Senior Systems Administrator (WebSphere & MQ on Mainframe)

Kyndryl Inc.; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyndryl Inc. is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator with WebSphere and MQ on Mainframe expertise to support a public sector client from Ottawa.

The role is contract with three-month extensions and expects Secret clearance, z/OS experience, and strong WAS/MQ administration. Responsibilities include installation, maintenance, and optimization of WAS, MQ, CICS, and supporting server infrastructure, with focus on automation, knowledge transfer, and SLA adherence.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance with the federal government (MUST HAVE)
• 10+ years with z/OS technology experience
• 7+ years of WebSphere Application Server experience, building deployment managers and clusters
• Experience with CICS and CTG on z/OS
• Experience working within the Government of Canada or broader public sector environments is nice to have

Responsibilities

• Cooperation with management in regard to knowledge transfer; establishment of a formal consultant knowledge transfer plan.
• Install, maintain, and troubleshoot production z/OS WebSphere Application Server infrastructure (including HTTP / IHS / APACHE Servers)
• Assisting in providing ongoing support of WAS and MQ for z/OS as it pertains to project objectives.
• Documenting IT Operations for MOD
• Maintaining technical awareness of project issues, status, and future upgrades to WAS and MQ
• Communicating issues and work plan with other technical specialists, Operations, Clients, and MOD management
• Participating in performance and resource availability improvements for WAS, MQ, and CICS support
• Using automation and developing scripts for WAS server builds to reduce errors
• Managing time and prioritizing work to meet deadlines
• Identifying performance challenges and implementing improvement strategies
• Creating and maintaining documentation: installation, maintenance, support, architecture, build, backup procedures
• Install, test, and maintain WebSphere servers and MQ subsystems on z/OS environments
• Monitoring ticketing systems and responding to IRs and RFCs
• Installing and configuring monitoring tools such as ITCAM

Skills

WebSphere WAS

MQ Series

CICS CTG

CICS Config Manager

HTTP/IHS/Apache

Java

Job description

Senior Systems Administrator (WebSphere & MQ on Mainframe)

Position: Senior Systems Administrator (WebSphere & MQ on Mainframe)
Client: Public Sector
Location: Ottawa (Remote)
Duration: Long-term, with three-month extensions
Language: English
Security Clearance: Secret
Background:
Our public sector client requires a Secret-cleared Senior Systems Administrator (WebSphere & MQ on Mainframe) to maintain day-to-day operations, complete project deliverables/tasks, and meet Service Level Agreements, as there is a shortage of in-house resources with this skill set.
The following skillset is required:

• WebSphere (WAS)
• MQ Series
• CICS , CTG, CICS Configuration Manager
• HTTP / IHS / APACHE Servers
• Java

Qualifications:

• Active Secret clearance with the federal government (MUST HAVE)
• 10+ years with z/OS technology experience
• 7+ years of WebSphere Application Server experience, building deployment managers and clusters
• Experience with CICS and CTG on z/OS
• Experience working within the Government of Canada or broader public sector environments is nice to have

Expected Tasks:

• Cooperation with management in regard to knowledge transfer; establishment of a formal consultant knowledge transfer plan.
• Install, maintain, and troubleshoot production z/OS WebSphere Application Server infrastructure (including HTTP / IHS / APACHE Servers);
• Assisting in providing ongoing support of WAS and MQ for z/OS as it pertains to project objectives. For example: develop new WAS deployment managers and application servers, configure WAS Java Batch and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) timers, install Application Resources in WAS for z/OS
• Documenting the above IT Operations for MOD
• Maintaining in-depth technical awareness of project issues, project status, and future software upgrades/maintenance to WAS and MQ, products.
• Communicating technical issues and work plan with other technical specialists, Operations, Clients, Application developers and MOD management.
• Participating in performance and system resource availability improvements as it relates to WAS, MQ, and CICS support.
• Using automation as much as possible and developing Scripts for building and installing WAS servers in various states to reduce errors.
• Managing time and prioritizing work to meet the requested deadlines.
• Identifying performance challenges and implementing performance improvement and functional requirement strategies;
• Creating and maintaining documentation, such as but not limited to: installation, maintenance, support, specification, architecture, build, backup/ restore procedures;
• Participation in the development and creation of final build strategies as necessary;
• Install, test, and maintain WebSphere servers and MQ series subsystems, in various mainframe z/OS development and production environments.
• Installing, maintaining, and supporting WAS / MQ and several software products under z/OS;
• Monitoring the service management ticketing systems and responding to Incident Requests (IR) and Request for Changes (RFC)
• Installing and configuring various monitoring or management tools such as ITCAM;

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**Please note this is for a contract position with one of our clients and not a fulltime employment role with Kyndryl Canada**