WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Specialist

Dublin  ‐ Onsite
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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
Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months +
(extension possible)
From
IT Alliance Ltd
Published at
12.06.2013
Project ID:
550288
Contract type
Freelance
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