R Shiny SME
Silver Spring, MD

Job Description

SAIC is looking for a Subject Matter Expert that will support FDA's scientific community organizations by providing statistical software to a central R -Shiny instance that currently support various applications developed by statisticians and researchers to assist with the regulatory review process.

This role offers some tele-work opportunities, but also requires the ability to infrequently travel to customer sites.

The R Shiny Administrator will be responsible for all aspects of R Shiny installation environment, including performing configuration, administration, and monitoring. The successful candidate will take ownership of assigned tasks and provide daily status updates.

Responsibilities:

* Installation and configuration of R Shiny Pro Software on AWS GovCloud Environment.
* Create necessary documentation to install R Shiny in Production environment including Implementation Plan, O&M manual, Target State diagram, Information Systems Contingency Plan, and Business Impact Assessment.
* Migrate Proof of Concept applications to Production Scientific environment.
* Maintenance, and troubleshooting of all R Shiny components.
* Provide desktop support for all R Shiny components.
* Respond and resolve issues submitted from end users.
* Provide user provisioning requests into the environment.
* Perform back-ups, and keep R Shiny software up-to-date including patches and maintenance releases.
* Create, update, and submit annual security assessment documents for the cloud environments
* Serve as a subject matter expert for all R Shiny-related technical issues and best practices.

Participate in annual assessment Cybersecurity test.

* Must be expert in data process and visualization in R, with full knowledge of R Shiny and customizing Shiny apps with HTML.
* Must have programming skills in R and R Shiny.
* Must have Strong InfoSec and IT System Administration skills.
* Must have understanding of statistical modeling capabilities and terminology.
* Must have AWS experience: EC2,VPC, Security Groups
* Must have Linux experience: Apache, Linux permissions
* Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical or engineering field and five (5) years of related experience. An additional ten (10) years of experience may be substituted for degree requirement. Or
* Masters Degree in a relevant technical or engineer field and five (5) years of experience.
* Minimum of five (5) year of R, R-Shiny experience
* Outstanding communication skills across multiple cross functional teams
* Self-starter that can work under general direction in a highly collaborative, team-based environment.
* Ability to obtain a Public Trust.
* Previous Department of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) experience a plus.