Job Title: Systems Administrator

Job Duration: 12+ months extendable
Location: Iowa City, IA

Fulltime / W2: iGate Mastech 

Job Responsibilities:

• Implement highly available application services. Develop, conduct, and document tests to certify application environments and components according to business and service level requirements.
• Configure, deploy, and troubleshoot Java applications in BEA Weblogic 8.X, and 9.X platforms.
• Provides architectural and practical guidance to avoid or minimize conditions that may result in unacceptable service loss or degradation. Effectively communicates risks and related mitigation plans.
• Work with multiple teams, as required, to triage, troubleshoot, and resolve emergent production issues. Analyze system problems to determine root cause and preventative measures.
• Work with hosting providers to identify and resolve single points of failure within production network, backup, storage, and server infrastructures.
• Consult with IT project management, product management, development, and engineering teams to discuss capacity planning and hardware allocations for new and existing projects.
• Develop automation routines for system setup, migration, and maintenance procedures. Ability to write scripts using languages such as Perl, bash, Python, etc.
• Develop, communicate, and monitor standard processes in support of configuration management, deployments, new application hosting, backup and recovery, and failover capabilities.
• Provides project support as required.

Experience Required:

• 3+ years of recent experience as Linux/Unix System Admin supporting BEA WebLogic, Jboss, and Tomcat J2EE platforms.
• Understanding of general networking concepts and protocols.
• Versatility as demonstrated with experience in various middleware technologies, database technologies and OS platforms
• Experience with performance tuning tools such as JProbe, Optimizeit, Yourkit, etc. is a plus.
• BEA Certified Systems Administrator strongly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree or appropriate combination of education and experience is required.
• Java programming background is preferred.
• Experience in a production environment supporting mission-critical applications.
• Knowledge of standard production practices including change management