Senior Middleware Application Administrator

Senior Middleware Application Administrator

DISH Network is an innovative industry leader distinguished by its pioneering spirit.  Ever since our establishment in 1980, we?ve been the ideal workplace for people with adventurous spirit and creativity, who are smart risk takers and aggressive winners - all those for whom the status quo just isn?t enough.   Our Fortune 200 Company continues to define the curve in television entertainment.  We are always improving and extending our products and delivering greater value to people, including our workforce of 25,000 plus.   Come explore the big picture with us!

Intelligence.   Creativity.   Innovation.   These are the things you?ll find at DISH Network, the pioneer in television entertainment.   We offer individualized career paths for dynamic, talented individuals who are ready to be rewarded and recognized.   It?s our way of giving back to exceptional people who have kept us at the forefront of our industry.  

Prior experience working within complex Enterprise environments including, but not limited to: installation, configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring, and administration.  Work effectively with team of system administrators to maintain uptime, consistency, scalability and performance while meeting business needs. Work effectively with DBAs, Middleware Application Administrators, Network Engineers, Programmers, and Analysts to complete tasks in a timely manner. Learn environment ? technical and business, through initiative and direction from senior staff. Work on corporate projects to ensure proper scaling and platform architectures to support initiatives. This is an on-call position.

• Advanced-level System Administration including:
• Production and test support
• Installation/Configuration
• Operability/Scalability design
• Monitor development and use
• Performance tuning
• Capacity planning
• 24x7 Production support when in on-call rotation
• Platform-level design and deployment throughout multiple middleware environments
• Management, mentorship and training of other team members
• Work on corporate projects to ensure proper scaling and platform architectures to support initiatives
• On-call position

Bachelor?s degree (preferred CS, CIS, or MIS). A minimum of 7 years proven technical systems administration experience including Windows 2003 and UNIX. BEA WebLogic v8.1, 9.2, 11g; webMethods 7.1,8.2; strong scripting knowledge (PERL, etc.)