J2EE Administrator (WebLogic, JBoss,
WebMethods)

6 month
contract

Alpharetta, GA

Senior J2EE
administrator responsible for installation, configuration and support of J2EE
applications, with BEA WebLogic, WebMethods, and JBoss Application
Server.  This position supports development to production life cycle
environments including development, QA, staging and production.  This is
position is part of the Operations organization.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordination of all system
  management activities including software upgrades, capacity planning, and
  performance monitoring and tuning
• Plan and coordinate testing
  changes, upgrades and new products, ensuring systems will operate
  correctly in current and future environments
• Design and implementation of
  future WebLogic domain, JBOSS Cluster, and/or WebMethods topologies
• Mentor and train co-workers
• After-hours environment and
  application support will be required
• This is a "hands on"
  technical position and will require the individual to handle multiple
  projects in a fast paced software and technical lifecycle
• Interact with software,
  network, database, and Unix administrators to seamlessly implement
  solutions to complex technical issues
• Adhere to all existing client
  security and software standards

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum Five years
  administration experience focusing on J2EE technologies
• Experience building J2EE out
  from ground zero (not just taking what is written for them)
• Strong scripting skills (shell
  scripting or  WebLogic WLST or WebLogic.Admin) – 5 years
• Strong knowledge of J2EE
  technology such as JMS, JDBC, JNDI is required – 5 year
• Experience automating code
  deployments
• Experience monitoring queues
• Experience doing performance
  analysis (of vendors, straight out of JRockit mission control) and then
  taking results and making recommendations on what they need

• Strong verbal and written
  communications skills a must
• Experience in a carrier-class
  ISP environment
• Must demonstrate strong team
  building skills
• Must be able to configure and
  support clusters (WebLogic, JBOSS, or WebMethods).
• Must be able to configure
  connection pools to communicate with Oracle RAC clusters.
• Must be able to translate
  business needs and requirements into technical specifications