Middleware Administrator

Note: We are looking only for candidates willing to join us directly as W2 employees (No 3rd party candidates)

Middleware Administrator

Irvine-CA

6 Months

Description:

• As a member of the Internet Applications team, the candidate should have proficiency in design and implementation of infrastructure from specifications, configuration and deployment of applications, connecting to back-end resources, and advanced troubleshooting of moderately complex software applications.
• This role requires the candidate to be highly flexible in hours of work because of its customer-facing, highly available infrastructure necessity.
• Deployment, administration and operational support of (production, staging, test and development) environments for multiple projects using WebSphere and/or Weblogic Application Server and web server technologies.
• Under general direction, devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems.
• Coordinate with multiple groups on identifying/fixing the issues.
• Competent to work at the highest technical level of all phases of applications server activities.
• Open tickets for the pending issues and follow-up and document for the future issue reference.
• Monitor application server performance and respond appropriately.
• Monitors systems capacity and performance, plans and executes disaster recovery procedures, and provides Tier 2 technical support.
• Provides high level written communications to upper management regarding production issues.
• Identify, escalate and document production impact issues for the environment to confirmed delivery for client and business notification.
• 3-5 years experience with Web-based applications, SOA (Services Oriented Architectures) and leading J2EE application server technologies like Weblogic, Websphere etc.
• 3+ years hands-on experience with Solaris, Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu), in bare-metal and Cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, OpenStack).
• Atleast 2 years experience in MicroServices implementation using Netflix OSS stack.
• Preferred experience in Reactive frameworks like Play & Akka.
• Proficiency in high level script languages (Python preferred) as well as script environments like bash
• Experience with DevOps workflow automation (Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet (optional), stash, Artifactory)
• Experience with Unix system administration and TCP/IP networking.
• Strong analytical & troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with DevOps Monitoring solutions (Dynatrace, CA Wily)
• Experience with Atlassian tools like JIRA, Confluence, Stash
• Experience with NoSQL DB solutions like MongoDB & Cassandra
• Experience with Search technologies like Elastic Search
• B.S. Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering, M.S. or relevant experience required.