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Company Description

DIRECTV is one of the world's leading providers of digital television entertainment services delivering a premium video experience through state-of-the-art technology, unmatched programming, and industry leading customer service to more than 32 million customers in the U.S. and Latin America.

Job Description

Looking for Technical Application Administrator for some of our financial applications. (EPS, SMS, etc). Person would be responsible for doing application release deployments across non-prod & prod environments. Troubleshooting issues, Incident & Problem management support. The user-facing applications are java-based off the shelf products from Calidus and Counterpoint. Experience with Linux & WebLogic is a must. Experience with tools such as Splunk & App Dynamic and autosys is nice to have. Experience with Oracle database & PL/SQL is good to have. Currently moving pieces to new stack on Hadoop for data layer. Cloudera deployment experience would be excellent to have.

Responsibilities

• Be a highly energetic self-starter and work in a team atmosphere to categorize, prioritize and assist day to day activities
• Provide rapid troubleshooting and quick thinking skills to resolve impacting issues
  
• Demonstrate aptitude for learning new technologies
  
• Provide creative solutions to complex IT problems
  
• Provide day to day support of all production and non-production environments
  
• Support the team to ensure 99.99% availability on mission critical applications for both internal and external DIRECTV customers
  
• Participate in project team meeting sessions and provide task level feedback to the Project Manager or Project Lead
  
• Proactively monitor application performance, improve monitoring alerts, and overall availability of key business components in production environments
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 7 years experience in a professional IT Role
  
• 3+ years OS experience with Linux / Windows
  
• 3+ years Administering Oracle WebLogic Server 9.x/10.x/11.x/12.x
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
• Proven experience with administrating 24/7 business critical applications
  
• Previous experience with any of the following products is also desired
  
• Microsoft IIS 5/6/7/8, Apache Web Server or jBoss
  
• Proficient with and keen understanding of J2EE applications and deployments
  
• Experience with wlst, ant, perl, shell or other scripting a plus

Additional Information

This opportunity is a Long Term Contract