprise interoperability. Author and review engineering artifacts to guide acquisition personnel in conducting procurement of information systems; author and review engineering reports of feasibility, acceptability, and sustainability. Perform technical security risk analysis on IT systems before fielding systems and cloud services. Provide technical briefings on communications and information systems at meetings and conferences; provide consultative computer engineer support to USTRANSCOM personnel on hardware and cloud and on premise software application to information systems. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications You may qualify at the NH-03 level if you fulfill the following qualifications: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-02/GS-11 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal Service, military, or private sector as listed below: Migrating and maintaining applications in a cloud environment Reviewing, analyzing, and assessing on premise and cloud-based engineering architecture solutions Authoring engineering reports, plans, best practices, standards, architectures, migration strategies, policy and procedures, technical proposals, technical analysis, cost estimates, and other technical papers Developing technically accurate Statement of Work and Performance Work Statements for Information Technology contracts Developing applications using Agile framework In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0854, series as listed below: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions; or, Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional 1 For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: spe.org. 2 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: spe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. 2 registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico; or, Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A; or, Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. 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. Education Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level. QUALIFYING EDUCATION: You MUST provide transcripts containing your name, the name of the school, the date and degree that was awarded, and the lists of classes and credits earned or other documentation to support your educational claims. NOTE: This position has requirements for specific coursework that MUST be reflected on your transcripts. If the required courses were obtain in an undergraduate program, you must submit that transcript. Submitting a graduate degree transcript will not suffice unless the required courses were obtained during the graduate program. Unless otherwise stated: (1) unofficial transcripts are acceptable at time of application, or (2) If you are serviced by the office filling this position and your transcripts are on file in your official personnel folder, you are not required to submit. However, it is your responsibility to ensure transcripts are on file. FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: d.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html Additional Information Other Notes: RE-EMPLOYED ANNUITANT: This position DOES NOT meet criteria for re-employed annuitant. The DoD criteria for hiring Re-employed Annuitants can be found at: sd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/1400.25-V300.pdf All applicants must meet qualifications and eligibility criteria by the closing date of the announcement. Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see Who Needs to Register | Selective Service System : Selective Service System (sss.gov))