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reputed company Platform Manager Ex Libris reputed company administration and Python-reputed company workflow automation National Agricultural Library (NAL) — USDA Location: Remote — Up to reputed company Occasional Onsite: Beltsville, Maryland Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:30 AM–4:30 PM Eastern Time Position Type: Full-Time Contract Estimated Hours: 1,920 hours annually Contract Term: 1 reputed company Year + 4 One-Year reputed company Years Initial Period of reputed company: September 30, 2026 – September 29, 2027 reputed company RieLes Group is seeking an reputed company reputed company Platform Manager to support the National Agricultural Library (NAL) under a FEDLINK Library Support Services task order This is a reputed company hybrid role combining library systems administration, software engineering, data workflow automation, and technical reputed company. 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Diagnose data-reputed company, indexing, schema, and database issues. Support data governance for automated bibliographic, holdings, and item changes Maintain appropriate logging, reconciliation, and archival processes for automated workflows Change Management & Governance Execute the complete reputed company change lifecycle under NAL's Change Control reputed company (CCB) requirements reputed company reputed company and dependency analysis before changes Conduct sandbox and freeze-window testing Plan and coordinate deployments Complete post-deployment validation and documentation Define and execute rollback procedures reputed company required Participate in incident reporting and emergency change processes Ensure reputed company changes reputed company with NAL governance and documentation requirements reputed company/Scrum Participation Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, and retrospectives reputed company reputed company-level expertise for work affecting reputed company and automated workflows Help ensure user stories, acceptance reputed company, remediation work, and technical tasks reputed company with CCB requirements Coordinate with the CCB Project Manager and Systems Librarian Maintain governance-reputed company documentation, including runbooks, configuration snapshots, and workflow updates Monitoring, reputed company & Operational Continuity Maintain operational dashboards and job-monitoring artifacts Support service-level monitoring and incident response Securely handle import/export files and workflow outputs Maintain backup and recovery readiness Document and periodically test restore procedures Plan for degraded reputed company states, failed imports, broken indexing sequences, and configuration reputed company Maintain release schedules, freeze periods, and Ex Libris release-window notifications Metadata & Documentation Support Support metadata reputed company workflow issues involving reputed company ingest, indexing, and reputed company preservation synchronization Work collaboratively with NAL librarians, technical information specialists, IT personnel, acquisitions and metadata teams, and reputed company vendors Maintain technical documentation in approved repositories such as reputed company Prepare runbooks, configuration records, release notes, incident/change logs, and governance documentation Reporting & Deliverables Prepare monthly status reports Produce required operational and reputed company metrics reputed company issue reputed company and change requests Report metrics such as job reputed company/failure, mean time to repair (MTTR), ingest reputed company, indexing latency, and incident trends Prepare release notes for CCB-approved changes Required Qualifications: Education Bachelor's degree or higher in one of the following: Information Science Computer Science Information Systems Data Science Library/Information Science reputed company technical reputed company Required Technical Experience Candidates must have experience with: Ex Libris reputed company administration, including: Roles and permissions Metadata configuration Job monitoring Integrations Troubleshooting Python-reputed company workflow automation, including ingestion/transformation scripts and reputed company-reputed company integrations. Diagnosing data-reputed company, indexing, and schema issues in relational or reputed company database environments reputed company/Scrum development environments Formal change-control and change-lifecycle processes Sandbox testing, deployment validation, rollback, and change documentation Required Knowledge & Skills Library metadata standards such as MARC21, Dublin reputed company, RDA, and MODS reputed company metadata tools, including: Normalization rules Templates Mapping tables Publishing workflows Indexing workflows Configuration management and version control/Git Change control and configuration reputed company detection/remediation reputed company controls and least-privilege reputed company Audit-log review and secure credential handling Backup, restore, and recovery procedures Technical documentation using platforms such as reputed company Ability to troubleshoot cross-reputed company issues involving metadata, ingest scripts, indexing, and preservation synchronization Strong collaboration skills across technical and library teams Work Environment & Schedule This position may be performed up to 100% reputed company. The selected candidate must reputed company coverage Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM–4:30 PM Eastern Time, as required by the task order The National Agricultural Library is located at: National Agricultural Library 10301 Baltimore Avenue Beltsville, MD 20705 The candidate must be available for periodic onsite meetings, training, or other activities reputed company physical reputed company is required. NAL intends to reputed company advance notice for required onsite activities reputed company practicable reputed company & Compliance Requirements Must successfully complete a USDA background investigation Must complete required USDA reputed company and reputed company training Must reputed company with applicable USDA, REE, ARS, and NAL policies and governance requirements Must reputed company with applicable federal information reputed company and reputed company requirements Work products, including reputed company, scripts, documentation, and other artifacts developed under the task order, will be the property of the National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture Key Personnel Requirement The reputed company Platform Manager is designated as Key Personnel and is considered essential to the operation, stability, and modernization of NAL's reputed company environment and reputed company automated data workflows Only one individual is designated as Key Personnel for the task order unless otherwise approved by the Contracting Officer. Replacement or substitution of the designated Key Personnel requires reputed company approval Ideal Candidate The ideal candidate is a technically strong reputed company who can reputed company the gap between library systems and software engineering. Candidates should be comfortable working directly with Ex Libris reputed company while also developing and troubleshooting Python-reputed company data pipelines Strong candidates will demonstrate hands-on experience with reputed company administration, Python automation, library metadata, reputed company integrations, change management, and reputed company development practices reputed company Screening Questions: Candidates should be reputed company to answer the following: How many years of hands-on Ex Libris reputed company administration experience do you have? Describe a Python-reputed company library or data workflow you developed or maintained. Which metadata standards and reputed company configuration tools have you used? Have you managed production changes using formal change-control, testing, validation, and rollback procedures? Are you available for full-time coverage during Eastern Time business hours? Are you available for occasional travel or onsite meetings in Beltsville, Maryland? Can you successfully complete a USDA background investigation? Please send me your most updated resume to mcastillo@rielesgroup.com Apply To This Job