System Engineer

System Engineer

Immediate need for a talented System Engineer with experience in the Telecom Industry. This is a 06+ Months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Ashburn, VA.

Key Responsibilities:

• This person performs the installation, configuration, and day-to-day tasks associated with ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of application runtime environment, to include the design and implementation of infrastructure from specifications.
• Configuration and deployment of applications, connecting to back-end resources, and advanced troubleshooting of moderately complex software applications.
• Deployment, and operational support of (production, staging, test and development) environments for multiple projects using weblogic Application Server.
• Under general direction, devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems.
• Work with the development staff to determine project requirements for test/production environments. Competent to work at the highest technical level of all phases of applications server activities.
• Keep current with emerging software enhancements, security patches and bug fixes.

Key Responsibilities and Technology Experience:

• Monitor application server performance and respond appropriately. Modifies, installs, and prepares technical documentation for system software applications.
• Monitors systems capacity and performance, plans and executes disaster recovery procedures, and provides Tier 2 technical support.
• Provides high level written communications such as white papers, decision documents, or research papers Identify, escalate and document production impact issues for the environment to confirmed delivery for client and business notification.
• Position requires the candidate to be highly flexible in hours of work because of its customer-facing, highly available infrastructure necessity.
• Experience with Web-based applications and tools such as ELK (log monitoring), APM tools, and Jenkins. 6+ years of experience in production support. AWS certification is a Must.