System Administrator III Job in Saint Louis, Missouri US
System Administrator III
POSITION OVERVIEW: Deploys the release of new technologies as well as designs, installs, configures, maintains and performs system integration testing of PC/server operating systems, related utilities and hardware. Assists with assigning staff to various projects, directs their activities, and evaluates their work. Administers applications supporting all Charter Divisions. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION: Maintains and administer computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations Recommends changes to improve systems and network configurations, and determine hardware or software requirements related to such changes Responsible for trouble shooting server problems as reported by users Uses established change management processes, requiring operational procedures be performed with minimal customer impact Researches, evaluates and recommends software and hardware products Supports Web access and electronic messaging services and maintains a secure systems environment Provides new hardware specifications to users based on application and business needs and anticipated growth, installs new servers and maintains the server infrastructure Defines procedures for monitoring and evaluates, diagnoses and establishes work plan to resolve system issues Performs troubleshooting for complex hardware, software and network problems Works on multiple projects as a project team member, occasionally as a project leader PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: 5 to 7 years of related IT work experience EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION LICENSES: BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent work experience WORKING CONDITIONS: Office Environment ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Software Specific: WebLogic application server 10.x and above WebLogic Portal 10.x and above Aqualogic Service Bus 3.x familiarity Apache Web Server WebLogic application server 8.x, 9.x Apache Tomcat Database Specific Understanding of Relational database concepts/integration (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL) Operating Systems: Solaris 10 on sparc and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 experience in one or more of the following are desirable: ? Install, configure and administer servers, including multiple server instances, standalone, clusters, connection pools, plug-ins and JDBC drivers in a Development environment ? Define common processes and procedures to ensure server stability, performance and availability that will be used by other Admins maintain Production environments. ? Perform administration tasks required to support application development, deployment, integration, QA and production processes and applications ? Participate in the planning and design of the application server architecture.