Webspher Administrator

TecTammina; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 70,257; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider based in Houston, Texas is seeking a skilled individual to manage IBM WebSphere Application Server and BPM installations and support. The role requires 5-7 years of experience with IBM products, excellent troubleshooting skills, and the ability to provide 24x7 application support. Strong knowledge in maintenance and scaling of infrastructure is key to ensure optimum performance for critical applications. The position offers a W2 contract rate of $51/hr.

Qualifications

• 5 - 7 years of experience with IBM Websphere suite of products, WESB, IBM Process Server.
• Proficient in application infrastructure design and architecture.
• Good communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Install and maintain IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM BPM.
• Provide 24x7 production support as needed.
• Monitor the performance of DataPower appliances.

Skills

IBM WebSphere Application Server

IBM BPM

Data Power

Ruby

Jenkins

SQL

Tools

Github Enterprise

HaProxy

Nginx

Unicorn

Job description

Responsibilities

• Install, configure and maintain IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment version 6.1.0.x/7.0.0.x/8.5, IBM HTTP Server 6.1.0.x/7.0 and IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) 6.x/7.x for all application environments from non-prod to prod on Z/OS, Linux and Windows machines.
• Monitor and support web-interface applications as well as back-end services, deployed applications on WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment at various releases.
• Perform upgrades to the major Websphere products as well as third party products used within the environment.
• Provide PEGA administration, perform deployments and day-to-day maintenance.
• Experience with administering the IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) Software including Process Center, Process Server and Deployment manager, Experienced with IBM BPM golden topology.
• Knowledge of the IBM BPM and SOA product stack including WebSphere Application Server, ESB, Process Server.
• Administer, install and maintain the Data Power server’s appliances, ensuring that all changes are performed with minimal operational impact. Provide 3rd tier 24 x 7 support and software maintenance. Document all applications.
• Manage configuration and maintenance of Data Power appliance. Should be familiar with SSL protocol, key exchange (public and private), digital signatures, cryptographic algorithms, and certificate authorities. Configure and manage network access to the appliance. Be familiar with XML, XML style sheet language transformation (LSLT), XPath, and SML Schema Definition (XSD) SOAP and Web Services.
• Manage the day to day operations of the appliance. Manage the domain backups, as well as lifecycle migration of primary objects. Manage access to all resources, access policies, Role Based Management (RBM), cryptographic keys, authentication, and authorization. Managing the firmware image and be able to apply firmware images, and rollback an upgrade.
• Interfaces between the applications, other IT Operation teams, IT Dev group, and other corporate teams, install and maintain Java applications, J2EE application servers, and assure optimum performance of the applications.
• Monitor the performance of the DataPower appliance using service level monitoring and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), troubleshoot and debug services using the problem determination tools, logs, and probes provided with the DataPower.
• Ability to navigate the AIG Ticketing system and work with everyone along the way, Jenkins setup and maintenance along with assisting in getting the tests running inside Jenkins.
• Deploying a Ruby on Rails infrastructure on RedHat, Github Enterprise support, HaProxy, Nginx and Unicorn support.
• Ability to performance Server scaling, performance testing, and load balancing.
• Provided 24x7 application/infrastructure production support via on call rotation.

Qualifications

5 - 7 years’ Experience with IBM Websphere suite of products,WESB,IBM Process Server,ITCAM,IBM HTTP Server,Pega, IBM Datapower, IBM MQ on Z/OS, AIX, Solaris and Windows platforms, Ruby, Jenkins, Rails infrastructure on RedHat, Github Enterprise support, HaProxy, Nginx and Unicorn support. Proficient in setting up, configuring and optimizing application performance. Experience with application infrastructure design and application architecture.

Good communication skills and documentation and problem troubleshooting skills. Has to be good team player

Additional Information

Share the Profiles to mahesh(@)techtammina(dot)com

Contact: 703-349-1004

Job Type: W2 Contrcat

Rate: $51/hr

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