IIS Middleware Administrator

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Located in Radford, VA, PD ALTESS provides Information Management policy, guidance, automation, support and services to the Army Acquisition Executive (AAE) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisitions, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT)) and provides information management support and services to other DOD and Army elements, and the Acquisition Community in support of the AAE mission.

Responsible for all facets of engineering and administering the mid-tier at PD ALTESS. This includes architecting infrastructure, installing, configuring and hardening of Application and Web Servers, Portals, and associated software products and operating system configuration in Windows and Linux environments. Once deployed, responsible for maintaining the infrastructure to meet availability and performance standards. Must have 1-2 years of experience with Tomcat, Apache, IIS, Coldfusion or JBOSS. Specific activities and associated deliverables include: support of these technologies in Dev, Test and Prod environments; assisting in project releases; configuring and installing the middleware technologies; assisting in troubleshooting of reported outages. A large portion of this role is responsible in developing automation maintenance tasks using Ansible and Powershell. Responsible for maintaining security standards in the mid-tier and ensuring all systems and applications meet ALTESS and ARMY security requirements.

Essential Job Functions

• Working tasks in ServiceNow for installing, configuring, patching or troubleshooting Application and Web servers

• Documenting progress on tickets with in ServiceNow

• Developing automation scripts for maintenance tasks

• Periodic review of Army Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)

• Documenting common knowledge for future team use into a Knowledge Management System

• Consistent review of literature and current practices to support business

Location: On-site in Radford, VA

Security Clearance: DOD Secret (fully adjudicated) as a minimum

Citizenship: US

Required Certifications:

CompTIA Security+ and Environmental Cert within 6 months

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security clearance or higher (US Citizenship required).

• 1-5 years of hands-on experience in application server management using IIS administration.

• Background in a Web Application Server environment in a substantially large enterprise.

• Experience with automating maintenance tasks in an IT Configuration Management, Deployment and Orchestration tool such as Ansible/Puppet/CHEF.

• Knowledge of Application Server architecture in a large enterprise environment using IIS administration.

• Hands on experience with Windows Server OS administration.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong organization skills to prioritize work, maintain project schedules and manage tasks to ensure completion of projects within the established schedules.

• Experience with COTs integrations such as: Azure DevOps.

• Knowledge of Web Services, both SOAP and REST.

• Knowledge of XML.

• Strong communication skills to communicate systems proposals to management and customers and provide systems diagnoses and resolution for current systems.