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*