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Description

We are seeking a highly skilled (3-5+ years dedicated experience administering) IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) Administrator to manage, maintain, and optimize our Partner's enterprise batch scheduling infrastructure. The successful candidate will be responsible for the end-to-end administration of the IWS environment hosted primarily on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). This role requires a strong blend of IWS expertise, Linux system administration, and scripting to ensure high availability and seamless execution of critical business workloads.

Responsibilities

Administer Production IBM Workload Scheduler (aka Tivoli Workload Scheduler) environment with 28,000 unique daily jobs across about 350,000 daily job runs, 44 servers, and three other change control environments
Administer, install, configure, and patch/upgrade IWS components (Master Domain Manager, Dynamic Agents, Dynamic Pool, Dynamic Workload Console)
Work with Product Owner on communicating work streams in Jira
Manage job promotions with Workload Application Template-based process, ensuring safety checks for platform stability assessed on each job promotion
Manage change control of four (4) separate change control environments, enforce change control standards and policies
Maintain and continuously promote 99.17% Production platform uptime per calendar month (uptime calculated excluding planned change control outages, planned weekly maintenance windows) using SOP’s, DevOps tools, and disciplined change control across change control environments
Orderly communication of platform-impacting news to user community of about 500 developers and data engineers
Production consists of 44 servers between MDM, DWC, and agents
Resolve complex job failures, performance bottlenecks, agent issues, and infrastructure issues
Advise on complex job scheduling design questions that less experienced scheduling support team
Monitor the health of the scheduler environment, manage database maintenance, and perform backup/disaster recovery, and monthly failovers
Define and maintain security policies, user authorizations, and authentication for the DWC
Respond to Cybersecurity vulnerability assessments and PCI (and other regulatory) audit inquiries
Design and implement Ansible automation and self-healing mechanisms to continuously reduce unplanned outages
Coordinate with offshore performing SOP’s during non-working hours
Scripting Python with IWS REST API

Requirements

US Citizenship
Strong experience with IBM Workload Scheduler architecture, especially Dynamic Workload Broker, V10.1+, high availability of MDM’s managing Fault Tolerant Agent and Dynamic Agent agent architectures
Strong conceptual understanding of Master Domain Manager (MDM), Backup MDM (BMDM), Dynamic Workload Console (DWC), Fault Tolerant Agent (FTA), Dynamic Agent (DA)
Strong grasp of conman CLI to monitor and control production plan, check job/job stream/resource status
Strong grasp of composer CLI to define, modify and extract scheduling objects
Strong grasp of planman CLI to control pre-production plan and GUI mirroring
Strong grasp of lifecycle of daily production planning process, phases of JNextplan/FINAL
Proficiency in navigating the DWC web-based GUI to monitor workloads, manage user access security, and define scheduling objects
Experience installing IWS components, applying Fix Packs, and Interim Fixes
Troubleshooting with logs under TWSDATA/stdlist, adjusting trace level for netman, batchman, writer, mailman, etc.
Strong experience with IBM WebSphere Liberty
Strong grasp of reading messages.log, traces.log, FFDC logs
Strong grasp of configuring JVM heap sizes
Strong grasp of configuring tracing scope, tracing levels, tracing retention
Strong experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8+
Deep familiarity with bash/shell commands for text processing (for example, grep, awk, sed), file manipulation, and system navigation
Ability to manage, start, stop, and troubleshoot SystemD services using systemctl and journalctl for IWS agents and MDM
Managing user accounts, groups, service accounts and deep knowledge of Linux file permissions (chmod, chown, ACL on local filesystems and NFS)
Ability to monitor system performance using tools like top, htop, vmstat, iostat, and sar to troubleshoot bottlenecks and platform unresponsiveness
Understanding of Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and filesystem usage
Checking TCP port availability, firewall rules (firewalld/iptables), and connectivity between MDM and Dynamic Agents using netstat, ss, ping, curl, etc.
Managing SSL/TLS certificates, private keystores, public truststores, and working with Certificate Authority
Strong experience with scripting (Bash Shell, Python, etc.) for automation
Understanding of networking principles
Understanding of basic Oracle database administration, enough to troubleshoot with DBA’s to prove when an issue is in Oracle
Understanding of basic SQL to query job metadata
Understanding of checking database connectivity
Understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure
Experience with using secrets manager (CyberArk PPM, Hashicorp Vault, or similar)

About Us
For more than 20 years, NewGen Technologies has solved our clients’ toughest IT challenges with integrity, security, and outstanding service by delivering both technology and talent. We have helped secure borders, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to fight terror, aided the identification of criminals, and have helped to prevent crime through the introduction of biometrics. Our team of Highly Cleared Specialists have hard-to-find skills and expertise in a wide spectrum of technologies to provide solutions that transform business processes and solve problems of national significance. #CJ

About Company

NewGen Technologies specializes in developing and implementing solutions to your IT challenges-especially those involving specialized technologies.

Founded in 1997, NewGen grew quickly and became immediately successful because of our primary commitment to satisfying our customers.

Our formula for success is simple-we deliver high quality products and services. We develop and maintain a staff of highly trained, experienced consultants who devise and execute creative, effective solutions to our clients' IT challenges.

Despite NewGen's rapid growth, we keep our organization agile so we can respond quickly as our customers' needs develop. And we keep our overhead in check so we can offer top-tier talent for reasonable rates.

NewGen Technologies, Inc. is a privately held, minority woman-owned small business incorporated in the state of Maryland.

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