Senior WebSphere / DevSecOps Engineer

At Credence, we support our clients' mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations.

Requirements

• Automate IBM WebSphere Release and Patch Management
• Develop CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, or equivalent) to handle automated packaging, testing, and deployment of WebSphere updates.
• Implement patch orchestration using Terraform, Ansible, or Kubernetes manifests for containerized WebSphere instances.
• Define rollback and version control procedures for WebSphere configurations and custom JVM tuning parameters.
• Integrate WebSphere deployments with DevSecOps toolchains (e.g., Gitlab, SonarQube, Nexus, Vault, Jira, and ServiceNow).
• Assess existing HCL Commerce versions (pre-9.x) and define upgrade paths to the latest supported release.
• Evaluate dependencies and migration blockers for outdated IBM suite components (WebSphere ND, IHS, MQ, DB2).
• Recommend modernization or containerization strategies where possible.
• Produce impact and remediation plans for deprecated middleware components.
• Containerize IBM WebSphere workloads using Docker and Helm charts for deployment on Amazon EKS or other Kubernetes distributions.
• Tune JVM parameters, configure IHS, and optimize application server clustering in Kubernetes environments.
• Work with AWS IAM, Secrets Manager, and ECR to manage secure container image pipelines and keystore integrations.
• Perform deep-dive troubleshooting across IBM stack components (WebSphere ND, MQ, IHS, and HCL Commerce).
• Create Terraform modules to define and provision underlying infrastructure (EC2, RDS, EKS, Load Balancers, VPC networking).
• Align deployment processes with DevSecOps governance models integrating with security scanning, configuration drift detection, and compliance baselines.
• Document architecture, topology, and operational playbooks for IBM WebSphere and HCL Commerce components.

Benefits

• 401k Matching
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plan
• Visa Sponsorship