WebSphere Administrator

Description:

Job Title: WebSphere Admin L3

Primary Skill (Technical Skill) : WebSphere

Secondary Skill (at least one) : Tomcat Apache, JBoss, Weblogic Admin

Experience Level : 7 - 9 Years

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Experience in Installing and configuring WebSphere domains and clusters on various OS platforms

- Experience in installing fix packs and service packs

- Experience in WAS (WebSphere Application Server) Migration from older versions to higher versions.

- Must know how to configure LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) and security realms.

- Monitors and supports WebSphere and other middleware platforms.

- Should have extensive experience of setting up the SSL and Certificates deployments.

- Experience supporting applications using J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) architecture including WebSphere Application Server/ MQ (Message Queue)/ Jboss/ Tomcat/WebLogic is highly required (at least three).

- Must have good experience in configuring WebSphere with different web servers (IBM HTTP Server and Apache).

- Performs root cause analysis, diagnostics, and monitoring on various production systems.

- Must have extensive experience of IBM HTTP Server Installation and configuration.

- Must have extensive knowledge of analyzing thread dumps and heap dumps.

- Must have extensive experience in performance tuning of middleware platforms

- Must have experience in troubleshooting logs and traces effectively.

- Should have good knowledge of any scripting language to automate the daily tasks.

- Should have good knowledge of Linux in terms of CPU, memory and storage.

- Experience managing Middleware monitoring tools like BMC TRUE sight, Nagios, Dyna Cache.

- Should have experience of managing and mentoring the team.

- Highly dynamic in terms of managing workload and working under pressure.

- Liaising with vendors for application issues.

- Experience in incident, problem and change management activities

- Must have ITIL process knowledge.

- Should be ready to work in 24-7 Support Environment.

- Be able to handle High priority incidents within defined SLAs.

- Escalate issues to his lead/Manager within defined SLAs.

- Should be open to learning other Middleware Technologies.