WebSphere Application Server admin & Cloud System Admin - Remote

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

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,disaster recovery capabilities

·Single Sign On, network load balancer,firewall, IP subnets.

·On-Prem monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace,

·Cloud monitoring capabilities like AzureMonitor

·CI/CD pipelines: Ansible, Jenkins, Nexis,Mavin, Bitbucket etc.)

·Version control subsystem like: Git,Subversion, etc.

·Storage subsystem

·Salesforce

·Lead experience to create design documentation and participate in code reviews with application teams.

·Strongtroubleshooting experience to research production issues including cryptography(digital certificates), networking, IBM MQs, Databases.

·Develop and troubleshoot message translation issues integrating with backends (JSON toSOAP/SOAP to JSON)

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:

o 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.

·Coordinatereleases with internal stakeholders.

·Championbest practices and quality standards.

·Participatein functional and technical meetings throughout the develop mentlifecycle.

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 WebSphereapplication servers on AIX and Linux

·Write and deploy shell scripts, automate tasks.

·Experience with one or more webserver setupApache, IBM Http Server and IIS

·Experience working with SSL and application security in WebSphere.

·Troubleshoot, collaborate with cross-functionalteams to resolve complex technical issues.

·Participate indefining corporate implementation and integration strategies of new technologies.

·Experienceadministering 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.

Cloud Management

·Work knowledge of cloud platforms Azure, AWS orGoogle 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.