The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a campaign
to recruit IT professionals to operate and maintain the
agency’s global IT infrastructure and is banking on the
allure of working with advanced equipment and systems.
The bureau scrapped its failed virtual case file system
last July after dropping $170 million into it, and is
expected to announce in early 2006 the winner of a contract
to upgrade the agency’s computer system, possibly Lockheed
Martian or Northrop Grumman.
With its current hiring campaign, the FBI said it was
seeking to fill critical IT positions including computer
scientists and engineers, IT specialists and project
managers with salaries for those positions ranging from
$35,452 – $135,136, based on experience and qualifications,
with potential hiring bonuses.
Special procedures have been put in place to hire people
quickly with interviews starting in January 2006, the agency
said.
It said it was strengthening systems engineering to tie new
systems together architecturally, which will require system
engineers to develop and operate in a test environment so
that stress and other tests are run against new systems, and
other engineers would be needed to transition new capability
into an operations and maintenance environment.
The agency also said it wants to strengthen data warehousing
and federated searching, and will work to hone enterprise
extraction, translation and loading processes, all requiring
data engineers.
Interested personnel who are U.S. citizens and are steeled
for a thorough background investigation, drug test and
polygraph should apply through https://www.fbijobs.gov/.
