Position summary Our Drupal teams work within major government institutions to build, support, and maintain intranet, external facing sites, custom workflow-based solutions and knowledge bases. Looking for a candidate with Drupal development experience and background who is interested in a position involving about 90% support middleware and 10 % site development.
US citizenship required
Principal duties and responsibilities- Work collaboratively with team members and other technical and business groups to architect, develop, install, update, maintain, troubleshoot, secure and integrate drupal-based solutions and supporting middleware (Apache, mySQLl etc) on both cloud-hosted and on premise VMs
- Propose and implement enhancements to improve the features, security, performance and reliability of the environments
- Follow existing development and implementation procedures and suggest improvements to same ; including testing plans, systems documentation, runbooks installation guides, etc
- Participate in on call rotation that provides 24x7x365 coverage of various environments in the data center; and be generally available to participate in weekend or after hours work on as needed basis.
- Research and remediate security vulnerabilities
Ideal candidate will have: - Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Should be comfortable communicating with customers and working within a peer-reviewed environment
- Ability to provide guidance on best practices and provide code reviews to insure quality
- The candidate will be required to learn and work knowledgeably within customer standards and industry best practices
- Demonstrated experience architecting and developing enterprise-level solutions with Drupal CMS, and associated web technologies and MVC frameworks including HTML, PHP, JavaScript and CSS
- Ability to effectively design a Drupal back-end architecture and infrastructure to support high-traffic and high-visibility websites
- A minimum of 1 years professional experience with installing, troubleshooting, maintaining, upgrading and patching Apache,Drupal, PHP and mySQL; preferably in a multi-server 24x7 supported environment.
- Includes experience with setting up appropriate monitoring, backup and logging solutions
- Familiarity with the Linux OS and the command line (junior sysadmin level or beyond)
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of application security principles and best practices
- Ability to demonstrate solid troubleshooting skills and past troubleshooting experience
- Ability to maintain professional demeanor and behavior; ability to perform well in both team and individual projects
- Ability to create basic scripts in PERL, ksh, bash etc
- Basic web design skills
- Familiar with drush, git, apc, memcache, varnish, LDAP
- Familiar with Agile concepts or experience working with agile-developed projects
Additional skills and experience with the following a plus: One or more years' full time professional experience installing, troubleshooting, maintaining, upgrading and patching one or more of the following:
- Tomcat, WebLogic, JBOSS, IIS, Coldfusion, Domino, Sharepoint, Mediawki, WordPress - Ideally working in large data centers and/ or with government clients
- Experience in the installation and support of SOLR
- Familiar with JIRA ticketing system
- Familiar with Akamai EdgeSuite or NetStorage
- Ability to use network analsis tools ie WireShark
- Two more years proven experience in multi-tier environment integration and/or multi-year projects
- Knowledge of connection/integration mechanisms such as APIs, proxies, load-balancers
- Current industry certification such as CISSP PMP MCSE RHCSA/RHCE ITIL 3 or similar
- Advanced scripting skills
- Moderate knowledge of the java programming language, jQuery, web services
