System Administrator in Arlington, VA

Full Time - $50-70K salary + benefits

Job Overview

The System Administrator will support the Product Operations Division which is responsible for the 24x7 On-Demand delivery of the suite of applications.

Job Duties Include

• Management of all hosted web applications
• Monitoring and optimizing the performance of these applications
• Working with the other system and database administrators in the hosting group and with their customers in maintaining the hosted applications
• Researching, evaluating, installing, configuring new tools and processes to facilitate all aspects of hosting
• Application technical installation, configuration, support, upgrades as necessary
• Application and Web Server installation, configuration and support
• Recovery of the hosted applications in the event of a hardware or software failure
• Troubleshooting and correcting application problems where appropriate
• Ensure monitoring and reporting on all hosted servers (may include memory, disk space, log file analysis, cleanup, etc)
• Maintaining system security policy, including firewalls, host and client access, file permissions, user accounts, etc.
• Batch loading of data into official production database tables from approved data files, etc. given by development staff of vendors of applications
• Ensuring the data loaded into database tables is as accurate as the data source
• Exporting data out of the database on demand by customer

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years Unix system administration and J2EE application experience
• Degree in Computer Science or Information Management
• Experience with Oracle 9i, WebLogic 8.1, Apache, Solaris, Linux, Windows
• Experience with Linux, Solaris shell scripting
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Exposure to data import, export, SQL scripting
• Exposure to Oracle 10gAS a plus
• Strong problem solving skills
• Works effectively with a minimum of direction
• Willingness and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness and ability to handle firecall duties
• US Citizenship is required
• Must be able to qualify for/obtain a US government clearance

Company Info

Medium size web-based software development company. Maintain and develop organizational software for enterprise business. This software has been implemented by many of the world's most successful enterprises to increase productivity of employees and partners. This company has won numerous awards including being named by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing companies.

They offer a competitive compensation package that includes paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays, very competitive health/life/disability insurance, stock options plan, retirement plan, and an annual employee profit sharing/bonus plans among other benefits. Casual work environment and the opportunity to work among the industry's best.

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