Middleware Engineer OR Weblogic OR Websphere admin with Chef or Puppet

USM; King of Prussia (PA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT systems integrator seeks a Middleware Engineer in King of Prussia, PA. Candidates must have a minimum of 9 years of experience with middleware administration, including strong knowledge of Weblogic and Websphere, as well as DevOps tools like Chef and Puppet. This role also involves troubleshooting and providing support in a 24/7 environment. The ideal candidate will be a proactive team player with great communication skills and a proven ability to work in a mixed infrastructure environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 9 years experience in production and pre-production support.
• Strong knowledge of middleware administration and DevOps.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with teams.

Responsibilities

• Support Weblogic/Websphere implementation and Java container issues.
• Identify and fix bottlenecks in messaging infrastructure.
• Implement high availability and load balancing strategies.

Skills

Linux

Solaris

Training

Chef

Puppet

Tools

Weblogic

Websphere

IBM MQ

Oracle Service Bus

Virtualization technologies (VMware ESX)

CA SiteMinder

Job description

Middleware Engineer OR Weblogic OR Websphere admin with Chef or Puppet

Contract

USM Business Systems Inc. is a quickly developing worldwide System Integrator, Software and Product Development, IT Outsourcing and Technology assistance supplier headquartered in Chantilly, VA. We offer world‑class ability in giving most astounding quality and administrations through industry best practices planned to convey remarkable worth to our customers.

Utilizing our industry knowledge, administration service offering expertise and innovation abilities, we distinguish new business and innovation slants and create answers for help customers around the globe, giving top of the line solid and practical IT benefits which are cost effective services.

Established in 1999, the organization has corner qualities in building and dealing with a Business Oriented IT environment with rich involvement in technology innovation, ERP and CRM counselling, Product Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Management, SOA, BPM, Data Warehousing, SharePoint Consulting and IT Infrastructure. Our other offerings include modified solutions and administrations in ERP, CRM, Enterprise architecture, offshore advisory services and e-commerce.

USM, a US ensured Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is perceived as one of the fastest developing IT Systems Integrator in the Washington, DC zone. Most as of late, USM was positioned #9 on the rundown of the Top administrations organizations in the DC Metro Area - Washington Business Journal (2011). We are a project-driven firm that reliably meets the IT needs of our State and Government customers through development and business keenness.

Here is our open requirement please take a look at it and revert me back with your consultant’s updated resume, thanks

Job Title: Middleware Engineer OR Weblogic OR Websphere admin with Chef or Puppet

Primary Skills: Linux, Solaris,Training, with (Chef or Puppet is Mandatory Skills)

Duration: 6 months +

Experience: 9 years

What we need -

This position is for middleware admin but as we are in planning to implement DEV OPS/Puppets here so client is looking for a candidate who have worked on the Dev Ops model and should have experience on puppet or chef or any other DEV OPS tool so that the selected candidate can help us to implement the same.

The Technical Services team is responsible for the overall availability, stability, scalability and security of the Wealth Platform and it’s suite of products and services. The SWP Middleware Engineer is a highly motivated resource focused on working hand‑in‑hand with other technical support, application support, development support, implementation and service teams. This role works in a 24/7/365 highly available, on‑call environment.

• Provide support for all stages of Weblogic/Websphere implementation and/or Java container related issues and triage application issues as related to the J2EE container.
• Identify any bottlenecks in the messaging infrastructure (MQ, JMS, OSB) and provide quick fixes to ensure that the SLA’s are meet and future prevention with a thorough root cause analysis.
• Skilled in implementing high availability, fault tolerant strategies, and load balancing.
• Experienced technical knowledge in specialty area with basic knowledge of complementary infrastructures.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of Linux, Solaris and Windows operating systems.
• Ability to design, build, deploy, document and troubleshoot issues within the Linux, Solaris and Windows stack and collaborate with Storage, Network and Application groups on infrastructure projects.
• Experience with LDAP, Active Directory, and Windows Domain and DNS administration.
• Experience with messaging systems like IBM MQ, Oracle Service Bus and Weblogic based messaging technologies.
• Experience working with J2EE containers like Oracle Weblogic Server, IBM Websphere.
• Experience configuring internet facing URL’s and securing it with centralized authentication systems like CA SiteMinder.
• Experience with virtualization technologies like VMware ESX is a plus.
• A fast learner with ability to dive into new products and technologies, develop subject matter expertise and drive projects to completion.
• A team player with good written and verbal communication skills that can mentor other members in the production support group.
• Provide primary support for production infrastructure (Linux/Solaris/Windows).
• Familiarity with Oracle SPARC, HP Servers & CISCO UCS blades.
• Manage middleware environments and provide support to application and business teams.
• Manage all Linux/Solaris/Windows related system deployments and issues and act as last level of escalation for all system and application related issues both hardware and software.
• Past experience in identifying and working with vendor support like Oracle, CA and EMC to provide resolution to issues that need escalation is a plus.
• Work with the Information Security, Compliance and Business Continuity teams to ensure systems are hardened and in compliance with the Corporate and Regulatory guidelines.
• Install, configure and manage the IBM Websphere MQ and Oracle Service Bus messaging software.
• Troubleshoot Oracle Weblogic Server performance issues independently and/or in conjunction with other Middleware Engineers and Oracle database administrators.
• Configure and troubleshoot internet facing web portals and analyze apache web servers, CA SiteMinder web agent logs to identify any web related issues.
• Good understanding of SSL and Certs and configuring them in Apache.
• Provide detailed root cause analysis and suggest workarounds and/or solutions for recurring issues.
• Monitor, diagnose and identify UNIX & JVM related issues that have a potential to cause an incident and take corrective action.
• Work independently and collaboratively with other support organizations to troubleshoot system and application issues.

Position Requirements: A minimum of 9 years of experience in working in production and pre‑production support or management required. Candidate must demonstrate ability to work collaboratively be able to provide direction and assistance with diagnostics and troubleshooting using critical problem solving techniques. Candidate must have hands on experience is working in a mixed infrastructure environment of Linux/Solaris/Windows. The candidate should demonstrate outstanding oral and written communication skills. Must have strong team focus and client service work ethic.

Physical Demands and Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the work environment may require an individual to move around the office and from building to building which may expose the individual to weather conditions outside. The individual has to be able to sit or be stationary at a computer and use computers for extended periods of time and occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. The noise level in the environment is moderate and the individual must be able to communicate and exchange information with people.

Let me know if any one interested feel free to contact me......

Thanks and Regards

703-880-8413

USM Business Systems Inc

If our requirement matches your resume, then please do reply on my email id "aabanm(at) usmsystems (dot) com" or call me on 703-880-8413