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We have an immediate need for a Peoplesoft Systems Administrator.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
We are looking for an experienced (at least 5 years) senior Peoplesoft system administrator to work closely with a partner system administrator.

The candidate must have extensive:

• Experience administering a highly available, multi-server Peoplesoft environment on a production support capacity.
• Experience with Peoplesoft Client, People Tools, App Server, BEA WebLogic/Tuxedo/Jolt, Process Schedulers, Change Assistant, App Designer, Data Mover, Integration Broker, Crystal Enterprise.
• Knowledge of Peoplesoft CRM version 8.8 (support, field services) as well as Peopletools 8.4x, and Peoplesoft security (roles and permission lists).
• Peoplesoft product installation and upgrade, Application Server administration, monitoring and tuning of Peoplesoft performance.
• Installation and test Peoplesoft patches, bundles, and service packs, and migration of projects to production.
• Experience with Oracle 9i and 10g as well as UNIX and Windows 2003 admin experience is desired.

• The person we bring in will be required to support the Service View application in production and test - Support production environments and events (outages and deploys) during regular working hours and specified off hours.
• Support all test environments (follows agreed protocol and release notes).

• Solid experience indicated above.
• Peoplesoft System Administration Certification
• Solid Windows OS knowledge
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Must be able to work with multiple levels of management, peers, user communities, and partner or vendor teams.
• Must be a team player.
• Must be okay with being questioned on the what, why, when and how of administering the system.

• Microsoft Certification
• Oracle OCP

• Reports to: Candidate will work closely with the lead application system administrator and with the technical leads.
• Hours: General office hours (8-5). Will require off hours work. For off hours support, overtime may be approved OR planned time off may be granted.
• Ramp up: Will work closely with the current system administrator but will need to come up to speed right away in understanding our environments, key partners, and change/fix protocol in order to independently support the application.

The application to be administered:

• The Service View application is a Peoplesoft 8.8 CRM Peoplesoft application, now in production for over 1.5 years.
• There are approximately 350 users on the application.

In 2007, we expect user growth to 1,000.

The production infrastructure includes:

• 3 NT based Web Servers, 3 NT based application Servers,
• 1 primary Oracle 9i database/server,
• 1 reports Oracle 9i database server,
• 1 Unix based Web Server supporting Integration Broker,
• 1 Unix based Application Server supporting Integration Broker.
• The Web Servers are load balanced with an F5 in front of them.

Additional environments to support:

• Test environments: DEV, SIT, UAT, and PFIX.
• A business continuity environment (BCP).

• Oracle database to be upgraded to 10g.
• People tools upgrade to be upgraded.
• Possible redesign for Integration Broker.