Scientific, Oceanographic, and GIS Application Programming

Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC)

Chesapeake, VA

Summary
Bering Dynamic Solutions, LLC, a company within the BSNC family, is currently seeking a qualified Scientific, Oceanographic, and GIS Application Programming contract in Chesapeake, VA.
This contract works for an agency that operates approximately 285 desktop/laptops, a mix of 90 physical and virtual Linux servers (i.e., development, testing, and production environments), 25 physical and virtual Windows servers, storage devices, and a mix of network devices. The agency operates a Linux server farm located in the cloud in AWS and hosts more than 60 scientific, oceanographic, and geospatial applications, which provide real-time scientific, oceanographic, and geospatial information to warn of pending storms and storm surge and support marine navigation. In addition, a real-time Continuity of Operations (COOP) infrastructure is located in the cloud via AWS, with the capacity for providing a rolling three days of real-time data without a database structure, and the potential of becoming a hot or warm site.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will provide scientific, oceanographic, engineering and Geospatial Information System (GIS) application programming, system design, and system maintenance support services to ensure the efficient operation of computing resources.
Qualifications - Experience, Education And Certification
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Develop new, enhance and maintain existing CO-OPS software applications, and adhere to the CO-OPS’s change management and governance procedures.
Create new and maintain existing software applications in various programming languages, including Python, Java, Javascript, Fortran, C/C++, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), CSS , shell scripting and related technologies, including charting tools such as Highcharts,GNU plot, Mapping API tools (Google Maps, Esri, Leaflet), Content Management System (i.e Wordpress), ArcGIS, SQL, Single-Sign-on (i.e. ActivClient), and AWS technologies such as Elastic Beanstalk, S3, command line interfaces, etc.
Collaborate with CO-OPS users to derive application requirements.
Ability to port legacy systems to new operating systems, recommend improvements in application design to improve application performance and security, and provide accurate and reliable oceanographic data ingestion and dissemination services to ensure high data quality.
Provide troubleshooting and operational support to ensure data availability and accuracy.
Address bug fixes for related applications and optimize applications in the cloud.
Support the software life cycle elements, including, but are not limited to
requirement analysis
design
testing
implementation
documentation
maintenance
training
Maintain consistency across the development, testing, and production environments, including the configuration libraries required for the specific scientific and GIS programming languages and technologies.
Required (Minimum Necessary) Qualifications
Must have a minimum of 5 years of demonstrated IT development experience
Develop, enhance and maintain existing CO-OPS software applications, and adhere to the CO-OPS’s change management and governance procedures.
Experience working with users to derive application requirements.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, And Other Characteristics
AWS Cloud experience
MS Office suite experience
Excelled oral and written communication skills
Ability to interact with senior level management both at the customer and corporate levels.
Preferred
n/a
Necessary Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Employee must maintain a constant state of mental alertness at all times. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about.
Dot Covered/Safety-sensitive Role Requirements
This position is not subject to federal requirements regarding Department of Transportation “safety-sensitive” functions.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work Environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be borne by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
The job is performed in an office setting with exposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system. The work described herein is primarily in a modern office setting. Occasional travel may be required.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position does not supervises employees
Additional Qualifying Factors
As a condition of employment, you will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening and have acceptable background check results. If applicable to the contract, you must also obtain the appropriate clearance levels required and be able to obtain access to military installations.
Shareholder Preference
BSNC gives hiring, promotion, training, and retention preference to BSNC shareholders, shareholder descendants and shareholder spouses who meet the minimum qualifications for the job.
Bering Straits Native Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by state or federal law, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Posted 2025-08-07

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