osition : System Administrator Senior

Function : Java Middleware Application Support Engineer

Description of tasks 

• Support and administration of JAVA Enterprise (J2EE) applications.

• Create and maintain incidents/requests in our ticket system and follow ITIL best practices.

• Create and update knowledge articles for known issues and processes.

• Installation and deployment of Java applications on Weblogic in different environments (Acceptance, Production and others).

• Implement application monitoring in the different environments to ensure availability.

• Provide L1, L2 support and troubleshoot application and infrastructure components involved.

• Set up the monitoring scripts and automate the tasks performed by support team.

• Send out the notifications to the users in case of Downtime during business hours.

• Trigger investigations (registration of problems) in order to identify root causes and prevent potential impacts on the application.

• Provide Stand by support when required.

Knowledge and skills 

• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills, with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Excellent writing and training skills.

• Understanding of network protocols TCP/IP, HTTP/S.

• Understanding of Jana Enterprise, XML, Web services SOAP and REST.

• Good Knowledge of application servers (Weblogic, Wildfly, Tomcat) as well as Apache HTTP server.

• Good knowledge of Database Management systems (MySQL, Oracle RDBMS).

• Good Knowledge of GNU/Linux toolset, shell scripting in mandatory.

• Good knowledge of Splunk monitoring platform.

• Good knowledge of ITIL best practices.

Preferred skills

• Experience with large scale J2EE deployment and operational support.

• Cloud experience, preferably in Azure environments.

• Understanding of Docker and application containers.

• Good knowledge of SOA Architecture and Web services (SOAP and REST).

• Experience with SoapUI and free API test tool.

• SSL certificate management knowledge is nice to have (keytool, openssl).

• Knowledge of SQL.

• ITIL foundation certification.

Working Conditions:

2 days onsite per week from the office in Brussels
3 days remote
Work shifts of 8 hours covering the time range between 08:00 am and 06:00 pm from Monday to Friday with some flexibility required when overtime is exceptionally needed + On demand- Standby service from 06:00 pm to 08:00 am + weekends and during public and Commission holidays
Occasional travel for missions (related expenses can be invoiced based on evidence).
Citizenship : The candidate has to be an EU Member State equivalent at the date of signature of the specific agreement.

Languages

Customer : EU Brussels

Start date : asap.

End date : 31.08.2024 with extensions.

Daily rate : 435 €