Innovations technological

Position: UNIX systems admin/engineer with  eCommerce Portal Administrator/Engineer exp.

Location: Portland, OR

Duration: 6 months (may extend to 2 years +)

Job Description:

The ideal candidate is a UNIX systems admin/engineer with experience in Internet systems engineering, web application server and portal support.

Core Accountabilities:

• Lead, develop, and evangelize the technology vision and architectural roadmap for the portal environment.
• Define and drive adoption of architecture and software development practices across customers.
• Provide technical leadership in the evaluation, conceptualization, design, and development of major new capabilities, ensuring that technology choices and tradeoffs anticipate future needs while efficiently satisfying short term requirements.
• Be a driving force for constantly improving performance, scalability, extensibility, reliability, availability and usability.
• Define and cultivate strategic technology partnerships including determining how to effectively leverage 3rd party solutions today and in the future.
• Partner with enterprise architects in the creation of client's architecture strategy and roadmaps.
• Serve as the SME for web-enablement and Internet delivery of applications; provide guidance and troubleshooting for security (SSO & SSL), integration, and performance
• Provide thought leadership about the management and direction of external user management and support for integrating with the existing external AD.
• Support Gomez performance monitoring of the site.
• Manage and respond to problems and incidents, resolving, collaborating, or escalating as needed.
• Document configuration and troubleshooting steps in a standardized, repeatable way.
• Responsible for keeping stakeholders current as to resolution status, and maintain a high level of overall customer satisfaction.
• Develop tools and process to support continuity management.
• Develop, test, and implement monitoring tools and processes based on defined standards.
• Conform to standards, processes and policies.  Help define new standards where needed.
• Software & hardware setup, support and configuration.
• Lead small projects and facilitates meetings as needed.
• Assist with change management.
• Provide input to develop and refine procedures and processes in specific areas at the task level.

Required skills & Capabilities

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or other relevant subject area
• 5 years professional experience in system administration/engineering and/or similar roles supporting technical development and eCommerce operations
• 2 years additional relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a degree
• Experience with UNIX required; Linux preferred and HP-UX helpful
• Deep understanding of Apache and integration with Java application servers, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, certificate management, and shell scripting
• Solid understanding of networking including specifying and troubleshooting load balancer definitions and firewalls rules
• Candidate must show demonstrated ability to work well as a systems engineer
• Must have excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing
• Must be able to work independently and take a leadership role within the organization when needed.

Highly Desired SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Large-scale web application management experience
• Java application server experience - candidates with SAP WAS experience will be given strong preference
• Perl programming is highly desired and preferred
• Cloud development/management
• eCommerce/high-volume web environment experience
• Firewall and load balancer troubleshooting
• Experience working on multiple projects, both large (1-year+) and small ( <3 months)
• Experience setting up or working with monitoring systems

Preferred/Helpful SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Familiarity with an eCommerce and PCI-DSS environment
• Experience working with
  • CDN and caching content
  • Configuration management tool e.g. puppet or chef
  • Version control systems e.g. svn
  • Web services
  • Java errors debugging and minor Java/HTML coding