What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Programmer position at SPECTRAFORCE?
Title: Systems Programmer II
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Columbia, SC, 29219
Work Environment: Partial Onsite - Team works onsite every Thursday and as needed.
Hours: 9 am – 5 pm (with flexibility)
Will any of the following be required: overtime, travel, on call, weekends, off hours: Yes, as needed.
C2 clearance eligibility is required: Must be a US Citizen
Job Summary:
- Duties:
- Write or debug programs to maintain and control computer systems software, such as operating systems, networked systems, and database systems.
- Provide technical and disaster recovery support for systems software.
- 40% Research and analyze systems software problems and implement workable solutions or escalate as appropriate.
- 40% Install, test, and maintain systems software including installing updates, upgrades, and patches, initiating tests of system programs and observing results to detect errors or work stoppage, and modifying code to correct errors.
- 10% Assist in internal and external audits being performed across multiple lines of business for multiple platforms.
- 5% Participate in planning and execution of disaster recovery procedures.
- 5% Cross train in all areas of systems programming in order to efficiently perform on-call rotation.
- Day to Day:
- We are seeking a Developer to join our team and contribute to the modernization, automation, and streamlining of our processes.
- The ideal candidate will work with Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) tools, leveraging their APIs to enhance health checks, automate self-healing capabilities, and explore the potential containerization of these tools from traditional virtual machines (VMs).
- Someone willing to come in and own a tool and look for ways to modernize and keep the tool healthy.
- Additionally, the hire will play a support role, participating in a one-week on-call rotation. We are looking for candidates who are comfortable taking on both operator and developer roles.
- Work Environment
- Fast paced, multi-platformed environment which may require action and response 24X7 to support the technical business needs of the customer.
- The Team
- We are a 12 person team that works very closely together. We have Operations team members up to senior support product owners on the team so there is room for growth and advancement within. We also collaborate closely with other areas (network, server platform, workstation platform, security operations, ect). We work to ensure that the tools we own stay healthy and our customers feel supported using them.
Job Requirements:
- Required Work Experience
- 4 Years IT experience including varied programming experience.
- Required Education
- Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Information Systems, or other job related field or 4 years of job related work experience or 2 years of job related experience plus an associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree
- Required Technologies:
- Windows/Unix operating systems
- Tool management (vendor relationship management)
- python/powershell/bash
- experience with pipeline tools (github)
- Preferred Skills and Abilities
- Experience working with and integrating external APIs (particularly HTTP restful APIs)
- Soft Skills
- Good communication and documentation skills, able to problem solve, able to work independently and be able to collaborate to swarm a problem.
Salary : $42
