Sen/Middle Environment (Middleware) Engineer

Netcracker Technology Corp., a large software development company and one of the world's most respected TOMS Solutions (Telecommunications Operations and Management Solutions) companies, has an opening for:

Sen/Middle Environment (Middleware) Engineer

Responsibilities

• Manage Application implementations of various Production Installations, upgrade application startup/checklist tasks, log files, queues, and transactions for exceptions and react (fix/escalate/inform)
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for solution patching
• Third-party software administration (e.g., Oracle, Weblogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, Java)
• Participating in Environment architecture and capacity planning (e.g., server configuration, file system plan, network configuration, etc.)
• Maintenance window planning and coordination with all stakeholders
• Day-to-day environment monitoring and administration for the overall health of operation environment, including Server Health Checks, Network connectivity with Interfaces, Application performance monitoring, etc.
• Interface with different workgroups including Tier2, Technical support groups, and development, System Administrators to troubleshoot and resolve application issues
• Troubleshooting build, deployment, performance and configuration issues

Requirements, several of the following competencies

• Experience in the administration of Java-based middleware servers. Such as Weblogic, Jboss, Tomcat, WebSphere servers
• Strong knowledge of Java VM. Configuration, performance issue analyses, monitoring
• Strong knowledge of Unix architecture, configuration and tools
• Experience in Oracle database administration
• Experience with Unix shell/Perl/Python scripting
• Experience in working in large production systems deployments
• Experience in SSL/PKI concepts
• Basic knowledge of PL/SQL and DB concepts
• Familiarity with change management process
• Knowledge on Basic networking and Storage
• Effective oral and written bilingual conversant in English
• Understanding of Continuous Delivery and DevOps methods
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts and protocols
• Practical experience in scripting (Ansible, bash)
• This position requires being part of a 24?7 on-call support team

Will be of advantage, any of the following competencies

• ITIL certification
• Linux/any middleware administration certification
• Working knowledge in RBM/TOMS
• Must be able to demonstrate creativity and out-of-box thinking in analyzing and delivering solutions
• Previous experience in automating large scale deployments of applications in a cloud is a plus (Openstack + Ansible)
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL database, Cassandra database, etcd
• Knowledge of HAproxy, Pacemaker, Corosync, keepalived
• Knowledge of logstash, greylog
• Experience in configuration management of medium and large environments with Jenkins, Puppet, AWX, salt automation tools (installation, writing manifests, troubleshooting, etc.)
• Experience in developing monitoring agents for Nagios and Graphite is a plus
• Experience on Telecom Domain
• Good communication to handle/manage bridges and sending status update on MW
• Good negotiation skills

We offer

• Opportunities for career development
• Opportunities to make business trips (Europe, LATAM, Australia, Japan, etc)
• Professional growth in the international business environment
• Medical insurance for employees
• Friendly atmosphere, sports activities and corporate events
• Salary will be discussed individually with the successful candidate