WebSphere / Liberty / MQ Administrator

Company: Via Logic LLC
Location: Baltimore
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

**Description**Leidos is seeking a **WebSphere / Liberty / MQ Admin** to work in Woodlawn, MD.We are a team of forward-looking professionals in need of a strong candidate with _these key required skills_ : WebSphere / Liberty Server Administration, IBM MQ / RDQM, Deployment Automation (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus), and UrbanCode Deploy/Velocity.**This position will require onsite work in Woodlawn, MD five days a week****DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES:**+ Develop, design, code, and implement next-generation deployment automation and application using system/software engineering best practices and the latest technologies:+ DevOps (Jenkins, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker)+ Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code (UrbanCode Deploy, Ansible, Scripting)+ Event Driven Architecture / Message Queuing+ Administer IBM Liberty / WebSphere Application Server including installing, migrating, upgrading, deploying, troubleshooting, and configurating 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, or 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 appropriate technical level for audience.+ All other duties as assigned or directed.**FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS** **(** **_Required Qualifications_** **):**+ 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 of relevant experience maybe accepted or considered in lieu of 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 (WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Liberty) and IBM MQ / RDQM.+ 2+ years of combined experience with deployment automation tools (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus).+ Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.**FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE** **(** **_Required Qualifications_** **):**_These skills will help you succeed in this position:_+ Hands-on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server administration in Linux.+ Hands-on experience with IBM MQ and RDQM administration in Linux.+ Solid experience using Deployment Automation tools (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus).+ Strong experience in automating tasks 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.**HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD** **_(Desired Skills):_**_Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:_+ 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 OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers.+ Solid experience automating application deployments for WebSphere using IBM UrbanCode Deploy / Velocity.+ Experience with Kafka administration.+ Basic experience with configuration management and provisioning tools (Ansible automation, CloudFormation / Terraform).**Original Posting:**April 29, 2025For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.**Pay Range:**Pay Range $72,150.00 - $130,425.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.REQNUMBER: R-00158317All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.
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