Description
WAS Administrator - Hampshire/Berkshire - Contract - £500 per day
Purpose
A vacancy has become available within the Technical Support department to provide support and administration for WAS solutions employed within distributed applications and systems, ensuring that the management capability for these systems is maintained and supported with the highest level of quality and availability, ensuring Service Level targets can be met. This role also provides 2nd/3rd level 24x7 support and maintenance for the Software and includes out of hours support.
Knowledge, Skills and ExperienceEssential skills:
- Commercial IT exposure in a large systems (250+) Server environment
- Significant working knowledge with the following WebSphere skills is required for the role:
- WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (WAS ND) v6.1.x and v7.0.x
- IBM HTTP Server (HIS) v6.1.x and v7.0.x
- Installation, patching, configuring, problem determination
- Keystore management - CSR, importing, receiving etc
- ISA, AST, working with IBM on PMRs etc
- JDK 1.5 and J2EE 1.4.x or above
- Scripting with Jython and ksh
- Basic networking concepts (TCP/IP, host file, Virtual Hosts and HTTP traffic)
- Practical experience of other Middleware technologies
- UNIX administration skills on AIX, Solaris would be advantageous
- Problem diagnosis and resolutions skills in a business critical 24 x 7 Service Support environment are essential
- Knowledge of MS Office suite
- Familiarisation with ITIL principles and preferably ISEB accredited
- Experience of problem and change control management processes including use of applications such as Remedy
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Independent problem solving skills, demonstrating initiative and self-motivation
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Self motivated, able to work on own initiative
- Flexible, dedicated team worker with the ability to work in isolation as required
Please note your CV will not be submitted for this or any other role without your prior approval.
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