Bachelor's degree. Six years of experience in information technology systems administration including creating, analyzing, and managing information technology systems are required. Additional related work experience in information technology systems administration including creating, analyzing, and managing information technology systems may substitute for the required college education on a year-for-year basis.

• Advanced knowledge of and experience in enterprise class middleware software environment administration including the ability to evaluate, install, test, configure, maintain, and monitor performance of applications and their components.
• Experience in providing technical assistance to application development teams for systems administration.
• Experience in configuration management applicable in both web application and client/server environments.
• Experience in load management, clustering, failover, and high availability of middleware software environments.
• Experience in the use of full scope desktop productivity tools.

Miami-Dade County is looking for an individual who enjoys working in a collaborative team environment utilizing the latest middleware tools including IBM WebSphere Application Servers (WAS) and Cloud Integration solutions. Grow your career in Information Technology by becoming part of our high-energy, motivated group of IT professionals.

This position is within the Data Management & Integration Services Division of the Information Technology Department (ITD). It is for an IT Senior Systems Administrator within the Hosting and Integrations group. The group’s objective is to work closely with County departments, vendors, and external agencies to support the Middleware and Integration services for IBM WebSphere environments.

The position entails:

• Hands-on implementation of enterprise middleware software environments including web application servers, messaging, web services and related middleware components in three environments: Integration, Staging and Production.
• Supporting the complete product lifecycle of the administration and 24x7 support of the IBM AIX Hosting environments running on Websphere Application Server.
• Applying the latest fix-packs to all of our environments, and problem resolution.
• Monitoring Middleware environments to prevent operational failures.
• Collaborating with external and internal customers on security for file transfer of large sensitive files.
• Application deployment & hosting in the IBM AIX WAS environments.
• Collaborating with customers to process workorders via a ticketing system for operational documention and business processes with other team members.
• Administering and supporting the IBM AIX WebSphere Application Servers to include

WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and IBM Message Queue (MQ) App Connect Systems.

• Supporting the IBM AIX Operating System integration with WebSphere.

Miami-Dade County offers great benefits including full medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and disability insurance; 457 pretax savings plan; flexible spending accounts; paid holidays, vacation, and sick time; membership in the Florida Retirement System; professional development; and a tuition reimbursement program.

This position may lend itself to Miami-Dade’s Telecommuting Policy, which includes flexible work schedules and remote home working in those areas where such a policy is viable and meets the goals and objectives of the operations.