WebSphere​/Liberty​/MQ Administrator

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Job title: Web Sphere / Liberty / MQ Administrator

Company: Leidos

Leidos is seeking a Web Sphere / Liberty / MQ Administrator to work in Woodlawn, MD. We are a team of forward-looking professionals in need of a strong candidate with key required skills:
Web Sphere / Liberty Server Administration, IBM MQ / RDQM, Deployment Automation (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus), and Urban Code Deploy/Velocity. This position will require onsite work in Woodlawn, MD five days a week.

• Develop, design, code, and implement next-generation deployment automation and applications using system/software engineering best practices and the latest technologies:
  Dev Ops (Jenkins, Red Hat Open Shift, Docker).
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code (Urban Code Deploy, Ansible, Scripting).
• Enable Event Driven Architecture / Message Queuing.
• Administer IBM Liberty / Web Sphere Application Server—including installing, migrating, upgrading, deploying, troubleshooting, and configuring on Linux.
• Provide engineering contributions in one or more of these areas: software deployment, application monitoring and performance tuning, event-driven architecture, container orchestration, security, auto-scaling & application reliability engineering.
• Work closely and collaboratively with a small, tightly knit, high-performing team of Leidos engineers and customer technical leads.
• Investigate and repair application defects with development team regardless of component: front-end, business logic, middleware, queue, UCD script, CI/CD pipeline, or database (PL/SQL and Data Modeling).
• Triage Java exceptions and tune JVM/application server.
• Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written and oral skills at an appropriate technical level for the audience.
• Perform all other duties as assigned or directed.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field with 4+ years of relevant experience, OR Master’s with 2+ years of relevant experience. Additional years may be accepted or considered in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of combined experience with software development, deployment, automation, systems/application analysis, and design.
• 3+ years of combined experience with Application Server Administration (Web Sphere Application Server, Web Sphere Liberty) and IBM MQ / RDQM.
• 2+ years of combined experience with deployment automation tools (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus, Urban Code Deploy).
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust (Contract requirement).

• Hands‑on experience with IBM Web Sphere Application Server administration on Linux.
• Hands‑on experience with IBM MQ and RDQM administration on Linux.
• Solid experience using Deployment Automation tools (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus).
• Strong experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like Shell, Python.
• Experience developing build scripts using Apache Ant and Apache Maven.
• Basic knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration.
• Solid experience with version control software such as Git/Bitbucket.
• Basic knowledge with Java EE applications, including deployment, monitoring, and triage.
• Solid experience automating application deployments for Web Sphere using IBM Urban Code Deploy / Velocity.

• Preferred experience with AWS cloud technologies or other cloud platforms; AWS cloud certifications.
• Experience with AWS administration (EC2, S3, ELB, EBS/EFS/S3).
• Experience with PaaS using Red Hat Open Shift/Kubernetes and Docker containers.
• Experience with Kafka administration.
• Basic experience with configuration management and provisioning tools (Ansible automation, Cloud Formation / Terraform).

Expected salary: $72,150 – $130,425 per year

Location: Baltimore, MD

Job date: Fri, 23 May 2025 06:43:45 GMT

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