Kelly Government Solutions is a strategic supplier and business partner to the federal government and its key suppliers. Through our partnership with the National Institutes of Health, Kelly Government Solutions offers administrative, IT, engineering, scientific, and healthcare professionals the opportunity to work with the leading medical research center in the world. We are seeking 4 **Scientific IT Specialists** at the National Institutes of Health in **Bethesda, MD**


This is a long-term contract position which offers:

- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package

- Optional health, vision, and dental plans

- Vacation leave as well as 10 paid federal holidays and 401K plan.

- Access to NIHs unparalleled resources and niche scientific initiatives


**TASKS/SERVICES** . The contractor shall:


1. Design, develop and modify existing software to help solve scientific computing problems which involve graphics, prototype database development, genomic data analysis, modeling and simulation, and data display and presentation.

2. Investigate the suitability of specific methods, algorithms, and software approaches to clinical experiments and testing.

3. Analyze system performance data to identify areas in need of change or improvement.

4. Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.

5. Design software to help solve problems that arise during the development of new approaches to biomedical computing.

6. Provide recommendations in the selection, evaluation and procurement of computing hardware and software that will best meet the users needs in the networked computing environment.

7. Provide software development instruction and guidance regarding best practices for using distributed version control system software such as Git and online software development services such as GitHub.

8. Customize commercially available software programs for data collection and analysis.

9. Upgrade and maintain computer hardware, peripherals, network switches and hubs.

10. Operate all scientific and non-scientific software licenses.

11. Prepare purchase orders, receive, and install hardware and software using appropriate monies via government purchasing system.

12. Implement improvements to development activities to speed development of applications, databases, or software tools.

13. Participate in both short- and long-term scientific strategic planning

14. Collaborate with staff to design data acquisition platforms using cutting edge technologies; perform rigorous analysis of complex data.

15. Design and implement computer solutions to novel experimental data collection and analysis challenges within the imaging facility and neighboring labs.

16. Encode, test, debug and install new programs using various programming languages.

17. Document all assignments and creates various reports as needed.

18. Troubleshoots any issues or problems and implements appropriate corrective actions.

19. Investigate software architectures and methods development to identify where software reusability and portability could be improved.

20. Aid with planning, building, and maintaining applications to meet an end user's needs.

21. Write custom code in scripting language (e.g., Python) for the automation of data transfer, storage, and backup.

22. Develop and implement backup strategies for all data and applications in central facilities and as needed at individual workstations; use redundant disk, server, backup, and power systems.

23. Operate and maintain the imaging facilitys mission-critical web services, including hosting of imaging data sets (Orthanc), scanner scheduling (MRBS) and online documentation (Sphinx).

24. Maintain facility home webpage, including editing of HTML, files, and guidance for individual lab members.

25. Operate and maintain databases (PostgreSQL) associated with these facility web services.

26. Operate continuous deployment (via Jenkins) of the facilitys web-based resources for its users.

27. Contribute to the facilitys web-based documentation (Sphinx) for disseminating relevant IT-related processes and guidance to facility staff and users.

28. Implement and support a variety of appropriate network services such as document and file transfers, shared high-capacity disks, document sharing and electronic mail.

29. Install, maintain, and update Windows, Macintosh, and Linux workstations.

30. Provide platforms to support data analysis such as workstations with MATLAB software installed.

31. Operate experimental PC workstations used for data collection, ensuring LAN port connectivity, managing software licenses, and maintaining

32. Provide tier I level II support to facility users and lab members; resolve or escalate issues based on criteria.

33. Act as point of contact with the NIMH SIO, NIMH ITB, and NIH CIT.

34. Comply with all NIMH IT or CIT security-related policies and directives

35. Operate NIH mailing list distributions; add/remove members are requested by NIH POC.

36. Provide database support and maintenance, including production data analysis to ensure data integrity, data correction with SQL and/or Java utilities, implementation of the new utilities for users and system administrators to support and correct data.

37. Participate in weekly meetings with facility staff and weekly meetings with laboratory staff

38. Keep up to date on new technology and present recommendations and justifications on major hardware and software purchases.

39. Prepare roadmaps, schedules, status reports, plans and recommendations.

40. Create system for spontaneous or scheduled interaction with scientists to provide guidance and problem resolution for users.

41. Provide consultation, training and assistance to staff concerning the effective use of computing and networking resources.

42. Conceive of and create data processing pipelines that allow for the efficient movement, pre-processing, and display of fMRI data.

43. Provide setup and maintenance of common high-performance (Linux) servers to be used by the imaging and electrophysiology community for the processing of large datasets.

44. Perform installation and maintenance of virtual machines with VMWare; allow scientists to work on the Linux computers remotely via remote management software such as VNC.


**REQUIREMENTS** . The contractor must have:


1. Masters Degree in Neuroscience, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and/or related degrees

2. 8-10 years of experience with database theory, computational complexity, and/or data structure development

3. Experience with: Server Management, Operating Systems (Mac, Windows, Linux), Scientific Data Analysis, Instrumentation for data Acquisition, Communicating Best Practices, Hardware Procurement and Maintenance

4. Experience with Software such as: Matlab or Python, SQL, HTML, Linux, AFNI


**PLEASE APPLY ONLINE**

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