Senior Operations Support Specialist to develop and document operational procedures or logical architectures and system configurations

Our valued Public Sector client is in need of a Senior Operations Support Specialist to develop and document operational procedures or logical architectures and system configurations.

The Operations Support Specialist will be responsible for, but not limited to, performing the following activities:

• System administration;
• Installing and maintaining web and application servers and their related software;
• Developing and documenting operational procedures or logical architectures and system configurations;
• Developing technical architectures for the integration of all technical aspects of an IT solution;
• Developing implementation plans for technical infrastructure;
• Installing and monitoring particular facets of the technical infrastructure plan;
• Configuring and optimizing technical installations;
• Creating and troubleshooting server side scripts; for example: Python, Linux Shell, Cold Fusion or PHP;
• Identifying and resolving performance issues for servers or connectivity problems for services; and
• Configuring and managing Subversion (SVN) source code repository; JIRA bug tracking software; or Team City automated build tool. 

Must Haves:

• 10 years providing system administration and systems operation support of an application conducting each of the following:
• setting up user access;
• user profile updates;
• back-up and recovery; and
• day-to-day computer system operation.
• Experience being the primary system administrator for a Linux-based system and conducted the following tasks:
• installing and maintaining web and application servers and their related software;
• creating or troubleshooting server side scripts (e.g. Perl; Linux Shell; PHP and ColdFusion);
• configuring and managing a Subversion(SVN) source code repository;
• configuring and managing JIRA as bug tracking software; and
• configuring and managing Cruise Control as an automated build tool.
• Experience supporting web and application servers and related software maintenance project doing the following:
• Developing and documenting logical architectures and system configurations;
• Developing the implementation plans for Java/J2EE development technical infrastructure;
• Configuring and optimizing technical installations;
• Identifying and resolving performance issues for servers;
• Identifying and resolving connectivity problems for services; and 
• Developing and documenting IT operational procedures.