At Equitable Resources, we focus on a few things and do them exceptionally well. With an ultimate goal to renovate and reinvent mature energy businesses, we have transformed Equitable Resources into a distinctive, innovative and continually-growing integrated energy company, with an emphasis on Appalachian area natural-gas supply, transmission and distribution. Equitable Resources, through its divisions and subsidiaries, offers natural gas products and energy service to wholesale and retail customers. Those divisions are Equitable Utilities and Equitable Supply.

The Systems Analyst (Middleware) supports, installs, patches, and provides first level support for the enterprise middleware infrastructure. This position is an opportunity for someone with a passion for IT to learn new skills in the growing field of middleware.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Supports and helps improve new and existing solutions that address business issues and needs. * Keeps the middleware environments up and available to the business and the solutions that rely upon the middleware environment.
* Leads the install of upgrades, patches and general maintenance of the various middleware products and services.
* Deploys and configures the middleware solutions in the test and production environments.
* Sets a standard for logging and transaction visibility that the business and other IT groups can use to understand and manage their transactions.
* Verifies and confirms that the middleware services and processes adhere to the technology roadmaps and technology directions of the enterprise.
* Provides 24X7 availability, primarily during business hours, to support the growing use of the middleware architecture that includes webMethods, Informatica and Enterprise Scheduler.
* Ensures the ongoing success of the enterprise architecture.

REQUIREMENTS:
* Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS or a closely related field OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.
* At least three years of IT experience in an enterprise environment.
* Broad set of skills, with expertise in applications, systems and system integration and overall knowledge of networks, servers, desktops, databases, etc.
* Strong background in various IT systems. Middleware knowledge such as webMethods, websphere, Tibco, Oracle Middleware preferred.
* Familiarity of XML, XSD, HTTP, webMethods, Informatica, SQL Server and Oracle tools preferred. This job is in a career ladder. You will be placed into the job on the career ladder which best matches your demonstrated abilities.

We have created a culture and environment that fosters personal and professional growth. We reward our employees with market-competitive compensation and benefits packages. If you would like to become part of our dynamic organization, please visit http://www.eqt.com/jobs and complete an online application. Learn more about us at www.eqt.com. Where talent thrives through equality of opportunity, M/F/D/V.