Planet Technologies, the Nation’s leading Microsoft services provider to the public sector, is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our growing team as a Senior Systems Engineer. In this role, you will be supporting impactful projects that benefit our country.
This position is responsible for both the operations and maintenance of the Atlassian Developer Tools in support of our developer customers, and also the design, development, testing, and maintenance of a catalog of internally developed API based microservices (which exist in scope to enable customer self-service, overall automation, and provide business process and workflows within the Atlassian suite of products). This is 100% onsite for at least the first 60 days Washington, DC; 2 days per week remote work may be available after this timeframe based on performance and client needs.
The individual will be responsible for native functionality of the products, plugin integrations, and overall interoperability of the service in our organizational structure as it supports our customers in utilizing but not limited to the following: Bamboo, Bitbucket, Crucible, & Fisheye.
Responsibilities
- In addition, the Engineer will be responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation of custom API based microservices for the Atlassian products.
- Conduct technical project milestone reviews, code architecture sessions, provide resource estimation, and utilize development best practices.
- Recommend and utilize the appropriate programming language for each component or workload based upon performance requirements, supportability, integration with existing components, maintainability, and other selection criteria deemed applicable.
- Analyze business functions or process to understand the needs for which applications are being designed.
- Develop all components and services using industry best practices such as test-driven development, centralized source code management, code reviews, and automated testing.
- Utilize continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows to the maximum extent possible for all published components.
- Produce DevOps best practice templates and guides to serve as examples to other development teams interested in transitioning to DevOps development workflows.
- Aid with the creation and maintenance of trusted computing components, such as operating system images, application templates, platform as a service infrastructure, etc.
- Fully document development efforts using a combination of code comments, project issue tracking, change requests, and other formal documentation.
- Ensure that software deployments minimally impact production workloads running in production environments.
- Work with internal team members (i.e., developers, system and application administrators) and external technical personnel and advise the customer to adhere to best practices to ensure quality of service, uptime, and security.
Skills Required
- Demonstrated experience with Linux/Tomcat, Agile framework, and the Atlassian Suite is required.
- Additional experience with script writing and development desirable.
- Understand agile software design and able to create/consume stories within a sprint/release structure.
- Has full technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis and programming.
- Advanced knowledge and implementation experience with the Atlassian Suite.
Essentials
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Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or other related analytical, scientific, or technical discipline
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Experience: Minimum of 10 years’ experience in the design and development of complex server based, client/server, API oriented, micro-service, and/or n-tiered applications.
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Clearance: Active Top-Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility
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Onsite: Must be able to work in Washington, DC 5 days per week
Planet Technologies is the leading provider of Microsoft Consulting Services to public sector and commercial organizations. Planet has significant experience in deploying business intelligence, cloud services, unified communications, and systems management with an emphasis building, deploying, and managing custom solutions that transform the business operations of federal government agencies.
Planet Technologies does not discriminate in employment opportunities, terms and conditions of employment, or practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, disability, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law. Federal Agency Clearance Requirements may require up to a 10 year background investigation - US Citizenship (clearable) is required.
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