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SOFT's client is looking for an Websphere Middleware Administrator for a long term contract assignment. This is a Hybrid position. 


 Provide middleware IBM WebSphere System Administration support for critical applications. Should be a seasoned WebSphere Application server Administrator with advance knowledge of HTTP, Application and Plugin components Proficient in troubleshooting, installations. Familiar with failover, disaster recovery, Network, LTM, Junctions, Performance tuning Strong UNIX and Scripting skills (Shell Scripts, Jython) Ansible and AWS familiarity is a plus.  Good communication and collaborative skills dealing with customers, other technical partners

Responsibilities:
• Serve as subject matter expert on Middleware includes technical assistance to application developers on Middleware related problems; AWS, API Gateway Lambda Ansible & Terraform. Linux Infrastructure troubleshooting, Java & Python
• Understand technology vision and strategic direction of business needs
• Production support 24/7 for a week, at least once a month
• Assess and make recommendations of best-practice solutions and/or new middleware and web technologies that will enhance the capabilities of the existing infrastructure.
• Participate product roadmaps in alignment with other middleware/cloud products and business roadmaps
• Participate in designing integrated solutions with design patterns, blueprints, guidelines, and standard methodologies for products
• Assist in developing architecture and design conceptual solutions by incorporating cloud native and 3rd party vendor products
• Participate in research and perform POCs (proofs of concept) with emerging technologies and adopt industry best practices, in the middleware space, for cloud migration and hybrid solutions
• Successfully troubleshoot production issues application developers can't resolve; may include writing build and deployment scripts
• Demonstrate automation as Infrastructure as code (IaC) to increase build efficiency in the cloud
• Support both rehydration and HA along with emerging processes and technologies
• Assist the development of validation and certification processes through automation tools
• Monitoring - monitor middleware performance and availability
• Demonstrate collaboration on projects and initiatives as a team member

Qualifications
• Demonstrates analytical and problem-solving skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience; advance degree preferred
• 3+ years in design/support of MQ/IIB/ACE Middleware solutions
• Experience in cloud specific solutions related to middleware
• Hands on experience in one or more languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript
• Experience with other AWS middleware solutions including various compute and storage offerings
• Strong background in observability, networking, performance, and scalability.
• Experience with leveraging CI/CD pipelines and GitLab is a plus
• Hands on experience in Terraform, Python, Ansible and OS shell scripts including automation tools is a plus
• Must be familiar with Agile methodologies and able to work in an Agile manner
• Must have a very strong application development background
• Microservices experience is a plus
• Cloud Certification is a plus
• Containerized platform experience is a plus
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience is a plus