WebSphere Engineer (Closed)
SkillStorm is seeking a WebSphere Engineer to work with one of our Fortune 500 clients.
Job Responsibilities:
- Creating organizational structures by creating and assigning roles to participants.
- Publishing and deploying projects, including republishing updated versions of projects.
- Running business processes in production.
- Creating External Resources and configuring Process Monitoring and Process Archiving.
- Configuring backup engines for failover on a Standalone deployment.
- Use Bladelogic tasks to automate deployment and management.
- Create Process Execution Engines.
- Tune and troubleshoot ALBPM Enterprise a plus
- Configure ALBPM Enterprise on J2EE clusters.
- Installation of Websphere 6, 7, or 8 servers on Development, QA and Production environments.
- Creating clustered environments and configuring the applications in the clustered environments.
- Upgrading from Webphere 6, 7, or 8
- Creating/Configuring Websphere connection pools to Oracle and AS400.
- Creating Data Sources/Transaction Data Sources for applications.
- Creating monitoring scripts to monitor connection pools, idle thread status, server state, and cluster participation.
- Configuring Wily Introscope Agent on Websphere servers.
- Installing Apache WebServers on Development, QA and Production Servers.
- Configuring LDAP using Netscape directory server for user authentication.
- On-call support for 24x7 applications.
- Evaluate, install, test, configure, maintain, monitor performance of and troubleshoot Websphere applications.
- Understanding of concepts related to web server load balancing and other application scaling concepts.
- Working with UNIX systems administration experience. (Solaris, Linux, AIX)
- Troubleshooting Unix, Networking, DMZ, Firewalls, J2EE, Web and application servers issues.
- Creation and support of automation scripts, e.g. log rotation and plug-in migration, configuration automation.
- Understand and analyze Java/J2EE applications and its components (JDBC, JMS/MQ, JSP, EJB, JNDI, etc.)
- Understand security concepts and apply them to applications in the Websphere environment.
- Creating new processes and improving existing processes which require effective systems administration.
- Work as a proficient resource with UNIX variant operating systems (AIX, Solaris, Linux) and creating UNIX scripts for day-to-day tasks.
- Applying patches to Websphere servers in all environments including production.
Job Requirements:
- A minimum of 4 years of hands on professional experience with the installation, configuration and maintenance of Websphere 6, 7,or 8 or later
- In addition to Websphere, must have working knowledge of at least one of the following - Tomcat, Apache, JBOSS, WebSphere
- Prior experience upgrading Websphere 6, 7, or 8 is required
- Ability to analyze an Architect’s design, provide alternative middleware options if appropriate and work with System Administrators throughout the build process
- Proven experience to identify problems and come up with solutions independently.
- Excellent team player with ability to work through ambiguity and without micro-management.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Work schedule Wednesday – Sunday or Thursday – Monday. 11am to 8pm CT or 12pm to 9pm CT. (Saturday start time might be 9am).
Preferred:
- Knowledge of Weblogic, Tomcat, Jboss, Apache
Compensation: Competitive based on experience.
EOE