Network / System Engineer III (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a Network Engineer for our client in Pennington, New Jersey, Richardson, Texas, OR Charlotte, North Carolina. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Description:

• As a member of Distributed Environment Service team the person will be responsible for Environments Management, Deployment & Support for Lower Level test Environment. Keeping the environment pristine and as production like as possible. Day to day activities include, but not limited to the following:
  • Management of application stability, connectivity, and related defect triage in the controlled testing environments
  • Deployment of code and/or retrofit of production code
  • Communicating to our clients and/or consulting on design of infrastructure
  • Rebuilding servers/Desktops
  • Working side by side with testers and developers to ensure all are working cohesively.
  • System patching
  • Technical documentation
  • Partnership and communications with internal customers and partner teams

Required Skills:

• 3 - 5 years of experience in Build and Code Deployment functions
• Effective Communication – Clear, Concise and the ability to articulate ideas
• Should be able to lead and actively participate in conference calls with technical and business users
• Flexible to work in different shifts, including rotational night shift and weekend support
• Experience in Application Lifecycle Management Automation tools and integration using one or more of the following tools: IBM UrbanCode Suite, Ansible by Red Hat, Jenkins or Hudson
• Experience in working with one or more version control tools like BitBucket/Git, RTC (IBM Rational Team Concert), Subversion, Perforce or TFS (Team Foundation Server)
• Working knowledge/expertise with JIRA, NEXUS and ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)
• Exposure and familiarity with software development lifecycle methodologies (Agile/Waterfall/V Model)
• Candidate must be self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, able to work with little supervision and a responsible team-player
• Willing and able to work in a 24 X 7 environment including after hours and weekend support to support multiple time zones
• Able to work on Databases: Query and updates
• Computer networking skills and working knowledge: Load balancers, firewall, etc.
• Degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Communication, Information Technology.
• Understanding/experience with web application communication protocols - SOAP, HTTP, XML etc
• Basic knowledge on MQ’s
• Working knowledge of application setup, support, and configuration
• Expert knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems with hands on experience in Java/unix combination– cd/tail/ls/vi/ssh/ps/telnet etc
• Strong working knowledge of IBM WebSphere (or equivalent - with working knowledge of Linux OS and debugging techniques)
• Exposure and/or hands-on knowledge of UNIX Shell, Perl, Python, and similar scripting language
• Experience with J2EE application servers and webservers - IHS, TOMCAT, WebSphere, JBOSS (websphere and jboss is a plus)

Desired Skills

• · Exposure to financial, banking business processes, technologies, system and process architecture
• · Environment Management skills on UNIX and WINDOWS
• · Sharepoint
• · Secure software delivery
• · Release management
• · Networking skills
• · Java Technologies & Containers
• · Continuous Integration & Deployment knowledge and hands on skill involving any or all of Jenkins, Maven/Ant, JFrog Artifactory, TFS/BitBucket, and similar CI/CD technologies
• · HP Non Stop - Tandem

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