Job Description

Job Description and Responsibilities:  

• You will develop, analyze, and maintain tools that support and automate processes for software product   releases.
• You will assist in scheduling and implementing changes to the build / release / versioncontrol processes required to enforce and apply build and release engineering best practices
• You will administer load balancer, firewalls, webservers, application servers, databases to ensure high availability and security.
• You will provide day-to-day monitoring and management of Development and QA environments
• You will coordinate deployments in all environments including Production
• You will solve release engineering problems using build & release best practices
• You will write and run AnthillPro workflows and monitor/administer AnthillPro to prevent space, license, performance, and connectivity issues. Keep Anthill at latest stable maintenance version.
• You will write and maintain shell, perl scripts etc that AnthillPro will call or will run outside of the control of AnthillPro via e.g. UNIX crons.
• You will administer SVN repository by controlling access, watching load, creating and maintaining hooks that enforce our process.
• You will apply off-schedule and once-off code and SQL patches manually.
• You will performance tune and troubleshoot environment, DB, and application issues using BEA WLS support patterns as the standard methodology and provide root cause summary to application stakeholders.
• You will diagnose and troubleshoot host and system problems.
• You will design, implement, follow, and enforce configuration management and change control processes.

Skill Sets desired: 

• Bachelor Degree in CS, MIS, or related field preferred or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of professional experience in System Administration or Release engineering
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, SCM practices along with Software Build and Release Management methodologies.
• Extensive experience developing and maintaining ANT/Shell build scripts
• Extensive experience working with automation tools like Anthillpro/Build Forge/Cruise Control
• Extensive experience working with one or more SCM repositories – CVS, SVN, Perforce, etc (SVN preferred)
• Experience in troubleshooting systems/network problems as well as Java and web systems.
• Experience in Load Balancers (e.g. Netscaler). ? Proficiency in one or more scripting languages - Perl, Python, Shell
• Extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Weblogic / Unix Systems Administration experience in a high volume Linux environment. Working Knowledge in Oracle VM or VMware preferred.
• Experience in managing oracle 10g database servers, performance tuning etc.
• Strong SQL skills - Experience with MYSQL & Oracle preferred
• Candidate must demonstrate exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
• Candidate must be able to effectively communicate with other support teams.
• Good prioritizing and time management skills
• Willing to take on challenging tasks under pressure

Minimum Job Qualifications:  

Years of experience: 4+ years

Educational Qualification: BE/Btech/MCA/Msc

Certifications if any: NA

Job Location: Chennai