WebSphere Middleware Administrator || Local to GA Only

Middleware Administrator

Location: Atlanta, Georgia (Locals Only)

Rate: $45/Hr

**Candidate MUST be local to Metro Atlanta**

Required Experience/Skills:

1. 5+ years’ experience in supporting the Production environment running on Middleware Products such as IBM WebSphere Application V7, V8.5 & 9.0, IHS and IIS.
2. 2+ years of experience in Tomcat, Apache HTTP server and Oracle WebLogic
3. 3+ years of experience with installation and maintenance of software on Windows and Linux/Unix.
4. 2+ years of working experience with Jenkins pipelines (declarative scripts)
5. 3+ years’ experience with Windows, Linux (Centos, RHEL, SLES) and AIX.
6. Proficiency with shell scripts, such as bash or sh. 

1. Experience with applying patches to middleware environments.
2. Experience supporting audits and providing evidence of compliance
3. Experience in analyzing memory leaks, thread dumps and heap dumps.
4. Proven ability to design automated CI/CD solutions for our middleware and IIS environment.
5. Knowledge of Jenkins pipelines to deliver automated deployments and testing.
6. Experience with creating and maintaining certificates using openssl, keytool, SSL protocols, ciphers and other security requirements. 

Preferred Experience/Skills:

1. Knowledge/experience working with Citrix Load Balancers and Edge servers.
2. Knowledge/experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, subversion, Maven and Ansible.

3. Knowledge/experience working with web services and micro services technologies.

1. Familiarity with IBM COTS applications like Maximo, connect direct and eClient.  
2. Proficiency scripting languages, such as YAML, JACL, JYTHON, PowerShell and Python.
3. Experience with Microsoft’s Active Directory.