Maximo / WebSphere System Administrator

Optimoz is a digital transformation company that enables enterprises and federal agencies to accelerate development and delivery of applications that engage customers and drive revenue. We are looking for a Maximo / WebSphere System Administrator to support important mission with one of our government clients. You will be a part of an exciting mission that provides information technology expertise, strategic vision and tactical implementations using frameworks that require self-healing network for scalable fault tolerant runtime environments utilizing state of the art agile DevOps practices in the cloud.

A successful candidate should have:

1. At least two (2) years of experience with Maximo 7.6 Application administration, configuration and maintenance including:

• Working with product setup with multi-sites and multi-organizations
• Writing reports utilizing BIRT or IBM’s current report development tool
• Migrating data into Maximo utilizing the Maximo Integration Framework (MIF) (or IBM’s current migration utility) and validating work from Maximo’s front-end
• Maximo Asset Management deployment and configuration
• Updating, building and deploying Application Enterprise Archive (EAR) files
• WebSphere Application Server (WAS) security

2. At least two (2) years of experience with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) administration, configuration and maintenance including:

• Security administration
• Work load management
• Failover management
• JACL and Jython scripting to automate WAS administration and deployment tasks on JVM configuration, J2EE application deployment, backup and JVM export/import
• Troubleshooting network and/or application problems
• Tuning and debugging application
• Upgrading and fix packing server

3. Knowledgeable in each of the following technical areas:

• Server types that interact to perform system administration in application server, node agent, deployment manager, administrative agent and job manager
• Cell, node, profile, JVM, JRE, Clone, high availability, scalability and workload
• WebSphere Plugin
• JMS, queue destinations, topic spaces, JDBC provider and JDBC database sources
• Deployment descriptors (Application.xml and Web.xml)
• Security domains
• SSL Certificates and authentication
• JVMs in garbage collection and JVM command lines
• WebSphere portal server
• Databases, basic SQL and table space
• File systems
• Virtual servers and virtual hosts
• Relationship between IBM HTTP Server and Apache

4. Provide recommendations and guidance for software maintenance patching and version upgrades
5. Coordinate to system users the possible downtime necessary to apply Maximo patches
6. Analyze and support Maximo promotion of configuration changes
7. Assist in adding, modifying and granting access to Maximo system
8. Monitor application activities
9. Support all Maximo environments, including testing, development, pre-production, training and production

OPTIMOZ is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, national origin, color, religion, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete a criminal background check and drug screen per OPTIMOZ employment policy.