Title: Sun IDM/WebLogic Administrator
Location: Quincy, MA
Duration: 6+ Month Contract
Additional Info: After a successful phone interview, the candidate will be required to attend an on-site interview in Quincy, MA
POSITION OVERVIEW:
- Provide primary systems management support for Sun IDM components in Dev, ST, QA, Training and Production environments, including off-hours support and Disaster Recovery
- Strong knowledge of Sun IDM components, J2EE Architecture, Weblogic Application Server, Apache WebServer
- Provide support for Middleware related problems, including HTTP Servers, WebLogic Servers
- Identify and successfully troubleshoot problems. Work across client teams to ensure problems get resolved.
- Monitor IDM infrastructure capacity. Provide capacity analysis and upgrade recommendations.
- Work with other teams to improve security, performance, backup strategies and administration.
- Create and maintain technical documentation including startup/shutdown, maintenance, build and deployment procedures.
- Provide training to colleagues
- Provide technical implementation plans for projects including platform and environment documentation.
- Support design, implementation, and documentation of IDM, J2EE and WebLogic clustering including24x7x52 availability enhancements
- Support the design and development of J2EE systems that host WebLogic and monitoring infrastructure
- Support the implementation of performance SLAs through support of volume/stress testing and capacity management
- Develop and implement automation of systems administration and software migration for QA and Production including application build and deployment
- Develop relationships with QA and development organizations and establish application turnover procedures and process enhancements
- Provide architecture and configuration recommendations to ensure deployed environments are WebLogicbest practice and J2EE compliant
- Provide technical assistance to agency users and other agency personnel throughout the technical, professional and/or administrative matters
- Perform related duties as required.
REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE (5 years mandatory minimum experience):
- Proven experience with Sun/Oracle/IBM Identity and Access Managements tools
- The ability to provide senior level implementation and administration of SUN IDM components and enterprise Java middleware environments with minimal supervision.
- WebLogic Administration
- J2EE development experience (understanding of J2EE Software Architecture) a plus.
- Clear understanding of the J2EE software architecture and standards (requirement) and how it relates to the various Middleware (J2EE) platforms and APIs.
- Knowledge and/or experience in migrating software, and the deployed J2EE applications to a later version ofWebLogic, preferably 10.x.
- Knowledge and experience in configuring proxy plug-ins for WebLogic.
- Experience with at least one SCM toolset such as Clearcase, CVS, SCCS, Subversion or similar software
- Experience with J2EE enterprise (large) application support, including clustered environments
- Experience with application build software such as ANT or MAVEN
- Significant experience with following Enterprise Java application-server environments: WebLogic. Experience with Apache webserver
- The ability to administer front-end web servers, especially with regard to how they interoperate with the java containers - connectivity, load balancing, etc.
- Fluency in UNIX/Linux environments - native commands, tools and utilities, including core utilities such as awk, sed, and shell scripting (requirement).
- A fundamental understanding of basic networking concepts, especially in the realm of TCP/IP and internetworking.
- Support various forms of testing - user testing, performance testing including load and stress testing, and regression testing.
- Designed processes for application code migrations and supported migrations for large scale applications.
- Experience with application benchmarking and analysis of JVM resource usage and system usage.
- Experience with troubleshooting application availability and performance issues w/vendors and development teams.
- General understanding of current SOA patterns and standards.
- An understanding of the key underlying Enterprise Java technologies such as JMS, JDBC, and JNDI, and how they are configured and administered in the containers.
- Experience with managing application servers on Unix, Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Development experience with Object Oriented tools or Java.
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