Lead Application Support Engineer (onsite), Cincinnati, OH

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Posted: November  2, 2017

Job title: Lead Application Support Engineer

Company name: Apex Supply Chain Technologies

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Career Opportunity:  Lead Application Support Engineer with Apex Supply
Chain Technologies in Cincinnati, OH

Are you an expert in systems
management?  Do you thrive on deploying, monitoring, and supporting
production SaaS environments?  If so, we want to speak with you about this
opportunity.

Apex Supply Chain Technologies is defining the future of how
companies manage their supply chains by providing tailored, scalable,
hardware and software solutions, which allow customers to right-size and
control the flow of materials, supplies, equipment and critical parts,
based on true demand. We are a rapidly growing Mason, Ohio technology
innovator, providing transformative Supply Chain Technology solutions to a
client base of over 17,000 corporate users worldwide. Over the past five
years, more than 300 of the Fortune 1000 and Forbes Global 1000 companies
have implemented Apex solutions.  

We have need for a Lead Application
Support Engineer to join the team at our corporate headquarters in Mason,
OH.  The Lead Application Support Engineer is responsible for managing,
deploying, monitoring, securing and ensuring availability of all production
and non-production application environments that power Apex’s cloud
platform.  This is a hands-on technical role that includes responsibility
for direct reports and is a great opportunity to join a fast-growing team
that works with many leading SaaS and cloud technologies!

Additionally,
you will be responsible to:

•	Administer, monitor, upgrade, tune,
test, secure and ensure high availability of applications and middleware in
Apex’s 24x7 SaaS environments.
•	Oversee the day-to-day operations of
the application support team.
•	Design automated, robust, scalable
and easily supported SaaS application deployment and support processes.
•  
    Lead on-call efforts such as software deployments, maintenance,
troubleshooting and issue escalations.
•	Assist in designing,
implementing, and periodically testing high availability and recovery
procedures in conjunction with other IT staff.
•	Maintain the health
of all application environments by identifying and applying patches and
hotfixes for security, stability and performance.
•	Mentor senior and
non-senior application support staff.
•	Analyze current and projected
application capacity and performance requirements; fine-tune or recommend
changes when necessary.
Requirements for the position include: 
•      
B.S. degree in computer science or equivalent.
•	5+ total years
administering Java application servers in a SaaS production environment
running JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic or Tomcat with at least 2 years in a
senior or lead role.
•	Strong aptitude with server and application
troubleshooting and the ability to drive to root cause on a wide variety of
issues.
•	Firm grasp of message queuing, publish/subscribe and
broker-based technologies such as ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, etc.
•      
High degree of comfort with the Linux command line interface.
•      
Working knowledge of high availability application architectures.
•      
Experience utilizing enterprise grade appliances such as F5 Big-IP or
Citrix NetScaler for application delivery.

The following capabilities are
highly desirable in the successful candidate:

•	Experience with
Docker or Kubernetes is highly desirable.
•	Experience with reverse
proxy configurations using Nginx, Caddy, etc. is highly desirable.
•      
Experience with Git (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, VSTS, etc.) is highly
desirable.
•	Node.js experience is a plus.
•	AWS, Azure or GCP
experience is a plus.
•	Application development experience is a plus.

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