Senior WebSphere Administrator

Job Description

Description

Overview
 
The Senior WebSphere Administrator position is a member of the Acquisition and Property Management (APM) Product Line's Veteran Canteen Services (VCS) Point of Sale (POS) Team within VA's Corporate (CORP) Portfolio of back-office applications in support of the US Department of Veterans Affairs' Consolidated Corporate Support Services (CCSS) contract delivery program.

This role is 100% Remote. 
 
Within the APM Product Line, VCS POS represents two of the three primary VCS systems and back-end components that support and drive the only revenue-generating business at VA's United Stated (US) facilities. Supporting the entirety of the on-campus restaurants/food services, as well as the on-site retail stores and related vending services, VCS POS encompasses and supports all of the cash register-based transactions (tills) at these locations, all the reporting requirements at all levels of the organization that support these monetary transactions, all the required interfaces to/from the other systems and sub-systems in support of VCS operations, and all of the supporting financial transactions, accounting, and related reporting and system interfaces. The server-side VCS POS system utilizes versions of Bean Store, Java, IBM WebSphere, and IBM Messaging Queue (MQ) to pass data between servers and systems. VCS POS is managed in a two-tier configuration, both centralized and at the store level (i.e., Canteen Chiefs' use).  VCS POS has an installed user base of over 200 Canteen locations nationwide, with over 1,000 end-user devices currently in use.  
 
Duties:

• Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs application software.
• Conducts product-level and code-level analysis, and collaborates with subject matter experts in the planning, design, development, and utilization of VA legacy and modernization tools and systems for information storage, processing, presentation, manipulation, display, or reporting. End product may be special use, customized, or COTS/GOTS software. 
• Determines computer user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops autonomous services, desktop applications, web applications, scripts, and utility programs.
• Ensures software standards are met.
• Exercise care and quality in delivering products.
• Develop and implement automated tests to ensure products function as designed.
• Provides technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practicable and consistent with client objectives.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience: 

• Must have a Bachelors and five (5) years or more related experience, Masters and three (3) years or more experience
• Ability to obtain a VA Position of Public Trust  - Tier 2 Medium Background Investigation (MBI)
• Must have at least 1+ years of experience with IBM MQ and WebSphere Application
• System Admin experience with Windows Servers is required
• Must have experience with SQL/PowerShell

Must have experience with the following technologies: 

International Business Machines (IBM) Message Queue (MQ), 9.3.0.x, Middleware: Telecommunications/Unified Messaging, Java Enterprise Edition SDK (Software Development Kit), 8 SDK, Development Tool experience, International Business Machines (IBM) Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Server, 8.5.x, Middleware: Application and Web Server Software, Vision Bean Store Point-of-Sale (POS), 3.107, Primary COTS, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), 8.5.5.x, Middleware: Application and Web Server Software, IBM Installation Manager, 1.9.x, Development Tool, Java Runtime Environment (JRE)  - Oracle, 1.8, Development Tool, Windows Server, 2019, Operating System, Linux RHEL, 7.0/8.0, Operating System, SiteMinder WebAgent, 12.52.0111.2820, Operating System, Estate Management, Vision Store Management, Vision Central Management, and Data Distribution, 3.107, Primary COTS, Reflection for Secure IT Server, 8.4.0(8.4.540), Operating System

Preferred:

• Mastery in analytical, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Highly motivated self-starter with a positive attitude and outstanding interpersonal skills.
• Strong work ethic and technical knowledge that sets the standard for other technical personnel on the program to aspire to, with mastery in the ability to self-manage workload and deliverables under tight deadlines.

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

Overview

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