Senior Principal Advanced Services Engineer(Senior Oracle WebLogic / SOA Administrator)

Oracle; Delhi; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Delhi, India seeks an experienced Senior Oracle WebLogic / SOA Administrator to manage enterprise middleware environments. Responsibilities include installation, configuration, production support, performance tuning, and ensuring availability, security, and reliability of business-critical applications.

The role requires 10+ years of middleware experience, strong troubleshooting skills, and hands-on expertise with WebLogic Server and SOA Suite in clustered production

Qualifications

• 10+ years middleware administration experience.
• Hands-on with WebLogic Server and SOA Suite in production.
• Experience in performance tuning, troubleshooting, and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer and maintain Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle SOA Suite across environments.
• Manage WebLogic domains, clusters, Admin Servers, Managed Servers, and Node Manager.
• Administer SOA components (BPEL, Mediator, adapters, OSB).
• Configure JDBC data sources, connection pools, JMS, queues, topics, and stores.
• Deploy applications/SOA composites; manage changes and releases.
• Monitor middleware health; perform root cause analysis and resolve issues.
• Analyze JVM behavior, GC, thread heaps to resolve performance issues.
• Plan middleware patching, upgrades, migrations, security remediation.
• Configure SSL/TLS, certificates, keystores, and RBAC.
• Ensure HA, backups, recovery, and DR procedures.
• Automate tasks using WLST, Python, and shell scripting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and maintain runbooks.

Skills

Oracle WebLogic Server

Oracle SOA Suite

Clustered production environment

OSB / BPEL / Mediator

Linux/Unix administration

JVM performance tuning

WLST / Python / shell scripting

Incident/Problem/Change management

Oracle Enterprise Manager / Fusion

Tools

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Fusion Middleware Control

Job description

About the Company / Team

Join Oracle’s Customer Success organization in a services and support role focused on enterprise Oracle database environments. Work with customers and global engineering and support teams across time zones to maintain availability, reliability, customer satisfaction and engineering quality.

Job Title: Senior Oracle WebLogic / SOA Administrator

Experience: 10+ years

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Oracle WebLogic / SOA Administrator to manage enterprise middleware environments. The role involves installation, configuration, production support, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and ensuring the availability, security, and reliability of business-critical applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, and maintain Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle SOA Suite across development, testing, and production environments.

• Manage WebLogic domains, clusters, Administration Servers, Managed Servers, and Node Manager.

• Administer SOA components, including BPEL, Mediator, adapters, workflows, and Oracle Service Bus (OSB).

• Configure and troubleshoot JDBC data sources, connection pools, JMS servers, queues, topics, and persistent stores.

• Deploy applications and SOA composites; manage configuration changes, release activities, and rollback procedures.

• Monitor middleware health, investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and resolve production issues within agreed SLAs.

• Analyze JVM behavior, garbage collection, thread dumps, and heap dumps to resolve performance and stability issues.

• Plan and execute middleware patching, upgrades, migrations, and security remediation.

• Configure SSL/TLS, certificates, keystores, authentication providers, and role-based access.

• Implement and maintain high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures.

• Automate administration and monitoring tasks using WLST, Python, and shell scripting.

• Collaborate with application, database, infrastructure, network, and security teams.

• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and standard operating procedures.

• Participate in on-call support and planned maintenance activities; mentor junior administrators.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of relevant experience in middleware administration, with strong hands‑on expertise in Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle SOA Suite.

• Strong experience supporting clustered, highly available production environments.
• Hands‑on knowledge of Oracle Service Bus, SOA composite deployment, fault recovery, instance monitoring, and repository maintenance.
• Experience with SOA dehydration stores, MDS repositories, and coordination with DBAs on database‑related issues.
• Strong understanding of Linux/Unix administration, networking fundamentals, DNS, load balancing, and HTTP/HTTPS.
• Proven troubleshooting skills across application, middleware, JVM, database connectivity, and infrastructure layers.
• Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager / Fusion Middleware Control and monitoring tools.
• Proficiency in WLST and shell scripting; working knowledge of Python.
• Experience with incident, problem, change, and release management processes.
• Strong communication, documentation, stakeholder coordination, and technical ownership skills.