Senior Dev Operations Engineer

Top 5 Must Haves - Experience and Proficiency in the following:
Minimum of 5+ years hands on experience in supporting WebSphere Application Server installation, configuration, and management in Windows, Linux, or Unix environment
3+ years hands on experience with Clear Case, SCM or equivalent experience with similar version control product
Hands on experience deploying and configuring Java Web applications on WebSphere 8.5 and higher
Strong background in networking, load balancing, and firewalls
Knowledge of virtualization technologies such as Amazon AWS, OpenStack, VMware, Xen and/or KVM


DELIVERABLES

• Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfers and mentorship to State Fund internal engineering
• peers as required and lead technical staff responsibilities.
• Server Maintenance based on updates, system requirements, data usage, and antivirus requirements.
• Responsible for the design, implementation, and support of large scale web farm infrastructure across multiple data centers supporting the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering.
• Help engineering implement new technologies in development for future production deployment.
• Working with team to analyze and design web farm infrastructure with 99.99% up-time with server virtualization, clustering, database, disaster recovery, and geographic redundancy.
• Reporting server farm operational status by gathering, prioritizing information
• Build out a robust system to auto-scale our platform and work closely with our engineering team to diagnose how to build this, how to manage this and what triggers to measure.
• Actively monitor and administer the applications and hosting environment to increase efficiency, improve reliability, and minimize downtimes
• Triage and provide technical solutions to environment related issues encountered by new and existing applications
• Support developers with change requests, uptime, and performance related issues
• Documentation of work in regards to bug reports, systems analysis, application monitoring, and common task reporting
• Author internal documentation, such as environment diagrams, installation/configuration documents and release notes.
• Assist in establishing and implementing configuration management program and policies.
• Troubleshoot and debug environment and infrastructure problems found in the production and non-production environments.
• Measurement, optimization, and tuning of system performance and ensuring that systems will run reliably and are highly available in a 24/7 production environment.
• Automate systems monitoring tasks using standard monitoring tools.
• Manage and control the continuous release promotion cycle (manually short-term, through automation long-term) including the following environments: development, integration, staging, QA, Load and production.
• Develop deployment scripts on a lifecycle automation platform for the orchestration, integration and automation of build promotions and software releases.
• Provide 24 by 7 production support
• Experience with Flexpod Environments is a plus

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Minimum of 5+ years hands on experience in supporting WebSphere Application Server installation, configuration, and management in Windows, Linux, or Unix environment
• 3 - 5 years' experience in working with management and maintenance of applications running on IIS, SSL configuration, Apache Tomcat, and WebLogic
• 2 4 years' experience working with Windows 2008 2016 in a virtualized (VMWare) environment
• 3+ years hands on experience with Clear Case, SCM or equivalent experience with similar version control product
• Strong scripting skills in wsadmin, Jacl, Jython, Shell, PowerShell, and VB Script
• Understanding of basic SQL, PL/SQL, and T-SQL commands
• Understanding of installation/configuration of DB2 Data Server Client
• Hands on experience deploying and configuring Java Web applications on WebSphere 6.1, 7.0, and 8.5.5
• Thorough understanding of building, deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting WebSphere applications integrated with IIS 8.5
• Experience with build automation and deployment tools such as ANT a strong plus
• Strong troubleshooting and analysis skills
• Willing and capable of mentoring others and leading by example.
• Thorough knowledge of managing Windows 2012 R2 and 2016 Operating Systems in virtualized environment
• Thorough understanding of and experience with managing web applications in a highly available environment
• Strong background in networking, load balancing, and firewalls
• Experience in Software development is a plus
• Minimum of 3 years of Windows system administration experience with Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2016 and deep knowledge of OS Upgrade and migration
• Minimum of 5+ years Unix, and Linux system administration experience.
• Familiarity with deploying and configuring Java and .Net applications.
• Experience with system automation and deployment tools such as Chef and Puppet.
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies such as Amazon AWS, OpenStack, VMware, Xen and/or KVM

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Passion for improving software development processes and desires to automate any repetitive work you ever do. Familiarity with configuration management, tools including Clear Case, Chef, Puppet, CFEngine or similar industry-standard CM solutions
• Enthusiasm for working closely with developers to understand ops requirements
• Experience with large project rollouts at an enterprise level
• Detailed knowledge of Windows 2012 R2 and 2016 operating systems and tools
• Good knowledge of SCM (software configuration management)
• Working knowledge of web services, web application development, Oracle database Server, multi-tier application systems
• Good knowledge of software configuration, source control, and build engineering, scripting and system administration is required
• Database management expertise: MS SQL Server, Oracle
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, including application and network-level troubleshooting ability
• Knowledge/experience with troubleshooting installing and configuring SSL certificates
• Understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, IP ROUTING, SSH/SFTP/SCP, DNS, FTP, SMTP