Application Development Expert

Overview

Application Development Expert —

Location:

Hybrid, 2 days a week on-site, Baltimore, MD.
Position Type
:
Long Term Contract or TTP.
Pay Rate
: $85/hr. + W2.
Pre-employment background check required
.

• The Applications Development Expert will work closely with development, testing, operations, and Dev Ops teams to design, implement, and maintain cloud-based and traditional infrastructure supporting the Maryland Health Connection system and related applications.
• Collaborate with application development, testing, and operations teams to support and maintain enterprise applications and infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Provide technical guidance and support to development teams to enable effective consumption of cloud services and ensure adherence to established CI/CD pipeline patterns and standards.
• Partner with infrastructure and system operations teams to automate end-to-end application and system operations within the AWS cloud environment.
• Design, build, document, maintain, and automate technical processes and operational workflows using AWS cloud services.
• Develop and maintain tools, scripts, and automation to configure, deploy, and support AWS-based cloud technologies.
• Implement and support CI/CD solutions leveraging tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Git, Docker, EC2, ELB, and S3.
• Apply modern application development methodologies and best practices consistently across projects.
• Build, maintain, and monitor configuration standards for enterprise systems and applications.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to ensure system performance, availability, SLAs, and operational metrics are met.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot complex issues, debug errors, and lead resolution efforts.
• Utilize multiple platforms and tools to deliver automated, integrated systems and applications.
• Provide technical input and leadership for complex, high-impact IT decisions involving integrated enterprise solutions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for complex enterprise-wide application issues, translating advanced technical concepts into actionable requirements and solutions.
• Support integration testing efforts and collaborate with business teams during user acceptance testing.
• Participate in technical reviews throughout the software and application development lifecycle.
• Adhere to all MHBE security standards, change control procedures, and Project Management Office (PMO) policies and methodologies.
• Note:
  
  The candidate must be flexible to work overtime as required, including evenings, weekends, holidays, and off-hours.

• At least eight (8) years of experience designing, developing, maintaining, or supporting enterprise IT platforms, applications, or solutions.
• At least five (5) years of hands-on experience with Dev Ops processes in a cloud environment, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• At least five (5) years of experience with automated configuration and deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, or equivalent.
• At least four (4) years of experience with CI/CD, automation, and orchestration tools and processes.
• At least four (4) years of experience designing and deploying applications and infrastructure within AWS.
• At least two (2) years of experience using Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, and scripting languages.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, EBS, ELB/Auto Scaling, ECS, EKS, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, and Redshift.
• Experience configuring and maintaining application and web servers such as JBoss, Apache Tomcat, or similar technologies.

• Five (5) or more years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining complex applications for health exchanges, eligibility systems, or equivalent environments.
• Three (3) or more years of experience supporting government cloud deployments for high-volume, consumer-facing applications.
• Experience with a broad range of AWS services, including Cloud Formation, IAM, Route
  53, API Gateway, WAF, Shield, KMS, Cloud Trail, Config, Kinesis, and multi-region VPC architectures.
• Hands-on experience with containerization…