Planet Technologies, the Nation’s leading Microsoft services provider to the public sector, is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our growing team as a Site Reliability Engineer. In this role, you will be supporting impactful projects that benefit our country.
This position is responsible for both the operations and maintenance of the Atlassian Developer Tools in support of our developer customers, and also the design, development, testing, and maintenance of a catalog of internally developed API based microservices (which exist in scope to enable customer self-service, overall automation, and provide business process and workflows within the Atlassian suite of products). This is 100% onsite in Washington, DC.
The individual will be responsible for native functionality of the products, plugin integrations, and overall interoperability of the service in our organizational structure as it supports our customers in utilizing but not limited to the following: Jira, Jira Service Manager, Confluence and Crowd.
Responsibilities
- In addition, the Engineer will be responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation of custom API based microservices for the Atlassian products.
- Conduct technical project milestone reviews, code architecture sessions, provide resource estimation, and utilize development best practices.
- Recommend and utilize the appropriate programming language for each component or workload based upon performance requirements, supportability, integration with existing components, maintainability, and other selection criteria deemed applicable.
- Analyze business functions or process to understand the needs for which applications are being designed.
- Develop all components and services using industry best practices such as test-driven development, centralized source code management, code reviews, and automated testing.
- Utilize continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows to the maximum extent possible for all published components.
- Produce DevOps best practice templates and guides to serve as documentation to future development teams interested in transitioning to DevOps development workflows.
- Aid with the creation and maintenance of trusted computing components, application templates, platform as a service infrastructure, etc.
- Fully document development efforts using a combination of code comments, project issue tracking, change requests, and other formal documentation within Confluence.
- Ensure that software deployments minimally impact production workloads running in production environments.
- Work with internal team members (i.e., developers, system and application administrators) and external technical personnel and advise the customer to adhere to best practices to ensure quality of service, uptime, and security.
- Be willing to work minimally, but as needed for system updates, on an off-hours schedule.
Skills Required
- Demonstrated experience with Linux/Tomcat, Agile framework, and the Atlassian Suite is required.
- Additional experience with script writing and development desirable.
- Minimum of 6 years’ experience in the design and development of complex server based, client/server, API oriented, micro-service, and/or n-tiered applications.
- Understand agile software design and able to create/consume stories within a sprint/release structure.
- Has full technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis and programming.
- Advanced knowledge and implementation experience with the Atlassian Suite.
Essentials
- Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or other related analytical, scientific, or technical discipline
- Clearance: Active Top-Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility
- Onsite: Must be able to work in Washington, DC 5 days per week
Planet Technologies is the leading provider of Microsoft Consulting Services to public sector and commercial organizations. Planet has significant experience in deploying business intelligence, cloud services, unified communications, and systems management with an emphasis building, deploying, and managing custom solutions that transform the business operations of federal government agencies.
Planet Technologies does not discriminate in employment opportunities, terms and conditions of employment, or practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, disability, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law. Federal Agency Clearance Requirements may require up to a 10-year background investigation - US Citizenship (clearable) is required.
Salaries for Engineers at Planet Technologies range from $95,000 and $190,000. Several factors will impact final pay offered to a successful candidate including but not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, clearance level, the type of years and experience within the industry, education, training, etc.
Visit www.go-planet.com to learn more about us. Details about our benefits can be found here Planet Technologies Benefits Guide 2024-2025.
What We Do
Planet Technologies was built around investing in and developing long term relationships with our customers and corporate partners. We work hard to keep our staff trained on the latest technologies, policy and operational issues impacting today’s federal and corporate environments. Being an expert on the technology we support is the first step, more importantly is understanding your business mission and integrating technology into a long term strategic plan.
Planet Technologies is the leading provider of Microsoft consulting services to public sector and commercial organizations. Our team of Microsoft experts provides support for Office 365, CRM, SharePoint, System Center, SQL, and Windows 7-10. Planet has significant experience in deploying business intelligence, cloud services, unified communications, records management, workflow automation, collaboration, systems management, virtualization and more.
A Global Leader in Microsoft Technologies:
Few companies can compare to Planet Technologies when it comes to an established relationship with Microsoft. As a company with a 100% focus on the Microsoft platform, we know Microsoft technologies and we are a trusted partner.
As a team of experienced and certified Microsoft consultants and Microsoft trainers, we are the best partner to help your staff get up to speed quickly and cost effectively in order to make your business more productive with your Enterprise Agreement investment.
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• Microsoft Partner with five gold and ten silver competencies
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• Microsoft Certified Solutions Masters (MCSM)
• Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP)
• Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT)
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