Support Engineer VK932

Our client is looking for support engineers who will report to the manager of the team. Should have a proven experience in back-end and front-end coding skills and proven ability to manage time efficiently and work with minimal guidance. The successful candidate will have recent experience supporting complex large-scale web applications and is highly successful in quickly triaging issues & proposing fixes or writing data fix scripts for discovered problems.

Job Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or similar degree

8+ years in java web development with at least 3 years of experience providing support for large scale and complex systems

Experience in doing development work on large-scale enterprise systems

Comfortable using Windows

Experience with multi-tiered architectures, including UI design, business rules layer, and data architecture

Experience with workflow-type systems is a plus

Proven record of accomplishment on his/her business acumen.

Tools – Demonstrated proficiency in the below will be highly regarded:

Database – SQL Server, or Oracle

Web application Server – IBM WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat

IDE – IBM RAD 7, Eclipse • Source Code Control – SVN, CVS, GIT

Java Frameworks & Technologies – Struts, Spring, REST, Hibernate, Web Services, Annotations

Front-end Frameworks – JavaScript, HTML5, JQuery, AJAX

Web Browsers – Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox

Job Requirements:
Demonstrates an ability to triage issues with Web Applications developed in J2EE, using Java, Struts, SPRING, RESTful services, Hibernate, Java 5 annotations, and JavaScript AJAX and JQuery.

Demonstrates ability to understand complex database models and recent experience with Microsoft’s SQL Server database and have experience writing/debugging and understanding complex queries and stored procedures.

Understands common web applications frameworks, and technology, and familiar using Object Oriented languages and methodologies, and common design patterns.

Self-driven and able to perform job duties with little supervision.

Project Management/Business/People Skills

Capable of interacting with the project team members, technical resources, functional experts, business systems analysts, and support team members.

Learn the Online Product Approval application and UI

Test fixes in Development and QA environment before promoting fix to production

Scheduling database fixes with change requests to DBA team

Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Responsible for effectively managing own time according to agreed-to priorities.

Able to escalate high-priority issues when necessary

Ability to determine when issues are data-related, code related, and suggest the proper fix script or code change. Ability to provide root-cause for all issues

7 or more years of Core Java development experience; 5+ years of JEE programming experience using Spring 3.x or Struts 1.x

Solid database skills using MS SQL Server/Oracle, must be able to understand & support new/existing stored procedures/functions and schemas for enterprise-level applications. Solid understanding of data structures and the ability to develop complex SQL queries, and understand/analyze current system data relationships

Experience using NOSQL (mongo) databases

Some understanding of using front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS3, Ajax, jQuery, and other JavaScript frameworks/libraries

Experience with ORM solutions like Hibernate

Preferred/Nice to Have Qualifications:
BS Computer Science or related

The Logistics:
Duration: Long term contract

Location: Burbank / Glendale, CA

Job Code: VK 932

Akvelon is Puget Sound’s premier Employment Consulting Agency, founded in 2000 and voted one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s fastest growing companies 6 years in a row. We are a growing company with a dynamic atmosphere, committed to offering our employees challenging and rewarding projects with major clients within the Northwest.

Akvelon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – All qualified applicants will receive consideration. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable law.