UNIX MIDDLEWARE ENGINEER

Information Technology Services (ITS) is DSS’s technology services organization. ITS mission is to support the daily, emergent, and long-term needs of both agencies. ITS creates and enhances the technology infrastructure and computer applications that support HRA and DHS and develops applications, including a variety of client eligibility and recertification systems, case management systems, housing systems, employment/work engagement services, revenue producing computer matches, claiming systems, and personnel systems. Information Technology Services (ITS) is recruiting for one (1) IT Project Specialist, to function as Unix Middleware Engineer, who will:

• Oversee complex infrastructure automation, cloud migration, and identity management.
• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of high-availability containerized environments and middleware stacks supporting enterprise applications.
• Develop and implement Software Release Management strategies and CI/CD models using products like Jenkins, Red Hat Linux, Git, and Java; design container systems (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift) and orchestration strategies to meet system and security requirements.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure overall quality, minimize defects, and maintain best practices and develop specifications for hardware, storage, and software configurations for container environments.
• Write Ansible playbooks to automate application deployment and integrate them with Jenkins for a Continuous Delivery framework. Launch and manage AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, Route53, and VPC, including security groups and load balancers, maintain system infrastructure using Jenkins and multiple AWS tools.
• Develop observability strategies and design threshold monitoring for application performance. Implement Splunk and AppDynamics alerts for error code monitoring and maintain production Splunk environments on-premises and in the cloud. Design and implement Splunk dashboards for log visibility. Hours/Shift: 9:00am-5:00pm IT PROJECT SPECIALIST - 95710

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or
2. An associate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or
3. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or
4. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to “1”, “2”, or “3” above. Preferred Skills

• Experience as a Weblogic/Websphere, Curam, IBM Datastage, IBM ACE, IBM Navigator, working with DB2, Oracle, Postgress, SQL Server. - Experience with Linux, UNIX, AWS and Azure. - Experience working with strong KornShell, Bash, Python, PowerShell and Perl scripting. - Working understanding of software, data storage, file systems, data protection backup, and networking, and cloud concepts. - Working experience and knowledge of Devops practices. - Excellent server software troubleshooting skills. - Strong oral and written communication skills, strong documentation skills, and the ability to handle multiple tasks under tight deadlines. Public Service Loan Forgiveness