Role: WebSphere administrator
Location: Columbus, OH, Remote - 8-10 hour/day- M-F,
Description
Searching for a candidate with expertise in administering WebSphere Application Server and cloud system administration (including Azure, AWS, and Google). The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in a multi-tier and multi-platform enterprise class environments.
Total years of relevant Experience: 12 years
Minimum of
- 8+ Years in WebSphere administration
- 2+ years in cloud products administration
- 5+ Years with application security product administration
- 5+ Years Experience administering Integration platform.
- 5+ Years experience working with government agencies.
- 5+ Years of providing comprehensive senior-level technical consulting to IT management and senior technical staffs.
- 3+ Years of providing guidance, consultation with IT management and technical staffs regarding the use of emerging technologies
Preferred Education
4-year college degree or equivalent technical study
Role description
Remote
- 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)
See Job description details below.
Job description (KSA):
Knowledge
·Strong knowledge of Unix, Linux, Windows operating system and system administration tasks
·Highly available vertical / horizontal scaling,d isaster 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 subsystem
·Salesforce
·Knowledge ofapplication development, implementation, and deployment experience.
Web services and data integration techniques, messaging and transformation.
·Lead experience to create design documentation and participate in code reviews with application teams.
·Strong troubleshooting experience to research production issues including cryptography(digital certificates), networking, IBM MQs, Databases.
·Develop and troubleshoot message translation issues integrating with backends (JSON to SOAP/SOAP to JSON)
·Experience with developing pass-through and transformative API extensions
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 communications kills, 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 X7 on-call weekly rotation.
·Experience handling and reacting to infrastructure alerts reacting quickly.
·Communicating:
o Communicate with clients, assisting them with their needs to ensure client satisfaction. Communicate the deployment/release schedule, release artifacts, priorities, and status toall 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 integration platforms like Salesforce – MuleSoft.
Technical Advisor
·Experience collaborating and advising application dev teams to build API capability, covering aspects such as security and policy management.
·Ability to understand systems and application code to troubleshoot and provide guidance to app dev teams.
·Experience providing consultation services working with System administrator’s internal platform and middleware groups to provide application software development services or technical support.
·Provides comprehensive senior-level technical consulting to IT management and senior technical staffs.
·Analyzes, defines, and documents requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks, controls, and outputs using standard development methodology.
·Works with internal business groups on implementation opportunities, challenges, and requirements of various applications.
·Guides and consults with IT management and technical staffs regarding use of emerging technologies and associated services.
·Participates in defining corporate implementation and integration strategies of new technologies.
·Advocates for innovative, creative technology solutions.
·Design and develop automated stress testing harnesses, recommend, and implement solutions, conduct and participate in code review sessions, and provide process improvements
Cloud Management
·Work knowledge of cloud platforms Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
·Deploy and manage application in a cloud environment.
·Work with cloud vendors and cloud hosting service providers and recommend infrastructure solutions.
·Experience deploying Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud.
Thanks and Regards,
Santosh Yambari
Sr. IT Recruiter
614-212-6580 Office x1009
1103 Schrock Road, Suite 102
Columbus, OH 43229
www.comtechglobal.com
MBE & SBA 8(a) Certified 614-350-2021 Direct
614-423-2526 Fax
sya@comtechglobal.com
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Candidates and Vendors
For H1b visa and EAD (GC or OPT), we will need a copy of visa, DL, passport and I-94 on day of joining. Please do NOT submit for position if you or your candidate are not willing to share these items by joining date, as we will match copies of visa information and DL submitted with originals in person.