Peraton is seeking a Websphere Application Server Administrator to join our innovative team of qualified, diverse individuals. The ideal candidate will provide 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days a year support for the middle tier software infrastructure as needed for deployments, support, and troubleshooting for our customer. The qualified applicant will work various shifts including weekends and overnight on-call support.

Required to be local to Raleigh, NC or Eagan, NM. Hybrid role 2 to 3 days remote.

Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide administration, user support, performance monitoring and tuning, and capacity planning for Middle-tier software.
• Plan, develop, implement, maintaine, document, and support a large and complex distributed server environment.
• Analyze and resolve complex hardware and software issues.
• Perform tests and implementing software, adds, and changes.
• Facilitate backups and restores of data and application code.
• Escalate unusual or unexpected findings to management.
• Provide and implement escalation process and/or procedures.
• Provide on-site system or application support for deployment and/or installation.
• Manage middle-tier software infrastructure both on-premises and external cloud, across all required environments (DEV/SIT/CAT/PROD).
• Manage and support patching, automation, and general maintenance of supported servers.
• Manage work tasks via the ServiceNow application.
• Support implemented technologies: web and application servers, containers and container management, messaging technologies, cloud platform and services, scripting languages and monitoring tools.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years’ experience or High School diploma/ equivalent with 12 years’ experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Must be a U.S Citizenship or Green Card holder. No sponsorships.
• Residing in the U.S for the past five years with no more than 6 months travel outside the U.S. during this time frame.
• Military Service excluded. (Exception does not include military family members).
• Experience supporting middleware and packaged applications.
• Hands-on experience administering WebSphere Application Server ND with expertise in installation, support, analysis of logs and performance tuning.
• Excellent knowledge of supporting software on Linux.
• Strong understanding networking and security concepts.
• Deep understanding of JDBC, JMS connection management within WebSphere, and DevSecOps.
• Working knowledge of IBM MQ and/or other messaging technologies.
• Understanding of network standards, such as DHCP, DNS, SSL, TCP, UDP, IP, QoS and ICMP.
• Understanding of networking concepts, such as load balancing and routing.
• Ability to carry out basic network troubleshooting in a server runtime.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Cloud technologies (IaaS or PaaS), Manhattan WMOS and IBM Power hardware.
• Comfortable with scripting languages to automate tasks, including Bash, Perl, and Python.
• Experience with provisioning tools, such as Chef, Puppet and Ansible.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $112,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Compensation package:

• Yearly pay

Experience level:

• 11 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• On call
• Overnight shift
• Weekends only

Experience:

• Linux: 10 years (Required)
• WebSphere Application: 10 years (Required)
• IBM MQ: 10 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Eagan, MN 55121 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Eagan, MN 55121: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person