26-123 Scientific Cloud and DevOps Developer
Core
Technical lead for a cross-functional team developing software and cloud infrastructure for weather model verification and environmental prediction systems.
Role type
Senior IC DevOps/Cloud Engineer (Weather Modeling)
Builds
End-to-end cloud capabilities, Kubernetes clusters, and automated deployment pipelines for NOAA weather prediction systems.
Domain
Atmospheric Sciences / Federal Government IT
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Python, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, Cloud Architecture
Preferred skills
Go, Shell scripting, ETL pipelines (Dagster/Prefect), GitOps (EKS/AWS), NoSQL (Couchbase), Meteorological data formats (grib2, netCDF, Zarr, Parquet)
Technologies
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, EKS, Github Actions, Python, Go, Couchbase, Zarr, Parquet, netCDF, grib2
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership for cloud infrastructure transition; Design and maintain cloud architecture and reusable Terraform modules; Implement tools to improve code quality and catch bugs; Prepare software documentation and status reports; Deliver technical talks and presentations.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership