Job Description
•Seeking resources/System Admins to act as Integration/Middleware Administrators, all of whom must have advanced experience building large and complex systems. The team is needed to support ongoing, highly visible projects to successful completion, enabling multiple ISDS technical solutions to be deployed and fully operational. These may include several cross-agency projects with key collaborators for client's different departments. Many of these solutions are deployed into existing, large scale computer systems, so advanced experience with the existing technologies is a necessity.
•At a high level, the resources will have the experience to assume immediate responsibility for (new and active) large and technically complex projects which impact current processes. The team must develop flexible and efficient plans and collaborate with matrixed project teams with multiple priorities while simultaneously fostering an environment of team building and coordination. A large portion of ongoing responsibilities revolve around interpreting and mitigating security vulnerability reports generated by internal scans as well as partnered audits. Mitigation strategies range from standard patching planning to highly technical solutions implemented at the middleware, web server, or load balancer level. Contracted admins will be responsible for directly implementing solutions at all tiers.
Job responsibilities
•Build, configure, deploy, and support IBM middleware products including but not limited to: WebSphere Application Server Network Deploy, IBM HTTP Server, IBM Business Process Manager, WebSphere Transformation Extender, IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management, IBM MQSeries, and IBM Integration Bus.
•Provide experienced support and consultation for all the following custom-developed software families ESB METS (built on IBM WebSphere & BPM, Informatica ActiveVOS, HHS Audit, HHS Content, HHS Notify) and Merative Curam for client's department.
•Implement and support highly available, recoverable, and secure systems using F5 load balancer technologies.
•Create and use automated deployment scripts for WAS, BPM, ACE, and WTX applications using Jenkins & Ansible.
•Support and build integration between business program software and enterprise IAM security solutions.
•Respond to break/fix issues, troubleshoot, and resolve server hardware and Operating System issues and make recommendations for corrective action.
•Monitor supported systems directly and procedurally.
•Deploy code updates to middleware and in-house software packages to support testing and release schedules.
•Apply required fix-packs to the WAS, HTTP, BPM, & ACE servers.
•Maintain consistent architectural topologies in all application environments while integrating application changes and infrastructure improvements.
•Provide other middleware-related functions to support the METS and dependent applications and subsystems.
•Create technical architectural design documents.
•Provide updates as required for different departments of client's leadership.
•Manage small to medium level projects.
•Provide knowledge transfer.
Minimum Qualifications
•5 years' experience installing, maintaining, and operating Informatica ActiveVOS.
•5 years' experience installing, maintaining, and operating IBM Integration Bus-ACE family of software (other titles in series: IBM App Connect Enterprise or IIB; WebSphere Message Broker).
•5 years' experience working with healthcare program packages: HHS Integration Software (HHS Content, HHS Notify, & HHS Audit. (All titles also previously released under Engage Point branding.).
Desired Skills
•Computer Science or Information Technology degree.
•8 years' experience providing analysis, architectural design, and/or implementation of:
•WebSphere Application Server Network Deploy topologies.
•IBM messaging software.
•IBM business process software.
•IBM service bus software.
•7 years' experience with Linux OS administration, operation, and scripting.
•6 years' experience working with IBM Middleware hosted systems integrated with Oracle Identity and Access Management solutions.
•6 years' experience working with Merative Curam.
•5 years' experience installing, maintaining, and operating IBM Business Process Manager-BPM family of software (other titles in series: Business Automation Workflow or BAW; WebSphere Process Server or WPS).
•4 years' experience working with F5 Big-IP solutions for load balancing and web service security management.
•3 years' experience supporting, maintaining, and operating change management software IBM CLM.