WebSphere & Cloud Administrator

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Overview

Remote
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent

Skills

Amazon Web Services
Ansible
Bitbucket
Cloud computing
Computer networking
Cryptography
Collaboration
Firewall
Git
Google Cloud
IBM WebSphere
IBM WebSphere Application Server
IBM WebSphere administration
Interfaces
JSON
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Linux
Load balancing
Management
Messaging
Microservices
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft IIS
Microsoft Windows
Middleware
MuleSoft
SOAP
System administration
Web services

Job Details

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
- 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, 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

Knowledge ofapplication development, implementation, and deployment experience.
Web services and data integration techniques,messaging and transformation.

Lead experience tocreate design documentation and participate in code reviews with applicationteams.

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

Develop andtroubleshoot message translation issues integrating with backends (JSON toSOAP/SOAP to JSON)

Experience withdeveloping pass-through and transformative API extensions

Skills

Experience performing system and softwareaudits.

Assesses and analyzes business requirements,current state environment and technology choices to evaluate security solutionalternatives that meet solution architecture needs and support enterpriserequirements.

Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skillsrelated to Cloud, IAM and privileged access management.

Excellent written and verbal communicationskills, on both technical and non-technical topics

Prioritize tasks effectively to ensure thatproject deliverables and deadlines are met.

Advanced root cause analysis and written andverbal communications skills.

Experience supporting and participating in 24 X7 on-call weekly rotation.

Experience handling and reacting toinfrastructure alerts reacting quickly.

Communicating:

o Communicate with clients, assisting them with their needs to ensureclient satisfaction. Communicatethe deployment/release schedule, release artifacts, priorities, and status toall stakeholders.

Coordinatereleases with internal stakeholders.

Championbest practices and quality standards.

Participatein functional and technical meetings throughout the developmentlifecycle.

Abilities

WebSphere

Perform upgrades, patches, and fix security issues.

Monitor application performance, systemperformance, troubleshoot and diagnose issues and implement fixes.

Work closely with the development teams to designsolutions, 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 applicationsecurity in WebSphere.

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

Participate indefining corporate implementation and integration strategies of newtechnologies.

Experienceadministering integration platforms like Salesforce MuleSoft.

Technical Advisor

Experience collaborating and advising applicationdev teams to build API capability, covering aspects such as security and policymanagement.

Ability to understand systems and applicationcode to troubleshoot and provide guidance to app dev teams.

Experience providing consultation servicesworking with System administrator s internal platform and middleware groups toprovide application software development services or technical support.

Provides comprehensive senior-level technicalconsulting to IT management and senior technical staffs.

Analyzes, defines, and documents requirementsfor data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating systemenvironment, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks,controls, and outputs using standard development methodology.

Works with internal business groups onimplementation opportunities, challenges, and requirements of variousapplications.

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 codereview 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.

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