Title: WebSphere Systems Administrator

Duration: 1 year

Location Pleasanton, CA

Visa: Green Card /Citizen

 

Only submit candidates who have Infrastructure systems engingeering experience in Web Sphere.

 

Do not submit application developers.

 

 

Position Description: Participate in requirements gathering efforts. Design and document web application architecture. Work effectively with Web Developers, Java Developers, and other project staff to successfully implement web applications. Assist Project Manager with developing realistic project work-plans. Comply with project standards and methodologies. Experience Level: 10+ Years.

Skill Set: Strong object-oriented design experience. Experience with relational databases. Strong commitment to developing quality software. Good communication and team collaboration skills. Good multi-tasking skills.

 

Experience Websphere installation, configuration and support is required. IBM Websphere certified preferred. Willing to work on an on-call rotation on occasion.

WebSphere Portal--a must

WebSphere Application Server

Apache/IHS Web Server

Oracle Access Manager (OAM, Oblix)

LDAP (Sun and/or Tivoli preferred)

Vivisimo Search

Veritas Cluster (VCS)

Sun Cluster

MQSeries

F5 Load Balancer

Akamai

NetBackup

Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)

Revision Control Systems (cvs, svn, git)

JACL/Jython language experience. JMX experience a plus.

Strong experience with scalable, high availability infrastructures.

 

Top 3 - 5 Daily responsibilities:

Monitoring and troubleshooting the Web Presence Platform (WPP) Production & Pre-prod middleware infrastructure Environment

Support aggressive WPP release deployments to various WebSphere portal environments from development to pre—prod & production

Solaris and Linux systems automation

Work on server automation, service management, and deployment products.

 

Top 3 - 5 Required Skills

Experience developing integrated service management solutions to resolve highly complex technical and application issues

Websphere platform running on Solaris and Linux environments.

Ability to write and manage scripts

Perl, vi, Korn, Bourne, Power Shell implementation and support

 

Desired skills

1. Managing Portal security with integration to Oracle Identity Manager (Oblix) and Oracle Java Directory Server (LDAP)

2. Hands-on on Linux and Solaris platforms with ability to write and manage scripts

3. Good understanding of networking technologies such as firewall and load balancer and be able to translate Portal requirements to necessary changes for firewalls and load balancers.

4. Expert in working with Remedy change, incident and service management.

 

Soft Skills

Strong verbal & written communication

Teamwork

Project Management