Description
We are seeking a Senior WebSphere Application Server Specialist to implement and test complex WAS infrastructures that are highly stable, scalable and maintainable. This position will require troubleshooting and setting-up of new environments.
Experience & Skills
- Installing WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on various platforms from version V5.1 up to V8.0
- 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 Data sources
- 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
Interpersonal Skills
- Must be able to work independently and be self-motivated to 'hit the ground running'
- Ability to work with minimum supervision
- Ability to work as part of a team, working together to achieve goals
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Excellent knowledge sharing/coaching/mentoring abilities
Required
- Bachelor's Degree in IT
- At least 3 years WebSphere Application Server experience
- English: fluent