LOCATION: DMV or St. Louis, MO

CLEARANCE LEVEL: Top Secret (On/Off site: 80% off-site, however, there is a requirement to be on-site for certain activities)

Who YOU are:

As a future Python Developer at Plus3 IT Systems, you:

• Are passionate about working on cutting-edge, high-profile projects and are motivated by delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule
• Aren't satisfied with status quo, and regularly look for creative ways to solve problems and help your team meet commitments
• Are insatiably curious – you ask why, you explore, and you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea
• Are a strong self-performer that also flourishes in a team setting; and love the ability to work on multiple clients/projects simultaneously
• Love learning new technologies and sharing them with your team
• Have a keen interest in learning and/or using any and all appropriate and approved tools, especially Cloud-based and Open Source, to solve the problem at hand
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills, due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with customers, vendors, and other engineering teams to solve complex business problems together
• Use your experience and leadership skills to motivate your teammates to deliver high quality results in a fast-paced work environment
• Are obsessed with automation, simplicity, and smooth-running systems

RESPONSIBILITIES:

This Python developer will work on a project to continue to evolve a capability used to allocate AWS cloud costs to customers running workloads on an OpenShift platform service running on AWS. "ChargeBack" interfaces with AWS, OpenShift, and internal API's to monitor and allocate costs to platform customers.

• Work on a DevOps team managed with Agile principles to continue to add capabilities and evolve the ChargeBack system.
• Evangelize methodologies for building and operating highly available, scalable services.
• Provide leadership in reducing and resolving production incidents
• Look for opportunities to improve all operations processes
• Evaluate, build, and modify automation for deploying and operating production services
• Create, assess, update, and maintain documentation pertaining to Product Lines
• Develop and design elastic, resilient, and self-healing Cloud-native applications
• Craft excellent documentation for respective projects and carry ownership of the code and the instructional tutorials on how to use it
• Work with team members to design, architect, and implement solutions across geographic locations and security domains
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher, or ten years' experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other related scientific or technical discipline
• Five plus years of experience with AWS cloud services
• Five years' experience finding and fixing critical, customer-facing production issues
• Experience developing Python-based applications
• Experience developing applications to run on OpenShift with a solid understanding of OpenShift architecture and principles
• Experience doing agile software development in a team setting using CI/CD pipeline tools such as GitLab and Jenkins
• Demonstrated understanding of networking and core Internet protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, and distributed networks)
• Demonstrated understanding of industry standards for building services in IaaS/PaaS/SaaS in Cloud environments

Desired Qualifications:

• Certified AWS Solutions Architect
• Master's degree or fifteen years' experience in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Understanding and experience implementing DevSecOps
• Experience with Linux/UNIX systems and the best practices for deploying applications to those stacks
• Knowledge of APIs and RESTful services
• Experience with different databases, including working knowledge of SQL, relational data stores
• Understanding of OpenShift and Tanzu, container modernization and solutions, and application migrations
• Experience with infrastructure configuration and automation processes and tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Fabric
• Experience with security in the cloud: Intrusion, penetration, and vulnerability scanning

Other:

Plus3 IT Systems is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact hr@plus3it.com [include name and/or department, telephone, and e-mail address].

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. With the continuing impacts of COVID-19 around the world, we are taking action to protect the health and well-being of our colleagues and maintain the safety of the communities where we operate. As a federal contractor, we are required to stay in compliance with Executive Order 14042 with the most up to date information provided at the following link (https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/).

Pay Transparency Notice: Executive Order 11246 requires government contractors to notify applicants and employees of their rights, subject to certain limitations, to discuss, disclose or inquire about compensation or compensation information. Plus3 IT Systems will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge; (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer; or (c) consistent with Plus3 IT Systems' legal duty to furnish information.