APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT

Job Description

70% of the position is application support. This includes monitoring the health and operation of the system to ensure 24X7 application availability to 10,000 customers such as Energy Traders, Fermi Nuclear Plant, and corporate email users. The candidate must be hands on in the following skills and able to perform these tasks as well as mentor a team to do these tasks.

Candidate would need experience in mentoring and training a junior technical team in script development (Unix, Java, Perl), application roll out planning, procedures, and general application support practices.

Responsibilities

- Implementation of alarms and metrics to warn of potential system problems
- Creation of scripts (Unix, Perl, Java) to ease day-to-day operations
- Implementation of software patch releases
- Roll out of new application versions
- Restoration of email accounts
- Resolution to application issues
- Automate leveling of message stores
- Understand LDAP from a functional view point to assist in troubleshooting
- Understand Unix from a functional view point to assist in troubleshooting
- Experience in application migration and implementation practices
- Roll out new application versions (email/calendar experience preferred)
- Version control
- Mass email conversion from Lotus Notes to Netscape Messenger
- Conversion from Netscape Calendar to iPlanet Calendar
- Familiar with project planning and execution
- Familiar with the steps to migrate applications from one version to another
- Assist in a plan to migrate from Netscape Calendar to Planet 5.x calendar
- Analyze and create plan to migrate from Sun Solaris 2.6 to 8.0
- Analyze hw/sw req's to ensure applications will function optimally under load

Qualifications

Desireable Skills

- This individual must have excellent communication skills, be able to mentor a team, be self motivated and be able to plan/execute projects.

Interested and Qualified? Send an email to: Compass Consulting Enterprises