The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) is an integral part of the City’s evolving criminal justice system, participating in reform initiatives and strategies aimed to move the city towards a smaller jail system without compromising public safety. The DOC is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for our employees, visitors, volunteers and people in our custody. Importantly, safe jails enable DOC to provide people in custody with the tools and opportunities they need to successfully re-enter their communities. The DOC operates facilities and court commands across the five boroughs with more than 9,000 diverse professionals and knowledgeable experts.

The WebSphere administrator is part of the Web Development and Architecture Unit located at the Department of Correction headquarters in East Elmhurst, New York. This unit supports the agency's technological objectives which offers the potential to improve the quality of life for people in custody and help make correctional staff jobs safer and more streamlined. The WebSphere administrator will be working on some of our state-of-the-art projects such as Inmate tracking and Inmate Management, Employee scanning and scheduling.
The New York City Department of Correction is seeking a candidate to serve as a Senior WebSphere administrator.
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Responsible for the installation, maintenance, and configuration of our Middleware infrastructure (IBM WebSphere, Tomcat application servers).
- Ability to self learn, administer and maintain application servers that DOC procures for future mission critical applications (Both Inhouse and vendor procured).
- Work as part of large-scale enterprise IT organization supporting mission critical data warehouse databases.
- Coordinate with other IT groups and departments in the resolution of problem calls.
- Strong and articulate verbal and written communication skills.

1. A baccalaureate degree in computer science, engineering or a related field from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to IT automation engineering, monitoring engineering, management of infrastructure; or

2. Eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to IT automation engineering, monitoring engineering, management of infrastructure;

3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above.

- 8+ years of experience in administering IBM WebSphere and Tomcat application servers. - Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail and a self learner. - Strong and articulate verbal and written communication skills. - Provide 24x7 production support is required. - Experience in administration of other IBM middleware products such as IBM MQ, IBM HTTP Server, Message Broker, Cognos. - Strong experience and in-depth knowledge of installing, administering and maintaining IBM WebSphere application servers. - Strong experience in maintenance of https web servers/load balancers. - Experience in deploying web-based applications in a clustering environment. - Experience with performance testing of web applications to determine memory utilization, GC for WebSphere application servers. - Ability to do performance tuning of WebSphere app server(s)/web server(s) environment. Provide solutions to resolve out of memory issues. - JVM (Java Virtual Machine) heap tuning. - Ability to code in one or more scripting languages such as UNIX Shell Scripting (Bourne, Korn, C and Bash), JACL, JYTHON, Perl. - Proficient & experienced with Tomcat installation, administration and maintenance. - Experience with monitoring tools such as JMeter, HP Load Runner. - Strong experience and in-depth knowledge of RedHat Linux servers. - Experience with databases such as DB2 and MSSQL server is required. - Analyze all aspects of the existing infrastructure and recommend modifications that will enhance system reliability, availability, serviceability and scalability - Work with teammates and other teams to identify and address systems problems. - Perform incident and problem resolution - Ability to generate reports and troubleshoot system performance

New York City Residency is not required for this position

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.