Java Middleware Support Engineer – Freelance/Contract

DESCRIPTION

Main tasks

• Support and administration of JAVA applications
• Create and maintain the Tickets in our ticket system and follow ITIL best practices.
• Create and update knowledge base for the known issues.
• Installation and deployment of JAVA applications on WebLogic in different environments (Acceptance and Production)
• Implement monitoring of the application in the different environments to ensure its availability.
• Provide L1, L2 support and troubleshoot application as well as infrastructure issues.
• 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.

Required skills

• Good knowledge of ITIL best practices.
• Good Knowledge of JAVA, J2EE, XML, Web services-SOAP and REST.
• Experience with Linux environments scripting is mandatory.
• Good Knowledge of application servers (WEBLOGIC).
• Understanding of network protocols TCP/IP and HTTP.
• Good knowledge of Splunk monitoring platform.
• Good Knowledge of Database Management (MySQL, Oracle RDBMS).
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills, with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent writing and training skills.

Required background

• Senior profile with at least 5 years of “support experience” (closely related to the tasks described above)

Preferred skills

• ITIL foundation certification.
• Good knowledge of SOA Architecture and Web services (SOAP and REST)
• Middleware products WebLogic, TOMCAT, and Wildfly application server and apache.
• Experience with large scale J2EE deployment java programming or software development life cycle
• Experience with SoapUI and free API test tool
• Public key Infrastructure knowledge is nice to have.
• Knowledge of SQL

Languages: English is mandatory and other European languages are nice to have

Working Conditions:

• Occasional travel for missions
• 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 exceptionally needed.

NOTE: We are looking for candidates with minimum 3 years of support experience (experience with application servers, SOAP and so on)

Mandatory: Proposed candidates must be eligible for a Security Clearance

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Start date: 14/09/2020

Duration: 31/12/2020 (+ possible extension)

Rate: 390€/day (all inclusive) maybe flexible

Mandatory: Eligible for Security Clearance – (EU nationals/citizens)