Software Engineer 3

Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes. Investigates problem areas. Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.

 Texas Health and Human Services Commission requires the services of 1 Software Engineer 3, hereafter referred to as Candidate(s), who meets the general qualifications of Software Engineer 3, Applications/Software Development and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. Texas Health and Human Services Commission will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).

Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes.

As a member of the team, participate in requirements analysis, high-level and detailed design, development, testing and deployment of new application components, as required.

Create technical and design documentation, as required.

Employ contemporary testing methods to ensure applications function properly and without error.

Provide technical support for testing and implementation efforts.

Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, diagnosis and problem resolution. Analyze software for defects and performance tuning opportunities.

Other duties as assigned.

I. Candidate Skills and Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience with Agile Scrum and DevOps methodologies

• GitHub Administration:

o Manage repositories, branching strategies, and access control.

o Automate workflows using GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools.

o Maintain code quality and integration processes.

o Define and implement governance rules.

• Jira Administration:

o Configure Jira projects, workflows, custom fields, and user permissions.

o Develop dashboards and reports to support Agile project tracking.

o Integrate JIRA with development and communication tools.

o Design and maintain JIRA automation rules.

• AWS Infrastructure Management:

o Provision and manage EC2 instances, VPCs, IAM roles, S3 buckets, and related services.

o Automate infrastructure using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform.

o Monitor and optimize cloud performance and costs.

• One or more programming languages or technologies such as Python, JavaScript, Angular and Maven

• Experience working in Developer IDEs, such as Eclipse, IBM Rational Application Developer, etc.

• Asset and service account management

• BMC Helix ticketing system

• Prefer some experience with Databases – PostgreSQL and Oracle

• Prefer some working experience with Virtual Machine Provisioning and De-Provisioning:

o Create, configure, and manage VMs across cloud or on-prem Hyper-V environments.

o Ensure proper networking, storage, and security configurations.

• Prefer past Development and Database experience

Requirements

CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements:

Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience



8

Required

Hands-on experience in administering, configuring, and supporting Atlassian Jira



8

Required

Proven ability to administer GitHub Enterprise Cloud



8

Required

Proven ability to analyze and resolve complex issues



8

Required

Supporting and training end users on all levels.



8

Required

Hands-on experience with Hyper-V server administration, hardware, backup, recovery and disaster/recovery



8

Required

Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration Delivery models



8

Required

Hands-on experience with Automation/Build tools: Jenkins, Docker, Ansible and OpenShift. App & Web Servers: WebSphere, JBoss and Tomcat. Scripting: Maven, Shell, Ruby, Perl and Python. Databases: Oracle, MySQL and Postgres .



8

Required

Hands-on experience integrating new webhooks into GitHub projects to automate various compliance checks



5

Preferred

Hands-on experience with large development projects using Agile methodology