Senior Web Developer Jobs in Evanston, IL (NOW HIRING)

We are working with an exciting organization that is looking to bring on a Senior Systems Admin.  As a Senior Systems Administrator you will be a key member of there LAMP development team responsible for developing, maintaining, and updating best-in-class websites, APIs, and other web-based products for a variety of clients. You will also help shape the infrastructure, internal build tools, processes, and techniques. As a member of this dynamic team, you will have the opportunity of working closely with project leaders, designers, UX, strategists and the account team to unite great ideas with great execution for the benefit of our clients. You are expected to be a self-starter, share your ideas, work hard, and have a sense of humor.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.

• Manage and execute clients’ website updates including programming and database changes across different frameworks and CMSs.

• Maintain a constant dialogue with the project management team to make sure development work is on time and tracking properly.

• Design, build, and maintain REST APIs to provide functionality to other systems and websites

• Integrate external APIs and data sources to provide needed website functionality

• Consistently develop high-quality, maintainable, and testable code

• Follow industry security standards in implementing proper safeguards and performing vulnerability testing and remediation

• Design, document, build, and improve system infrastructures for our clients and ourselves with the foresight to accommodate future expectations

• Coordinate multiple web developer’s assignments spanning the same project simultaneously.

• Work with the Digital Analytics team to implement and validate analytics on all applications, including support creating custom JavaScript for more advanced conversion attribution

• Always deliver cross-browser/device uniformity and error free functionality with progressive enhancements.

• Develop applications using modern Responsive Web Design

• Identify areas of improvement in existing codebases and implement appropriate changes

• Educate and mentor team members in new or expanding skillsets and software

• Provide recommendations and expertise internally during the sales process and contribute to proposal development with project estimates

• Alert colleagues to emerging technologies or applications and the opportunities to integrate them into operations and activities.

• Adhere to corporate policies related to employee reviews; contribute to the development and achievement of SMART goals

• Ensure all activities and operations are performed in compliance with applicable regulations

• Responsible for maintaining up to date weekly time tracking, per the Agency’s time tracking policy

• As a Systems Administrator you will oversee the following:

    Server and application uptime monitoring and maintenance

    DNS and Server accounts management

    Cloud and Bare metal hosting infrastructures

    Email service management

    IT Support, both internal and client services

    Security standardization and testing, internal and client requirements

    Contribute to, and maintain system standards

• 5 years programming experience, with a focus on PHP and relational database systems using MySQL.

• 3 years server-management experience in LAMP and similar stacks

• 2 years developing custom web applications

• 2 years senior or lead developer position with mentorship responsibilities

• 2 years minimum experience using IIS technologies: ASP, ASPX, .NET, VB, MSSQL, MS Server

• Proven history maintaining security standards including; OWASP, NIST, ISOC or CISSP accreditations

• Proficiency in the following languages; JavaScript (ES6 preferred), CSS (SCSS preferred), HTML (Twig or Blade experience preferred)

• Exhibit programming best practices and utilize established conventions (e.g. MVC, DRY, separation of concerns, etc.)

• Experience in the following frameworks:

o Laravel or Symfony-based preferred (or other widely-used MVC frameworks)

o Vue.js preferred (or other JS frameworks like Angular or React)

o Unit testing (PHPUnit preferred)

o SPA (single-page applications)

• Utilize a modern web development workflow:

o local development environment (e.g. Vagrant, Homestead)

o dependency management (e.g. Composer, NPM/Yarn)

o source control (git)

o asset compilation and packaging (e.g. gulp, grunt)