WebSphere (WAS) Admin

InnoSoul•Lansing, MI

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

This position functions as a lead WebSphere Administrator responsible for supporting large State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Health Services (DHHS) applications. The role contributes considerable business and technical knowledge to complex IT projects.

Requirements

A total of 9+ years of experience working on middleware technology as an Administrator.
Working experience of IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.x.
5+ years of experience with the following skillsets: WebSphere, Azure DevOps, ELK Stack, Docker, SonarQube, Linux, Shell, S2I, Python, NGINX, Java, OpenShift.
Strong skills in Production issue Root Cause Analysis.
Must have experience in configuring data sources for different vendor databases.
Must have experience in managing SSL digital certificates in IBM WAS.
Hands-on working knowledge of OpenShift & Kubernetes.
Experience with Orchestration tools such as Helm.
Knowledge and experience with Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) version 6.X and higher.
Experience with Agile methodology.
Experience with 24/7 problem solving in an existing, complex environment including monitoring disk, CPU and network performance anomalies and the ability to act immediately upon system and/or network performance alarms.

Nice To Haves

Good knowledge and experience in Java programming, experience with Java Code Management is desired and a plus.
Having Shell/Python/Perl Scripting experience will be a plus.
Experience with automation tools.
Hands-on experience with migration, support, and re-platforming of legacy applications.

Responsibilities

Supporting large State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Health Services (DHHS) applications.
Contributing considerable business and technical knowledge to complex IT projects.
Installation, configuration, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning and Production Support for WebSphere, IBM HTTP web server in enterprise cluster environments on Linux/Unix platforms.
Production issue Root cause Analysis, analyze Production Incident/issues and identify root cause, and find the permanent solutions.
Working closely with the infrastructure team to help design infrastructure requirements for middleware components to ensure high resilience and stability in production and recoverability in a DR environment.
Problem resolution and troubleshooting, including Information collection, problem identification and analysis, identification of solution or interim workarounds and RCA documentation.
Configuring data sources for different vendor databases.
Managing SSL digital certificates in IBM WAS.
Deployment of applications or system changes as requested by operations peer.
Install, configure, and maintain IBM Datacap.
Install, configure, and maintain Datacap and FileNet Solutions with Optimized Business continuity capabilities High Availability, Load Balancing, and Disaster Recovery.
Experience with automation tools.
Experience with Agile methodology.
Hands-on experience with migration, support, and re-platforming of legacy applications.
24/7 problem solving in an existing, complex environment including monitoring disk, CPU and network performance anomalies and the ability to act immediately upon system and/or network performance alarms.