Middleware Administrator engineer
Columbus, Ohio
Hybrid Job
Video Interview
Duration: 1+ years
State of Ohio JFS
Job# 745824
Exp: 12 years
Job Description
Years of Relevant Experience: 12 Years
Preferred Education: 4 Year college degree or equivalent– Computer Science
Job Description: Ohio Department of Job and Family service is looking for candidate to function as a SME on enterprise systems, with advance skills in administering WebSphere Application Server, cloud system administration (including Azure, AWS, and Google) and containerized application platform on Linux / AIX. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in a multi-tier and multi-platform enterprise class environments.
- 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)
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.
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 X 7 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 to all 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 platforms like MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, Docker / Podman, Promethus, Azure CI / CD.
Containers and Cloud Management
- Work with cloud platforms Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
- Experience support SaaS products in the cloud – Adobe enterprise, MuleSoft Cloud Integration
- Deploy and manage containerized application in a cloud environment.
- Understands clustered container orchestration configuration and setup of Kubernetes / OpenShift platform.
- Work with cloud vendors and cloud hosting service providers and recommend infrastructure solutions.
- Experience implementing security and best practices for cloud-based systems.
- Experience deploying Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud.
Experience in deploying infrastructure as code using Azure CI/CD Pipe lines from Azure repos
Mandatory skills
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 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 platforms like MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, Docker / Podman, Promethus, Azure CI / CD.
Containers and Cloud Management
- Work with cloud platforms Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
- Experience support SaaS products in the cloud – Adobe enterprise, MuleSoft Cloud Integration
- Deploy and manage containerized application in a cloud environment.
- Understands clustered container orchestration configuration and setup of Kubernetes / OpenShift platform.
- Work with cloud vendors and cloud hosting service providers and recommend infrastructure solutions.
- Experience implementing security and best practices for cloud-based systems.
- Experience deploying Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud.
- Experience in deploying infrastructure as code using Azure CI/CD Pipelines from Azure repos
Certifications or Desired skills if any WebSphere, AIX / Unix, Linux, Azure CI/CD, Azure or AWS. RedHat Open Shit, Docker,
Python, Windows Power Shell and JavaScript
Nice To Have Skills Azure repos and Azure DevOps.
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
Actual Years
Last Year Used
Relevant Experience for Middleware Administrator engineer– Product Specialist
Required
12
4 Year college degree or equivalent– Computer Science
Highly desired
4
WebSphere, AIX / Unix, Linux, Azure CI/CD, Azure or AWS. RedHat Open Shit, Docker, Python, Windows Power Shell and JavaScript
Highly desired
Azure repos and Azure DevOps.
Highly desired
Skills: middleware,application,administrative