IT Tech Team Member / IT Architect

IT Tech Team Member / IT Architect

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

About the Job

The tax clearance compliance item is required at the time of submissions.

Open to non-local candidates, must be willing to relocate and be onsite from day 1.

Application Development Technical Support - (Contract to Hire)

This is a technical support position supporting all aspects of the GenTax® COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf Software) application.

This resource will provide technical support to the application development staff and management while interacting with existing network and database personnel.

Technical team responsibilities:

• Provide technical representation on a project team from definition to delivery
• Specific tasks include:
• Hardware specification and procurement
• Setup, configure and maintain n-tier environments, including: application servers, web servers, web services, database servers
• The ability to interface equally well with various levels of technical personnel, subject matter experts, senior level stakeholders, developers, and project managers
• Strong technical development background in at least one relevant technology, along with commercial and technical experience developed in a fast-moving web environment
• SQL Server or Oracle RDMS administration, including: high availability design and installations, performance analysis and tuning, backup and recovery, disaster recovery
• Experience building high-performance, reliable, large-scale database systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment
• VMWare installation, configuration, and support
• Working understanding of storage area networks
• Security specification and reviews
• SQL optimization and application troubleshooting
• Update internal documentation as applicable
• Disaster recovery planning and implementation
• On-call support

Minimum requirements:

• Candidates must possess a bachelor's degree in the technology arena
• AWS cloud experience
• 5+ years experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
• Good working knowledge of Oracle
• Good working knowledge of SQL Server
• Working knowledge of running applications Windows Servers - Infrastructure Support
• Some basic knowledge of being able to troubleshoot network issues
• Some knowledge as to how to request firewall changes needed for an application
• Good research and analysis ability
• Willingness to be on-call and work outside the normal work schedule
• Ability to research and work with Active Directory security groups

Preferred qualifications:

• Server administration experience
• Network administration experience
• Experience in MS Visual Basic.Net
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Enthusiasm and eagerness to learn
• Working knowledge of software development methodologies, standards, coding best practices, Java/J2EE, XML, debugging and operational procedures
• Working knowledge of SQL Server or Oracle RDMS administration

Other notes:

DOR will conduct a background check on all candidates considered for the position. Individuals must be compliant with Georgia tax obligations.

Individuals having any overdue and unpaid taxes or any felony convictions (no matter how long ago) will not be offered the position or hired.

Candidates must be willing to relocate to Georgia for at least the duration of the project, if not already a resident of Georgia.