Senior Web Administrator

Summary

Provides comprehensive design, installation, project management, maintenance, testing, and support at the highest level for all hosted applications and elements of the global I/T infrastructure. Assists in planning organizing and controlling the activities of the team. Consults with I/T, internal and external customers on the resolution of complex hosting related technical problems. Guides new hardware, software, and hosting site installations, upgrades, and trouble-shooting. Reviews and acts on daily quality assurance and diagnostic support for the hosted infrastructure at internal and commercial hosting sites. Receives minimal supervision and serves as a work leader for other members of the team. Acts as project manager for hosting projects, installation and support initiatives. Serves as Manager, Datacenter Operations as requested.

Duties and Responsibilities

· Maintain global web site solutions utilizing IIS, Apache, Tomcat, JRUN, ColdFusion, .Net, HTML, ASP, PERL, Microsoft tools and a variety of web server and DBMS tools.

· Work with client management, global technology developers, and external customers to guide and implement complex hosted applications on current and/or new infrastructure.

· Assist in scheduling the design, upgrade, and maintain systems that employ scalable technologies supporting internal and commercial hosting initiatives; contribute hands-on support as required.

· Build and support hardware and software on Windows or Linux/Unix servers to support deployment of commercial and internally developed global hosted applications.

· Lead trouble-shooting and corrective active support to technology developers, publishers, external customers, and internal developers for global hosted related applications.

· Guide and/or develop scripts to automate, monitor, and manage the global environment.

· Interface with commercial outsource providers as required to build, change, tune, and otherwise support infrastructure supporting commercial applications.

· Direct gathering of global statistics and perform analysis of performance data on infrastructure and recommend corrective actions.

· Adhere to security measures to insure that the information assets of the Company and the commercial clients are protected at all times.

· Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications

§ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience, post graduate experience preferred. Related work experience and industry recognized certifications will be considered.

§ Eight (8) or more years experience with overall computing architectures, architectures, LAN/WAN networking, application design concepts, languages and tools across a wide spectrum of computing platforms and technologies.

§ Detailed knowledge of Microsoft or Linus/Unix operating systems.

§ Extensive experience working with commercial developers, internal developers, and customers on the deployment and support of hosted products and infrastructure.

§ Extensive experience with tools that provide services such as application testing, web application servers, and content management.

§ Demonstrated experience with web server software and database connectivity to Oracle or SQL Server databases.

§ Excellent interpersonal and communications skills and ability to work with clients, technical staff, and vendors.

§ Excellent problem solving and consultative skills.

§ Excellent planning, project management and implementation skills.

§ Must be a team player with a positive attitude, enthusiasm, initiative, sense of urgency, and be self-motivated.

§ Ability to work across global locations as required.

§ Ability to travel to remote company locations or for other business related needs as required.

§ Ability to carry a mobile device and provide off hours support as required; ability to work rotating shifts outside of the 8-5, M-F eastern time periods as required.

§ Ability to lift minimum of 60 pounds of equipment as required.

CORE KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENTCIES:

Person needs to understand development as it pertains to deploying and managing large scale applications.

Looking for a person with 8+ years’ development experience and extensive understanding of infrastructure management.

· Detailed expertise with Linux and windows

· Detailed expertise with Tomcat and Apache

· Understanding of building and developing java-based applications

· Troubleshooting skills with web-based applications

· Load balance experience

· Redis experience

· Understanding and expertise with monitoring web-based applications

· Containerization experience

· Kubernetes experience

· Expertise in managing and using Git,

· Expertise Jenkins and Artifactory

· Expertise with Ansible, RunDeck, and Ansible Automate as it pertains to automating deployments and building out infrastructure.

· Understanding of ticketing systems (Jira, Service Now)