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The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) requires the assistance of a contract resource to serve as the Curam Release Architect for the North Carolina NCFAST Program to support the development and implementation of North Carolina Families Accessing Services through Technology (NC FAST). This position will be responsible for developing, performing and overseeing the Curam build processes for the NCFAST application by preparing and executing build scripts and troubleshooting build related issues for the program utilizing Curam software tools and procedures as well as other tools and utilities. This position will also be responsible for directing the tasks and activities for the release/build team in the Architecture and Infrastructure Unit of the NCFAST Program. This position is responsible for directing the activity in 32 different test, development and production environments utilized by the program. This responsibility encompasses web layer configurations, AIX, Redhat Linux/CentOS and Windows operating systems, the IBM Websphere application configurations with clustering, Curam configurations, IBM IHS Web servers, and other related products. This position will also perform functions and tasks associated with the design and development of the NCFAST application. This position will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of all NCFAST environments related to builds and configurations and works with the architects, developers, Operations and Maintenance Team and Database Administrators to ensure proper environment functionality and performance. This resource will provide technical consultation to business partners, developers and architects, and seek management approval and acceptance of any significant reconfigurations of the applications or the environments.

Curam Certification

Experience in configuring and tuning Curam versions 5.x and 6.x components, modules, environments and databases.

Extensive knowledge and experience with Curam software including recent experience with version 6 and the build processes associated with this softwar

Experience developing, maintaining and executing release plans.

Experience managing and maintaining AIX, Redhat Linux and Windows operating systems, the IBM Websphere application and components.

Experience maintaining JIRA, Subversion, SharePoint, and Windows Server 2008, including command-line administration of and comfort with shell-level ??

Experience in contemporary application hosting paradigms including three-tier design, reverse proxies, name and IP-based virtual hosts, and cluster ?

Experience in J2EE-specific application hosting, including VM tuning, application tracing/debugging, and application deployment.

Experience in container resource configuration (JDBC, JMS, et al), and security configuration.

Experience with managing a technical team.

Experience with various J2EE application containers including, but not limited to, Tomcat, WebSphere, Sun Java System Web Server, and JBoss.

Experience in network application/web application security concepts including authentication/authorization protocols.

Experience in transport encryption concepts (SSL/TLS), LDAP and related services, and others.

Experience with hardware specification evaluation, platform sizing, and capacity planning in support of an enterprise application hosting environment.

Experience with J2EE application building/deployment techniques and tools including, but not limited to Ant, CruiseControl,

Experience with sundry code version repositories (MKS, Subversion, etc), and automation thereof.

Experience with automation technologies for the related platforms (OS and Application) such as UNIX shell script, Perl, Jython, etc.

Prefer experience with TeamCity and VMWare.

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