Senior System Administrator at S4 INC in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior System Administrator
Work Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Clearance: Active/current DoD Secret and ability to obtain TSA agency suitability clearance
Education/Experience: A Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline with 3 or more years related professional experience. (Education can be substituted for 7 years of experience in a related technical environment).
Schedule: Must be available for 24x7 on-call support on a rotating basis
Travel: Occasional
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Job Listing Number: CO21014
Contract Labor Category: Senior Systems Engineer
Currently, S4 Inc. is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior Windows Administrator to join our team in Colorado Springs, CO.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Candidate will be responsible for implementing, maintaining, and configuring multiple WebSphere MQ instances. They must excel in MQ technical knowledge, software support and technical guidance in support of business-critical systems. They will be responsible for over 30 internal and external MQ connections supporting national security system.
Maintain programs to monitor and report MQ health and recommend improvements
Support MQ queue managers and objects running client operating systems
Work with application Development Teams to determine messaging requirements. Utilize that information to establish and modify enterprise Messaging Software infrastructure requirements
Monitor execution and performance of messaging applications. Propose tuning adjustments (both application and environment) modifications as appropriate
Provide level 2 production, testing and development support (taking care of messaging problems to see through resolution).
Perform queue manager backup and recovery in the Windows environment
Participate as a subject matter and technical expert in technical reviews of MQ applications
Participate in capacity and disaster recovery planning and asset management.
Define hardware configurations for new and existing MQ applications

Basic Qualifications:

Experience with installation, maintenance, and support of External Service Bus (ESB), Internal Service Bus (ISB) and MQ channel connections.
Experience in Administration, Maintenance, Deployment, and Integration including Installation and Configuration of WebSphere MQ version 8 and higher.
Experience with security hardening of WebSphere MQ to include SSL encryption and Authority/Authentication Records
Expert in defining and modifying MQ configurations such as data sources, listener ports, transports, channels, pub/sub, etc.
Ability to configure application Messaging Software to stress test the software's abilities in both a distributed queue manager and cluster configurations
Experience implementing or overseeing the implementation of all MQ objects
Tuning, issue research and resolution, end user support and application access
Available for on-call work.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience managing system change within a Change Management construct
Ability to conduct problem resolution with given management tools
Well versed in developing and maintaining current Standard Operating Procedures
Experience with System Monitoring Tools
General knowledge of scripting (Perl, Shell, etc.)
General knowledge of various UNIX, LlNUX and Windows Operating systems

To apply to this position please go to www.s4inc.com and click on Careers to complete and an employment application and to upload your resume.

S4 Inc. offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package with 401(k), and universal time off. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans/Disabled. S4 participates in the E-Verify employment verification program. Candidate selected must be able to obtain and maintain the security clearance required by the contract at all times

If you are an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and need a reasonable accommodation to apply to a position, please contact Michelle Sweeney, HR Manager, by phone at (781) 273-1600 or by email at accommodation@s4inc.com.