Salary: £50000 - £60000/annum £55,000 + £550 for each week on cal
Category: Legal
Job Type: Permanent
Job Location: London, London
Posted on: 22/12/2008

Weblogic Administrator/ Web Logic Guru



Weblogic Administrator/ Weblogic Guru required to join this growing and successful company. My client is the UK's leading developer and licensor of online Bingo solutions, supplying companies such as Ladbrokes, Mecca/Blue Sq, William Hill, Sky, Bet365 and Crown Bingo.

They aim to provide their customers and partners with a dependable set of gaming tools and services that generate sustainable and profitable business and to offer the end users the most enjoyable, exciting and diverse games available.



Key Responsibilities/Duties for the Weblogic Administrator

• Designing, implementing and supporting the Web Logic environments.

• Become the focal point for Web Logic queries and provide expert advice and guidance to the Development and Operational teams.

• Define site standards and best practices with regards to the Web Logic application server.

• Benchmarking and Load Testing of new application code releases and Oracle software release (Web Logic and Database ).

• Investigation and troubleshooting of Web Logic application server components.



Mandatory skills and experience

• Extensive experience of supporting / managing Web Logic version 8 or above (they currently use version 10.1), in a production environment.

• Extensive and demonstrable use of Web Logic clustering to provide failover.

• Configuring and tuning database pools, investigating Web Logic performance issues.

• Practical use of WLST for monitoring and configuring application servers.

• Planning and implementing Web Logic upgrades and migrations.

• Excellent technical and analytical troubleshooting skills.

• Knowledge of Linux/Unix.



Desirable skills and experience

• Knowledge of JBoss, IBM Websphere or other application servers.

• Experience of performance management and tuning of Linux internals.

• Knowledge of EJB’s, JMS and J2EE engineered applications from a systems admin perspective.

• Practical experience of load balancing products

• Development and configuration of software deployment tools.

• Implementation and support of rapid provisioning utilities.

• Perl/Shell Scripting, TCP/IP Networking, DNS.

• Linux performance tuning and system internals.

• Oracle 10g.



Personal Attributes

• Able to cope within a highly pressurised, mission critical environment.

• Able to take ownership of support issues and progress through to resolution.

• Able to project manage work, and prioritise effectively when required.

• Excellent communication skills and team ethos.

• Self-motivated, self-starter.

• Good documentation skills.

• Able to build communications with the Development, Testing and Operational teams.

• Adhere to clearly defined change management procedures.

• Attention to detail with a high degree of pride in work produced.





Job Reference: 114132821
Contact Details: Morgan Steel