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Job Title: RQ05584 - Middleware Specialist - Senior

Client: Ministry of Transportation

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Hybrid

Estimated Start Date: 2023-06-05

Estimated End Date: 2024-03-31

#Business Days: 207.00

Extension: 253.00

Hours per day or Week: 7.25 hours per day

Security Level: CRJMC

Must haves:

5+ years Demonstrated experience in Operational Support

• with Application Insights
• handling the ITIL the incident process
• handing of ITIL change process
• Strong problem solving/ trouble-shooting experience in a multi-platform environment
• In restoring availability of infrastructure services
• Supporting IIS (version 10+) hosted webservices
• In supporting SQL server databases
• Supporting Azure PaaS websites and applications
• Supporting Azure Iaas virtual machines

Demonstrated experience in Cloud based services

• the design of Microsoft Azure (IaaS and PaaS) services
• the build of Microsoft Azure (IaaS and PaaS) services
• the deployment of Microsoft Azure (IaaS and PaaS) service

Description

The Labour and Transportation I&IT Cluster (LTC) Operations Maintenance and Support Branch (OMSB) is responsible for supporting the hosting service to deliver Custom .NET, CRM and SharePoint hosting services to the Ontario Public Service (OPS). This service is delivered to all Ministries and I&IT Clusters within the OPS.

This group first officially opened its doors during fiscal year 2012/13 for business as an end-to-end solution provider that leverages the .NET Platform as a Service hosting provider. In aligning with the OPS strategy of utilizing common infrastructure and common services, as many of the legacy services are upgraded by Ministries throughout the OPS, there is greater demand to leverage the benefits of the common hosting infrastructure. The common hosting infrastructures provide a high-security / high-availability IT service to the OPS.

The Operations team provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) hosting to clients. This unique service offering hosts a variety of mission and business critical applications which range in support needs from business hours only Intranet applications to public facing applications requiring high availability and 24 by 7 by 365 support.

In order to meet the demands OMSB Operations team through the Labour and Transportation I&IT Cluster is looking to hire consultants with expertise in building and delivering a cloud based service \xe2\x80\x93 with a specific focus around publishing web applications to the Internet and Intranet, providing adequate security to the services in order to ensure that government data is protected and secured in order to meet today\xe2\x80\x99s standards, provide monitoring of the existing environment as well as provide day to day operational support on both the existing environment, and new environment as it is being build. It would be an asset if the consultant has background and experience in the cloud (specifically Microsoft Azure).

Deliverables:

The Middleware Specialists will complete the following activities:

Contribute to ongoing project activities:

• Contribute to the technical design of the environmen
• Define migration strategy
• Build and deploy the new environment
• Execute the migration of individual application solutions and re-platform as needed

Application publishing to the Internet and Intranet via web proxies:

• Using Azure Native publication tools such as Azure Application Gateway in multiple environments.
• Defining requirements, designing and deploying solutions when requirements from clients may not be straightforward or complete
• Use different network proxies to public applications (i.e. F5, Azure Application Gateway)
• Solutions integration and deployment
• Utilizing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Implementation and utilization of networks and network infrastructure (including switches, firewalls, virtual switches, and virtual firewalls) \xe2\x80\x93 applying knowledge of how the physical networking infrastructure interacts with Azure and solutions hosted on it
• Design, build, deploy and manage security policies using Active Directory
• Define and review the deployment requirements for .NET hosted applications.

Experience in providing operational support to existing and new environments through the migrations as well as support of post migration operations:

• Participation in deployment and release (CRQs) related to the .NET platform
• Troubleshooting and resolution of Tier 2 and 3 support incidents and problems including complex integration across the various technologies supported including but not limited to:

• SharePoint 2013
• IIS
• Dynamics CRM
• SQL Server
• SQL Server Analysis Services
• SQL Reporting
• Azure Security Centre
• Azure Monitoring
• Azure DevOPS pipelines
• Azure PaaS websites and applications
• Azure IaaS virtual machine

• Backing up the operational staff in the proactive monitoring and operations of the environment

Defining and developing a Windows support guide for internal staff member cross training:

• Defining and developing a support guide for internal staff member cross training:
• Define and create documentation to train internal staff in the support and troubleshooting of Cloud environments and team processes
• Contribution of knowledge including but not limited to Service Desk data and Wiki\xe2\x80\x99s
• Training of current technical staff in monitoring, troubleshooting, support, etc. of the environments

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Criterion

Criterion Details

Criterion Maximum Rating

Operational Support

Demonstrated experience

with Application Insights

handling the ITIL the incident process

handing of ITIL change process

Strong problem solving/ trouble-shooting experience in a multi-platform environment

In restoring availability of infrastructure services

Supporting IIS (version 10+) hosted webservices

In supporting SQL server databases

Supporting Azure PaaS websites and applications

Supporting Azure Iaas virtual machines

Creating and maintain documentation for operational procedures

experience in Scripting (PowerShell and VBS)

Experience with development framework and technologies such as Agile, DevOPS, ect

Supporting Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and 2019+

Monitoring Azure resources for right sizing to provide financial recommendation for cloud services

working with application solutions that require cross-platform integration

30%

Cloud based services

Demonstrated experience in

the design of Microsoft Azure (IaaS and PaaS) services

the build of Microsoft Azure (IaaS and PaaS) services

the deployment of Microsoft Azure (IaaS and PaaS) services

the operations of Microsoft Azure (IaaS and PaaS) services

the design and operations of network level azure features (NSG\xe2\x80\x99s and firewalls).

20%

Migration and deployment of .NET applications

Demonstrated experience in

creating and using CI/CD Pipelines

application migration to the cloud

application publishing using Azure native publication tools

deployment of .NET applications

using scripting tools such as PowerShell to automate migration tasks

25%

Infrastructure security

Demonstrated experience

managing infrastructure security policies with Azure Security Centre

OS and middleware patching

reviewing and actioning security alerts

working with SSL/TLS certificates, working with Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Auditing and reporting of system level security events and logs

20%

Public sector experience

Experience in performing infrastructure support in the OPS

5%

(Click above for Skill matrix and for more details)

Note:

This position is currently listed as "Hybrid" as consultants will be required to work partly in the physical workplace and partly remotely. The details of this arrangement will be confirmed with the Hiring Manager.

• Candidate needs to be in office- 3 days in a week

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