by Ronald Barron | Aug 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Cloud Engineer
Remote/Hybrid if local to Maryland
Join us at Sparksoft, where we’re not just another tech company—we’re a catalyst for change. Our mission isn’t just to offer IT solutions; it’s to revolutionize the way you work. Here, passion isn’t just a buzzword; it’s the fuel behind groundbreaking ideas and transformative technologies. We serve a wide range of government clients, delivering impact that’s felt across the nation.
Our true strength lies in our people. They’re the problem-solvers and innovators consistently delivering extraordinary outcomes. With Sparksoft, you’re not stepping into a routine job; you’re joining a team committed to innovation and excellence. Our innovation extends beyond just delivering projects. Through our specialized Innovation Centers, we continuously refine our methods, ensuring we remain industry leaders.
We are Sparksoft!
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to join the Sparksoft team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure and services on AWS to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of the APS system. This role involves continuous monitoring, automation, and optimization of cloud infrastructure and applications while adhering to security and compliance standards.
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Cloud Infrastructure Management:
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and resilient cloud-based infrastructure using AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, CloudWatch, S3, etc.).
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation scripts with Terraform to provision and manage AWS resources.
- Utilize Ansible for configuration management, ensuring consistent and secure deployments across various environments.
- Automate deployment, scaling, and management of containers using Docker, Kubernetes, and EKS.
- Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance.
- Continuously improve and optimize cloud infrastructure and configuration management processes to enhance efficiency and reduce manual interventions.
- Include test scripts for automated performance testing during build, test, and deployment phases.
- Monitor AWS resource consumption and associated costs, implementing cost optimization strategies.
- System Monitoring:
- Implement proactive monitoring and logging solutions using tools like Splunk, New Relic, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Apache JMeter to ensure system health and security compliance.
- Provide immediate notification and detailed communication in the event of system-wide outages or performance issues.
- Security and Compliance:
- Leverage extensive knowledge of NIST standards to maintain the APS security posture.
- Conduct regular security scans (SAST, DAST, IAST) as part of the build processes.
- Ensure compliance with HIPAA standards for new features or enhancements.
- Continuous Improvement and Innovation:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and implement innovative approaches throughout the SDLC.
- Conduct performance testing and regression testing after major releases to ensure system stability.
- Utilize DevSecOps processes to enhance speed, agility, and reduce risks.
- Perform detailed analysis of proposed innovations to evaluate their benefits and feasibility.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
- 5+ years of Cloud Engineering experience.
- Extensive experience with cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, containerized application design, performance monitoring and optimization, high availability, disaster recovery, data infrastructure, security, and systems integration.
- Expert proficiency with Python, Bash scripting, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, CloudWatch, S3, etc.), and infrastructure as code tools (Ansible, Terraform).
- Experience with security monitoring tools (AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Tenable Nessus).
- Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub, Nexus) and system monitoring tools (Splunk, New Relic, Grafana, CloudWatch).
- Experience in supporting Java/Spring Boot-based microservices and RESTful APIs.
- Experience with agile methodologies (SAFe, Scrum) and tools (Jira, Confluence).
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- Proven track record of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- Candidates must have lived in the United States 3 out of the past 5 years
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Experience in healthcare IT and understanding of regulatory requirements such as HIPAA.
- Experience and/or knowledge of CMS processes and standards.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- AWS Certification (preferred)
- SAFe Agile Certification (preferred)
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
React Native Full Stack Engineer
Remote
Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept:
Join our passionate team of top-notch engineers to solve a real-world problem, and help people spend less time managing expenses and more time pursuing their real goals. As we revolutionize the way people manage their expenses, being part of the Expensify team means building the easiest, fastest, and most efficient platform to automate everything expense-related.
Our employees work from all over the world, but if you’re looking for a change of scene we offer visa sponsorship and relocation assistance to join us at one of our rad locations:
- San Francisco
- Portland
- Michigan
- New York
- London
Even though we work hard at Expensify, we make sure our employees are happy. Our most talked about perk is our Offshore where we spend a month abroad working from a remote location as a team.
About You
We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about the product they’re building. You’re a self-driven engineer with an entrepreneurial spirit who is not afraid to work with our sales team to better understand and tackle user-facing issues. Ideally, you’ll have a general understanding of and experience in Javascript, and React Native. PHP, Java, C++, IOS and Android are a plus but not a requirement! Not only that, but you’re also excited by our culture of Live Rich, Have Fun, and Save the World, and have an ambition you’re incredibly passionate about that Expensify can help you achieve.
As an Engineer, your responsibilities include:
- Collaborating with the team for large feature development and implementation.
- Independently develop smaller features and adjustments.
- Implementing updates
We’re looking for someone who:
- Works great on a small, collaborative team.
- Can design new features and tackle the annoying bugs.
- Writes clean, concise, and commented code.
- Can collaborate with other engineering teams to create new features and fix existing issues.
- Is comfortable with every part of the software development lifecycle.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Global Deployment Infrastructure Manager
United States of America
Operations – Global Sourcing /
Full-time – Permanent /
Remote
About Megaport
Megaport has transformed the way IT gets connected. We’re global leaders in Network as a Service (NaaS), changing the way businesses reach the cloud. We’re also a leading partner to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, NYSE, and many other leading technology companies. Megaport is a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange. We’re a lean, high-achieving team made up of over 250 members globally. While the company is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, employees are spread out across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Staff enjoy an environment that is collaborative, supportive, and fun.
Our Team Culture
Join a team of globally-positioned industry experts that lead by example. We do not compromise our values for commercial gain; we are all custodians of our culture, and the customer is at the centre of everything we do. Our employees are motivated, adaptable, persistent, hard-working, and dynamic. Our culture permeates everything we do and this, in turn with a global vision, forms a commitment to each other, our customers, and shareholders alike.
Megaport is growing! We’re looking for talented and motivated individuals to join Megaport’s Global Operations team!
About the Role
As the Global Deployment Infrastructure Manager, you’ll be responsible for managing a team of professionals who design, manage and coordinate the installation of Megaport infrastructure into Data Centres to meet strategic objectives. You will oversee and develop internal project documentation for cross-functional teams and champion process improvements with the Infrastructure team. You will be responsible for Project status updates, weekly, monthly and quarterly as well as the establishment and management of internal team reporting.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Identify, plan and execute internal Team process improvements
- Coordinate workflows and allocation of resources for cross-functional projects
- Develop process documentation for cross-team handovers.
- Update project information systems – Confluence, Jira, Intranet and key systems.
- Provide guidance and leadership to internal teams
- Attend daily project meetings with our global teams.
- Chair Project meetings.
- Provide weekly status reports
- Provide ad hoc, weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting that outlines the Design and Implementation teams’ successes.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders for projects.
What We Are Looking For
- Minimum of 5-10 years of experience leading or managing and team.
- Ability to prioritize and delegate tasks to team members.
- Experienced working with third parties, vendors and customers to achieve strategic outcomes
- Have the ability to take initiative and work effectively in a rapidly changing environment.
- Knowledge of Data Center deployments, standards and technical requirements
- JIRA and Confluence experience (ideal).
- Visio / Lucidchart experience is necessary.
- Rack and Network design experience highly regarded.
- Working knowledge of Optical Networks.
- Excellent working knowledge of AGILE – Scrum or similar methodologies.
- Experience working with and for data centers highly regarded
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Senior IT Project Manager
Remote
Digital Services
Full time
Description
At TechFlow Inc., a leader in innovative technology solutions, we are on the lookout for an exceptional IT Project Manager with robust technical leadership skills and a commitment to outstanding customer service to join our team. This role involves overseeing the Enterprise Logistics Readiness Portfolio of Systems, including the Cargo and Personnel Movement Product Line Family of Systems, based at Maxwell AFB-Gunter Annex, AL. If you’re a forward-thinking leader who excels in both technical management and delivering exceptional customer experiences, we invite you to explore this opportunity with us.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and guide the work of technical staff.
- Initiate and manage IT projects.
- Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects.
- Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage and monitor progress to assure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met.
- Assist in maintaining the Cargo and Personnel Movement Product Line.
- Track status and coordinate annual reviews of Interface Requirement Agreements (IRAs).
- Serve as Scrum Master as needed.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science, IT or other related technical field.
- 7+ years of IT Project Management experience.
- Experience with the following tools (or equivalent): Jira, DevSecOps tools and Microsoft Office Suite.
- 802 IT Project Manager Certification-Intermediate per DoD 8140.03M
- Ability to obtain US government Secret Security Clearance. (US Citizenship is required)
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: SEO Team Lead (Remote)
Location: US
Job Description:
What we are actually looking for: You’re passionate about SEO. Really passionate. You LOVE to nerd out on chatting SEO tactics, big SEO wins and industry trends. Algorithm updates? Those just keep you on your toes and that’s what you love about SEO – the ever-changing SERP landscape. You can pivot quickly and you’re not afraid to take calculated risks when the data supports the need to do so. You’re focused and results-driven.
Are you really looking for another unfulfilling marketing job where you spin your wheels and watch your skills and potential dwindle away? Didn’t think so. You’re the type of person who needs to be challenged both personally and professionally. As much as you love business and marketing, you’re equally excited to grow yourself personally. You’ll love participating and contributing to our personal development programs at Disruptive, helping us realize and live our potential together.
We’re not like other agencies who cap the growth of their people. Instead, leaders come to Disruptive to accelerate their career growth and unlock their full potential as a marketer. Employees have even said, “1 year of marketing experience at Disruptive is comparable to 3 years anywhere else.”
And, because you probably want more details, you can dive into those below, even though you already know if you are the right person or not from these first few paragraphs 😉 …
About the role: As our SEO Team Lead, you will be a key player in the success of Disruptive Advertising’s SEO department. With a high degree of expertise and analytical savviness, you will manage our SEO team members, perform website audits, and strategize & implement On-page, Off-page, Technical and Content optimizations. Always the technical expert, you will take conscientious actions where the data supports your decisions. You’ll also provide regular direct feedback when reporting to the Account Management Team and clients, which will demonstrate the precision and value of your efforts. Ultimately, you will work at a faster than average pace and do well managing team members and multiple, simultaneous projects as you diligently assume the role of “go-to expert” on the organic performance of your clients and your team members’ clients.
As our SEO Team Lead, you will receive:
- Salary range $90-130K dependent on experience
- Flexible PTO Policy
- Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance
- 401k with generous match
- Vacation bonus ($500/after 1st year, an addition $250 every year after)
- $2,000 annual personal development budget
- Company Vacation Homes to Use after the first anniversary
- And more
As SEO Team Lead, you will:
- Manage team of SEO professionals (4-5 team members)
- Train/mentor existing and new SEO team members (also includes CRO training)
- Help plan and develop SEO channel strategy for team members’ clients
- Track and analyze performance data (reach >80% Organic KPIs, 97.5%+ retention rate, etc.)
- Manage own smaller book of clients (5-7 clients)
- Perform comprehensive client SEO audits focusing on (but not limited to) the following areas:
- On-page SEO (metadata, internal linking, KW targets/density, etc.)
- Technical SEO (XML sitemap, robots.txt file, crawlability, index status, etc.)
- Off-page SEO (backlink profile health, earned links/outreach)
- Content (user sentiment, user experience/engagement, KW gap analysis, quarterly content calendars, etc.)
- CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization)
- Utilize Organic performance data to prioritize and implement SEO tactics outlined in monthly/quarterly roadmaps
- Assist Account Managers with client communications around SEO knowledge and recommendations to develop and deliver a clear strategic vision to each client
- Fully develop, manage and grow SEO project plans and own overall strategic direction for your SEO clients
- Create monthly/quarterly reports that highlight organic performance, i.e., SEO wins and areas that still need improvement
- Manage and perform day-to-day SEO tasks such as competitor analyses, KW research, metadata creation, internal link implementation, backlink acquisition, etc.
- Stay abreast of industry trends (algorithm updates, SERP updates, beta tests, etc.) and how these trends impact client performance
What you need to be our SEO Team Lead:
- 3+ years managing SEO team members of varying skill levels
- 5+ years managing and executing SEO projects for multiple clients within agency environments
- Experience working with and communicating with clients directly
- Ability to effectively and clearly communicate and resolve complex SEO issues
- Strong technical SEO knowledge
- Thorough understanding of HTML/CSS and website structures
- Knowledge of basic GBP (Google Business Profile) optimization
- Considerable experience with CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization)
- Excellent written communication skills
- Proficiency in Google Sheets and/or Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP, pivot tables)
- Expertise in Google Analytics/GA4, Google Search Console, and other SEO tools such as SEMRush, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog and Botify
- GA4 certified
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