Platform Engineer

Title: Platform Administrator

Location: 100% REMOTE

Duration: 12 month contract

Required Skills

The Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development is looking for a senior level resource with strong overall knowledge/understanding of web application & database server infrastructure. This candidate will be DCED’s Platform Administrator Server Support. They will be part of the DCED’s Application Maintenance and Support Team. This team will be responsible for routine maintenance and support, Incident Management and Change Management for DCED’s Application Portfolio.

This team member is a highly technical individuals in charge of maintaining DCED’s application & database server infrastructure, ensuring that a server is secure, developing backup procedures, maintaining system integrity, and optimizing server performance. This team member will be the subject matter expert for DCED’s application & database infrastructure. This individual will be managing the application deployment process. They will also be leading to migrating the application development teams to modernize to CI/CD process.

This team member will production service failures resolutions, emergency release for application outages, root cause analysis, after-action reporting, trouble shooting, reporting service, data extracts and data corrections, technology upgrades, change releases, design, coding, component, and assembly testing of application code.

The candidate will be responsible for • Maintain the health of web servers hosting DCED applications. • Ensure the continued availability, functionality, improvement, and longevity of DCED’s applications. • Maintain health of existing database servers and DCED databases hosted on these servers. • Use and enforce Microsoft best practices in maintenance and design of DBs. • Work daily with development team on improvements and support of DCED applications and their business user's satisfaction. • Manage application knowledge base to ensure continuity via documentation, collaboration with the team, and sharing knowledge. Do planning for risk factors and disaster recovery all servers hosting DCED applications and databases. • Responsible for daily operational needs • Follow, support, and implement Division’s strategy and vision for DCED’s IT application portfolio.

Skills

Microsoft Window Server Required 5 Years Windows IIS Required 5 Years SQL Database Server Required 5 Years Azure DevOps Pipeline (CI/CD) Required 5 Years Networking Troubleshooting Required 3 Years Knowledge of ITSM (Change Management Process) Required 3 Years Azure Cloud Desired 1 Years Knowledge of RESTful APIs Desired 1 Years Familiarity with Azure DevOps (repos, project, task management), Git version control Desired 1 Years Carry out development with security and accessibility in mind Desired

Skill

• Required / Desired

• Amount

• of Experience

• Microsoft Window Server

• Required

• 5

• Years

• Windows IIS

• Required

• 5

• Years

• SQL Database Server

• Required

• 5

• Years

• Azure DevOps Pipeline (CI/CD)

• Required

• 5

• Years

• Networking Troubleshooting

• Required

• 3

• Years

• Knowledge of ITSM (Change Management Process)

• Required

• 3

• Years

• Azure Cloud

• Desired

• 1

• Years

• Knowledge of RESTful APIs

• Desired

• 1

• Years

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps (repos, project, task management), Git version control

• Desired

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