Middleware Administrator Engineer – hybrid

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We are seeking an experienced Middleware Administrator Engineer for a hybrid contract role in Columbus, Ohio. This candidate will function as a SME on enterprise systems, with advanced 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, core hours: 7a-6p (any 8-10 hours w/in those times)
• Subject to On-Call (on-call rotation)

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Prioritize tasks effectively to ensure that project deliverables and deadlines are met.
• 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.
• 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
• Write and deploy shell scripts, automate tasks.

Knowledge:

• Years of relevant experience: 12 Years
• 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.
• Preferred Education: 4 Year college degree or equivalent– Computer Science

Skills:

• Experience performing system and software audits.
• 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
• 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.

• 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

• 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

Certifications or Desired skills:

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