Employment Opportunities

Beracha Employment Opportunities:

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Jr. PHP & Drupal Product Developer – 1 Immediate Opening – 2 Positions Filled

Web Development Project Manager – Position Filled

Administrative Assistant – Position Filled

Job Description: Jr. PHP & Drupal Product Developer – 1 Immediate Opening

Salary: Depends on Experience, includes Salary, benefits, commissions

Now do something extraordinary... Your success is evidenced by the complex information technology systems you've designed, supported, or maintained. You've ensured thousands have access to the tools they need. What if you could use your technical skills to help build a better world for ministries and honorable, philanthropic non-profit organizations in the US and 62 countries? Wouldn’t you find great satisfaction in providing transformational technology by serving those who serve? Now that's doing something extraordinary.

The successful candidate will develop Drupal modules using PHP, SOAP, MySQL, AJAX, JavaScript and Adobe AIR. Provide cutting edge product development along with a small, elite team to ensure that technical solutions meet the short and long term objectives of the organization and that all standards and guidelines are adhered to for the final deliverables.

Create and enforce quality assurance / quality control procedures, including design reviews, code reviews, and test approach/strategy and planning to ensure product quality. Contribute to feasibility studies and time and cost estimates in order to aid in decision making on project viability and prioritization. Using Six-Sigma methodology, work collaboratively with team members when assigned to work as part of a team. Perform other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities include:

Indentifies and analyzes situations and/or issues, considers options, develops and decides on solutions, recommends and/or implements and monitors appropriate solutions.
Comfortable working with abstract concepts; effectively converts these abstractions into concrete models and designs.
Listens, interprets and conveys information in a clear and accurate manner and delivers information in a timely way.
Selects the most appropriate method of communication and ensures that others have fully comprehended the intended message.
Deals tactfully and effectively with others on a personal level and demonstrates fairness in interactions with others.
Probes to understand central issues. Understands and effectively uses non-verbal communication.
Demonstrates concern for meeting internal customer needs in a manner that provides satisfaction for the customer using available resources.
Works with clients to analyze problems and discover underlying needs. Asks probing questions and challenges assumptions.
Documents business requirements, workflows, data flows, and entity relationships.
Collaborates with clients in developing solutions. Makes decisions authoritatively and wisely, after adequately contemplating various available courses of action and the needs and values of others.
Communicates persuasively and with high impact both verbally and in writing.
Understands and applies the Software Development Lifecycle, i.e., Project Planning (identify business objectives, business case, project charter, project plan, etc), requirements analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and operations and maintenance.
Analyzes and understands data relationships and the data structures underlying available information.
Creates accurate, clear documentation, substantiated with specific facts and conveyed in concise language that can be understood by technical and non-technical personnel.
Understands data relationships and demonstrates a commitment to maintaining data quality.
The ability to speak, understand and write fluently in English.

Required Experience:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Broad experience in at least one area; 2 - 4 years.
Programming using MySQL, PHP, JavaScript and comparable languages. Data warehouse and reporting experience preferable.

Extensive knowledge of module and theme development for Drupal 5 required. Experience with the following desirable, but not required:
- Drupal 6 and 7,
- JQuery, HTML,
- CSS,
- AJAX
- LAMP administration
- Adobe AIR

DO NOT CONTACT US. . . if you are a job shop.

WE’RE NOT INTERESTED. . . in anyone who is a contractor

WE WILL NOT HIRE SOMEONE. . . on a “Temp-2-Hire” from a job shop.

Accepting Resumes

Contact Via e-mail: Solutions@Beracha.org

Contact Via phone: 877.423.7224 x711

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System Administrator – Job description

You're recognized for your technical and engineering skills that have boosted your organization's success and shareholder satisfaction. But are you satisfied? Imagine using your network administration skills to build a better world for philanthropic and ministry focused organizations who are transforming lives throughout the world. Imagine serving people and organizations in 68 countries who help change lives by drilling wells in the Sahara, curing diseases, feeding the hungry, setting up homes for abandoned AIDS children, reconciling relationships and sharing the Gospel with untold millions.

Now that's doing something extraordinary!

Maximize Beracha’s ministry by developing data and communications infrastructures and systems which enable long-term, effective relationships with individuals, churches, foundations, and corporations so that real, life-giving change embraces the world, and enables outrageous vision. Design, manage and coordinate the integrated networks which lie at the core of Beracha’s Christian ethos and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others.

The System Administrator (SA) is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure for internal and external clients. This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure. This individual ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values, enabling staff, volunteers, and Partners.

This individual will assist project teams with technical issues in the Initiation and Planning phases of our standard 6-Sigma Project Management Methodology. These activities include the definition of needs, benefits, and technical strategy; research & development within the project life-cycle; technical analysis and design; and support of operations staff in executing, testing and rolling-out the solutions. Participation on projects is focused on smoothing the transition of projects from development staff to production staff by performing operations activities within the project life-cycle.

This individual is accountable for the following systems: Linux and Windows systems; Linux, Windows and Application systems that support Asset Management; responsibilities on these systems include engineering and provisioning, operations and support, maintenance, research and development to ensure continual innovation, patch management and security management.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

Engineering and Provisioning

Engineering of solutions for various project and operational needs.
Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
Install and configure systems such as infrastructure applications, web applications and managed services best practices.
Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
Contribute to and maintain system standards.
Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.

Operations and Support

Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.
Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary
Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.
Provide Tier II / other support per requests from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
Provide Tier II / other support per requests from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.

Maintenance

Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.
Upgrade and configure system software that supports applications.
Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures.
Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
Maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.