Web Server/Application Administrator

START DATE: ASAP

DURATION: 6 months

PAY RATE: $35/hr (negotiable)

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Works closely with customers, business analysts, and team members to understand business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions. These solutions must be aligned with business and IT strategies and comply with the organizations architectural standards. Involved in the full systems life cycle and is responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining and supporting application software that is delivered on time and within budget. Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code. Responsibilities may also include participation in component and data architecture design, performance monitoring, product evaluation and buy versus build recommendations. Has experience in systems analysis, design and a solid understanding of development, quality assurance and integration methodologies.

CUSTOMER SPECIFIC JOB DESCRIPTION/REQUIREMENTS:

The primary function of the Application Administrator is to implement, maintain, monitor and support production and non-production application landscapes hosted in the datacenter.
Implement customer projects in a timely manner.
Administer and support customer n-tier applications.
Proactively manage and maintain web Servers & application Servers.
Alert customer with up to date security patch updates.
Release maintenance and management.
Adherence to change management process.
24x7 application availability support and incident management.
Keep an up-to-date support document.
Proactively identify and automate the routine tasks or hand over to operations.
Disaster Recovery support.
Capacity planning.
Performance tuning.
7 plus years of IT experience with at least 5 years of working experience in supporting production application environment.
Excellent team player with superb communication skills.
Excellent knowledge in administering J2EE based application Servers preferably WebLogic, WebSphere, MQ, JBoss and Tomcat.
Strong Experience with web Servers Sun One, Apache and IIS.
Experience in Oracle Application Servers a plus.
.NET platform familiarity.
Strong Unix and Windows platform experience.
Basic knowledge of networking.
Bachelors Degree in Information Systems or equivalent experience required, Masters Degree in an engineering discipline desired.
Certification in IIS, Apache WebLogic is a plus.