Description:

The Application Engineer will be responsible for the
support of middleware application servers and environment integration support
in production environments.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Support
  administration of customer application server environments
• Support
  integration of customer application environments with other components of
  the environment (databases, operating systems, networks)
• Evaluate
  performance of production servers and respond to issues that arise related
  to application servers
• Troubleshoot
  application server and environment issues
• Support
  developers and QA by assisting in the maintenance and configuration of
  test environments and application servers, per development specifications
• Aid in
  the design and development of new systems, and redesign of existing
  systems, to fulfill the needs of the customer
• Support
  multiple platforms, including after-hours support and off-hours
  maintenance
• Participate
  in a weekly on-call rotation

Requirements:

• Education: 
  BA/BS in Computer Science or related discipline
• Experience
  with Weblogic application servers
• 3-5
  years related experience, primarily in a Unix environment, including at
  least 1 year of application server administration in some form
• Strong
  user-level Linux/UNIX experience
• Understanding
  of n-tier web application systems
• Development
  experience in at least one dynamic web application language (Java, ASP,
  .NET, PHP, etc)
• Fundamental
  concepts of Java (classes, exceptions, stack traces)
• Fundamental
  concepts of relational databases
• Fundamental
  concepts of networking (TCP, Load Balancing)

Desired:

• Experience
  with WebSphere, Tomcat, and/or JBoss application servers

• Solaris
  and/or Linux administration
• Basic
  experience with F5 load balancing
• General
  J2EE concepts and components (Servlets, EJBs, JMS, JDBC)
• Experience
  administering highly available, enterprise class operations environments