Application Engineer – Windows, Linux/Unix, Java Job in London Central/West End EC1V4EX, London UK
Expedia, Inc. is home to some of the world’s favourite travel companies, providing travel products and services to leisure and corporate travellers in Europe and around the world. We own and operate a diversified portfolio of well-recognized brands — including Expedia, Hotels.com, Venere.com, Hotwire.com, Classic Custom Vacations, and a range of other international businesses. Together, these popular brands and innovative businesses make up Expedia, Inc. the largest online travel agency in the world, the third largest online travel company in the US, and the fourth largest travel company in the world. With us, you get the stability of the global leader in online travel along with the vision, energy and attitude that’s unusual for a company of our size.
Req ID: 20055
Required Education: Not Indicated
Required Experience: Not Indicated
Description:
Position Overview
The eCommerce Application Engineer works with the Product Development teams, bringing the engineering perspective to the development project teams, participating in the design of the infrastructure to support our services, planning the monitoring and implementation, as well as performing the deployment and implementation. This candidate will participate in initiatives to design and optimize Production and Lab environments.
Responsibilities:
•Provide proactive engineering and release deliverables, resulting in Products and services with more efficiency, lower risk, and reduced customer impact
•Have a complete understanding of the eCommerce platforms application functionality, system flow, and technology infrastructure
•Develop and demonstrate detailed, proactive ownership for supported systems, including configurations, monitoring and documentation
•Work closely with Product Development counterparts on requirements, solution design, issue identification and resolution, problem solving and planning related to production issues and software releases
•Own the eCommerce Application Engineering deliverables within a project, such as Production requirements, Application Engineering design documents, and Release and Implementation plans
•Identify security and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment, from hardware, operating environment, network and application
•Provide feedback and guidance to product development teams on adherence to policies, standards, and operational best practices
•Establish and monitor key performance benchmarks
•Evaluate performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity
•Provide technical expertise in identifying issues that impact release and service delivery
Work Experience Guidelines:
Essential
•Experience with managing and supporting large-scale, high volume, Windows environments required
•Extensive hands-on experience in system and application administration
•Experience in a large scale Web and/or eCommerce environment
•Experience in related tools technologies; e.g.: Linux, Unix, Java, J2EE, Apache, Oracle
Desirable
•Experience managing environments using Java application servers such as BEA Weblogic, Apache Tomcat, Resin, Jboss
•Knowledge of the following tools an asset: BladeLogic, ProActiveNet, NetCool desirable
•Experience working in a 24x7 production environment
•Experience providing operational support for Microsoft platform and applications, e.g.: Win2K 2003, IIS 5, 6 7, SQL Server, .NET, C++, ASP
•Experience with load-balancing, SSL acceleration, caching, and content distribution
•Knowledge of SQL and database design concepts
•Experience with IBM MQ or other messaging systems
•Microsoft and/or Linux certifications
About Expedia, Inc.
Expedia, Inc. is the world’s leading online travel company, empowering business and leisure travelers with the tools and information they need to easily research, plan, book and experience travel. Expedia, Inc. also provides in-destination concierge service and activity desks for travelers. The Expedia, Inc. portfolio of brands includes: Expedia.com®, hotels.com®, Hotwire®, Egencia™, Expedia Local Expert™, Classic Vacations® and eLong™. Expedia, Inc.’s companies operate more than 50 global points of sale with sites in North America, South America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Expedia, Inc. is a component of the SP 500 index. For more information, visit http://www.expediainc.com / (NASDAQ: EXPE).
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