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Toronto - Canada

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Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Assignment: RQ08228 Application Support Specialist Junior
Title: Application Support Specialist
Start Date:
End Date:
Office Location: 222 Jarvis St. Toronto
Organization: Government Services Integration Cluster
Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery (former MGCS)
# Business Days: 100.00
Extension # of Days: 230.00
Must Haves:
2 years of experience with systems administration of Oracle Solaris (Sun Solaris) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
2 years of experience with middleware environments including IBM WebSphere Application Server/Liberty/NDM
Expertise in ITIL best practices for Service Management (Incident Problem Change and Configuration Management).
Handson experience with OpenShift managing containerized applications and ensuring scalable flexible deployments.
Practical experience with DevOps methodologies and CI/CD tools like Jenkins Urban Code Deploy and Urban Code Velocity
Description
This position will support all operational work related to hosting client applications in the shared hosting environment of the Government Services Shared Utility Service (SUS). They will perform roles such as operations support managing endpoint security and regular security patching .

The Application Support Specialist has expertise in Middleware services and technology such as application hosting services WebSphere infrastructure configuration network services security and cloud services. This position will provide support for the larger SUS team in hosting and supporting 200 Java applications.

Operational tasks including incident intake and triage service request fulfillment change request assessment and implementation general reporting and data analysis.

Skillset:

Experience with middleware application suite such as but not limited to:
o IBM WebSphere Application Server NDM and Liberty
o IBM DataPower
o Deployment Automation Urban Code Deploy and Urban Code Velocity
o Middleware Monitoring tools e.g. ITCAM Dynatrace
o Cloud technology including OpenShift Kubernetes and Ansible
Experience with ITIL Incident Management process
Experience with ITIL Change Management process
Experience with Remedy/eSMT Service Now or other service management tools
Experience with reporting tools and data visualization e.g. PowerBI
Demonstrate strong communication and problem solving skills
Experience with standard MS office suite
Demonstrate initiative and responsiveness
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
General Project Coordination and Communication (30%)
Demonstrated experience coordinating projects and leading initiatives with technical and business stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience scheduling and facilitating agile / scrum events including but not limited to backlog management sprint planning daily standups sprint reviews and retrospectives.
Excellent analytical and problemsolving capabilities coupled with experience in change planning and implementation.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office for process automation data analysis and report generation.
Service Management (30%)
Expertise in ITIL best practices for Service Management (Incident Problem Change and Configuration Management).
2 years of experience managing the full lifecycle of incidents problems and service requests using tools like Remedy/eSMT.
Experience analyzing and reporting on operational data to identify trends and optimize processes.
Middleware Support (35%)
2 years of experience with systems administration of Oracle Solaris (Sun Solaris) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
2 years of experience with middleware environments including IBM WebSphere Application Server/Liberty/NDM.
Practical experience with DevOps methodologies and CI/CD tools like Jenkins Urban Code Deploy and Urban Code Velocity.
Handson experience with OpenShift managing containerized applications and ensuring scalable flexible deployments.
Expertise in secure file transfer protocols like Secure Transport and other FTP/SFTP systems.
Operational experience with Ceph storage for data management and scalable storage solutions.
General exposure to cloud technologies network topologies (firewalls load balancers DNS) and development platforms like DataPower Informatica IBM MQ and IBM ACE.
Public Sector Experience (5%)
Experience working in public sector environments such as OPS BPS or similar government institutions.

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