Sr Systems Engineer (4-6 Month Contract to Perm)

Systems Engineer contract to perm position in the Atlanta Mid-town area.
Global provider of on-demand communication technologies-based solutions that automate, simplify and improve communication-centric business processes. Its end-to-end suite of platform-based applications helps approximately 60,000 enterprise customers worldwide increase sales, improve productivity and efficiency, and enhance customer loyalty and retention, by empowering them with new ways to communicate with, market to and service their constituents.
Product Architecture:
Platform is utilized by customers around the globe 24x7 to support their core business operations. The platform is a high volume distributed Java/Oracle application that supports multiple products. The platform provides both a Rich Internet Application Interface and programmatic interfaces using SOAP and REST. Asynchronous components are integrated with Oracle AQ Oracle’s JMS implementation.
Essential Responsibilities:
The Systems Architecture and Performance Engineering team resolves production incidents and improves the operation of the current platform. The team works with the development and infrastructure teams to build operational improvements into the next release of the platform.

We are looking for a systems engineer to join our team and help us improve the effectiveness of our operations. Responsibilities include:
• Quickly troubleshoot and resolve production incidents
• Perform root cause analysis of production problems and work with development to improve the overall operation of the system.
• Working with the software development team to maintain, optimize and deploy software applications.
• Work with the infrastructure team to design, deploy and configure overall infrastructure.
• Automate operational tasks to improve overall system
Qualifications/Expertise:

To qualify for this job you must be comfortable supporting mission critical applications, a fast learner and competent with a wide variety of internet technologies. Specific requirements are:
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent degree
• 8+ YEARS EXPERIENCE MANAGING SYSTEMS IN A COMPLEX INTERNET APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT
• TROUBLESHOOTING COMPLEX DISTRIBUTED JAVA DATABASE INTENSIVE APPLICAITIONS
• SCRIPTING IN PERL OR PYTHON
• RELATIONAL DATABASES INCLUDING COMPOSING QUERIES TO ACCESS DATA
• Able to remain calm in stressful situations
• Strong problem solving skills and good technical communication skills
• Comfortable working with Internet Technologies including
- Distributed Java applications including interpreting stack traces and log files
- Relational Databases including composing queries to access data
- Servers and technologies including Red Hat Linux
- IP Networking and principles including load balancers, routers and firewalls.
Do not have the ability to sponsor!
Qualified candidates please submit your resume to ronm@staffwithradius.com