Urgent Remote Opening for WebSphere Administrator/Middleware - Columbus, OH - Need Local to OH Only. - SmartIPlace

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• LinkedIn should be 2020 or before.
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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)

Job description (KSA):

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 subsystem
• Salesforce
• Knowledge of application 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 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 X7 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 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.