Joomla Backend Developer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
Chantilly, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$55k - $126k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical development and optimization of Joomla web platforms.
- Create and customize Joomla components, modules, and plugins using backend and server-side development expertise.
- Design, manage, and maintain MySQL databases and integrate payment gateways, CRMs, and other third-party APIs.
- Perform Linux server maintenance, patching, configuration management, and system hardening.
- Design and maintain production-grade AWS environments.
- Apply Joomla core updates, security patches, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
- Collaborate with product managers and government leadership to refine requirements and deliver accessible, secure digital experiences.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience with an object-oriented programming language.
- Experience with Linux server maintenance, patching, configuration management, or system hardening.
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining production-grade AWS environments.
- Experience developing web applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Experience with SQL and a relational database management system such as MySQL.
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Administration, Computer Information Systems, or Computer Science plus 3 years of systems administration experience, or 5 years of systems administration experience in lieu of a degree.
- PHP and Joomla CMS website development experience are preferred.
- Ability to collaborate with government leadership, translate mission needs into UX-focused solutions, and influence design-centered decisions is preferred.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, UX, Design, or a related field and UX/UI, accessibility, or front-end development certifications are preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis may participate in eligible benefits programs.
- Onsite work in Chantilly, Virginia; the role is not remote.
- Full-time employment; the posting is expected to close within 90 days of the posting date.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).