First consideration may be made 14 days after the opening date. More than one position may be filled from this announcement. These are career ladder opportunities with promotion potential to grade 13. Employees may be non-competitively promoted to the next higher grade level, up to grade 13, upon the recommendation of the supervisor, based on the position classification as well as the qualifications and satisfactory performance of the employee.
Positions are available for applications programmers and database programmers.
Duties at the grade 7 level are in the form of assigned tasks relating to the duties described below for the grade 9 level. Candidates for positions in applications programming must also possess experience with software tools such as software debuggers and code checkers, and Perl and shell programming. Familiarity with FITS files and IDL is a plus. Candidates for positions in database programming must also possess experience in client-server, Java, and relational databases. In addition, candidates must possess the qualifications required for the specific grade levels for which they are applying as noted below.