Developer (1-year Term)

Department: NAISE - NU ANL Inst Sci Eng
Salary/Grade: ITS/79

Job Summary:

Develops, codes, tests, and debugs new software and platform features with a focus on site reliability, monitoring and improving operations. Typically works with senior staff, but may coordinate smaller or less complex projects independently. Designs and implements basic technical solutions ensuring that business needs and requirements are met. Performs basic system integration tasks. Provides estimation for assigned tasks.

This is a term position ending on July 31, 2025. Opportunity for renewal will be based on performance and available funding.

Please note: Travel between NU and Argonne will be required.

Specific Responsibilities :

Strategic Planning

• Participates in the development of new goals and strategies based on interactions with primary user.
• Develops plans for software deployment on heterogeneous systems.
• Collaborates with user to develop work flow and best practices.
• Partners with user in designing features for technology.

Administration

• Responds to customer inquiries via phone, online, in-person, etc.
• Creates and maintains code documentation.
• Grants system access to new user.
• Evaluates feature/upgrade/change requests and recommends action.
• Participates in interview process for new hires.
• Identifies database and software performance issues, and makes adjustments.

Development

• Researches and develops new algorithms and statistical techniques designed for analyzing data based on customer needs.
• Develops and maintains software infrastructure, via patches, bundles, releases and maintenance packs.
• Codes software applications adhering to designs supporting internal business requirements or external user.
• Completes tier 3 troubleshooting.
• Designs databases and data structures.
• Prioritizes tasks within project.
• Meets with business analyst/stakeholder to determine requirements.
• Opens tickets with vendors.

Miscellaneous

Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in a major such as computer science, information technology, or related; OR appropriate combination of education and experience.
• 2 years relevant experience required.

Infrastructure (extends across applications)

• Linux Operating System
• Puppet/Chef/Ansible
• SQL/MySQL/Postgres

Programming Languages and Frameworks

• Python
• Shell Scripting

Analytical

• critical thinking
• database design/ data structure
• Debugging
• problem solving

Project

• iterative & incremental development
• organizational skills

Minimum Competencies: (Skills, knowledge, and abilities.)

• Fluent in a programming language such as Python or Go.
• Fluent with general developer tooling such as git and Docker.
• Fluent in Linux.
• Familiar with Kubernetes.
• 2-3 years of experience supporting code, services and deployments in production.
• Direct experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentbit or Loki.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience supporting code, services and deployments in production.
• Willingness to fill in tooling gaps when off the shelf monitoring tools do not suffice.

Preferred Competencies: (Skills, knowledge, and abilities)

• Familiar with CI/CD tooling such as Github Actions.
• Familiar with messaging infrastructure such as RabbitMQ.
• Familiar with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible.
• Familiar with basic data munging, analysis and visualization in Python.

Target hiring range for this position will be between $80,000-$100,000 per year. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data

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