Senior Middleware Administrator - HBITS-08-14960

About the role

The IT Specialist position supports the UISIM project, a multi-year program to redesign, implement, operate, enhance, and maintain the integrated systems used by the New York State Department of Labor's Unemployment Insurance program. The resource will provide specialized technical support, knowledge transfer, incident resolution, enhancement delivery, and documentation for UISIM applications and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise middleware or application-server platforms in production environments.
• Install, configure, maintain, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot Red Hat JBoss BAM/BPM or IBM WebSphere.
• Administer enterprise workload automation or batch scheduling tools such as ActiveBatch.
• Support application integrations, interfaces, deployments, and production incident resolution across distributed systems.
• Conduct application or middleware performance testing and analysis using JMeter or comparable tools.
• Support document-processing or specialized business applications such as PSPDF or OccuCoder.
• Create operational runbooks, architecture or configuration documentation, and provide knowledge transfer to technical staff.

Requirements

• 60 months of experience administering and supporting enterprise middleware or application-server platforms in production environments.
• 48 months of experience installing, configuring, maintaining, patching, upgrading, and troubleshooting Red Hat JBoss BAM/BPM or IBM WebSphere.
• 36 months of experience administering enterprise workload automation or batch scheduling tools such as ActiveBatch.
• 36 months of experience supporting application integrations, interfaces, deployments, and production incident resolution across distributed systems.
• 36 months of experience conducting application or middleware performance testing and analysis using JMeter or a comparable performance-testing tool.
• 24 months of experience supporting document-processing or specialized business applications such as PSPDF or OccuCoder.
• 24 months of experience creating operational runbooks, architecture or configuration documentation, and providing knowledge transfer to technical staff.

Location: Albany, NY 12240
Duration: Long-term (30 months)
Agency: NYS Department of Labor
Project: Department of Labor's UISIM (Unemployment Insurance Service Improvement) project