I work for a fortune 100 company in Columbus, Ohio as a team lead. We have had the two open J2EE positions now for about 7 months. This is because of a couple of factors. First our HR department sucks. Secondly, the people they do find for us either completely lied on their resumes or they just did not have the skills we need.
Basically my team is part of our Webhosting organization. We do our own Webhosting here, thus we have multiple teams to support it. My team is considered the 'go-to' team when one of our hundreds of web applications breaks. My team will hop on a conference call to determine what is causing the incident, and then we fix it. We do a ton of infrastructure changes and work testing defects.
Work hours are 38.75 a week and it is very laid back here. However, we usually get pretty busy around a major release for a few weeks. Major releases are when our application teams push updates to their code and push those new updates thorough our different test environments IT, ST, and PT, then to Prod. Again we get busy because we work with the developers when there is an issue with their application not working.
One of the very cool things we have just implemented is running our new web environments ?virtually? on our mainframe. It is interesting to see everything go from using the mainframe to a distributed solution. Now everything is going back on the mainframe but in a distributed manner. Although I am only 29 I was not around in the ?olden? days to see only mainframes. But it is fun to joke around with those old timers. Looks like they were correct in saying that everything would go back to the mainframe one day. But I bet they did not expect it happening like this!
Here is info on some of the duties of the job and the team:
Company: Nationwide Insurance
Job Title: Specialist, System Engineering and Administration
Salary Levels: 65000 to 85000 depending on experience.
I believe the Job should be posted on http://www.nationwide.com someplace.
JOB SUMMARY:
This Application Administration position will be responsible for a variety of web-related support and administration functions within the Web Infrastructure Services organization, and will be dedicated to supporting the J2EE web environments and applications. The successful candidate will, at a minimum, meet the following technical and soft skill requirements:
Essential Skills (Minimum 4+ years of experience):
? Web Servers (Apache/IHS, iPlanet/SunOne, and IIS) support and configuration.
? WebSphere Application Server deployment, administration, configuration and application implementation / deployment and performance monitoring and tuning.
? WebSphere Network Deployment Manager Configuration and support.
? Fundamental understanding of the following concepts: Secure Sockets Layers, Secure Certificates, Load Balancing, Application / JVM Tuning, TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP, firewalls and multi-tiered architectures.
? In-depth working knowledge of: Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JDBS, EJBs, XML, HTML, DB2/UDB, Unix, Struts, Taglibs, JavaScript
? Demonstrated experience with delivering and supporting large scale production web applications or portal sites and dealing with the challenges of a highly complex web infrastructure (e.g. compatibility, scalability, and
performance.)
? Proven knowledge / expertise in J2EE application development concepts.
? Knowledge of web application structure (DDL, XML, distributed
computing, design patterns, model view controller architecture,
exception handling, databases, JDBC, etc).
? Extensive working knowledge of object oriented programming.
? Significant experience in understanding and articulating high-level design specification and or technical / application architecture documents.
? Experience with WSAD or other industry standard J2EE development
tool is a must.
? Excellent end-to-end understanding of J2EE development processes and techniques in order to drive the resolution of testing defects and Production incidents, with the proven ability to perform and lead root-cause analysis and risk analysis which result in the recommendation of optimal solutions and quality defect tracking.
? Daily activities involve trouble ticket resolution, application defect
analysis and testing support which requires strong problem solving and analytical competencies.
? Some after hours and weekend support.
? Must be a team player and comfortable in a large support role.
? Must have strong Customer Service disciplines and excellent communications skills in order to support and maintain ?24x7? uptime for Enterprise web applications.
Beneficial Skills:
? Working experience with Test Director.
? Additional WebSphere Experience (e.g. WebSphere Portal Server, MQ)
? UNIX, LINUX, AIX Systems Administration
? WebLogic and Tomcat experience.
? Familiarity with the Change Management, Incident Management and Problem Management processes and procedures.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Basically my team is part of our Webhosting organization. We do our own Webhosting here, thus we have multiple teams to support it. My team is considered the 'go-to' team when one of our hundreds of web applications breaks. My team will hop on a conference call to determine what is causing the incident, and then we fix it. We do a ton of infrastructure changes and work testing defects.
Work hours are 38.75 a week and it is very laid back here. However, we usually get pretty busy around a major release for a few weeks. Major releases are when our application teams push updates to their code and push those new updates thorough our different test environments IT, ST, and PT, then to Prod. Again we get busy because we work with the developers when there is an issue with their application not working.
One of the very cool things we have just implemented is running our new web environments ?virtually? on our mainframe. It is interesting to see everything go from using the mainframe to a distributed solution. Now everything is going back on the mainframe but in a distributed manner. Although I am only 29 I was not around in the ?olden? days to see only mainframes. But it is fun to joke around with those old timers. Looks like they were correct in saying that everything would go back to the mainframe one day. But I bet they did not expect it happening like this!
Here is info on some of the duties of the job and the team:
Company: Nationwide Insurance
Job Title: Specialist, System Engineering and Administration
Salary Levels: 65000 to 85000 depending on experience.
I believe the Job should be posted on http://www.nationwide.com someplace.
JOB SUMMARY:
This Application Administration position will be responsible for a variety of web-related support and administration functions within the Web Infrastructure Services organization, and will be dedicated to supporting the J2EE web environments and applications. The successful candidate will, at a minimum, meet the following technical and soft skill requirements:
Essential Skills (Minimum 4+ years of experience):
? Web Servers (Apache/IHS, iPlanet/SunOne, and IIS) support and configuration.
? WebSphere Application Server deployment, administration, configuration and application implementation / deployment and performance monitoring and tuning.
? WebSphere Network Deployment Manager Configuration and support.
? Fundamental understanding of the following concepts: Secure Sockets Layers, Secure Certificates, Load Balancing, Application / JVM Tuning, TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP, firewalls and multi-tiered architectures.
? In-depth working knowledge of: Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JDBS, EJBs, XML, HTML, DB2/UDB, Unix, Struts, Taglibs, JavaScript
? Demonstrated experience with delivering and supporting large scale production web applications or portal sites and dealing with the challenges of a highly complex web infrastructure (e.g. compatibility, scalability, and
performance.)
? Proven knowledge / expertise in J2EE application development concepts.
? Knowledge of web application structure (DDL, XML, distributed
computing, design patterns, model view controller architecture,
exception handling, databases, JDBC, etc).
? Extensive working knowledge of object oriented programming.
? Significant experience in understanding and articulating high-level design specification and or technical / application architecture documents.
? Experience with WSAD or other industry standard J2EE development
tool is a must.
? Excellent end-to-end understanding of J2EE development processes and techniques in order to drive the resolution of testing defects and Production incidents, with the proven ability to perform and lead root-cause analysis and risk analysis which result in the recommendation of optimal solutions and quality defect tracking.
? Daily activities involve trouble ticket resolution, application defect
analysis and testing support which requires strong problem solving and analytical competencies.
? Some after hours and weekend support.
? Must be a team player and comfortable in a large support role.
? Must have strong Customer Service disciplines and excellent communications skills in order to support and maintain ?24x7? uptime for Enterprise web applications.
Beneficial Skills:
? Working experience with Test Director.
? Additional WebSphere Experience (e.g. WebSphere Portal Server, MQ)
? UNIX, LINUX, AIX Systems Administration
? WebLogic and Tomcat experience.
? Familiarity with the Change Management, Incident Management and Problem Management processes and procedures.
Let me know if you have any questions!
