Systems Administrator Web Services

Our client is among the world's leading financial services seeking a SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR with solid experience in Web Architecture (Apache/Tomcat/TCServer) and/or Siteminder and LDAP. This contract position will be responsible to provide successful implementation and management of client applications in test and production environments. Additionally, s/he will be ensuring that the service meets the corporate quality, security and compliance standards, providing the documentation for the ongoing support and maintenance of the systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES TO INCLUDE:

- Providing 24X7 Application Support across multiple applications
- Applying code and operation break fixes and other proactive maintenance activities to keep the services up and running
- Evaluating the Issues reported by customers and members and providing ongoing solutions
- Managing the performance and tuning of several corporate applications
- Managing the service and ticket SLAs and managing the workflow to achieve the SLAs
- Owning a specific production problem and provide active coordination between various groups including internal and external vendor support groups in resolving a specific problem
- Providing appropriate feedback to management about the progress and timeline related to specific production problem
- Determining configuration and operational requirements for development team
- Designing test criterions and test plans
- Participation in the decision making of success or failure of applications systems to be deployed in production
- Assessment of risk associated to control and policy exceptions
- Executing decisive action to preserve and maintain service availability, performance, integrity, capacity and security
- Determining root cause for service failure and support escalation
- Implementation of new processes

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS INCLUDE:

- At least 5 years of experience in Web Architecture (Apache/Tomcat/TCServer) and/or Siteminder and LDAP
- Advanced knowledge and experience with Linux and Network Loadbalancers
- Experience in working with MySQL databases
- Working experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, OPNET, SPLUNK, or any other monitoring tools/processes.
- 5+ years' experience in Production support working in a globally distributed team
- Experience with ITIL, BMC Remedy and ticketing workflows preferred
- Undergraduate Degree in Engineering or equivalent in Computer Science or related stream
- Experience with card and transaction domains preferred

TECHNOLOGIES:

- Apache 5+ Yrs.
- Linux. 5+ Yrs.
- MySQL 5+ Yrs.
- TCServer 5+ Yrs.
- Tomcat 5+ Yrs.

Duration of assignment and possible extensions: 12 months.