Remote Senior WebSphere Middleware Automation Engineer

Unisys Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Unisys Corporation is seeking a Senior WebSphere Middleware Administrator to oversee enterprise WebSphere platforms and supporting infrastructure. The role emphasizes highly available, secure, and compliant environments with automation to boost efficiency and consistency across middleware services.

You will manage WebSphere Application Server, Liberty where applicable, and related platforms, perform security remediation, and drive automation across patching and compliance validation.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree with 6–8 years of middleware experience.
• 6+ years middleware administration, focus on WebSphere.
• Experience in security remediation, vulnerability management, and audit compliance.
• Automation development to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Must be a US Citizen with ability to obtain a government security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, and WebSphere Portal environments including cell, node, cluster, and application server configuration.
• Support WebSphere Liberty environments where applicable.
• Support secondary web platforms (Apache, Tomcat, IIS) as needed.
• Perform security remediation, vulnerability management, patching, fix pack and upgrade activities, and compliance validation.
• Manage SSL/TLS certificates, keystores, truststores, LDAP, Kerberos, Active Directory integration, SSO, and LTPA security.
• Administer Linux and Windows servers supporting middleware environments.
• Design, develop, and maintain automation for WebSphere administration, patching, compliance validation, and operational support using Shell, Python, and JACL/wsadmin scripting.
• Automate deployments, configuration updates, certificate management, reporting, and system health checks.
• Support CI/CD deployment processes and enterprise automation tools where applicable.
• Perform performance monitoring, JVM tuning, thread dump and heap dump analysis, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Execute change management, incident management, and service restoration activities.
• Maintain documentation, procedures, audit evidence, and compliance records.

Skills

Middleware administration

Automation development

Security remediation

Audit compliance

U.S. Government clearance (citizenship

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

WSAdmin scripting (JACL/Jython)

Shell

Python

XML

Awk

Sed

Curl

Job description

Unisys Corporation is seeking a Senior WebSphere Middleware Administrator to oversee enterprise WebSphere platforms and supporting infrastructure. The role emphasizes highly available, secure, and compliant environments with automation to boost efficiency and consistency across middleware services.

You will manage WebSphere Application Server, Liberty where applicable, and related platforms, perform security remediation, and drive automation across patching and compliance validation.