Hiring for WebSphere Admin - Remote

WebSphere& Container services admin

Searching for a candidate withexpertise in administering WebSphere Application Server and cloud systemadministration (including Azure, AWS, and Google). The ideal candidate shouldhave hands-on experience in a multi-tier and multi-platform enterprise class environmentwith infrastructure build automation experience.

Job description (KSA):

Knowledge

·Strong knowledge of Unix, Linux, Windowsoperating system and system administration tasks

·Highly available vertical / horizontal scaling,disaster recovery capabilities

·Single Sign On, network load balancer,firewall, IP subnets.

·On-Prem monitoring tools like Splunk,Dynatrace,

·Cloud monitoring capabilities like AzureMonitor, App Insights, Cloud watch

·CI/CD pipelines: Ansible, Jenkins, Nexis,Mavin, Bitbucket etc.)

·Version control subsystem like: Git,Subversion, etc.

·Storage subsystem

·Salesforce

·Knowledge ofapplication development, implementation, and deployment experience.
Web services and data integration techniques,messaging and transformation.

·Lead experience tocreate design documentation and participate in code reviews with applicationteams.

·Strongtroubleshooting experience to research production issues including cryptography(digital certificates), networking, MuleSoft, Databases.

·Develop andtroubleshoot message translation issues integrating with backends (JSON toSOAP/SOAP to JSON)

·Experience withdeveloping pass-through and transformative API extensions

Skills

·Experience performing system and softwareaudits.

·Assesses and analyzes business requirements,current state environment and technology choices to evaluate security solutionalternatives that meet solution architecture needs and support enterpriserequirements.

·Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skillsrelated to Cloud, IAM and privileged access management.

·Excellent written and verbal communicationskills, on both technical and non-technical topics

·Prioritize tasks effectively to ensure thatproject deliverables and deadlines are met.

·Advanced root cause analysis and written andverbal communications skills.

·Experience supporting and participating in 24 X7 on-call weekly rotation.

·Experience handling and reacting toinfrastructure alerts reacting quickly.

·Communicating:

o Communicate with clients, assisting them with their needs to ensureclient satisfaction. Communicatethe deployment/release schedule, release artifacts, priorities, and status toall stakeholders.

·Coordinatereleases with internal stakeholders.

·Championbest practices and quality standards.

·Participatein functional and technical meetings throughout the developmentlifecycle.

Abilities

WebSphere

·Perform upgrades, patches, and fix security issues.

·Monitor application performance, systemperformance, troubleshoot and diagnose issues and implement fixes.

·Work closely with the development teams to designsolutions, deploy and maintain application.

·Install, configure and deploy new WebSphereapplication servers on AIX and Linux

·Write and deploy shell scripts, automate tasks.

·Experience with one or more webserver setupApache, IBM Http Server and IIS

·Experience working with SSL and applicationsecurity in WebSphere.

·Troubleshoot, collaborate with cross-functionalteams to resolve complex technical issues.

·Participate indefining corporate implementation and integration strategies of newtechnologies.

·Experienceadministering integration platforms like Salesforce – MuleSoft.

Technical Advisor

·Experience collaborating and advising applicationdev teams to build API capability, covering aspects such as security and policymanagement.

·Ability to understand systems and applicationcode to troubleshoot and provide guidance to app dev teams.

·Experience providing consultation servicesworking with System administrator’s internal platform and middleware groups toprovide application software development services or technical support.

·Provides comprehensive senior-level technicalconsulting to IT management and senior technical staffs.

·Analyzes, defines, and documents requirementsfor data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating systemenvironment, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks,controls, and outputs using standard development methodology.

·Works with internal business groups onimplementation opportunities, challenges, and requirements of variousapplications.

·Guides and consults with IT management andtechnical staffs regarding use of emerging technologies and associatedservices.

·Participates in defining corporateimplementation and integration strategies of new technologies.

·Advocates for innovative, creative technologysolutions.

·Design and develop automated stress testingharnesses, recommend, and implement solutions, conduct and participate in codereview sessions, and provide process improvements

Cloud Management

·Work knowledge of cloud platforms Azure, AWS orGoogle Cloud.

·Experience in hosting application services oncloud platforms

·Experience supporting and monitoring workloadin AKS, EKS

·Deploy and manage application in a cloud environment.

·Work with cloud vendors and cloud hostingservice providers and recommend infrastructure solutions.

·Experience deploying Containers, Microservices,Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud.