Description
As a WebSphere Application Server Specialist you will be working in a multivendor Agile environment as part of a team using Kanban or Scrum at the client location.
This way you are closely connected to the business and able to follow changes from A to Z. Apart from your technical skills this job asks for good communicative skills, being tactful and sometimes even diplomatic being in an internal customer billable services and implementation environment.
In this role you will deploy applications by Scripting the automatic deployment based on input from the application vendors. You are expected to plan, install and configure the product, implement applications, set up distributed queuing, enable appropriate security, administer and operate a MQ network, enforce organizational and operational standards, perform basic problem determination and implement clustering and publish/subscribe topologies.
The scope of this job role includes all project tasks required to deliver the projects in line with project and resource planning. This includes preparation for new or changed services, execution of all related tasks, completion of all processes, adherence to professional, security and process standards and the related administration for the management of performance of systems and services.
Skills:
- 5 years+ experience working in a large complex IT environment
- Foundational Skills - teamwork, communication, adherence to company standards and procedures
- WebSphere Application Server ND (v7.0,v8.5 and Liberty)
- Application Management and Deployment
- Knowledge of Java Enterprise Edition 7 of 8
- Knowledge of web application architecture and deployments
- Knowledge of utilization of the command line interface and Jython/Jacl
- Experience performing installation, configuration and optimization tasks to ensure smooth, reliable, secure and efficient operation of a WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment and Liberty Profile environment.
- Security configuration and Maintenance
- Clustering and Workload Management
- Intelligent Management and Resiliency
- Performance Monitoring, Tuning and Problem Determination
- Knowledge of XLDeploy/XLRelease, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Nexus and GitHub
- CI/CD, Agile, Kanban and/or scrum
- Basic AIX & Linux skills
- Setup and configure SSL-MA
- IBM httpserver or Apache httpserver & WAS plugin