AS-Drupal Developer

Full Stack Drupal Developer

Astor & Sanders Corporation, an IT solutions provider located in Rockville, Maryland is currently seeking a Drupal Engineer to support one of its customers in the Federal Government. The successful candidate will work on multiple, simultaneous projects and must have experience supporting and updating Drupal environments. This role will focus on delivering open source and Drupal/Acquia development services to federal public sector organizations.

Roles and responsibilities include:

• Develop applications and support development environments with a strong understanding of web & CMS fundamentals, including significant PHP/HTML development experience, Syfmony, OOP, and Drupal coding standards and best practices.
• Provide support and execute in Agile using approaches such as Scrum or Kanban; participate in client meetings and scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, grooming, etc.).
• Utilize, monitor and manage Git and other version control tools/activities, including Git Flow. Employ Test Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration/deployment workflows (CI/CD), including artifact-based development/deployment.
• Support other areas including support for Drupal admin UI and all aspects of site building; D7 Features and Drupal 8 Configuration Management, including configuration-split and configuration deployment best practices.

Desired Backend Skills

• Strong understanding of Drupal content architecture (including Entities, Bundles, Fields, References).
• Proven ability to architect applications (including contrib/custom module development, selection, usage & structure).
• Custom module writing experience for Drupal 8 and patching Drupal modules, including debugging and Drupal Form API integrations, direct DB queries and Drupal conventions (including Views, EFQs, Drupal Migrations/Import and key APIs).
• API creation and integration, as well as API-first development, in order to support 3rd party and decoupled frontend apps.

Desired Frontend Skills

• Significant HTML and CSS/SASS development experience in accordance with Drupal frontend coding standards, including implementing wireframes, UX mock-ups, and designs in Drupal.
• Base / subthemes, custom themes, extensive twig templating / render API experience, responsive/breakpoints; including View Modes, Paragraphs, Display Suite, and Layout Builder.
• Frontend development, including Drupal theme functions, hooks. Understanding of designs system and style guides, and in particular pattern libraries and component-driven development.

Candidate Attributes:

• Understanding that integrity is the cornerstone of all we do, and essential to our ability to delivering high quality software, on time & on budget.
• A commitment to supporting a strong team dynamic, experience with medium/large teams (8-10+ members), putting team & customer priorities first, and always ‘doing the right thing’.
• A preference for some form of Drupal / open source code, and/or community contribution or volunteering as we aim to open source some of our Drupal DevOps solutions/contributions.

Requirements:

• Must be US Citizen or Authorized to Work in the United States.
• Must be able to attain/maintain Public Trust clearance (preference for pre-existing clearances)
• 5+ years’ experience with Drupal 7/8/9, involving 3 to 7+ enterprise Drupal projects, working with a large team.
• Bachelor’s in computer science or comparable degree/enterprise work experience desired.
• Acquia Drupal 8 & 9 certifications are highly preferred.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and motivated IT Professional seeking personal challenges and professional rewards. Astor is a fast-growing, award-winning provider of IT solutions and services, and provides software engineering and development solutions using a variety of development tools, including host-based, web-based, and client-server applications. We offer a unique, stimulating, challenging, and fun environment that fosters individual growth and rewards performance.

Our competitive benefits package includes medical and dental coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holiday, vacation and sick leave, metro-check program, and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a chance to work with bright, highly motivated people dedicated to excellence, please apply today!

EEO/AA employer. Astor & Sanders Corporation (Astor) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, pregnancy, religion, age, marital status, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, disability, genetic information/history or any other personal characteristic protected by law. Astor welcomes all individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.