Loc:Tampa, FL

• Primary Administrator and Support for Middleware technologies including Websphere ND Application Server, MQ Series, Pega PRPC application software.
• Responsible for installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of complex, mission-critical middleware installations.
• Coordinate and direct research efforts to discover modifications and enhancements to existing configurations and procedures.
• Manage Middleware release and patch levels, technology versioning and product roadmaps.
• Conduct evaluations of overall system performance to develop and implement recommendations to address and resolve issues.
• Responsible for the configuration, maintenance, monitoring and troubleshooting of high-availability middleware and web services that make up the strategic
• Application Infrastructure/enabling Technologies (WebSphere, MQ, IIS, Apache, Pega PRPC)
• Work with application development groups to tune and troubleshoot their applications within a fault-tolerant
• WebSphere/WAS environment
• Advises on and resolves issues that may occur within middleware services and inter-operability with RDBMS and other integrated back-end systems.
• Develop processes needed to model, integrate, automate and manage reliable, highly-available, and flexible business middleware installations
• Create and update system documentation
• Acts as a liaison with Architecture application and infrastructure teams to engineer requirements and/or determination of problems
• Evaluate overall system performance to develop and implement recommendations to address and resolve issues
• Manage system integrity and availability
• Interfaces with division personnel, applications/systems analysts, manufactures representatives and departmental personnel to implement new projects and provide assistance in resolution of technical issues
• Design and implement monitoring and alerting technologies and processes
• Off-hours support and on-call rotation required
• Capacity planning and performance tuning
• Assist in defining, documenting, and socializing clear and effective support and escalation processes
• Software package review, installation, configuration and maintenance
• Research, planning and coordination of the implementation of new technology
• Disaster Recovery planning and documentation
• Ensure that all documentation is up-to-date and develop new documentation
• Act as SME on middleware technologies during technology and development Projects

• 5+ years hands-on experience in System Administration and Support with a focus on Middleware technologies, including at least
• 3+ years current experience with WebSphere installation, configuration, administration and support in high-availability, multi-platform environments.
• Expert knowledge of IBM Websphere Application Server ND, WAS clustering and failover, Deployment Manager
• Experience installing and maintaining J2EE-based Application Server environments
• Experience automating deployment and routine middleware tasks
• Experience scripting moderately complex tasks
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking
• Skilled at monitoring performance of software and hardware and recommending and implementing changes to maintain acceptable performance
• Experience anticipating future performance requirements to support growth and scalability
• Able to develop new technical processes and make recommendations for the improvement of existing processes
• Experience implementing and managing SSL certificates
• Strong communications skills and the ability to self manage