Senior WebLogic Administrator

Overview

Position: Senior Web Logic Administrator

Category: Database Administration

Main location: United States, Virginia, Fairfax

Alternate Location(s): United States, Tennessee, Knoxville;
United States, Louisiana, Lafayette

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Employment Type: Full Time

Position

Description:

CGI is looking for a Senior Web Logic Administrator who loves building stable, scalable environments — and making them smarter and more automated.

In this role, you ll own the health and performance of our Web Logic platforms, ensuring the applications our business depends on run smoothly around the clock. You ll work hands-on with Web Logic installations, domain configuration, clustering, patching, and upgrades, and you ll play a key role in lifecycle operations like deployments, migrations, and environment refreshes.

This role has a strong preference to be located at one of the following CGI offices:
Fairfax, VA;
Knoxville, TN; or Lafayette, LA.

• Manage and maintain Web Logic environments, ensuring stability and performance.
• Automate operations using Python and Ansible to enhance efficiency and reduce manual efforts.
• Perform Web Logic installation, domain configuration, clustering, patching, and upgrades across environments.
• Support middleware lifecycle operations, including deployments, migrations, and environment refreshes.
• Automate administrative activities using Python, Ansible, WLST, and other supported automation frameworks to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.
• Maintain and enhance operational scripts used for lifecycle tasks, start/stop processes, and environment provisioning.
• Analyze and troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues to minimize downtime.
• Contribute to architectural decisions involving Web Logic domain structures, clustering strategies, load balancing, and middleware integration patterns.
• Help define and maintain middleware best practices, security configurations, and operational standards.
• Support enhancements to authentication, authorization, and security policy configurations within Web Logic domains. Collaborate with application teams, DBAs, cloud engineers, and infrastructure staff to support full‑stack application delivery.
• Participate in planning for cloud migrations, OCI‑hosted middleware architectures, and system modernization efforts.
• Provide guidance during DR preparation and execution involving Web Logic server recovery and startup sequences. Monitor system performance, JVM behavior, and Web Logic health indicators; identify and resolve bottlenecks proactively.
• Review and interpret logs, diagnostics outputs, and audit trails to support root‑cause analysis.
• Document processes, configurations, scripts, and procedures to ensure operational continuity and cross‑team knowledge transfer.
• Maintain clear and up‑to‑date runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and environment maps.

• 7+ years of hands-on experience administering Oracle Web Logic Server in enterprise production environments.
• Strong experience with Web Logic installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and ongoing support.
• Hands-on experience with automation and scripting (Python, Ansible).
• Expertise in middleware performance tuning, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Deep understanding of middleware‑database integration, JVM tuning, and domain architectures.
• Experience with high‑availability architectures, load balancing, failover strategies, and enterprise security practices.
• Familiarity with cloud-based middleware environments (OCI, AWS, Azure).
• Experience collaborating across cross-functional engineering teams and using enterprise ticketing systems.

Other Information:

• CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role.
  
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