Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 9 Months
Visa Status: GC, Citizen, EAD
Job Description:
Infrastructure Engineer responsible for Configuration, Administration, troubleshooting and Maintenance of technology solutions. Provides technical support, Troubleshooting and Diagnostics, and performs scripting/programming to ensure stable and efficient operation of technology solutions.
Essential functions:
Performs installation, monitoring, testing, configuration, migration, maintenance and troubleshooting of assigned technology.
Manages system/application environment and ongoing operations.
Ensures that the technologies are updated with current, stable, and compliant architecture and applications that meet enterprise standards.
Researches, designs, implements, and tests technology solutions.
Proactively monitors and reports performance and utilization of assigned technologies.
Troubleshoots software and/or hardware issues/failures. Resolves alerts and performs remediation activities.
Manages problem or escalated tickets and tasks and out of cycle requests from systems/software owners.
Collects and presents data for reporting and planning.
Assists with developing tactical strategies, processes and procedures related to systems/application administration.
Determines migration and upgrade impacts and diagnose/resolve complex technology/application errors.
Provides input into infrastructure architecture designs. Writes programming/scripting.
May participate in Disaster Recovery planning and exercises.
Ensures execution and alignment to architectural standards and blueprints.
May contribute input to infrastructure architecture.
Performs on-call activities as needed for the environment and technologies.
Competencies:
Solid leadership and technical experience
Excellent Communication skills
Extensive working knowledge of multiple technologies and their interfaces and integration
Competent working in one or more environments highly integrated with an operating system.
Extensive experience implementing and administering/managing technical solutions in major, large-scale system implementations.
Ability to communicate technical information clearly and articulately.
Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
Experience analyzing business requirements and translating them into technical solutions.
Experience using Agile and Devops methodology.
Specific Required Skills:
Infrastructure engineer with a minimum of 5 years experience with:
Experience building robust Test environments.
Environment Infrastructure Build and Automation
Strong Scripting and Automation experience
Strong Hands-on Middleware experience
Extensive SDLC experience
Ability to analyze and trouble-shoot Mid-tier/Mainframe infrastructure issues.
Job Duties:
Hands on technical and Architecture skills
Exposure to a variety of other platforms and Technologies is a Plus, including IBM, RHEL, TOMCAT, Cloud AWS, Ansible is a Plus
Automation experience is a required.
Experience in supporting WebSphere Application Server across multiple operating systems to include design, deployment, and management as well as application migrations.
Troubleshooting DataPower domain application issues and certificate crypto object issues
Installation and configuration of DataPower Appliances.
Experience administering Middle-tier systems using WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 8.0/9/0, IBM HTTP Server
Demonstrable experience in a multi-tier environment, monitoring, and deep analysis of Java applications with distributed and clustered environments
Experience with MQSeries installation and administration Experience automating the configuration of servers / virtual machines with solutions such as Ansible or equivalent.
Experience configuring databases within WebSphere.
Experience in Pega and WAS 9.0 application server.
Hands on experience in Pega with specific experience Healthcare Industry will be a plus.
Understanding of Middleware architecture and working knowledge of various Middleware application server integration Configure and administration of IBM API Connect and IBM DataPower appliances.
Maintain working knowledge of API security standards and implementation (Oauth 2.0, OpenID, JSON, Web Token, JOSE, x509 certificates); Maintain knowledge of API security certification, authentication, authorization, IP security setup, and endpoint configuration.
Good knowledge of Network concepts and F5 Load balancers
Working knowledge on SSL certificates implementation
Solid understanding of J2EE application deployment patterns and n-tier architectures
Understanding of SOA and web services and their deployment in DataPower.
Installation and tuning of Sterling Integrator & Axway products is a plus.
Experience in the Sterling File Gateway, Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling Control Center, Sterling Secure Proxy, ITXA, and Axway B2Bi environments is a plus.
Required Experience
Experience in WAS 9.0 and above on AIX, RedHat platforms, 32- and 64-bit JDK, WAS ND, WAS MQ.
IBM WebSphere MQ, 8.0., 9.0 Expert knowledge of Scripting for automation (BASH, Python, or Ruby).
Should have good product knowledge on the functionality and different components of the product.
Experience on versions of MQ v7, v8 is preferred.
Extensive experience in configuration and administration of IBM DataPower and IBM APIM Appliances.
Experience in IBM DataPower XI52 and WebSphere 8.x+ architectures. Configuring certificates / encryption decryption filed level message level.
Expertise in troubleshooting DataPower, channels, listeners, intercommunications (TCP/IP) and triggering.
Experience in initializing/setup of IBM DataPower SOA appliances.
Perform administrative tasks on IBM DataPower configuration, Interface design, development, maintenance, and administrative activity.
Working knowledge of general security concepts (Authentication, Authorization, Encryption, and Digital signatures), PKI concepts, and TLS. Good troubleshooting skills with overall knowledge on DataPower features/concepts.
Strong UNIX/LINUX experience. Strong Tomcat with RedHat Linux experience is desired.
The candidate should have a strong focus on IBM DataPower and would require extensive knowledge of various integration patterns and security standards, best practices, hands-on experience with administration and management of DataPower.
Programming experience in Oracle SOA platform is a plus.
Java/J2EE programming background is a plus.
Experience with Sterling B2B Integrator and ITXA is a Plus.
Experience with Mid-tier/mainframe platforms and their associated Operation Systems and Tools including:
WebSphere
MQ Series
Java/J2EE DB2
UDB
Strong UNIX/scripting
AIX
RHEL
Tomcat