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The FBI is looking for a few good IT professionals to operate and maintain a robust, secure global IT infrastructure environment for the agency.
In an announcement last week, the agency said that it?s seeking to fill critical IT positions including computer scientists, computer engineers, IT specialists and IT project managers. Annual pay for the positions ranges from $35,452 to $135,136, based on experience and qualifications, with recruitment bonuses for the candidates who possess the most critical skills, the FBI said.

The agency has implemented special procedures to hire staffers quickly, with interviews set to begin in January, according to the FBI.

?Joining the FBI technology team will be an exciting and rewarding career,? FBI Director Robert Mueller said in a statement. ?[The] FBI is dedicated to developing and implementing state-of-the-art information technology systems to support our agents and analysts working in the field. These IT positions are critical in support of this FBI?s mission to protect the United States against terrorism, foreign intelligence, criminal enterprises and cyber attacks.?

Currently, the FBI is strengthening systems engineering in order to tie new systems together architecturally and ensure that standards for custom and packaged applications are enforced, and it needs engineers to accomplish this goal, the agency said.

The FBI is also focusing on data warehousing as well as federated search technology, which allows a single search query to be deployed across a number of databases, regardless of whether those databases belong to the same protocol or platform.

?Warehousing has been very successful, yet enterprise extraction, translation and loading proceses must be fine-tuned,? the FBI said. ?Data engineers are needed to model legacy databases for federated search and participate in legacy transition planning.?

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