Student Career Experience Program

Student Career Experience Program

Radford Arsenal

Radford, VA

PD ALTESS is an Army datacenter hosting facility serving customers across the DoD. PD ALTESS is located on the Radford Arsenal.

We are interested in finding students to participate in our Student Career Experience Program. Basically we allow students to work a number of hours they are comfortable with during the school year and they generally work full time over the summer. Then upon graduation, assuming all parties want to, we will convert them to full time federal employees. Since we are a datacenter hosting facility we are interested in students in the IT field. Specifically we are interested in students in the system administration, network administration, database administration, and development fields.

Incumbent serves as a student trainee Computer Specialist performing duties designed to orient the incumbent in the application of operations and processes being automated, and the analysis of existing and evolving information technology to meet mission requirements and satisfy customer needs.

Receives classroom and on-the-job training in computer technologies with an emphasis on client/server network architecture and integration of computer hardware and software in order to acquire a basic understanding of information systems processing. Also receives training in computer systems engineering to gain knowledge of the fundamentals and principles of computer hardware and systems software engineering.

Performs a variety of developmental tasks assigned by the supervisor to familiarize incumbent with the development, testing, evaluation, and maintenance of computer equipment interfaces (hardware); applications and support (software); and network operations. Such tasks may include, not limited to: Review of specific systems hardware to identify equipment characteristics; preliminary analysis of selected network components, such as servers (Windows and Unix), personal computer (PC) hardware and software, and network equipment for operational effectiveness; participation in setting up and testing carious operating system and communications equipment, such as routers, switches, load balancers, and gateways for network consideration; assisting higher graded technical support personnel in determining technical requirements in support of side area network (WAN) and local area network (LAN) connectivity; Identifying and clearly annotating procedures for others to follow in recurring tasks in order to create standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Performs other duties as assigned.

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