WebITS53WebEHSFY14005WebSphereAdminDeveloper005WebSphereAdminJimNallyAY.DOC

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RFQ: EHS Web Software Developer - Senior
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S166600-vCurrent
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Norfolk County, Quincy City, Massachusetts

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This document contains the specifications for an ITS53 Staff Augmentation Posting for a Web Developer - WebSphere Admin position on behalf of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS). The posting seeks one (1) Senior IBM WebSphere Application Server Administrator for a contract period ending on June 30, 2014. The selected candidate will be responsible for analyzing requirements, designing detailed documents, monitoring system health, providing problem resolution, supporting software maintenance, assisting development teams, and maintaining system integrity and security. Required skills include 7+ years of IT experience with 4+ years of WebSphere administration, experience with WebSphere and MQ on multiple platforms, J2EE and JVM knowledge, WebSphere clustering expertise, and script development abilities. Desired skills include MQ server installation and configuration, message broker experience, and IBM Initiate administration knowledge.

The maximum acceptable hourly rate for this position is $90, and the rate is all-inclusive of travel and other expenses. Resumes must be emailed to the specified address, with a subject line identifying the posting. Up to 4 resumes per ITS53 vendor may be submitted, and the candidate's current or past state agency employment must be indicated. The position is located at 100 Hancock Street, Boston, MA, and the submission deadline is January 3, 2014.

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Specifications for ITS53 Staff Augmentation Posting

[Document Number: ITS53_Web-EHS-FY14-005-WebSphere Admin] [Web Developer –

WebSphere Admin] X

New Posting

__ Reposted with skill set edits

__ Reposted with different title, higher maximum rate

General Requirements:

CORI requirements: _X_MUST BE COMPLETED

__ Other (including special requirements):

Interview requirements: __x in person

__ Other:

Total number of positions sought: _1_ Maximum acceptable hourly rate: $_90 May be filled PRIOR TO CLOSE DATE: _x_Yes __No Additional Resume Submission Specifications and Requirements:

· Maximum number of resumes per ITS53 Vendors: 4

· Resumes must be emailed to: EOHHS-ITContractorResumes@MassMail.State.MA.US

· The subject line of the email must read: ITS53_Web-EHS-FY14-005-WebSphere Admin

· No phone calls please – email questions to: ___ kara.banderier@state.ma.us

· Indicate on resume if candidate is presently working for another State Agency or has worked for another State Agency within the past 12 months (if so, indicate State Agency name)

· Include candidate Pay Rate in the email that accompanies the resume

· Rates are all-inclusive (travel and any additional expenses are included in the rate)

· Right to Represent

· Third Party Status

Worksite Address: 100 Hancock Street, Boston, MA Contract Length: June 30, 2014 Project(s) Duration: end of project Hours per Week: 40 Submission Deadline: January 3, 2014 Other Schedule Related:

Rate Card Title from the Rate Card posted on Comm-PASS: Web Developer Position: Senior IBM WebSphere Application Server Administrator

Job duties:

- Analyze high-level requirements and develop detailed design documents for new applications using Websphere, MQ and other IBM tools.

- Monitor health, and provide problem resolution that includes the diagnosis and root cause analysis of problems with the Websphere, and MQ environments including hardware and software on stand-alone and distributed platforms.

- Support standard software maintenance, and application deployments and releases

- Provide high-level technical assistance to application development teams

- Maintaining the system integrity and security by following the Server Configuration Standards and IT Controls

- Evaluate other IBM tools, and support them as necessary

Required Skills:

- 7+ years of IT experience with at least 4+ years of WebSphere administration

- Experience with design, configuration, testing, migration and implementation of Websphere, and MQ on Linux, AIX, and Windows platforms.

- Ability to identify, test and implement new or updated tools to support the Websphere and MQ infrastructure.

- Good understanding of J2EE, JVM and ability to perform Installation of application/web servers

- Detailed understanding of WebSphere Application Server Clustering for High Availability or other HA models

- Configure Virtual Machines, Clusters, JMS, Virtual Hosts, JDBC, LDAP, auto-deployment, session replication, URL redirections, Re-write rules, http-Plugins etc.

- Installation and management of security certificates

- Scripting skills to automate jobs and WLST/WSADMIN scripting

- Monitoring, tracking, trending, analyzing, troubleshooting and performance tuning of the WebSphere Application Server and Apache HTTP server environments

- Thread dump and log analysis

- Follow stringent change management practices and policies in Production and other environments

- Deploying applications in Websphere, and Apache

- Basic knowledge of various operating systems(Linux, AIX, Windows etc.)

- Basic knowledge of network infrastructure for e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, Firewall, router, load balancer etc.

- Experience in evaluating and eliminating single points of failure with Websphere, MQ on the hosted platforms. Familiarity using queue and port sharing technologies and scaling of queue managers on varying systems is highly desirable.

- Backup and restoration of application/web servers data

- Technical documentation experience

- Available for off-hour deployments and provide 24x7 on-call production support on a rotation basis

Desired skills:

- Installation and configuration of MQ server

- Knowledge of channel issues,restoration of damaged queue manager, SSL part, authorization issues

- Configured MQ environment by following up clustering and distributed queuing mechanism.

- Deployment of message broker bar file, solved the challenging issues of message broker and done health checkup.

- Done the setting up of environment before application deployment by creating request reply queues, queue connection factory, MDB listener and data source.

- Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Cloud-based infrastructure

- Basic administration knowlege/ experience with IBM Initiate (Master Data Service engine, Inspector, and Work Bench) is a huge plus

- Participate in infrastructure planning, recovery, and conversion activities.sition Summary:

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