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Greetings,

I hope you’re doing well.

Your skills and experience could be a great match for a key role I am filling here at Flairsoft. I would like to connect with you for a quick call to learn more about your career aspirations and further discuss our opportunity.

What is your best availability to connect?

Thank You!

Position: Technical Specialist 4 / TS 4 

Location: Columbus, OH REMOTE

Client: State of Ohio

Agency: JFS

Interview Type: webcam

Position ID: 753010

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.

• Strong knowledge of Unix, Linux, Windowsoperating 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 andtechnical staffs regarding use of emerging technologies and associatedservices.
• Participates in defining corporateimplementation and integration strategies of new technologies.
• Advocates for innovative, creative technologysolutions.
• Design and develop automated stress testingharnesses, recommend, and implement solutions, conduct and participate in codereview sessions, and provide process improvements

• Work knowledge of cloud platforms Azure, AWS orGoogle Cloud.
• Deploy and manage application in a cloud environment.
• Work with cloud vendors and cloud hostingservice providers and recommend infrastructure solutions.
• Experience deploying Containers, Microservices,Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud.