Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Summary:

WebSphere Administrator

Support ongoing production maintenance and phased rollout implementation of the HR, Benefits, and Timekeeping functions of HR/Payroll systems. This role will be a technical position responsible for the installation, maintenance, and configuration of our Middleware infrastructure (IBM WebSphere, MQ, and Cognos). Tasks will include supporting the infrastructure of critical citywide applications. This person will function as one of the technical administrators for the group, work with various teams, and must have the ability to work independently and prioritize tasks to meet project deadlines.

Preferred Skills:

 5+ years' experience of Middleware Administration, specifically in IBM WebSphere Application

Server Traditional (tWAS) and WebSphere Liberty on Linux or UNIX based platforms.

 Experience managing WebSphere Liberty server configurations including server. xml, bootstrap.

properties, and jvm. options.

 Experience using Git for source control and configuration management.

 Experience using Ansible for middleware administration, automation, configuration management, and

application deployments.

 Experience with Jenkins, CloudBees, or similar Cl/CD tools is preferred.

 Experience with Configuration as Code and DevOps methodologies is preferred.

 Experience in administration of other associated middleware products like IBM MQ, IBM HTTP

Server, IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Oracle Web logic, Cognos.

 Perform Middleware application upgrades and patch installations.

 Experience in understanding and debugging Java errors.

 Good understanding of relational database concepts and experience in SQL.

 Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

 Previous experience working with an enterprise wide, large scale environment.

 Ability to support 24x7 and be able to work nights/weekends as required.

 Ability to perform detailed Root Cause Analysis of problems.

 Ability to plan, manage time according to schedules, and provide status updates when required.