Full Stack Developer Jobs

Job Title: Full Stack Developer
Purpose
East Tennessee research facility is seeking qualified applicants for a Full Stack Developer position for their R&D Systems Engineering group. The R&D Systems Engineering group exists to facilitate client goals through systems engineering, development, integration, and support for the research community. We run mid-range clusters, servers, workstations, and other services where science happens at the lab.
The Full Stack Developer is responsible for designing, executing, and maintaining R&D customer projects. This position will work with a team to design, develop, deploy, and maintain solutions for researchers. The developer will need to have experience providing time, scope, and cost estimates for projects. As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility. This position will work closely with other engineers and developers to test and deploy solutions.
Major Duties/Responsibilities
Primary duties include:

• Work with research teams to design workflows for hybrid and cloud-based workloads
• Continuous process improvements.
• Keeping current with industry trends and developments that can be applied to company needs.
• Migrate workloads from internal servers and VMs to Cloud Resources.
• Identify and document IT best practices that will improve the systems deployment function.
• Support deployment, monitoring, and management for research projects.
• Ability to present and communicate complex technical concepts too small to medium groups of scientists and engineers.
• Install and configure software, both commercial packages and various open source packages.
• Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of production systems.
• Embrace continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.
• Work with other systems engineers and vendors to resolve hardware and software issues.
• Off hours support may be required.
• Troubleshooting and problem solving across multiple platforms (dev/test/prod).
• Work closely with customers to design solutions based on industry best practices and security requirements.
• Ensure the secure and effective operation of computing systems through compliance with procedures and IT Internal Operating Procedures.
• Manage the end-to-end life cycle to produce software and applications.
• Troubleshoot system problems quickly and effectively.
• Collaborate with research teams to ensure new environments meet requirements.
• Optimize systems performance.
• Maintain documentation/notes on software builds and installs.

Basic Requirements

• A minimum 5 years developing web applications in multiple languages (such as Java, JavaScript, HTML, PHP, C#).
• Willingness to take on previously developed websites/applications and update/maintain them for the customer.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical subjects or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design.
• A minimum of 2 years utilizing configuration management and automation tools such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet or other CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js).
• A minimum of 1 years of experience working with container infrastructure using docker.
• A minimum 3 years’ experience developing within LAMP stack.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills suitable for user support and ability to work well with peer system administrators.
• Demonstrated ability to balance complex research and security requirements.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical subjects or equivalent combination of education and experience with 5 years of experience developing within the LAMP stack.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience managing container infrastructure using docker.
• Experience with performance and diagnostic tools for benchmarking, analysis and tuning of applications.
• Experience with configuring and managing docker swarms/Kubernetes clusters.
• Background of contributing to open source projects or avocational endeavors such as hacker/maker spaces is desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, traffic analysis, common protocols, and network diagnostics.
• Previous experience working in a government, scientific, or other highly technical environment.
• Technical documentation skills, including ability to prepare simple documentation web pages.