Duties
Job Summary:
The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) provides operations support services and business solutions to the community of 10,000 House Members, Officers and staff. The CAO organization comprises more than 650 technical and administrative staff working in a variety of areas, including information technology, finance, budget management, human resources, payroll, child care, food and vending, procurement, logistics and administrative counsel.
Internet Systems Specialists are responsible for designing, coding, implementing, and maintaining Member, Committee, and House support office websites. They provide web consulting services to staff who maintain applications for their Member, Committee, and House support offices. They may be assigned to respond to technical questions, requests from customers regarding web application update, design and development, produce documentation and solutions to technical problems. This position may require after hour on-call support during production issues or deployments. This position does not have supervisory/managerial responsibilities.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities:
- As an Internet Systems Specialist some of your typical work assignments may include:
- Design and develop scalable .NET web applications – especially as user needs change or evolve;
- Design, develop and maintain .NET Core containers in the House data center and AWS EKS/Azure AKS environments;
- Manage server environments like installing patching in Windows based environment and addressing any vulnerabilities in Docker container environment;
- Create system documentation and standard operating procedures for enterprise development;
- Utilize industry standard tools and methodologies for Unit, Performance, Integration, Vulnerability, UI, and QA for new development and regression testing;
- Build and deploy code with the security standards in mind;
- Build optimal database structure and create performant query for the application;
- Develop, implement and optimize stored procedures and functions;
- Support the deployment process, including review of logs for errors after code deployment to all environments;
- Collaborate with project managers and other team members to design and estimate timeline for the solutions;
- Follow best practices for version control (GIT), Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) and development management of the system;
- Through manual and automated means, monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve application issues to ensure minimal disruption of services;
- Performs other official duties as assigned.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
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Qualifications
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field;
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in developing and using the .NET framework leveraging newer technologies like .NET Core and ASP.NET Identity;
- Minimum 5 years of experience developing Web Applications;
- Minimum 2 years of experience working with containers and Kubernetes;
- Proficiency in Linux/Windows administration;
- Knowledge working with object relational mapping framework;
- Experience with Visual Studio workflows and web services;
- Knowledge and experience with Agile and Test-Driven development methodologies;
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written);
- Development experience in Web front-end new technologies like Angular and\or React;
- Working knowledge of Git;
- Knowledge of database structure languages, such as SQL;
- Self-starter and ability to work as part of team;
Benefits
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
How You Will Be Evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
You will be evaluated using a structured interview process.
Benefits
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
Required Documents
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Resume
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
How to Apply
Qualified candidates please submit your resume online by following the instructions in this link.
Agency contact information
CAO Human Resources
Phone
202-225-2926
Address
CAO
441 2nd St
Washington, DC 20515Next steps
Qualified Candidates will be contacted directly.
Fair and Transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
- Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
- Reasonable accommodation policy
- Financial suitability
- Selective Service
- New employee probationary period
- Signature and false statements
- Privacy Act
- Social security number request
Required Documents
Resume
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
This job is open to
The public
U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Clarification from the agency
Open to the public