Senior Drupal Developer

Comtech is a woman-owned small business founded in 1998 and headquartered in Reston, VA. We offer IT solutions across the disciplines of program/project management, applications development, infrastructure, Cyber security, and enterprise content/data management services. We have developed our methodologies and processes based on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v.3 Framework across enterprise infrastructure operations. These methodologies and processes are reinforced through our organization’s externally accredited certifications, which include ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (QMS), ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 IT Service Management Systems (SMS, corporate ITIL certification), ISO 27001:2005 Information Security Management System (ISMS), and CMMI-DEV Level 3

The team is seeking a Drupal Back End / Module developer who will produce best-in-class products and work in tandem with our creative, UX, and development teams. The candidate should have excellent communication skills, the ability to work autonomously on challenging projects and enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

• Strong communications skills with ability to articulate ideas with others in the team
• Experience in Public Sector environments
• Experience working in cloud environments

Required Skills:

• 15 plus years in IT and software development;
• 6-10 year’s experience working on Drupal projects;
• Extensive and diverse background creating custom PHP modules within the Drupal framework.
• Strong background in one or more of Drupal’s major themes, i.e. Zen, Omega, etc.
• Mastery of Drupal s key contrib modules, i.e. CTools, Views, Rules, etc.
• Deep familiarity with Drupal’s 'hook' system for modifying contributed modules remotely from functions written in custom modules;
• Strong background in 'site building': to be good at vetting Contributed modules from Drupal.org, installing and configuring modules for 'sandbox' projects;
• Command line competence in Linux to be able to work with sandbox instances. This includes editing server files, navigating server folders, modifying permissions and other such actions
• Familiarity with GIT
• Strong familiarity with DB and DB Modeling – in particular MySQL

• Experience with SASS or LESS.
• Familiarity with webserver configuration and URL rewrites, regex, etc
• Familiarity with PHP and MySQL configuration settings for optimizing Drupal performance.
• Passing competence and awareness of system architecture issues like load balancing, proxies, caching, etc.
• Experience with Drupal AJAX.
• Degree in Computer Science.