Complete Description:
*local candidates strongly preferred
VDH OIM TO BUILD A COMMUNITY HEALTH DATA PORTAL AND A DATA CATALOG WEBSITE FROM DIFFERENT RESOURCES AVAILABLE WITHIN VDH.
GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION: THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, OFFICE OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, IS LOOKING FOR A STRONG PYTHON DEVELOPER WITH PROVEN EXPERIENCE IN IMPLEMENTING AND CUSTOMIZING A PYTHON BASED OPEN SOURCE DATA CATALOG FOR EMBEDDING WITHIN A WORDPRESS WEBSITE.
THE CURRENT TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE IS BASED ON PYTHON, PHP, LINUX
SPECIFIC TASK(S):
• DEPLOY AND CUSTOMIZE A CKAN DATA CATALOG UTILIZING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE. CUSTOMIZE EXISTING WORDPRESS WEB APPLICATION THEMES, TEMPLATE FILES, AND WEB COMPONENTS BASED ON MOCKUPS, WIREFRAMES, AND FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATIONS.
• CONFIGURE AWS BASED LINUX VMS TO RUN CKAN AND WORDPRESS WEBSITES.
• RESPONSIBLE FOR ANALYZING ASSIGNED TASKS, PROVIDING ACCURATE WORK ESTIMATES AND PROGRESS REPORTS, AND KEEPING DEVELOPMENT ON SCHEDULE.
• CONDUCT PERFORMANCE TESTING AND EVALUATE LAYOUT ISSUES ACROSS MULTIPLE BROWSERS AND DEVICE PLATFORMS.
• COLLABORATE WITH OTHER BACK-END DEVELOPERS, WEB DESIGNERS, PROJECT MANAGERS, AND END USERS.
Skills:
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Experience in custom web application development including proficiency in PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Python.
Required
5
Years
Operational experience with Linux,NginX or Apache, MySQL, Postgres
Required
5
Years
Experience evaluating, selecting and integrating third-party data visualization plugins for WordPress.
Required
2
Years
Exp developing with WordPress including sound knowledge of theme customization and integrating open source and third party plugins and widgets
Required
3
Years
Experience deploying and managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing products including EC2 server management and S3 storage.
Required
2
Years
Experience implementing/supporting a data cataloging tool (CKAN open source tool used by data.gov)
Required
2
Years
Exp supporting data governance policies/procs for open data sources and protected data- producing/distributing open data and HIPAA-protected datasets
Desired
2
Years
Familiarity with version control systems such as Git.
Desired
2
Years
Experience enhancing the performance of high-traffic sites and deploying web analytics.
Desired
3
Years
Familiarity with web security issues and deploying WordPress security plugins.
Desired
3
Years