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Looking for a strong ETL Administrator for our Reston location.

Responsible for all the tasks involved in administration of ETL Tool (Ab-Initio).
Maintaining access, licensing and file system in the ETL server.
Provide guidance on the design and integration of ETL to ETL Developers.
Manage metadata hub, Operational Console and troubleshoot environmental issues which affect these components.
Responsible for technical Metadata management.
Work with the team to maintain data lineage and resolve data lineage issues.
Design and develop automated ETL process and architecture.
Interact with the Client on daily basis to define the scope of different applications.
Work on the break fix and continuous development items and review and inspection for the production changes.
Perform the code review for the ETL code developed by the development team and guide to resolve any issues.
Work with the various other groups – DBAs, Server Engineer Team, Middleware Group, Citrix Group, Network Group, data transmission, etc. to resolve the performance related/integration related issues.
Provide update on progress of infrastructure/development and unit testing tasks to the client on weekly meetings.
Required Skills:

7+ years of overall industry experience
5+ years experience working with ETL tools with multiple RDBMS (prefer DB2) environments on multiple platforms.
5+ years' Experience ETL Architect/Administrator supporting ETL processes and tools.
4+ years' Experience with Advance knowledge of Ab Initio Graphical Development Environment (GDE)
4+ years' Experience with Advance knowledge of Ab Initio Infrastructure
4+ years' Experience with Advance knowledge of Ab Initio Operational Console
4+ years' Experience with Advance knowledge of UNIX and SQL
Healthcare domain is a plus.

Job Type: Contract

• 8+ years experience as Infrastructure Engineer
• Building robust Middleware environments
• Scripting and Process Automation experience Required
• Experience with Ansible is preferred
• Extensive knowledge of Java/J2EE methodology and frameworks
• Extensive UNIX AIX or Linux and Scripting experience
• Extensive knowledge of WebSphere MQ
• Extensive knowledge of MQ Series
• Extensive SDLC experience with some development or Systems programming experience
• Ability to analyze and trouble-shoot Mid-tier/infrastructure issues.
• Very strong verbal and written communication skills (Critical)
• Ability to facilitate technical requirements gathering and design sessions
• Collaborate and interpret business and technical needs

Skills Preferred:

• Strong Scripting and Automation experience
• Strong Hands-on Middleware experience with WebSphere, MQSeries
• Coding language Skills in Python, YAML, Unix Shell Scripting, Java, J2EE
• Experience with DEVOPS or IAAS
• AIX or Linux

Job Type: Contract

• 8+ years' Experience
• Troubleshooting Data Power domain application issues and certificate crypto object issues.
• Installation and configuration of new Data Power Appliances.
• Working on Middleware architecture and working knowledge of various middleware application server integration.
• Configure and administer IBM API Connect and IBM Data Power appliances.
• Maintain working knowledge of API security standards and implementation (Oauth 2.0, OpenID, JSON, Web Token, JOSE, x509 certificates); Maintain knowledge of API security certification, authentication, authorization, IP security setup, and endpoint configuration.
• Good knowledge of Network concepts and F5 Load balancers
• Working knowledge on SSL certificates implementation
• Solid understanding of J2EE application deployment patterns and n-tier architectures
• Understanding of SOA and web services and their deployment in Data Power.
• Extensive experience in configuration and administration of IBM Data Power and IBM APIM Appliances.
• Experience in IBM Data Power XI52 and WebSphere 8.x+ architectures
• Configuring certificates / encryption decryption – filed level message level.
• Expertise in troubleshooting Data Power, channels, listeners, intercommunications (TCP/IP) and triggering.
• Perform administrative tasks on IBM Data Power configuration, Interface design, development, maintenance and administrative activity.
• Working knowledge of general security concepts (Authentication, Authorization, Encryption, and Digital signatures), PKI concepts, and TLS.
• Good troubleshooting skills with overall knowledge on DataPower features/concepts.
• Strong UNIX/LINUX experience.
• The candidates should have a strong focus on IBM DataPower and would require extensive knowledge of various integration patterns and security standards, best practices, hands-on experience with administration and management of DataPower.
• Experience with DataPower Automation and Ansible is a plus.
• Experience with Sterling B2B Integrator and ITXA is a Plus.

Required Skills:

• DataPower XI52
• API Connect 5.X
• API Connect 2018.X
• Ansible/Automation(Optional)

Specific Required Skills:

• System Administrator for APIM and/or DataPower with a minimum of 8years' experience with:
• Experience building robust Test environments
• Environment Infrastructure Build and Automation
• Strong Scripting and Automation experience
• Strong Hands-on Middleware experience
• Ability to analyze and trouble-shoot issues.

Required Experience:

• Overall knowledge on DataPower features/concepts.
• Strong UNIX and/or LINUX is preferred.
• The candidates should have a strong focus on IBM DataPower and would require extensive knowledge of various integration patterns and security standards, best practices, hands-on experience with administration and management of DataPower.
• Java/J2EE programming background is a plus.
• Experience with Mid-tier/mainframe platforms and their associated Operation Systems and Tools including:

o WebSphere or MQ Series

o Java/J2EE

o DB2 UDB

o Strong UNIX/scripting

Job Type: Contract

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all the tasks involved in administration of ETL Tool (Ab-Initio).
• Maintaining access, licensing and file system in the ETL server.
• Provide guidance on the design and integration of ETL to ETL Developers.
• Manage metadata hub, Operational Console and troubleshoot environmental issues which affect these components.
• Responsible for technical Metadata management.
• Work with the team to maintain data lineage and resolve data lineage issues.
• Design and develop automated ETL process and architecture.
• Interact with the Client on daily basis to define the scope of different applications.
• Work on the break fix and continuous development items and review and inspection for the production changes.
• Perform the code review for the ETL code developed by the development team and guide to resolve any issues.
• Work with the various other groups – DBAs, Server Engineer Team, Middleware Group, Citrix Group, Network Group, data transmission, etc. to resolve the performance related/integration related issues.
• Provide update on progress of infrastructure/development and unit testing tasks to the client on weekly meetings.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of overall industry experience
• 5+ years experience working with ETL tools with multiple RDBMS (prefer DB2) environments on multiple platforms.
• 5+ years' Experience ETL Architect/Administrator supporting ETL processes and tools.
• 4+ years' Experience with Advance knowledge of Ab Initio Graphical Development Environment (GDE)
• 4+ years' Experience with Advance knowledge of Ab Initio Infrastructure
• 4+ years' Experience with Advance knowledge of Ab Initio Operational Console
• 4+ years' Experience with Advance knowledge of UNIX and SQL
• Healthcare domain is a plus.

Job Type: Contract

ONLY US CITIZENS AND GREEN CARD HOLDERS AS PER CLIENT'S REQUEST!!!!!

Position: Informatica Engineer

Location: Reston, VA

Type: Contract

Description

The role of the technical engineer is to develop application design and/or design IT infrastructure components to meet business and technical requirements. IT infrastructure may include systems, middleware, database, storage and/or network infrastructure. The engineer must demonstrate the ability to efficiently code, test & certify technology platforms, software and applications. Troubleshoot, debug application(s) and/or IT infrastructure component(s) and recommend enhancements for stable operations. Maintain and patch systems, software and applications to eliminate bug fixes, security vulnerabilities and maintain technology currency of systems and applications. Document design and engineering standards; develop key performance metrics and operational guidelines for consistent & stable design, build, implement and operational processes.

KEY JOB FUNCTIONS

Interface, partner, and influence stakeholders to promote simplification, standardization and innovation and to ensure risk are understood and minimized

Establish policies and standard operating procedures to enable consistent and repeatable execution

Propose appropriate changes to standards, policies, and procedure based on emerging business/technology trends and operational challenges with the existing guidelines utilizing performance metric and operational SLA

Plan for adequate capability on systems based on utilization metrics and planned projects to establish supply and demand forecasts

Design and verify the technology solution meets business and technical requirements and is in compliance with enterprise architecture guidelines, technology standards and methodology, and compliance and security standards

Maintain and operate the application design. It includes but not limited to monitoring, performance and capacity metrics, SLAs, resiliency and disaster recovery plans

Define success criteria for validation of technology solution and application designs

Develop and document an integrated test plan for certification of technology solutions and application design in compliance with existing best practices

Provide work guidance or technical assistance to less senior engineers

Qualifications

EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE

7+ years of related experience

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

Must have hands-on experience in development, engineering and operational product platform support in Informatica tools.

8 + Years of strong hands on Informatica PowerCenter and Data quality Administration (Versions 9.6 / 10.x). Solid experience in development, administration, architecting, engineering and setting up Informatica Environments.

7 + Years of hands-on experience in configuration, development, performance benchmarks, monitoring, best practices, design patterns and use cases of Power center, Data Quality , Informatica Developer component and Data Virtualization,

7 + years of hands-on experience in planning and upgrading large scale ETL (Informatica PowerCenter / Data quality) environments and Enterprise Data Warehouse applications.

7 + Years of hands-on Informatica process Automation experience using Perl and UNIX shell scripting.

Experience with Informatica Intelligent Cloud service

7 + Year of hands-on Oracle and SQL experience.

5 + years of experience with XML, CSS and HTML.

5 + years’ experience with Web service development.

Strong analytical skills and ability to troubleshoot and resolve problems.

Must have strong communication skills, both oral and written. Including ability to work with all management levels.

Must have proven ability to manage priorities and timelines.

Must have high integrity and accountability, willing to do what it takes to make the team and project for the enterprise successful.

Must be extremely responsive, able to work under pressure and with a strong sense of urgency.

Ability to share technical knowledge and clearly communicate technical concepts.

Strong leadership skills with ability to articulate ideas and issues in a team environment.

Should have AWS basic awareness, experience with Cloud offered ETL services is a plus

Hadoop, Big Data, Python, Ab Initio, Netezza is a plus.

Job Type: Contract

Job Title: Sr. DevOps Engineer

Location: Mclean, VA

Duration: Long Term

JD

• Strong knowledge in Jenkins Pipeline, Hands on Jenkins administration and trouble shooting
• Strong working knowledge on Docker / Container Technology
• Strong working knowledge on Ansible, Maven / GIT
• Application troubleshooting & debugging the build issues.
• Complete understanding in CI/CD process with Jenkins
• Experience modifying complex Unix shell scripts for automation and monitoring of middleware applications (WebLogic/Apache Tomcat).
• WLST and Working Knowledge on AWS
• Working experiences on Red Hat OpenShift as PAAS.(3 months or more exp is also fine)
• Passion for automation of support tasks and improvement of existing processes/procedures
• Experienced in Groovy, JSON file modification
• Working knowledge on Sonar, Fortify

Job Type: Contract

Experience:

• modifying complex Unix shell scripts for automation: 5 years (Required)
• DevOps: 5 years (Required)
• Jenkins Pipeline, Hands on Jenkins administration and troubl: 7 years (Required)

Location:

• Reston, VA (Preferred)

Work authorization:

• United States (Required)

Contract Length:

• More than 1 year

Full Time Opportunity:

• Yes

JMA Solutions, a leading government contractor for the Federal Aviation Administration, has a full-time opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer. This position is located in Herndon, VA.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• The candidate will be responsible for managing our DevOps Toolchain, which includes Ansible, Artifactory, Jenkins, and BitBucket. The candidate will assist developers with moving their legacy systems into an automated deployment model.
• This position is responsible for providing recommendations on best practices, application modernization, and adapting to a constantly changing environment.
• Building secure cloud infrastructures using the latest networking, virtualization, automation, and configuration management tools.
• Deploying enterprise applications in cloud platforms, incorporating automation, security, and reliability
• AWS provisioning, configuration management, storage management, network management, virtualization
• Creating automated CI/CD pipelines and automating all aspects of infrastructure

Job Requirements

• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Chef or an equivalent
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS is required)
• A working understanding of code and script (YAML, Python, Perl and/or Ruby)
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Worked with container technologies in production
• Worked with open source monitoring and metrics tools
• Full end-to-end understanding of CI/CD pipeline
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps framework
• Ability to employ best practices in an enterprise scale continuous delivery environment and harden production deployments
• Automated provisioning (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Anisble, Jenkins)

Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with Configuration Management principles and tools, particularly Git, Jenkins and Splunk
• Familiarity with software system installation
• Experience with system administration including middleware installation and maintenance
• Experience with one or more databases (Oracle, MongoDB, MySQL)
• Demonstrated Agile (scrum) Experience
• Ability to lead small project teams
• Familiar with FAA organizations and staff offices
• Able to adapt to a swiftly changing environment
• Knowledgeable about current customer off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies

SECURITY CLEARANCE: The ability to successfully obtain and maintain a U.S. Suitability/Public Trust Background Clearance

EDUCATION: Requires a Bahcelor's Degree in Engineering, Math, or Science and a minimum of 15 years of relevant experience

SALARY: Negotiable depending on level of experience and education levels. JMA offers a full benefits package with vision, health, dental and life insurance as well as a 401k match.

JMA Solutions is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status or physical impairment.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Experience:

• relevant: 10 years (Required)
• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): 2 years (Preferred)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Work Location:

• One location

Middleware Administrator (WebLogic, Apache, Tomcat & JBoss) with good Scripting exp

Skills Set:

• Strong experience in Installation, Administration, Configuration & Deployment of Middleware products which includes Apache WebServer or NGINX, WebLogic, Tomcat, & JBOSS EAP running on Linux (SLES or RHEL or Solaris).
• Experience in SCM tools like Puppet and Ansible
• Scripting skills using Bash or Python or Ruby
• Knowledge and experience with CI/CD with knowledge of Git Hub, Maven and Jenkins on DevOps environment
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Sitescope, Splunk, MoogSoft, etc.
• Java/J2EE Development background will be plus and desired

Detailed Job Requirement and Description:

• At least 5+ years of continuous hands on experience
• Strong experience in troubleshooting application running on above products
• 24/7 Operations and On-Call Support (rotating weekly duty)
• Able to communicate clearly (oral/written) with stakeholders and technology partners
• Self-motivated individual to deliver the result in tight deadline

Desired skills and knowledge:

• Knowledge of SAML, OAuth2, OIDC ROPC, and Rest API
• Familiarity or experience with AWS and services like EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, etc. Container technology like Dockers, Kubernetes, OpenShift will be a plus
• Knowledge or hands-on experience on infrastructure-as-code automation tools like Puppet and Ansible

Job Type: Contract