J2EE/WebSphere Engineer

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US citizens or green cards only

Location: Eagan, MN

Duration: Long Term

Rate: Competitive

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The duties that will be regularly performed by the J2EE/WebSphere Engineer will include, but are not limited to the following:

• Assessment of Existing WebSphere App/Web Tiers on Solaris

• Implementation of WebSphere App/Web tiers on Suse Linux

• Assessment and recommendation for Scalability, Performance and Availability of WebSphere stack in a Network Deployment

• Migration of WebSphere J2EE based application from Solaris to Linux

• Assess application migration impact due to change in J2EE, Servlet, EJB specs and the differences resulting from App Server version upgrade, and recommend migration paths.

• Resolve any issues with migrated J2EE applications.

• Some Hardware infrastructure expertise

• System documentation

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REQUIRED WORK EXPERIENCE:
This role is an extremely hands-on, as he/she will be the "go to" person for problem resolution.

• Overall 8-10 years of IT experience.

• Minimum of 5-7 years experience with WebSphere App Server - in a business environment including design and development of J2EE based application.

• Experience with high availability WebSphere 5x, 6x deployments supporting custom application code and third party applications.

• Hands on experience with Rational Application Developer for WebSphere.

• Hands on experience with Servlets and EJB development, trouble shooting.

• Solid understanding of J2EE technologies (e.g., JNI, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, JTA, JAAS, etc.).

• Work experience with various frameworks like Spring, MVC, iBatis, Hibernate etc.

• Experience with Solaris and Linux (Suse preferred), Shell scripting.

• Development experience with Oracle Database 9i, 10g, (SQL, PL/SQL etc.).

• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills

• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to present findings and conclusions clearly and concisely