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Years of Relevant Experience:

12 Years

Preferred Education:

4 Year college degree or equivalent– Computer Science

Job Description:

– 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:

o 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

· 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

Python, Windows Power Shell and JavaScript

Nice To Have Skills