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Job Title
Job title: WebSphere / Liberty / MQ Administrator
Company
Company: Leidos
Job Description
Leidos is seeking a WebSphere / Liberty / MQ Administrator to work in Woodlawn, MD. We are a team of forward-looking professionals in need of a strong candidate with key required skills: WebSphere / Liberty Server Administration, IBM MQ / RDQM, Deployment Automation (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus), and UrbanCode Deploy/Velocity. This position will require onsite work in Woodlawn, MD five days a week.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Develop, design, code, and implement next-generation deployment automation and applications using system/software engineering best practices and the latest technologies: DevOps (Jenkins, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker).
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code (UrbanCode Deploy, Ansible, Scripting).
- Enable Event Driven Architecture / Message Queuing.
- Administer IBM Liberty / WebSphere Application Server—including installing, migrating, upgrading, deploying, troubleshooting, and configuring on Linux.
- Provide engineering contributions in one or more of these areas: software deployment, application monitoring and performance tuning, event-driven architecture, container orchestration, security, auto-scaling & application reliability engineering.
- Work closely and collaboratively with a small, tightly knit, high-performing team of Leidos engineers and customer technical leads.
- Investigate and repair application defects with development team regardless of component: front-end, business logic, middleware, queue, UCD script, CI/CD pipeline, or database (PL/SQL and Data Modeling).
- Triage Java exceptions and tune JVM/application server.
- Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written and oral skills at an appropriate technical level for the audience.
- Perform all other duties as assigned or directed.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field with 4+ years of relevant experience, OR Master’s with 2+ years of relevant experience. Additional years may be accepted or considered in lieu of a degree.
- 5+ years of combined experience with software development, deployment, automation, systems/application analysis, and design.
- 3+ years of combined experience with Application Server Administration (WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Liberty) and IBM MQ / RDQM.
- 2+ years of combined experience with deployment automation tools (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus, UrbanCode Deploy).
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust (Contract requirement).
Core Skills
- Hands‑on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server administration on Linux.
- Hands‑on experience with IBM MQ and RDQM administration on Linux.
- Solid experience using Deployment Automation tools (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus).
- Strong experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like Shell, Python.
- Experience developing build scripts using Apache Ant and Apache Maven.
- Basic knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration.
- Solid experience with version control software such as Git/Bitbucket.
- Basic knowledge with Java EE applications, including deployment, monitoring, and triage.
- Solid experience automating application deployments for WebSphere using IBM UrbanCode Deploy / Velocity.
Desired Qualifications
- Preferred experience with AWS cloud technologies or other cloud platforms; AWS cloud certifications.
- Experience with AWS administration (EC2, S3, ELB, EBS/EFS/S3).
- Experience with PaaS using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers.
- Experience with Kafka administration.
- Basic experience with configuration management and provisioning tools (Ansible automation, CloudFormation / Terraform).
Additional Information
Expected salary: $72,150 – $130,425 per year
Location: Baltimore, MD
Job date: Fri, 23 May :43:45 GMT
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