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The Simtec family of companies is seeking highly motivated and qualified candidates for a variety of positions in the DC Metro and other areas.  Please feel free to browse our positions and apply online with our very short and easy to use application form.

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AWS Solutions Architect in Herndon, VA
The Senior Solutions Architect- a combination of a subject matter guru, trusted advisor and cloud services authority, will be responsible, working as part of our cloud team, to help define the tools, processes and methods, and develop systems that will utilize Private and Public clouds (AWS, Azure, and others) to support enterprise adoption of our managed cloud service offerings. In addition, the Senior Solutions Architect will use systems analysis techniques, enterprise architecture planning process and procedures while consulting with clients to determine cloud computing specifications and needs for our clients.  In addition, the Senior Solutions Architect will use systems analysis techniques, enterprise architecture planning process and procedures while consulting with clients to determine cloud computing specifications and needs for our clients.
Required Skills

Responsibilities and Duties include:
Develop complete Cloud solutions taking into account sizing, infrastructure, data protection, disaster recovery, and application requirements and hybrid access to premises based enterprise systems.
Design, and implementation of customized technical Cloud solutions for clients both on premises and public cloud environments

Provide troubleshooting expertise for virtualization performance and other issues
  • Develop Azure and AWS, cloud solutions for clients
  • Full understanding of DNS, WINS, DHCP and LDAP compliant directories is also a differentiator of candidates
  • System Monitoring Tools that can be easily extended into AWS, Azure and premise based systems for a single enterprise view is a plus
  • Demonstrable Enterprise Architecture planning and design skills
  • Cloud Architecting / Solution Delivery expertise preferably AWS services
  • Experience with scripting and automation tools  
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Good analytic, organization, presentation, customer service and facilitation skills
  • Ability to gather customer requirements and translate those requirements into short and long term
  • In depth understanding of authentication and authorization services; e.g.; AD, ADFS, SAML, LDAP & the backend associated APIs that connect various messaging, cloud and social platforms.
  • Ability to understand and support network, system and application security hardening, penetration testing, continuous monitoring, and support of policy.
  • Ability to support system risk assessment and to support all functions of a Cloud system as well as security planning and documentation.
  • 7+ years’ experience in engineering and architecting enterprise datacenter solutions
  • 2+ years’ experience working on Azure
  • The DevOps Architect Job Responsibilities and Duties include:
  • Design and develop DevOps based solutions using Chef, Puppet, Ansible, GoCD, Jenkins, and similar products.
  • Coordinate activities with other team members using Agile methodologies for peer review and automated testing.
  • Develop automation and repeatable processes/scripts to enable solutions that deploy, manage, configure, scale and monitor Client applications.
  • Design and implementation of customized technical Cloud solutions for clients both on premises and public cloud environments.
  • Provide troubleshooting expertise for virtualization performance and other issues.
  • Develop AWS and Azure cloud solutions for clients.
  • Streamline the development lifecycle with automated provisioning and testing of resources.
  • Demonstrable Enterprise Architecture planning and design skills.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills.
  • Good analytic, organization, presentation, customer service and facilitation skills.
  • Ability to gather customer requirements and translate those requirements into short and long term deliverables.
  • To be considered an expert in one or more automation frameworks (Chef, Puppet, Ansible) with 3 or more years experience.
  • Comfortable with Software Development Life Cycles, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
  • Solid understanding and experience working with high availability, high performance, multi-data center systems and hybrid cloud environments.
  • Considered an expert in a combination of database and platform application services, e.g; Microsoft enterprise applications and SQL Server experience is a plus.
  • The candidate must have solid OS platform skills on Microsoft and Linux.
  • Preference will be given to candidates that also have web applications, database, and support skills
  • Experience with Drupal 7 and Drupal 8
  • Experience with complex PHP projects
  • Experience working in any a Web based Content Management System
  • Competency with related web technologies: Javascript, CSS, HTML
  • Basic working knowledge of LAMP server configuration
  • Superior interpersonal and communication skills
  • Troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities
  • Desired Skills
  • Ability to develop, review, test, and deploy custom Drupal modules
  • Knowledge of agile development methodologies
  • Performance and scalability benchmarking and profiling


Preference will be given to candidates that also have web applications, database, and support skills

You should be considered expert in one or more platforms (Microsoft, or a flavor of Linux) with 5 or more years’ experience.

You should also be considered expert in a combination of database and platform application services, e.g; Microsoft enterprise applications and SQL Server experience is a plus.

Required Experience
  • 7+ years’ experience in engineering and architecting enterprise datacenter solutions
  • 2+ years’ experience working on Azure



DevOps Architect 
The DevOps Architect is a combination of an automation expert, trusted adviser and cloud services authority and will be responsible to implement automation and scripted solutions to ensure that code and solutions can be executed and repeated in an Agile Enterprise Process workflow that includes peer reviews, automated testing, and close coordination with customers.

Required Skills
  • Design and develop DevOps based solutions using Chef, Puppet, Ansible, GoCD, Jenkins, and similar products.
  • Coordinate activities with other team members using Agile methodologies for peer review and automated testing.
  • Develop automation and repeatable processes/scripts to enable solutions that deploy, manage, configure, scale and monitor Client applications.
  • Design and implementation of customized technical Cloud solutions for clients both on premises and public cloud environments.
  • Provide troubleshooting expertise for virtualization performance and other issues.
  • Develop AWS and Azure cloud solutions for clients.
  • Streamline the development lifecycle with automated provisioning and testing of resources.
  • Demonstrable Enterprise Architecture planning and design skills.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills.
  • Good analytic, organization, presentation, customer service and facilitation skills.
  • Ability to gather customer requirements and translate those requirements into short and long term deliverables.


The successful DevOps Architect should be:
  • Considered an expert in one or more automation frameworks (Chef, Puppet, Ansible) with 3 or more years experience.
  • Comfortable with Software Development Life Cycles, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
  • Solid understanding and experience working with high availability, high performance, multi-data center systems and hybrid cloud environments.
  • Considered an expert in a combination of database and platform application services, e.g; Microsoft enterprise applications and SQL Server experience is a plus.
  • The candidate must have solid OS platform skills on Microsoft and Linux.
  • Preference will be given to candidates that also have web applications, database, and support skills


Senior Drupal Software Developer 
Responsibilities include:  
Working closely with various clients to determine their needs and develop use cases, and evaluate different approaches, choosing a single unified approach that will meet their business needs.

Lead the creative design for each site integrating specific modules, configuration, and customizations.
Ensure that the project lead’s receives the best possible technical support for the initiative and identify risk and resource needs from a technical perspective.
Work with Solution Architects to develop performance metrics and solutions that will exceed those specifications.

Develop tests on end-user facing functionality, to ensure that regressions are not introduced with future changes. Lead design and development efforts
Adhere to a predictable release management cycle and capture key changes in release notes

Required Skills
  • Experience with Drupal 7 and Drupal 8
  • Experience with complex PHP projects
  • Experience working in any a Web based Content Management System
  • Competency with related web technologies: Javascript, CSS, HTML
  • Basic working knowledge of LAMP server configuration
  • Superior interpersonal and communication skills
  • Troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities
  • Desired Skills
  • Ability to develop, review, test, and deploy custom Drupal modules
  • Knowledge of agile development methodologies
  • Performance and scalability benchmarking and profiling