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Description

Title: ITEngineer IV

Location: Boulder, CO

Terms:Full-Time

Clearance: Qualified candidates must be US citizens and able to obtain a minimum of Public Trust Clearance

Description GSL is a dynamic meteorology research environment using both real-time and retrospective data processing. The IT Engineer will evaluate existing and new GSL applications. This position requires a combination of strategic vision, technical skills, collaboration skills, and excellent communications skills. The incumbent will interface with all levels of management and technical engineers and must be adept at translating business needs into technical designs with the ability to communicate at both business and technical levels. This is a technical position requiring hands-on development in various cloud environments to allow science division IT staff to easily deploy applications and services needed to meet GSL science requirements in a secure CI/CD environment.

Responsibilities:

Evaluate and maintain current infrastructure applications and develop enhancements and updates as necessary.

Work with multiple development teams to determine if applications are cloud ready.

Assist teams in making on-premise applications functional in the cloud.

Program web application solutions in accordance with established acceptance criteria as determined by the customer.

Participate in product discussions, including product strategy and design, with internal teams to determine how to deliver the best experience for users.

Communicate codebase capabilities and constraints to the product team to ensure requirements align with cloud capabilities and policies.

Participate in cloud project reviews as an important part of the development process, so developers have an opportunity to share and learn from their peers ina collaborative environment.

Experience with web application development, architecture, APIs, and microservices.

Demonstrated experience with custom API integration support; must be able to support integration with REST APIs.

Deep technical understanding of modern web standards and cross-browser compatibility, behaviors, ADA compliance, semantic markup, and best practices.

Accustomed to bug tracking, continuous integration, and task managementsoftware.

Proficient with build, deployment, and release automation and orchestration.

Competent with database engineering and manipulating relationaldatabases.

Understanding of technologies such as Kubernetes, cloudfront and lambda.

Familiar with source control and code management

Generate monthly status reports

Generate architecture documentation

Requirements

Minimum Education: BS/BA degree (Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent)

Desired Qualifications

Familiarity with developing applications using API and user interfaces

Familiarity with the following technologies: Python, Django, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, GIT, SQL, NGINX/Apache

Data Management and familiarity with SQL is a plus.

Extensive programming and scripting skills, both traditional and cloud-based while working in a secured compute environment

Experience with DevSecOps and CI/CD strategies

Experience assisting traditional developers to retool existing on-premise applications to be deployed in cloud environments