Duties

Summary

Are you a Drupal guru with proven hands-on experience in multi-site architectures? The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer is looking for an innovative, problem-solving and technologically savvy candidate looking for their next challenge - joining our team in our mission of providing excellent administrative, technical, and operational solutions so House Members can perform their Constitutional duties. Bring your talents to the Hill!

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Responsibilities

While no two days are the same, in this role you will be trusted with:
• Providing continued development on and support of the House Drupal Platform. Prior experience with Drupal multi-site architectures is preferred.
• Providing advanced Drupal site-building support for the Web Services Production team.
• Continually improving the House Drupal Platform based on requirements and feedback from customer support requests.
• Performing scripting tasks in support of the House Drupal Platform for services like data migration and task automation.
• Providing 3rd tier support for web applications and systems across various technologies. Manage and monitor web servers and associated sub systems to ensure reliable performance and security. Work with Web Services management to continually improve and evolve support capabilities.
• Having proficiency with all aspects of web application design - (web pages, business logic and database).
• Working closely with management, project managers and members of the Development Team to develop and maintain detailed technical support documents or project fact sheets for sites and applications.

Your Team
The CAO's House Web Services group hosts and maintains hundreds of web applications for Representatives, Leadership, and offices, both public and internal. Web Services' mission is to provide robust modern web development services for the House community to be able to better service their constituencies.
The Web Services department seeks a motivated web and application programmer to help develop, implement, support and maintain web applications and services for the House. The individual would assist in supporting the House intranet, the public House Drupal platform, as well as many other web systems and applications. Qualified candidates should exhibit a passion for learning and solving technological challenges and the desire to apply modern technical solutions to the diverse legislative, constituent, and oversight responsibilities of Congress.

Travel Required

Not required

Supervisory status
No

Promotion Potential
10

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

Continued employment is contingent upon satisfactorily completing a criminal history records check (or other applicable security clearance) and a pre-employment drug-test (pre-identified position only).

Qualifications

Who You Are
You're the complete package: A "full-stack" developer who has proven experience in developing and maintaining both front-end and back-end web applications. You will come equipped with 3 - 5 years of experience, a bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) and are a master at thriving in a multi-site environment. We would love it if you have experience with open technology stacks and cloud services.
You must also have:
• Proven ability to pick up new development technologies quickly and independently; possess flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, processes, and new technologies.
• Experience with Drupal 7 and/or Drupal 8 module development.
• Experience in working with MySQL and relational databases.
• Experience with Agile development;
• Experience working with Apache SOLR.
• Experience with Command Line tools such as Drush and Drupal Console.
• Knowledge of PHP, GIT Repositories, LAMP stack, Javascript libraries, and operating systems such as Linux, Windows.

Education

Additional information

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Highly qualified candidates will be evaluated based on a structured interview.

Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Not Required

Drug test required
No

Required Documents

Resume submission.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education .

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.