Middleware Support

Description of Project

• The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) is seeking two (2) fulltime resources/System Admins to act as Integration/Middleware Administrators all of whom must have advanced experience building large and complex systems.
• The team is needed to support ongoing highly visible projects to successful completion enabling multiple ISDS technical solutions to be deployed and fully operational.
• These may include several crossagency projects with key collaborators from MNsure MNIT and the Department of Human Services (DHS).
• Many of these solutions are deployed into existing large scale computer systems so advanced experience with the existing technologies is a necessity.
• At a high level the resources will have the experience to assume immediate responsibility for (new and active) large and technically complex projects which impact current processes.
• The team must develop flexible and efficient plans and collaborate with matrixed project teams with multiple priorities while simultaneously fostering an environment of team building and coordination.
• A large portion of ongoing responsibilities revolve around interpreting and mitigating security vulnerability reports generated by internal scans as well as partnered audits.
• Mitigation strategies range from standard patching planning to highly technical solutions implemented at the middleware web server or load balancer level.
• Contracted admins will be responsible for directly implementing solutions at all tiers.
• It is MNITs ongoing commitment to provide technology solutions that are reliable and flexible enough to meet fluctuating customer demand and increasing expectation of 7x24x365 system availability all while decreasing ongoing support expenses.
• DHS does not anticipate that the Integration/Middleware Administrators will need access to private data on individuals or protected health information and therefore does not anticipate that vendor will need to enter a business associate or data sharing agreement with DHS.

Tasks

• Build configure deploy and support IBM middleware products including but not limited to: WebSphere Application Server Network Deploy IBM HTTP Server IBM Business Process Manager WebSphere Transformation Extender IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management IBM MQSeries and IBM Integration Bus.
• Provide experienced support and consultation for all the following customdeveloped software families ESB METS (built on IBM WebSphere & BPM Informatica ActiveVOS HHS Audit HHS Content HHS Notify) and Merative C ram for MN DHS.
• Implement and support highly available recoverable and secure systems using F5 load balancer technologies.
• Create and use automated deployment scripts for WAS BPM ACE and WTX applications using Jenkins & Ansible.
• Support and build integration between business program software and enterprise IAM security solutions.
• Respond to break/fix issues troubleshoot and resolve server hardware and Operating System issues and make recommendations for corrective action.
• Monitor supported systems directly and procedurally.
• Deploy code updates to middleware and inhouse software packages to support testing and release schedules.
• Apply required fixpacks to the WAS HTTP BPM & ACE servers.
• Maintain consistent architectural topologies in all application environments while integrating application changes and infrastructure improvements.
• Provide other middlewarerelated functions to support the METS and dependent applications and subsystems.
• Create technical architectural design documents.
• Provide updates as required for MNIT MNsure and DHS leadership.
• Manage small to medium level projects.
• Provide knowledge transfer.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years experience installing maintaining and operating Informatica ActiveVOS.
• 5 years experience installing maintaining and operating IBM Integration BusACE family of software (other titles in series: IBM App Connect Enterprise or IIB; WebSphere Message Broker).
• 5 years experience working with healthcare program packages: HHS Integration Software (HHS Content HHS Notify & HHS Audit. (All titles also previously released under EngagePoint branding.).

Desired Skills

• Computer Science or Information Technology degree.
• 8 years experience providing analysis architectural design and/or implementation of:
• WebSphere Application Server Network Deploy topologies.
• IBM messaging software.
• IBM business process software.
• IBM service bus software.
• 7 years experience with Linux OS administration operation and scripting.
• 6 years experience working with IBM Middleware hosted systems integrated with Oracle Identity and Access Management solutions.
• 6 years experience working with Merative C ram.
• 5 years experience installing maintaining and operating IBM Business Process ManagerBPM family of software (other titles in series: Business Automation Workflow or BAW; WebSphere Process Server or WPS).
• 4 years experience working with F5 BigIP solutions for load balancing and web service security management.
• 3 years experience supporting maintaining and operating change management software IBM CLM.