Description
This is a Contract role, requires immediate start and continuing until . Based South Dublin, Ireland.
Installing WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on various platforms (Windows & AIX) from version V5.1 up to V8.5 with particular emphasis on upgrading from one major version to another
Installing IBM HTTP Server (HIS)
Installing the WebSphere Plugin
Administering WebSphere
Maintaining resources as required by applications, such as:
JMS
Workload managers/Timers
Service Integration Bus (SiBus)
Connection Factories
Queue destinations
Topic spaces
MQ Connection factories
JDBC Providers
JDBC Datasources
J2C Aliases
Various other JEE resource types
Understanding of Key concepts such as:
Cell
Node
Profile
JVM, JRE,
Server, Stand alone Server,
WASND (WebSphere Network Deployment)
Clustering,Clone
High Availability
Scalability
Workload management
Deploying applications
Manually
Understanding application resource bindings
Understanding deployment descriptors (Application.XML and Web.XML)
Automatically using Jython
Application upgrades and typical issues with JDK versions
Application Debugging
Understanding how to spot general issues and help perform route-cause analysis for Java stack trace.
Appreciate how JEE applications are packaged, what they are comprised of for example: EJB, JAR, RAR, web modules (WARs). Be familiar with popular programming APIs such as Spring, Struts, JSF and know the difference
Understand Web 2.0 so you can help debug applications
Understand HTML and JavaScript
Know what the browser DOM is.
Tuning
Test, tweak and tune various WebSphere settings
Experience in the following competencies which would also be desirable
IBM Directory Server (LDAP)
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator
IBM Sterling File Gateway
IBM Sterling Connect Direct
IBM WebSphere MQ
IBM WebSphere Message Broker
JBOSS Application Server