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

• English is mandatory - Oral/Written


• Working languages : English


• Any other European Language : nice to have

Customer : EU Brussels




Start date : asap.




End date : 31.08.2024 with extensions.




Daily rate : 435 €