Role: - Middleware Administrator engineer Location: Columbus, Ohio(Locals only) Complete Description: Years of Relevant Experience:12 Years Preferred Education: 4 Year college degree or equivalent– Computer Science Job Description: Ohio Department of Job and Family service is looking for candidate to function as a SME on enterprise systems, with advance skills in administering WebSphere Application Server, cloud system administration (including Azure, AWS, and Google) and containerized application platform on Linux / AIX. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in a multi-tier and multi-platform enterprise class environments. - 8-10 hours per day - M-F, JFS core hours: 7a-6p (any 8-10 hours w/in those times) - Subject to On-Call (we have an on-call rotation) Knowledge • Strong knowledge of Unix, Linux, Windows operating system and system administration tasks • Highly available vertical / horizontal scaling, disaster recovery capabilities • Single Sign On, network load balancer, firewall, IP subnets. • On-Prem monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, • Cloud monitoring capabilities like Azure Monitor • CI/CD pipelines: Ansible, Jenkins, Nexis, Mavin, Bitbucket etc.) • Version control subsystem like: Git, Subversion, etc • Storage subsyste • Salesforc • Knowledge of application development, implementation and deployment experience. • Web services and data integration techniques, messaging and transformation. Skills • Experience performing system and software audits. • Assesses and analyzes business requirements, current state environment and technology choices to evaluate security solution alternatives that meet solution architecture needs and support enterprise requirements. • Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills related to Cloud, IAM and privileged access management. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, on both technical and non-technical topics • Prioritize tasks effectively to ensure that project deliverables and deadlines are met. • Advanced root cause analysis and written and verbal communications skills. • Experience supporting and participating in 24 X 7 on-call weekly rotation. • Experience handling and reacting to infrastructure alerts reacting quickly. Communicating: Communicate with clients, assisting them with their needs to ensure client satisfaction. Communicate the deployment/release schedule, release artifacts, priorities, and status to all stakeholders. • Coordinate releases with internal stakeholders. • Champion best practices and quality standards. • Participate in functional and technical meetings throughout the development lifecycle. Abilities WebSphere • Perform upgrades, patches, and fix security issues. • Monitor application performance, system performance, troubleshoot and diagnose issues and implement fixes • Work closely with the development teams to design solutions, deploy and maintain application. • Install, configure and deploy new WebSphere application servers on AIX and Linux • Write and deploy shell scripts, automate tasks. • Experience with one or more webserver setup Apache, IBM Http Server and IIS • Experience working with SSL and application security in WebSphere. • Troubleshoot, collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical issues. • Participate in defining corporate implementation and integration strategies of new technologies. • Experience administering platforms like MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, Docker / Podman, Promethus, Azure CI / CD. Containers and Cloud Management • Work with cloud platforms Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. • Experience support SaaS products in the cloud – Adobe enterprise, MuleSoft Cloud Integratio • Deploy and manage containerized application in a cloud environment. • Understands clustered container orchestration configuration and setup of Kubernetes / OpenShift platform. • Work with cloud vendors and cloud hosting service providers and recommend infrastructure solutions. • Experience implementing security and best practices for cloud-based systems. • Experience deploying Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud. • Experience in deploying infrastructure as code using Azure CI/CD Pipe lines from Azure repos Mandatory skills WebSphere • Perform upgrades, patches, and fix security issues. • Monitor application performance, system performance, troubleshoot and diagnose issues and implement fixes. • Work closely with the development teams to design solutions, deploy and maintain application. • Install, configure and deploy new WebSphere application servers on AIX and Linux • Write and deploy shell scripts, automate tasks • Experience working with SSL and application security in WebSphere. • Troubleshoot, collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical issues. • Participate in defining corporate implementation and integration strategies of new technologies. • Experience administering platforms like MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, Docker / Podman, Promethus, Azure CI / CD. Containers and Cloud Management • Work with cloud platforms Azure, AWS or Google Cloud • Experience support SaaS products in the cloud – Adobe enterprise, MuleSoft Cloud Integration • Deploy and manage containerized application in a cloud environment. • Understands clustered container orchestration configuration and setup of Kubernetes / OpenShift platform. • Work with cloud vendors and cloud hosting service providers and recommend infrastructure solutions. • Experience implementing security and best practices for cloud-based systems. • Experience deploying Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud. • Experience in deploying infrastructure as code using Azure CI/CD Pipelines from Azure repos Certifications or Desired skills if any • WebSphere, AIX / Unix, Linux, Azure CI/CD, Azure or AWS. RedHat Open Shit, Docker, • Python, Windows Power Shell and JavaScript Nice To Have Skills • Azure repos and Azure DevOps.