WebSphere Application Server Administrator

Seeking a WebSphere Application Server Admin to function as a SME on enterprise systems, with advance skills in administering WebSphere Application Server, cloud system administration (including Azure, AWS, and Google) and containerized application platform on Linux / AIX. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in a multi-tier and multi-platform enterprise class environments.

Interview: Teams

Location: Columbus, OH

Posting: 778237

Work: ON-SITE

Role and Experience

• Subject to On-Call (24/7 daily, 365 days a Year)
  • Strong knowledge of Unix, Linux, Windows operating 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 Azure Monitor
  • CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, Nexis, Azure DevOps, etc.)
  • Version control subsystem like: Git, Subversion, etc.
  • Storage subsystem
  • Salesforce
  • Knowledge of application development, implementation and deployment experience.
• Web services and data integration techniques, messaging and transformation.

Skills

• Experience performing system and software audits.
• Assesses and analyzes business requirements, current state environment and technology choices to evaluate security solution alternatives that meet solution architecture needs and support enterprise requirements.
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills related to Cloud, IAM and privileged access management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, on both technical and non-technical topics
• Prioritize tasks effectively to ensure that project deliverables and deadlines are met.
• Advanced root cause analysis and written and verbal communications skills.
• Experience supporting and participating in 24 X 7 on-call weekly rotation.
• Experience handling and reacting to infrastructure alerts reacting quickly.
• Communicating:
  • Communicate with clients, assisting them with their needs to ensure client satisfaction. Communicate the deployment/release schedule, release artifacts, priorities, and status to all stakeholders.
• Coordinate releases with internal stakeholders.
• Champion best practices and quality standards.
• Participate in functional and technical meetings throughout the development lifecycle.

Abilities

• WebSphere
  • Perform upgrades, patches, and fix security issues.
  • Monitor application performance, system performance, troubleshoot and diagnose issues and implement fixes.
  • Work closely with the development teams to design solutions, deploy and maintain application.
  • Install, configure and deploy new WebSphere application servers on AIX and Linux
  • Write and deploy shell scripts, automate tasks.
  • Experience with one or more webserver setup Apache, IBM Http Server and IIS
  • Experience working with SSL and application security in WebSphere.
  • Troubleshoot, collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical issues.
  • Participate in defining corporate implementation and integration strategies of new technologies.
  • Experience administering platforms like MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, Docker / Podman, Azure CI / CD.
• Containers and Cloud Management
  • Work with cloud platforms Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
  • Experience support SaaS products in the cloud Adobe enterprise, MuleSoft Cloud Integration
  • Deploy and manage containerized application in a cloud environment.
  • Understands clustered container orchestration configuration and setup of Kubernetes / OpenShift platform.
  • Work with cloud vendors and cloud hosting service providers and recommend infrastructure solutions.
  • Experience implementing security and best practices for cloud-based systems.
  • Experience deploying Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud.
• Experience in deploying infrastructure as code using Azure CI/CD Pipe lines from Azure repos

WebSphere

• Perform upgrades, patches, and fix security issues.
• Monitor application performance, system performance, troubleshoot and diagnose issues and implement fixes.
• Work closely with the development teams to design solutions, deploy and maintain application.
• Install, configure and deploy new WebSphere application servers on AIX and Linux
• Write and deploy shell scripts, automate tasks.
• Experience working with SSL and application security in WebSphere.
• Troubleshoot, collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical issues.
• Participate in defining corporate implementation and integration strategies of new technologies.
• Experience administering platforms like MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, Docker / Podman, Promethus, Azure CI / CD.

• Containers and Cloud Management
  • Work with cloud platforms Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
  • Experience support SaaS products in the cloud Adobe enterprise, MuleSoft Cloud Integration
  • Deploy and manage containerized application in a cloud environment.
  • Understands clustered container orchestration configuration and setup of Kubernetes / OpenShift platform.
  • Work with cloud vendors and cloud hosting service providers and recommend infrastructure solutions.
  • Experience implementing security and best practices for cloud-based systems.
  • Experience deploying Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud.
  • Experience in deploying infrastructure as code using Azure CI/CD Pipelines from Azure repos

Certifications

WebSphere, AIX / Unix, Linux, Azure CI/CD, Azure or AWS. RedHat Open Shit, Docker, Python, Windows Power Shell and JavaScript.

Nice To Have Skills

Azure repos and Azure DevOps.