Urgent Need Websphere Admin

Businesses face challenges every day building responsive and agile IT capabilities to grow and stay ahead. Since everyone has access to the same tools, your competitive advantage directly depends on how you apply technology – on the people leading, supporting and optimizing your IT initiatives. USM Business Systems, established in 1999, is an industry-leading private talent management firm, specializing in providing unique IT turnkey solutions, IT staffing solutions, and Talent management insights, enabling you to sustain a truly competitive advantage in this fast-moving environment. USM has offices throughout the US and offshore delivery centers in India. USM is a certified Minority Business Enterprise and is a CMMi Level 3 Organization.

USM is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT Temporary Staffing firms in the US and most recently was ranked #3 on the list of the Top Temporary Staffing firms in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2016).

Position Title: WebSphere Admin

Location: Vienna, VA    GC AND CITIZENS only

Duration:6-12 Months

Major Responsibilities:

*Install, configure, tune and support WebSphere Application Server.

*Setup load balancing, clustering, and failover.

*Develop automation tools for Password management, Monitoring, Configuration and Deployment.

*Assist application and testing teams.

*Work with Vendor Support to assist in troubleshooting and resolving issues (open service requests and follow up with Vendor Support)

*Develop support documentation.

*Be available 24/7 to support staff in case of issues.

Required:

*Hands on experience in the installation, configuration, tuning/sizing, clustering, deployment and problem resolution of WebSphere Middleware Components.

*Ability to use or develop tools to automate maintenance, configuration changes, password changes, deployments and migrations of WebSphere Middleware components.

*Experience creating scripts (wsadmin, shell, perl, ant, Jython, Python, Jacl) Nice to have:

*Ability to install and configure WebSphere MQ servers. Perform MQ System Management, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and maintenance.

*Ability to perform administrative tasks, download and upgrade firmware, create and manager user accounts and domains on the Datapower Appliances.

If you are interested in the below position please forward your profile to alih@usmsystems(dot)com or call me on 703 955-3955