Application Middleware Engineer

Stem Xpert; Hightstown (NJ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider in Hightstown, NJ, seeks an experienced Application Middleware Engineer for a 6-month contract with potential for extension. The ideal candidate should have over 7 years of IT experience, profound knowledge of J2EE based application servers including WebLogic, MQ, JBoss, and Tomcat. Responsibilities include implementing and supporting production and non-production application landscapes, thus ensuring application availability, performance tuning, and capacity planning are managed effectively. Strong team collaboration and communication skills are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT experience, with at least 5 years supporting production application environments.
• Excellent knowledge in administering J2EE based application servers, preferably WebLogic, MQ, JBoss, and Tomcat.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Implement, maintain, monitor, and support application landscapes in the datacenter.
• Configure and build middleware components, including web and application servers.
• Administer and support customer n-tier applications with 24x7 availability.

Skills

J2EE application servers knowledge

WebLogic

MQ

JBoss

Tomcat

Unix experience

Windows experience

Networking basics

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor Degree in Information Systems

Master Degree in engineering discipline

Tools

Oracle Application Servers

.NET

Apache WebLogic certification

IIS certification

Job description

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Ann Arbor, TEKWISSEN™ provides a unique portfolio of innovative capabilities that seamlessly combines clients insights, strategy, design, software engineering and systems integration. Our tightly integrated offerings are tailored to each client’s requirements and span the services spectrum from Application Development/Maintenance, testing, Technology Consulting & staffing. The company is primarily focused on information technology, engineering, healthcare, financial technology and contingent workforce solutions. It operates in seven business segments including Commercial, Professional & Technical, EMEA Commercial, and EMEA Professional & Technical. The company provides professional and technical expertise in the fields of Telecom, Education, Banking, Retail, e-commerce, Automotive, Life Science, Insurance, legal, healthcare, among others. It also offers outsourcing, consulting, recruitment, career transition, and vendor management services.

We strongly believe:" If something cannot be measured, it cannot be managed. "
TEKWISSEN™ measures all of these processes and applies corrective interventions to manage the quality process at its core.
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer M/F/V/D

Recognitions:

2015 -America’s Fastest Growing Company by Inc.com
2015- SPARK FastTrack Award from Ann Arbor SPARK
2015 -Honoree of Diversity Focused Company by Corp! Magazine
2014- America’s Fastest Growing Company by Inc.com
2014- Michigan 50 Companies to Watch
2014 – DiSciTech Award in Technology by Corp! Magazine
2014- DiSciTech TECHNOLOGY Company of the year by Corp! Magazine
2014- SPARK FastTrack Award from Ann Arbor SPARK

Specialties:
Enterprise Solutions, Web Development, Data Warehousing, Systems Integration, IT Security, Storage Technologies, Development and Delivery, Business Intelligence, Telecommunications, Consulting and Planning, Network design, Implementation &Administration

Job Description

Position: Application Middleware Engineer

Job Location: Hightstown, NJ

Duration: 6 Months Contract with possibility of extension

Total # Positions: 1

Interview: Phone + F2F (Or Direct FTF) interview. Skype is option for Non-Locals

Must Have 7+ yrs experience. Must Have excellent knowledge in administering J2EE based application servers preferably WebLogic, MQ, JBoss and Tomcat.

Responsibilities

• The primary function of the Application Administrator is to implement, maintain, monitor and support production and non-production application landscapes hosted in the datacenter
• Configure and build middleware components including webserver and application servers
• Implement customer projects in a timely manner
• Administer and support customer n-tier applications
• Proactively manage and maintain web servers & application servers
• Alert customer with up to date security patch updates
• Release maintenance and management
• Adherence to change management process
• 24x7 application availability support and incident management
• Keep an up-to-date support document
• Proactively identify and automate the routine tasks or hand over to operations
• Disaster Recovery support
• Capacity planning
• Performance tuning
• 7 plus years of IT experience with at least 5 years of working experience in supporting production application environment
• Excellent team player with superb communication skills
• Excellent knowledge in administering J2EE based application servers preferably WebLogic, MQ, JBoss and Tomcat
• Strong Experience with web servers Sun One, Apache and IIS
• Experience in Oracle Application Servers a plus
• .NET platform familiarity
• Strong Unix and Windows platform experience
• Basic knowledge of networking
• Bachelor Degree in Information Systems or equivalent experience required, Master Degree in an engineering discipline desired
• Certification in IIS, Apache WebLogic is a plus

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