WebLogic & Websphere Middleware Engineer (6 months) recruitment
Overview
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services.
The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving more than 59 million consumer and small business relationships with more than 6,100 retail banking offices, nearly 18,700 ATMs and award-winning online banking with nearly 29 million active users. Following the acquisition of Merrill Lynch on January 1, 2009, Bank of America is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world.
Bank of America offers industry-leading support to more than 4 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients in more than 150 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Job Description
- Responsible for support of complex Enterprise Application Operational Environments, primarily but not limited to MiddleWare.
- May participate in project engineering and implementation meetings including middleware upgrades, patching and decommissioning both software and hardware, capacity planning, inventory and analytics.
- Actively engage in Vendor support, triaging, escalation and remediation.
- Complete assigned deliverables timely.
- Adhere and comply to change control policies and practices, Incident Management Process, working knowledge of such tool (Preferably Maximo).
- Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Extensive working experience in production break fix support in a global environment, work closely with both on/off shore resources to resolve production operational issues.
- As a seasoned technical resource, may manage projects and collaborate activities of sub team related to initiatives and operations.
- Provide technical knowledge and capabilities as a member of a project team or as an individual contributor.
- Work under minimal supervision, with general guidance from leads and/or managers.
Requirements
Required Skills
- Experience in Web App server technologies, Middleware components, including but not limited to some combination of Oracle Weblogic, IBM Wepshere, Redhat,JBoss, Messaging, SiteMinder, LDAP, MQ and Authentication/Authorization tiers
- Experience with mid-range compute platforms enterprise storage including but not limited to Solaris, AIX, Linux, and Windows
- Proficient in identifying and resolving abnormalities in the production, operational environment before there is impact to the business applications
- Provide world class speed and quality response to production incidents, and serve in an on call rotation.
- Lead technical troubleshooting and drive incident resolution
- Experience with basic programming and basic to strong skill shell scripting, Korn shell and Perl preferred
- Work independently in a team/teams oriented environment, with minimal supervision
- Excellent communication skills, communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical team mates and partners
- Handle competing priorities in a fast-paced dynamic enterprise environment
- Take initiative, a self-starter
- 8+ years hands-on experience in IT systems and/or application management work experience in Level 2 or 3 production support B.S. or equivalent
Desired Skills
- Experience across multiple technology disciplines
- 10+ years hands-on technical experience in a heterogeneous enterprise computing environment
- Strong experience with Middleware components WebSphere, WebLogic, certification preferred, and performance monitoring, tuning and batch operation tools
- Supporting enterprise business critical applications
- Experience working with a global team
- Experience mentoring technical resources