Application Administrator

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Position: Application Administrator

Location: Baltimore, MD

Rate: DOE

Job Summary:

An Application Administrator is responsible for all aspects of application administration.  This includes installing, deploying, and maintaining applications on the Unix Solaris 10 platform.  This individual needs to have a minimum of 5 years experience with system/application administration, preferably an enterprise wide application suite.  In addition, the individual needs to have knowledge of weblogic administration and have a good understanding of overall information technology concepts, including the system development life cycle.  Unix expertise and scripting is a must.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works closely with other system administrators in performing functions such as application installs, clones, patching, and overall maintenance activities
• Analyze, install, and maintain tools required for system implementation
• Write shell scripts to automate system functions.  Unix shell scripting is a must and other scripting experience is a plus
• Perform system configurations and weblogic administration
• Work with Corporate infrastructure teams to facilitate maintenance and implement key technologies
• Contribute to architecture design and implementation based on results of performance and operational readiness testing

Job Specifications:

Knowledge:

• Minimum 5 years experience working on Solaris 10 operating systems
• Experience with Weblogic and Apache administration
• Strong scripting skills, primarily Unix shell scripting
• Knowledge of / experience with application development languages, utilities, life cycle methodology and software configuration management tools.
• Knowledge of / experience with relational and/or object oriented databases, primarily Oracle, SQL, SQLPLUS
• Understanding of single sign on, high availability, disaster recover, and load balancing technologies
• Advanced understanding of concepts, practices and procedures in information technology. 
• Understanding of business unit needs to provide IT support within their functional area. 
• Experience with the Oracle Utilities Suite of Products is a plus

Skills/Abilities: (Typical skills and abilities may include the following:)

• Ability to meet deadlines while executing upon complete and accurate deliverables.
• Am flexible in working after hours and on weekends if necessary to support aggressive project delivery
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with team members and supervision.
• Ability to work effectively within the organization and collaborate with technical and non-technical professionals and internal clients to understand business processes and execution delivery.
• Ability to recognize business problems or technical issues, inform supervision, and assist in developing feasible IT solutions.
• Ability to design and implement system scripts on a Unix and Windows platform.
• Ability to produce quality application documentation including requirements, design, test procedures, support logs, etc.

Technical Skills:

• Unix Solaris 10, Redhat Linux, vi editor
• Weblogic 10, Apache administration
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, 2000
• Oracle 10g, 11i
• Scripting language – Bash shell, Powershell, ANT, Perl, Awk, WLST, etc.
• Java, SQL, PLSQL

Education/Experience:

·         Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related discipline or the equivalent combination of formal education and experience.

·         Minimum 5 years system administration experience dealing with large enterprise applications.

·         Weblogic and Apache experience is a must, primarily experience configuring JMS modules, creating domains, clustering, etc.

Physical requirements, working conditions, and other factors to consider:

       ·      Overtime when required by work schedules and workload

·      May perform other duties to meet the team deliverables