The Office of Space Weather Observations (SWO) under NESDIS is responsible for advancing space weather observational capabilities to meet NOAA programmatic needs. NOAA’s Space Weather Next (SWX) program maintains and extends space weather observations from various vantage points, selected to most efficiently provide comprehensive knowledge of the Sun and the near-Earth space environment needed to protect our technological infrastructure.

The Space Weather Ground Services (SWGS) is responsible for comprehensive ground services for all SWX projects, ensuring successful implementation and operation of observing assets and ensuring the continuity of space weather measurements made by SWFO-L1 and the GOES-R series satellites.

The SWGS Mission Operations Services (MOS) program must provide a full mission satellite command and control solution to support the L1 Series with two new independently launched observatories.

Peraton is seeking to hire a Cloud Computing Consultant to join this new SWGS-MOS program.

**This position is contingent on contract award.**

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise on cloud cluster computing techniques and technologies and expert advice to the program, and related cloud computing architectures.
• Optimize memory management identifying the best ways to develop distributed cluster-enabled and graph processing algorithms.
• Assist customers with data integration and migration efforts, including mapping schemas, performing RDF translations, and defining domain specific ontologies, where applicable.
• Develop large data technologies, algorithms, and applications for clients.
• Research, evaluate, and deploy advanced cloud computing systems and large data analytics for clients in research and production areas.
• Work with massive data sets, complex algorithms, and team members from a variety of specialties to solve clients' hardest problems.
• Support a range of clients from front line analysts to researchers and senior leadership. Work as a key contributor on a collaborative, fast-growing, and highly skilled software development team.
• Experience with information extraction and analysis techniques, practices, and algorithms.
• Knowledge of a variety of advanced computer science and mathematical concepts, practices, and procedures associated with the analysis of large datasets, from indexing schemes to statistical tests
• Knowledge of Cloud computing, Hadoop or MapReduce, Netezza, Vertica, BigTable, Pig, Terradata, or Amazon Web Services.  

• Active Public Trust clearance
• Bachelors Degree and 5+ years of related experience or masters degree and 3+ years of experience
• Experience with data mining or machine learning preferred. Apply expert knowledge in computer science, particularly in the Semantic Web and cloud computing environments.  

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