RQ08228 Application Support Specialist

This is a contract position for a for our public sector client.

Work location : 222 Jarvis St, Toronto, ON

Duration : 3.5 months

7.25 hours / day

This is a Hybrid role that requires the candidate to be onsite 3 days of the week (This is a mandatory requirement of the role and is non-negotiable outside of exceptional circumstances.)

Advantages

Good compensation working on projects that will make a difference to the people of Ontario.

Responsibilities

This position will support all operational work related to hosting client applications in the shared hosting environment of the Government Services, Shared Utility Service (SUS). They will perform roles such as operations support, managing endpoint security and regular security patching .

The Application Support Specialist has expertise in Middleware services and technology such as application hosting services, WebSphere, infrastructure configuration, network services, security and cloud services. This position will provide support for the larger SUS team in hosting and supporting 200+ Java applications.

Operational tasks including incident intake and triage, service request fulfillment, change request assessment and implementation, general reporting and data analysis.

Qualifications

2+ years of experience with systems administration of Oracle Solaris (Sun Solaris) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

2+ years of experience with middleware environments, including IBM WebSphere Application Server / Liberty / NDM

Expertise in ITIL best practices for Service Management (Incident, Problem, Change, and Configuration Management).

Hands-on experience with OpenShift, managing containerized applications and ensuring scalable, flexible deployments.

Practical experience with DevOps methodologies and CI / CD tools like Jenkins, Urban Code Deploy, and Urban Code Velocity

Summary

If interested and qualified for this role, please apply today for immediate consideration!

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