GAIN -Experience - Drupal Developer

About the Role

Our Drupal developers are able to demonstrate a strong and developing Drupal-focused

skillset, and the associated best practices, combining their skillset across the following areas:

As part of your day to day you ll be

Part of a 35+ strong team of multidisciplinary developers contributing to open source

web projects

Responsible for designing and implementing new features and functionality adhering to

our coding standards

Ensuring high-performance and availability

Managing all technical aspects of the CMS

Work closely with internal teams and customers to ensure an effective, visually

appealing, functional and intuitive implementation

Reporting to: Tech Lead

Key Skills

Experience creating websites with Drupal 10+ including custom module development

Experience in developing CMS based websites that work for both users and website

admins

Writing clean, testable, reusable and well documented code

Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach

Experience working with MVC frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel etc

Strong understanding of key principles of object-oriented programming

Experience creating and consuming Web Services using both SOAP & REST APIs

Good database knowledge including MySQL / PostgreSQL/MariaDB

Agile/Scrum methodologies, using project management tools such as Jira

Bringing new ideas and techniques to the team

Highly Desirable Skills

Experience using Amazon Web Services, Acquia, Upsun (formerly platform.sh) and

Pantheon

Knowledge of and interest in other programming languages and technology stacks

DevOps skills, including configuring Linux, Apache, Nginx, Varnish, Memcache etc

Custom module and theme development for Drupal 9+

Examples of open-source contributions

Experience with container technology, such Docker, DDEV etc

Use of deployment/automation tools and pipelines

Experience with Solr / Elastic search

Understanding of JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue, etc

Knowledge of and interest in other programming languages and technology stacks

Tech Stack

Technical skills

Proficiency in PHP 8+ (OOP)

Follow of Drupal best practices

Able to evaluate and develop custom modules following Drupal standards

Good understanding of container-based architecture (Docker/Kubernetes)

Bespoke PHP framework based on Timber and twig view templates

A plus: Familiar with Node JS (v16+ for standalone React projects)

Hosting & Infrastructure

Experience with Drupal hosting (Acquia, Upsun, Pantheon)

Additional experience with AWS services based on project requirements. Might include

but not limited to: ElastiCache (memcache/Redis), Opensearch, S3, Cloudfront (CDN),

RDS, Lambda, EC2, ECS

Experience with Cloudflare for setting up WAF, configure custom rules, traffic

monitoring and additional edge caching (if required)

Development Tools

Package management with Composer

Bitbucket and GitHub for our code repositories

Bitbucket pipelines and GitHub actions for our automated deployment process

Skills and Attributes

4+ years working as a Drupal developer in an agency environment

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Excellent time-management and organisational skills with the ability to work to tight

deadlines

Flexible approach with the ability to remain calm and perform well under pressure

Personable, and able to work effectively with a variety of different people at all levels

The ability to coordinate and balance multiple projects with strong attention to detail

A proactive and enthusiastic approach to work

Able to solve problems and make effective and timely decisions based on the

knowledge available