Platform Engineer - WebSphere (C to H)

Must be willing to work local on site immediately

Platform Engineer

Looking for a candidate with 3+ years of experience administering WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, Tomcat. You will support performance tuning, CICD, Jenkins, deploy ansible

Responsibilities

• Gain solid understanding of the business process, workflows and data.
• Establish close partnership with the business.
• Work with project managers during scoping and requirements sessions.
• Gather requirements and design and deploy functionality to meet business requirements.
• Assist in technical specifications and other deliverable documents.
• Develop test cases and plans to complete the unit testing.
• Provide on-call support for production applications.
• Develop a deep understanding of applications and integration and bring issues to resolution.
• Monitor application performance and improve response times.
• Configure application for the best performance.
• Plan for and apply application software patches.
• Become subject-matter expert (SME) on the software packages you are assigned to support.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science.
• 3+ years hands-on experience administering WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, Tomcat, JBOSS with installation, support, analysis of logs and performance tuning.
• Experience with CI/CD practice and tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, Urbancode Deploy, Ansible is preferred.
  
• Experience with container orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm a plus.
  
• Knowledge of installing and supporting Red Hat Linux. Version 7.6 a plus.
  
• Strong understanding of network and security concepts, such as DHCP, DNS, SSL, TCP, UDP, IP, QOS and ICMP.
• Understanding of network hardware, including Switches, Routers, access points and basic network troubleshooting.
• Experience and/or familiarity with other technologies, such as RESTful over HTTP.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to collaborate effectively and excel in a team environment.