WebSphere Application Server Specialist

Golden Rule; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company is seeking a Senior WAS Administrator based in Pretoria, South Africa. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in WebSphere Application Server (WAS) installations, configurations, and troubleshooting across various operating systems. Responsibilities include deploying applications, managing SSL certificates, and automating processes. Strong communication skills are essential for collaboration. This role may require after-hours work depending on project needs.

Qualifications

• On-the-job experience in WAS installations and configurations.
• Ability to create and manage SSL certificates on WAS.
• Experience with migrating or upgrading between WAS versions.

Responsibilities

• Perform product installs on different operating systems.
• Deploy applications and maintain them on WebSphere Application Server.
• Automate shell scripts as needed.

Skills

WAS Installations

Configuration

Troubleshooting

Administration of WAS

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Dynatrace

Jenkins

Ansible

Maven

Git

Job description

Overview

The request is for a senior WAS Administrator, with on-the-job experience in WAS Installations, Configurations, Troubleshooting and day-to-day administration of the WAS deployment.

Responsibilities

• Expertise in performing product installs on disparate operating systems, configuration, clustering, problem determination, and administration of WAS / IHS 6.x, 7.x, 8.x / 9.x on AIX, Linux, Windows servers.
• Installation and configuration of IBM HTTP Server 6.x, 7.0 / 8.0 / 8.5 / 9.x.
• Deploying applications and maintaining them on WebSphere Application Server.
• Applying fixpacks and ifixes on WAS.
• Migration or upgrade experience between WAS versions.
• Creating and managing certificates (SSL) and installation on WAS, IHS and Apache.
• Working with tools like Dynatrace to troubleshoot issues with WAS and applications deployed on WAS.
• Creating shell scripts and automating them.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Ability to work after-hours and weekends when required.

Nice to have

• Jenkins / Hudson (or a similar CI server) – installation, configuration, design and administration, plus experience of extending and integrating these tools with other systems and platforms.
• Installation and configuration of Ansible on servers.
• Good working experience in Maven, Subversion and Git version control tools.
• Continuous Integration setup: configuring multiple build jobs, integrating test cases, creating distributed build environments using Master/Slave concepts, plugin management, backup, etc. in Jenkins.
• Experience in setting up build and deployment automation for Terraform scripts using Jenkins.