Unix/WebSphere Systems Engineer

USM2

Washington, DC, United States contract

Posted: September 23, 2016

Required Skills

Job Description

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: Unix/WebSphere Systems Engineer

Location: Washington, DC.

Duration: 12 Months

Seeking a Unix Systems Engineer/Websphere System Administrator to support the Smart Analytics environment for the CCTI project Support (SOW0028), and Disaster Recovery (SOW005). The candidate should have strong experience with IBM’s AIX operating system, WebSphere Administration and MQSeries, Support for COGNOS applications, POWER Unix servers, as well as an understanding of Network Install Manager (NIM) and DB2.

The project supports a Data Warehouse environment using IBM’s Smart Analytics System. The Smart Analytics is an appliance-like solution that consists of POWER servers running AIX, DS3500 storage, DB2 Warehouse, WebSphere, and Cognos. The environment also contains LDAP and Ab Initio.

Tasks:

• Provide technical support for the CCTI disaster recovery environment

• Provide support to application development staff with architecture, development and Migration of WebSphere and MQSeries applications.

• Provide support to application development staff with deployment and problem resolution of COGNOS applications

• Manage Unix servers contained in the Smart Analytics solution

• Perform user management tasks in the Smart Analytics environment.

• Perform maintenance on the Smart Analytics environment using the Smart Analytics management console.

• Provide support for Test and Production outages.

• Provide support for application upgrades.

• Perform system backups and manage the NIM environment.

• Create all necessary documents and communicate to the team in support of the projects

• Assist with problem analysis and resolution

• Implement reports and automation to manage and monitor the environments

• Attend meetings to provide technical analysis / support.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills:

1. The internal drive, intellectual curiosity, ability to learn, and desire to help the customers succeed

2. Strong technical and leadership skills

3. Comfortable working under Project Manager supervision

4. Ability to work proactively

Specific Required Skills

• 5-8 years’ experience in the administration and management of AIX systems and POWER hardware Experience using the WebSphere Application Server console for monitoring, starting, and stopping of applications

• Experience supporting COGNOS applications

• Script writing to simplify tasks

• Strong analytic, problem solving, and collaborative skills

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

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