Job Description :
Job ID: DIS IBM WebSphere Admin (PS3 SC3) (514359)

Job Location: 9th Floor Simmons Bank Tower 425 W Capitol Ave Little Rock, AR
72201

Job Description:

Local candidates preferred, but not required.
Relocation to the Little Rock, AR or surrounding area is required as you
must be physically present in the office for this position.
Requirements:
-A Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
-Minimum of five years of operations, maintenance, and administration
experience in a clustered enterprise WebSphere environment.
-Minimum of five years of experience working in a Unix environment.
Complete Description
- Build new WebSphere environments or add to existing ones. Perform patching
and maintenance of WebSphere environments. Provide production support and
deployment of application code and any needed WebSphere configurations.
-Use of application monitoring tools such as CA Wily Introscope, Dynatrace,
Splunk, scripted alerts, in conjunction with analysis of WebSphere thread
and heap dumps to perform problem investigation and resolution in
coordination with the application support teams.
- Perform daily application health checks for CPU utilization, memory heap
utilization, thread usage, and response times.
-Experience creating scripts (wsadmin, shell, Jacl, Jython, etc) for
WebSphere automation tasks.
-Expertise in the setup and configuration of deployment managers, WAS
clusters, WAS nodes, SSL configuration and application deployment.
-Keep current with emerging software enhancements, security patches and bug
fixes.
-Work with application development groups to tune and troubleshoot their
applications within a fault-tolerant WebSphere environment.
-Create and update system documentation.
-Acts as a liaison with other project teams such as architecture and
development to engineer requirements and/or determination of problems.
-Evaluate overall system performance to develop and implement
recommendations to address and resolve any issues.
-Manages system integrity and availability and support capacity planning
efforts.
-Proficient in architecture, installation, setup and configuration of IBM
WebSphere Application Server 8.5+ and IHS server 8.5+. Proficient in
configuring J2EE Enterprise Applications in multi-cell and multi-node
environments.
- Experience in configuring WebSphere resources such as JDBC providers, data
sources, MQ queue connection factories, queue destinations and MDB
listeners.
-Under general direction, devises or modifies procedures to solve complex
problems.
-Deployment, administration and operational support of (production, staging,
test and development) environments for multiple projects using WebSphere
Application Server.
-Minimal supervision required.
Qualifications:
-Thorough understanding of WebSphere 8.x+, including migration and upgrade
experience.
-Experience with J2EE application platform configuration and performance
optimization.
-Strong understanding of SSL and TLS communications and SSL certificate
management.
-Hands on experience in the installation, configuration, tuning/sizing,
clustering, deployment and problem resolution of WebSphere middleware
components.
-Knowledgeable on Websphere integration with LDAP, Active Directory, and
other Single Sign On (SSO) solutions.
-High standards of quality and integrity.
-Strong knowledge of Unix and scripting.
-IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server Network
Deployment V8.0 certification a plus.
Responsibilities:
-IBM WebSphere 8.x+ environments.
-Tuning the WebSphere environment and underlying JVM.
-Work with the project teams to determine project requirements for all
WebSphere environments.
-Analyze processes to determine if efficiency gains can be actualized
through process automation.
-Understands and adheres to proper change control procedures.
-Installing EARs, WARs and configuring application specific WebSphere and
JVM settings.
-Maintains technical documentation to reflect changes to the environment.
-Developing automation scripts to accomplish day to day tasks and processes.
-Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues.
-Responsible for security and configuring and updating the WebSphere
security baseline.
-Answering technical queries and assisting users.
-Ensuring that the WebSphere infrastructure is up and running.
-Provide 24x7 after hours support on a rotating basis.
-Perform other work related duties as assigned.
Required / Desired Skills
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Scripting Technoloties: Bash, Perl, Python, etc.
Required
5
Years
Unix
Required
5
Years
Websphere Migration & Upgrade Experience
Required
5
Years
J2EE Application Platform Configuration & Performance Optimization
Highly desired
5
Years
SSL & TLS
Required
5
Years
WebSphere Middleware Installation, Configuration, Tuning/Sizing
Required
5
Years
Knowledge of configuration management tools: Puttet, CHef, Ansible, etc.
Highly desired
Familiarity with Jboss Fuse Middleware, Jenkins, SVN, and continuous
integration technologies, methodologies, and best practices
Highly desired