Title: Drupal Developer / Administrator

Location: Denver, CO

Duration: 6+ months

Rate: Open

Position Title: Drupal Developer / Administrator

POSITION SUMMARY

Under the general direction of the client's Software & Development, the web content administrator / developer position is accountable for the administration, development and support of new and existing Drupal systems and applications. The purpose of this position is to :

•    Design, develop and support new and existing systems

•    Quality control and systems testing using Selenium and other testing applications

•    Mentoring technical support within the development team

•    Keeping up to date with technologies (E.g. PHP, MySQL, Drupal, CMS, HTML,             JavaScript, CSS, Linux and Apache)

The successful applicant will be responsible for the agile development of modular, open-source and communal software components as part of an integrated team of software developers. The work will include design and implementation of web applications, web services, data schemas, databases, and other applications and services.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Drupal System Administration: Administration of all development, test and production Drupal environments.  This includes understanding and configuring all system components including firewalls, nginx, memcache and database components as well as the native drupal modules. Testing for compliance to specified standards such as accessibility standards in the clients region or domain.

Drupal Software Development: Work with project management, application stakeholders, development teams and infrastructure to design, develop and maintain the Drupal/PHP codebase.  This includes writing custom modules, theming and integrating system components with legacy infrastructure.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's Degree required. Advance degree preferred

3+ years in IT security field

7+ years of work in the general IT field

Ability to align with the organizations goals and objectives

Good interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS

●        A deep understanding of the Drupal Framework 7+

●        Understands key server-side web development concepts through experiences such as:

○        Interpreting graphic visual or interaction designs in HTML, CSS and Javascript.

○        Creating visually appealing web pages or interfaces.

○        Creating, editing or modifying templates for a CMS or web development framework.

○        Programming interaction with JavaScript and libraries such as jQuery and Node.js.

○        Testing cross-browser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device compatibility for inconsistencies.

○        Conducting user testing, and/or reviewing designs against usability heuristics.

●        Experience with web development languages of HTML, CSS and JavaScript/jQuery.

●        HTML

○        Familiarity of HTML syntax for multiple specifications, including HTML 5.

○        Knowledge of the semantic meaning of all HTML elements.

○        Familiarity with the semantic markup for display of lists, tabular data, forms, articles, etc.

○        Knowledge of markup used for layout such as dividers.

○        Knowledge at the level to be able to hand-code markup.

○        Including media and images.

●        PHP

○        Familiarity with modifying Drupal Theme hooks to display data

○        Understanding how to utilize PHP to filter, process and output html, json, xml

●        CSS

○        Specifying different CSS for various media, devices and displays.

○        Best practices in CSS file organization and structure.

○        Methods for including CSS inline, internal and external via linked style sheets.

○        How to define, combine and group CSS selectors for HTML elements, ID, classes, pseudo classes, child or sibling.

○        Syntax of CSS declarations, properties and attributes.

○        CSS box model and methods for CSS positioning, absolute and relative.

○        Knowledge of properties and attributes to control the display.

○        Familiarity with differences in CSS 2 and CSS 3.

○        Proficient with a CSS Preprocessor such as Sass or LESS.

●        Best practices

○        Methods to ensure browser & device compatibility

○        Methods for degrading gracefully for older browsers and displays.

○        Methods to ensure accessibility.

○        File compression techniques for improving speed.

●        JavaScript

○        Knowledge of the operators, variables, datatypes, objects, properties and methods.

○        Familiarity with control structures such as objects, functions, conditional statements, arrays, loops and expressions.

○        Forms and regular expression validation and submitting data.

○        Knowledge of how to apply logical operators and conditional statements.

○        Knowledge of the DOM HTML objects and their properties.

●        Event handling.

○        Creating and controlling windows and dialogs.

○        Processes for troubleshooting and debugging

○        Familiarity with development and debugging tools for cross-browser issues.

●        jQuery

○        Knowledge of how to employ the jQuery library for visual effects, event handling, and document manipulation.

Regards,

Rahman,      

Sr Resource Recruiter

rahmans@usmsystems.com

703 246 1849