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Backend Drupal Administrator

SCI Consulting
Mc Lean, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/7/2025

SCI is a well-established and nationally recognized Woman-Owned information technology contractor and solutions provider in business for over 33 years. Our company is built on a solid commitment to excellence, value and quality for every customer and every project.

Headquartered in McLean, Va., SCI is primarily engaged in providing advanced information technology applications and management systems support, as well as business and infrastructure management services to Federal agencies in the Washington Metro area as well as agencies throughout the U.S. For over 30 years, SCI has been a trusted partner and contractor of choice for the Federal government. Our sustained reputation for excellence is grounded in the consistent application of industry best practices, including those promoted by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), The Project Management Institute, and other respected organizations. At SCI, we strive to provide unsurpassed value to our customers by combining three decades of hands-on experience in the Federal IT marketplace with a company-wide commitment to providing the most innovative and solutions-based IT services, with the most exceptional support available in the industry.

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
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