Job Description :
Job Title: Platform Support Engineer
Location: Cheektowaga, NY/Wilmington, DE/Baltimore, MD
Duration: 12 Months Contract to Hire
Job Description:
This candidate could sit out of any of the following offices: Cheektowaga (NY), Wilmington (DE), or Baltimore (MD)
Applies high level technical and specialized platform support skills and expertise to complex business systems projects and problems of particular difficulty and importance.
Conceive designs, implements platforms and sites to support business systems software.
Part of a team that supports a diverse set of critical applications using a wide variety of technologies for internal and external clients.
Responsibilities
Plays key role as an individual contributor on large and complex projects.
Plans, organizes, and coordinates, complex projects or phases of large projects by estimating work effort and resource needs.
Participates in platform and system design efforts with others involved in the planning and development of programming and/or deploying business systems software.
Works with vendors to understand system features and requirements, work with M&T to support resources to define and design infrastructure components or interactions toward implementing platforms to support business and technology roadmaps.
Ensures that work is processed on schedule.
Leverages automation and scripting to deploy and manage software systems and web sites.
Required Skills
Excellent knowledge of setup, configuration, administration and maintenance tasks for WebLogic
Experience with configuration, administration and maintenance tasks for Red Hat Linux servers.
Minimum 4 years of professional experience, specifically in systems analysis, application development, or platform support.
Experience with system design for high availability multi-server multi-site environments.
Strong troubleshooting abilities.
Strong organizational skills to support multiple platforms.
Strong oral and written communications skills and ability to work as a team.
Preferred Skills
Knowledge of setup, configuration, administration and maintenance tasks HTTP Services (IIS, HIS, Apache
Knowledge of the technologies our platforms and services interact with - Networking, Active Directory, Firewall, Network Load Balancer, SAN, DNS, ESB, MQ Series, Mainframe
Strong scripting skills or experience with software development.
Experience deploying technologies in multiple environment tiers (development, test, certification, production, and DR) to support business partners and internal/external clients through all phases of the application development and deployment life cycle.
Working knowledge of MS SQL.