Senior Applications/System Engineer

Position: Senior Application/System Engineer

Description/Responsibilities: Responsible for providing application, database, and systems support for the AICMS application and related correctional management systems. The individual is responsible for the following tasks:

- Provide ongoing production support, maintenance, troubleshooting, and enhancements for the AICMS application and related system

- Perform OpenVMS system administration, including system maintenance, patch installation, system security, performance monitoring, capacity planning, and troubleshooting of hardware and system failures

- Manage and maintain OpenVMS clusters, SAN storage, system utilities, backups, and recovery procedures

- Develop, maintain, and enhance applications using C, Java, ACMS, DECforms, DECset, SQL, SQLMOD, Oracle Rdb, and Oracle Common Data Dictionary

- Perform database administration for applications including Inmate Phone, Inmate Property, Inmate Financial, and Commissary systems

- Design, redesign, implement, and maintain database structures and enhancements

- Monitor database performance and perform physical database, query, and application tuning and optimization

- Analyze and modify database storage areas, indexes, record placement, transaction paths, and record access strategies to improve system performance

- Design and maintain database backup, restore, recovery, formatting, and archiving procedures while maintaining cross-database data integrity and constraints

- Analyze database dumps and perform reverse engineering and data recovery activities in cases of severe database corruption

- Develop and maintain Java-based enterprise applications using Core Java, multithreading, concurrency, annotations, collections, JSF, RichFaces, MyFaces, Tomahawk, Spring, Hibernate, and Jasper

- Develop and support SOAP and REST web services and integrations

- Develop and maintain applications using relational databases and SQL, with emphasis on DB2

- Deploy and support applications using WebSphere and Tomcat application servers

- Perform DB2/Linux administration and support database environments across application and infrastructure platforms

- Support ETL, data warehousing, reporting, and analytics environments, including Cognos

- Collaborate with application developers, database administrators, system administrators, business stakeholders, and other technical teams to troubleshoot issues and implement enhancements

- Perform application and system testing, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and root-cause analysis

- Create and maintain technical documentation for applications, databases, system configurations, operational procedures, and recovery processes

Client: New York City Department of Corrections

Work Location: 100% remote

Interview Mode: Virtual

Minimum Qualifications:

- Must have a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in application development, systems administration, database administration, and/or related technical areas

- Strong experience with Core Java, including multithreading, concurrency, annotations, collections, and enterprise application development

- Hands-on experience with Java frameworks and technologies including JSF, RichFaces, MyFaces, Tomahawk, Spring, Hibernate, and Jasper

- Strong experience developing and consuming SOAP and REST web services

- Strong knowledge of relational databases and SQL; DB2 experience is required

- Experience with enterprise application servers such as WebSphere and Tomcat

- Strong database administration experience, including database design, maintenance, monitoring, performance tuning, backup, recovery, and optimization

- Experience tuning physical database structures, operating systems, and application queries for performance optimization

- Experience designing and programming database backup, restore, recovery, formatting, and archiving procedures

- Experience supporting systems requiring significant cross-database data integrity and constraint management

- Experience analyzing database dumps and reverse engineering data to recover information from severely corrupted databases

- Experience with DB2 on Linux

- Experience with OpenVMS clusters and Digital Command Language (DCL)

- Experience with CPU-independent SAN technology and OpenVMS capacity planning and performance management

- Experience with OpenVMS system utility and monitoring tools

- Knowledge of ETL and data warehousing concepts and technologies

- Experience with Cognos and enterprise reporting environments

- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills

- Ability to work across application development, database, systems, and infrastructure teams

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

*Must be a US Citizen*