Systems Engineer Sr Advisor

Systems Engineer Sr Advisor

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Systems Engineer Sr Advisor at GDIT. Here, you’ll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you’ll make the end user’s experience your priority and we’ll make your career growth ours.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. You will join our team in partnership with New York State of Health (NYSoH) to provide comprehensive health coverage to more than 7 million New Yorkers through its Health Benefit Exchange (HBE) 

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT:   

• You will join our talented Systems Architecture Team. Our project is built on a multi-tier architecture including Service Oriented architecture, multi-tier web applications using Java and various other COTS products.
• You’ll be responsible for middleware installation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and identifying performance improvements.  
• You’ll administer a wide variety of middleware components in a 24/7/365 high availability client environment. Primary responsibility is Production support to include monitoring, troubleshooting, and triage. 
• You’ll install, configure, and maintain the JBoss middleware infrastructure supporting a high-volume mission critical Healthcare system with stringent security and performance requirements 
• You’ll ensure installation, configurations, and maintenance procedures of all changes to middleware infrastructure are of highest quality and capable of meeting all client SLAs. 
• You’ll install upgrades and patches associated with JBoss and related middleware products.   
• You’ll package, deploy applications, migrate, performance tune, troubleshoot and resolve application services, maintains security, and automates routine procedures through scripting. 
• You’ll work constructively with other team members  
• You’ll perform complex systems administration.  Monitor and tuns appropriate systems to ensure optimum level of performance.  
• You’ll oversee appropriate level software installations and upgrades and related software packages.  
• You’ll collect and reviews system data for capacity and planning purposes.   
• You’ll analyze capacity data and develop capacity plans for appropriate level enterprise-wide systems.   
• You’ll oversee and apply appropriate support packages/patches to maintain system integrity.  
• You’ll develops and maintain appropriate system documentation  

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:    

Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree in related technical field, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Experience:  

• Eight or more years of experience in working on middleware support teams in high-volume a mission critical environment
• Five (5+) years’ experience in JBoss Middleware System’s Administration role 
• One+ year experience with Health Exchange Systems
• Experience in the JBoss family of middleware infrastructure  
• Experience in developing appropriate monitoring and alerting processes within the mid-tier environment 
• Experience developing custom operation scripts for day-to-day JBoss operations  
• Experience configuring/supporting Mulesoft, Opentext, SPLUNK, Jaeger framework nice to have  
• Experience in administering the WAS family of middleware infrastructure (WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere MQ) nice to have  

Skills:  

• Self starter, takes initiative to uncover and resolve issues in order to promote a culture of continuous improvement 
• Able and willing to participate in 7x24 on call support as required 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills  
• Ability to interact with team and client staff and remain calm under pressure