Application Specialist

The Position

The ideal candidate will have a broad knowledge of skills to allow for the configuration and deployment of Level 2 systems. 

These level 2 systems are either to support new machines or upgrade legacy systems.  This individual should be able to interact

with the local plant teams to gather the information and the requirements to configure test and deploy level 2 systems.  This

individual will be responsible for testing the system and going to code when necessary to identify issues. An ideal candidate

would be able to make minor changes to the application code of these systems and point out decencies in the existing code sets

to ensure code quality.   The individuals should have the skills necessary to troubleshoot and repair scripts that run for

installation and data conversion.   The individual should be able to handle the necessary modifications to correct SQL data

conversion scripts.  The individual must be able to train and communicate the application responsible how the application

works.   This individual must be able to support and find issues after the application has been running in production.

Required Minimum Skills

• Strong reasoning and critical thinking ability

• The ability to troubleshoot problems without the need for Google

• Computer science background (Computer Science degree or ability to demonstrate equivalent understanding of concepts

including data structures, algorithm, object-oriented programming)

• Basic understanding of computer hardware and networks

• Knowledge of the windows operating system at least for basic system

• Exposure to at least one object-oriented programing language

• Knowledge of Relation Databases concepts and basics concepts 

An ideal candidate will possess the following

Systems Administration

• Window Server (2008-2019)

o Registry  

o Active Directory

o IIS

o PowerShell

• Understanding of virtualization environments

• Linux administration

• VMware ESXi cluster experience a plus

Network

• Network fundamentals Network + or equivalent knowledge(OSI, Ethernet, TCP/IP, basic network components)

• Network troubleshooting

• Understanding of Ethernet networks and components including VLANS, hubs, switches etc

• Understanding of firewalls

• Understanding of network communication protocols including HTTP|HTTPS|ARP|DNS|DHCP

Concept

• Data structures XML/JSON

• Understanding of WEB APIs, Web Services, RESTful API

• IBM MQ,KAFKA, Avro Schemas

Database

• Knowledge of basic querying

• Oracle or PostgreSQL experience a plus