IT Specialist(Middleware & Application Administration)

For more details, please connect with Pawan Shrivastava at View phone number on us.fitly.work or email at View email address on us.fitly.work

Direct End Client: New York State Department of Labor

Job Title: Middleware & Application Administration

Duration: 30 Months

Start Date: 11/02/2026

Location: State Offices Harriman Campus, Building 12, Albany, NY 12240

Position Type: Contract

No. of Hours: 40 Hours/Week

Interview Type: Webcasting (Candidate must be on camera)

Work Schedule: 7:00 AM 6:00 PM, Monday Friday (Starting time is negotiable)

Telecommute: Hybrid (Up to 50%)

New York State Department of Labor UISIM Project

Note: Candidate must have previous state, Federal or Other government client experience

Position Summary:-

The New York State Department of Labor is seeking a Senior IT Specialist to support the Department of Labor's Unemployment Insurance Service Improvement (UISIM) project.

The UISIM project is a multi-year program focused on redesigning, implementing, operating, enhancing, and maintaining the integrated systems used by New York State's Unemployment Insurance program.

The selected candidate will provide middleware and software administration support, including specialized technical support, incident resolution, enhancement delivery, documentation, and knowledge transfer for UISIM applications and platforms.

Responsibilities:-

The selected consultant will perform, but not be limited to, the following activities:

Administer, configure, maintain, monitor, patch, and troubleshoot Red Hat JBoss BAM/BPM, IBM WebSphere 8.5, ActiveBatch, PSPDF, OccuCoder, JMeter, and related middleware components.

Support application deployments, batch scheduling, integrations, interfaces, and production operations across UISIM environments.

Monitor middleware availability, capacity, performance, logs, and alerts; diagnose incidents and implement corrective actions.

Conduct performance and load testing using JMeter and analyze results to identify bottlenecks and remediation options.

Coordinate with application developers, cloud engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders to resolve incidents, defects, and enhancement requests.

Support software upgrades, security patching, configuration changes, disaster-recovery readiness, and change-management activities.

Create and maintain architecture diagrams, configuration records, runbooks, operational procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.

Assist with technical-debt remediation and modernization or replacement of UISIM middleware and workflow components.

Provide knowledge transfer and mentor State staff in middleware administration and operational support.

Required Skills:

60 months of experience administering and supporting enterprise middleware or application-server platforms in production environments.

36 months of experience administering enterprise workload automation or batch scheduling tools such as ActiveBatch.

48 months of experience installing, configuring, maintaining, patching, upgrading, and troubleshooting Red Hat JBoss BAM/BPM or IBM WebSphere.

36 months of experience conducting application or middleware performance testing and analysis using JMeter or a comparable performance-testing tool.

36 months of experience supporting application integrations, interfaces, deployments, and production incident resolution across distributed systems.

24 months of experience creating operational runbooks, architecture or configuration documentation, and providing knowledge transfer to technical staff.

24 months of experience supporting document-processing or specialized business applications such as PSPDF or OccuCoder.

_____________________________________________________________________

V Group Inc. is an IT Services company which supplies IT staffing, project management, and delivery services in software, network, help desk and all IT areas. Our primary focus is the public sector including state and federal contracts. We have multiple awards/ contracts with the following states: NY, CA, FL, GA, IL, MD, MI, NC, OH, OR, PA, SC, TX, VA, and WA. If you are considering applying for a position with V Group, or in partnering with us on a position, please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have regarding our services and the advantages we can offer you as a consultant.

Please share my contact information with others working in Information Technology.

Website:

LinkedIn:

Facebook:

Twitter: