WebSphere Engineer

Location: Remote OK

Experience with administration of Java application runtime environments, preferably IBM WebSphere and/or IBM WebSphere Liberty (administration of, not necessarily developing and deploying application to)

Proficiency with Unix command line, shell scripting

Strong communication skills

Ability to work both in team settings and in a self-directed environment

Nice to have:

Ansible experience

Programming experience in a language like Java or Python

Experience with using Source Code Management tools

SOA

BPM

Apigee

MuleSoft

Why is this position open? How is it impacting the business?
The positions are open due to end of engagement.
The impact is felt in our service delivery commitments which help assist with configuration or environment issues ranging from tunning, deployments, maintenance, etc .

Please describe the project work, and what do day-to-day responsibilities look like:
a. The day-to-day responsibilities are monitoring and assisting our customer in delivery a world class experience to our customers. It consists of request from customers across the enterprise. Each day has a lot of variability in which you can touch multiple technologies and business units. On-call day will include being available for incidents and request issue require immediate assistance from customer calls and pages?

What technologies or systems will this contingent worker be utilizing?
a. WebSphere
b. Liberty
c. Linux
d. Apigee
f. BPM
g. SOA

d. If a candidate does not have all the technologies listed, would there be technologies you would consider similar and/or transferable for this position?

(For IT roles as applicable) Please provide background information on the application(s) this worker will be involved with:
a. The infrastructure supports a number of different business areas so the applications vary but we support the infrastructure the applications run on.
b. Its would closely align with middleware support.

What skills are you looking for in the ideal candidate?
WebSphere
IBM Liberty
Apigee
Java/Maven
GitHub Actions/Workflows

a. Preferred
i. 1. Experience with administration of Java application runtime environments, preferably IBM WebSphere and/or IBM WebSphere Liberty (administration of, ), Apigee, BPM, and SOA.
ii. 2. Proficiency with Unix command line, shell scripting
iii. 3. Strong communication skills
iv. 4.Ability to work both in team settings and in a self-directed environment

b. Nice to Have
i. 1. Ansible experience
ii. 2. Programming experience in a language like Java or Python
iii. 3. Experience with using Source Code Management tools GitHub
EKS/Kubernetes/EKS
ArgoCD
Docker Images