Our client, a leading financial company, is hiring an Operations Engineer with JBOSS on a contract basis
Job ID #: 80293
Work Location: Toronto, ON M5J 0A8, Canada
Summary:
Key Job Functions/Responsibilities:
- Maintain and manage ASP/SaaS-based production system, to ensure its availability, performance, scalability, and security.
- Establish and maintain Middleware (JBoss or Websphere) components. This includes all aspects of running a SaaS Middleware solution.
- Write documentation as necessary
- Work closely with Operations & Infrastructure team members, Project Managers, Software Development and Business Analysts to ensure successful delivery for all projects.
- Responsible for general systems administration, including system configuration management, OS installations, security updates, and urgent system patching.
- Software code deployment, upgrades and client support as required.
- Management of systems in a virtualized environment to ensure availability.
- Assist the team in migration and provisioning of various Linux/Unix servers.
- Write and implement scripts to automate tasks for continuous process improvements.
- Ensure critical system security through the use of best-in-class security solutions.
- Work includes participation in afterhours, weekend work and participation in on-call rotation for 24/7 support as required.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
Qualifications:
- Deep hands-on experience of J2EE Application servers like WebSphere, JBoss, or Class loader policies.
- Experience with VMWare Virtual Machines, including in-depth experience in support, and storage administration.
- Strong understanding of load balancer, firewalls, switches, routers, VPN, TCP/IP, SSL, DNS, DHCP, TFTP, PXE.
- Team player: intra- and inter-departmental cooperation that fosters morale and productivity.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Able to understand the impact of decisions on other disciplines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to details
- A proactive, “service-first” attitude combined with ability to work independently on projects with tight deadlines and minimal supervision.
- Bachelor’s degree, college diploma or exceptional equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of experience in System Administration for Red Hat/CentOS/RPM-based Linux
- 2+ years of experience in managing Web Application servers.
- Prior experience in managing AIX/Unix servers is preferred.
- Experience with Python, Perl, Korn/Bash, or PowerShell scripting.
- Experience with automated tools and software deployment, configuration management (Ansible) and system monitoring is an asset.
- Financial business experience is considered an asset.
Nice to have:
- Experience with Oracle databases.
- Certificate implementation and management (SSL certificate).
- Knowledge of Enterprise Schedulers such as Active Batch.
- Experience in Windows System Administration is considered an asset.
- Prior experience with a Data center move is considered a definite asset.