Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Infrastructure Architect in Dallas, TX

Mastech Inc is a growing company dedicated to innovation and teamwork. We are currently seeking A Infrastructure Architect for our client in the Information Technology domain. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits, exciting challenges, and the opportunity for growth. This is a contract position and the client is looking for someone to start immediately.

Duration: 6 months
Location: Dallas, TX/ Zip Code: 75234
Compensation: $65.00/ Hourly

Role: Infrastructure Architect

Role Description: The Infrastructure Architect would need to have at least 5 years of experience.

Responsibilities:

- Provide technical leadership for supporting WebSphere/WebLogic across distributed environments.
- Should have a very good understanding of distributed J2EE containers, while also possessing the appropriate skills to design Enterprise J2EE infrastructure architecture that can be leveraged across all lines of business within the organization.
- Assist in formulating a standard way of gathering detailed information on the application and infrastructure requirements of current and future projects.
- Establish recommendations and guidelines for the development, test, operations and application support environments.
- Provide information needed to assess the risk of production deployment of a business critical application: installation and configuration readiness, performance and scalability evaluation, stability and durability evaluation, and best practices procedures.
- Assess the processes that will be used to operate, support and maintain the Enterprise implementation(s).
- Refine the deployment process and architecture so that it will easily scale to fit into an enterprise scope.
- Assist in determining overall hardware and software configuration along with capacity projections and planning for future support of growing operations.
- Needs to be extensible to changing platform requirements or other advancements in the distributed computing model.
- Assist in determining Service Level Agreements (SLAs), for immediate needs/deployments, and enterprise SLAs to support ongoing operations, if any.
- Develop performance, scalability, and durability evaluations and monitoring for load testing and real time.

Required Experience/ Skills:

- Experience in BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere architecture and design for enterprise types of deployments.
- J2EE container enterprise planning, analysis, and implementation.
- Provide guidance to architecture team for development of best practices from an architectural level.
- Experience with WebLogic and WebSphere administration and monitoring.
- Experience configuring and administering unique deployments of custom applications for any J2EE container.
- Advanced WebLogic and WebSphere performance and tuning experience including development of custom tools. (Java MBeans Extensions).
- Experience implementing tools that are extensions to WebLogic and WebSphere such as monitoring tools, code profiling tools, etc.
- Experience designing and implementing WebLogic Clusters, WebSphere Network deployment, and Deployment Manger along with Directory authentication.
- Able to demonstrate abilities to create/reengineer integration solutions (architectures) with other enterprise standard technologies.
- Lead in risk assessment, identifying technology challenges and recommend architectures.
- Knowledge of MS .Net technology and other emerging MS technologies - i.e., BizTalk.
- Well versed in SOA and ESB integration layer including WebServices management.
- Any knowledge of SAP is a big plus.
- Experience in iPlanet, IIS, and IBM HTTP Server (Apache) is required.
- Prior knowledge of Proxy Plug-in based configuration for both iPlanet and IBM HTTP server is desired.
- Knowledge of any Hardware based Load Balancer is a plus.
- Working knowledge of Solaris and Linux is a must.
- Basic knowledge of networking and other network appliances i.e., Load balancer is required.
- Prior experience of development and n-tier architecture would be very helpful.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science
Experience: Minimum 5 years
Relocation: This position will not cover relocation expenses
Travel: No
Local Preferred: Yes


Recruiter Name: Jessica Atchley
Recruiter Phone: 972 377 7419
Experience: Bea Weblogic,Sogeti and one other firm have a exclusive on this position for 2 weeks; there is not a set rate but if we could find someone local who is 1099 i think that would be best to eliminate the burden to allow for margin,
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