What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Drupal Administrator position at software control int?
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
