Only W2- IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) Administrator

Hybrid in Riverwoods, IL, US • Posted 6 hours ago • Updated 6 hours ago
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Contract W2
6 Months
No Travel Required
Hybrid
Depends on Experience
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Job Details

Skills

  • IBM Workload Scheduler
  • IWS
  • Dynamic Workload Broker
  • V10.1+
  • Master Domain Manager (MDM)
  • Backup MDM (BMDM)
  • Dynamic Workload Console (DWC)
  • Fault Tolerant Agent (FTA)
  • Dynamic Agent (DA)

Summary

IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) Administrator
Hybrid - Riverwoods, IL

Job Description/ Responsibilities

  • Strong experience with IBM Workload Scheduler architecture, especially Dynamic Workload Broker, V10.1+, high availability of MDMs managing Fault Tolerant Agent and Dynamic Agent architectures.
  • Strong conceptual understanding of Master Domain Manager (MDM), Backup MDM (BMDM), Dynamic Workload Console (DWC), Fault Tolerant Agent (FTA), Dynamic Agent (DA).
  • Strong grasp of conman CLI to monitor and control production plan, check job/job stream/resource status.
  • Strong grasp of composer CLI to define, modify and extract scheduling objects.
  • Strong grasp of planman CLI to control pre-production plan and GUI mirroring.
  • Strong grasp of lifecycle of daily production planning process, phases of JNextPlan/FINAL.
  • Proficiency in navigating the DWC web-based GUI to monitor workloads, manage user access security, and define scheduling objects.
  • Experience installing IWS components, applying Fix Packs, and Interim Fixes.
  • Troubleshooting with logs under TWSDATA/stdlist, adjusting trace level for netman, batchman, writer, mailman, etc.
  • Strong experience with IBM WebSphere Liberty.
  • Strong grasp of reading messages.log, traces.log, FFDC logs.
  • Strong grasp of configuring JVM heap sizes.
  • Strong grasp of configuring tracing scope, tracing levels, tracing retention, and trace strings.
  • Strong experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8+.
  • Deep familiarity with bash/shell commands for text processing (grep, awk, sed), file manipulation, and system navigation.
  • Ability to manage, start, stop, and troubleshoot SystemD services using systemctl and journalctl for IWS agents and MDM.
  • Managing user accounts, groups, service accounts and deep knowledge of Linux file permissions (chmod, chown, ACL on local filesystems and NFS).
  • Ability to monitor system performance using top, htop, vmstat, iostat, sar to troubleshoot bottlenecks and platform unresponsiveness.
  • Understanding of Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and filesystem usage.
  • Checking TCP port availability, firewall rules (firewalld/iptables), and connectivity between MDM and Dynamic Agents using netstat, ss, ping, curl, etc.
  • Managing SSL/TLS certificates, private keystores, public trust stores, and working with Certificate Authority.
  • Strong experience with scripting (Bash Shell, Python, etc.) for automation.
  • Understanding of networking principles.
  • Understanding of basic Oracle database administration, enough to troubleshoot with DBAs to prove when an issue is in Oracle.
  • Understanding basic SQL to query job metadata.
  • Understanding of checking database connectivity.
  • Understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with using secrets manager (CyberArk PPM, Hashi Corp Vault, or similar).
 
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  • Dice Id: 91159525
  • Position Id: 9689-5611-1792688217
  • Posted 6 hours ago
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