The WebSphere Portal Admin position is in the Experience Engineering – Workforce Experience group. Workforce experience group is a centralized workforce related application development and solution delivery organization. • Ability to learn new tools / technologies.
We are looking for a talented portal admin with exposure to DevOps to join our team. Candidate should be well experienced in middleware infrastructure and should have experience migrating & patching middleware products and should provide performance tuning recommendations.
Essential functions/responsibilities:
• Design, install, configure and administer WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal & WCM
• Install IBM HTTP Server and migrate configurations
• Develop automation scripts for migrating configurations of WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal and WCM and deploy applications.
• Manage resolution of WebSphere related issues, performance tuning, and project support.
• Work with DevOps team to build CI/CD for applications deployed on WebSphere platform.
• Build out and improve workforce experience engineering platform and capabilities. Also, mentor and support teams using the platform.
• Own (as part of a team) the configuration code; work closely with internal customers to identify requirements and make the necessary changes to configuration code including tests; manage deployment of changes.
• Monitor and improve DevOps tools and processes, automate mundane tasks, and improve system reliability by implementing self-healing.
• Keep CI toolchain up to date and resolve problems as they arise.
• Work closely with the development team to integrate new features, components and assets into the build and release process and systems.
• Help in the creation of hooks from repository through continuous integration and on to Enterprise AppStore.
• Create and maintain the project build and configuration documentation
• Support coding design and style standards from within the build process
• Support code repository build tagging, branching and merging in GIT
• Must be able to create technical support documentation for process flows and configuration.
• Analysis, design, implement, test, and review various workforce experience project initiatives.
• Take initiative in solving complex business and/or technical problems in areas that may be outside current expertise and coming up with solutions and design approaches.
• Prototyping of new solution components and frameworks.
• Researching of new tools and technologies and its integration within KP based on identified needs for workforce experience projects. The goal is to find right tools and/or technologies for the given problem (product-to-business problem fit). Landscape of tools and technologies include NGINX (reverser proxy), ADEPT platform (AEM), O365 searches and its integrated results presentation, Notification, Akamai, Kona security, Ping access etc.
Qualifications:
• 15+ years’ experience in Information Technology, with a minimum 5+ years as a WebSphere Portal Admin in large corporate environment. Must have strong current hands-on development skills with exposure to object-oriented design principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Experience migrating WebSphere Application Server/Portal from previous versions to 9.0
• Experience in WCM content migration from previous versions to 9.0
• Mastery of Java programming language (along with J2SE ecosystem) with advanced knowledge of other multiple programming / scripting languages. Experience with JVM ecosystem, memory model, tuning, threading, reactive streams, modularization.
• Expertise in JSR 286 Portlet development and deployment to WebSphere Application Server/WebSphere Portal.
• Experience with XML access, WCM Syndication and Portal deployment best practices
• Proficient in WebSphere Application Server configurations
• Experience working with IBM HTTP server is a must
• Experience working with DB2 is highly desired.
• Experience with following
• Chef, Docker, MacOS, Red Hat Linux, Windows, Code and Image repositories (Git, Github)
• Shell scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell)
• Networking - Understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, NAT, PAT, Routing, Load Balancing as well as Packet inspection tools (wireshark, etc.)
• Monitoring and Monitoring Tools (Nagios, Dynatrace, Splunk, etc.)
• Agile development tools (Jira)
• Apache & NGINX
• Must have good interpersonal and professional communication skills.
• Experience deploying changes to production environments
• Ability to work independently to deliver on a schedule without sacrificing quality
• Good organizational skills
• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in science/engineering.
Preferred Qualifications:
• IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Portal Server
Soft skills summary:
• Deliver Outcomes – Demonstrate a bias for speed and execution with sense of urgency.
• Operate as a Team Player – Work together to drive solutions.
• Build Strong Partnerships – Demonstrate integrity and build trust with others.
• Strive for Excellence – Motivate self and others to achieve high standards and continuously improve.
• Effective communications skills: oral, written and listening.
• Comfortable with agile, dynamic, fast paced work environment.