Senior API Connect Administrator
Information Technology company
Information Technology company
Jacksonville, FL 32256
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Jacksonville, FL 32256
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Job Description:

  • IT Systems Engineers are responsible for monitoring, installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and maintenance of technology solutions.
  • IT Systems Engineers provide technical support, troubleshoot the problem and perform scripting/programming to ensure stable and efficient operation of technology solutions.
  • Essential functions: Performs installation, monitoring, testing, configuration, migration, maintenance and troubleshooting of assigned technology.
  • Manages system/application environment and ongoing operations.
  • Ensures that the technologies are updated with current, stable, and compliant architecture and applications that meet enterprise standards.
  • Researches, designs, implements and tests technology solutions.
  • Proactively monitors and reports performance and utilization of assigned technologies
  • Troubleshoots software and/or hardware issues/failures.
  • Resolves alerts and performs remediation activities.
  • Manages problem or escalated tickets and tasks and out of cycle requests from systems/software owners.
  • Collects and presents data for reporting and planning.
  • Assists with developing tactical strategies, processes, and procedures related to systems/application administration.
  • Determines migration and upgrade impacts and diagnose/resolve complex technology/application errors.
  • Collaborates with IT and business area partners on work groups and initiatives.
  • Determines the best course of action for meeting business needs.
  • May provide input into infrastructure architecture designs.
  • Writes programming/scripting.
  • May participate in Disaster Recovery planning and exercises.
  • Ensures execution and alignment to architectural standards and blueprints.
  • May contribute input to infrastructure architecture.
  • Performs on-call activities as needed for the environment and technologies

Requirements:

  • Extensive working knowledge of multiple technologies and their interfaces and integration.
  • Competent working in one or more environments highly integrated with an operating system.
  • Extensive experience in implementing and administering/managing technical solutions in major, large-scale system implementations.
  • High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy.
  • Ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities.
  • Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback to improve performance.
  • Ability to communicate technical information clearly and articulately.
  • Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
  • Experience analyzing business requirements and translating them into technical solutions.
  • Experience using Agile methodology.

Required Experience:

  • 5-8 years of related work experience or equivalent combination of transferable experience demonstrating proficiency and experience in design, implementation, monitoring and troubleshooting technology

Required Education:

  • Related Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field or relevant work experience

Additional Requirements:

  • IBM DataPower Gateway, IBM API Connect
  • Microservices, OpenAPI Specification, API Security, API Lifecycle Management
  • HTTP/1.1 & HTTP/2, TCP/IP, Transport Layer Security, Web servers, Load balancing
  • JavaScript, REST, JSON, GraphQL
  • OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JSON Web Token (JWT), SAML
  • Public key infrastructure(PKI Concepts & usage), Encryption, Digital signature
  • Web services, XML, XML, Schema, XPath, XSLT, XQuery, SOAP, WSDL, WS-Security, WS-I Basic Profile, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME), XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP), Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM)
  • Linux Containers & Container Orchestration(Kubernetes)

Skills
Skill Proficiency Years Experience Percent Used
IBM API Connect
Any100%
DataPower
Any75%
IBM APM
Any75%
Linux
Any75%
System Administration
3 - 675%
Systems Engineering
3 - 675%
JWT
Any50%
OAuth
Any50%
OpenID Connect
Any50%
SAML
Any50%
TCP/IP
Any50%
Agile Methodology
Any25%
Application Packaging
Any25%
Disaster Recovery
Any25%
JavaScript
Any25%
JSON
Any25%
Load Balancing
Any25%
REST
Any25%
Scripting
Any25%
SOAP
Any25%
WebServices
Any25%
WSDL
Any25%
XML
Any25%
XQuery
Any25%
XSLT
Any25%