Title: Websphere Administrator
Position Type: Contract
Job Location: Lansing, Michigan
Duration: 6 months (but could go longer)
Job Description:
WebSphere Administrator Position Description
This resource supports WebSphere for large projects and provides considerable business and technical knowledge to complex IT projects
Years of Experience:
Position Justification:
This resource works as a Middleware Administrator. This resource is part of a team that maintains environments for Bridges (over 100 servers) and SACWIS (over 60 servers). This resource is a lead administrator working with the new Next Generation Digital Infrastructure (NGDI) environment for Rational tools (over 30 servers). This resource serves as a lead in the departments transition to OpenShift and utilizing Containers and Docker, which involves several applications such as OBRA and Crime Victims. This resource also acts as a Backup JBOSS Admin for other projects, such as the Care Improvement Registry (MICAR) and the Disease Surveillance System (MDSS).
Job Description:
- Participate 24 x 7 in software, and hardware support.
- Install and Configuration of Websphere version 9.x application server Network Deployment
- Install and Configuration of IBM HTTP Server 9.x
- Install and Configuration of IBM Content Navigator (ICN) 3.01, 3.02
- Plan and implement the installation of fix packs, interim fixes.
- Takes initiative to modernize non-standard models, processes, and implementations
- Consult on technical solutions that include hardware design and server networking design
- Monitor performance via DynaTrace and log analyzation
- Maintain application to meet IRS and local internal security standards
- Resolve IRS audit concerns and remediate known vulnerabilities
- Optional desired duties include supporting IBM MQM
- Other duties as assigned
Required Skills:
- 5 years’ experience in administrating IBM Web Sphere Application Server 9.X, IBM HTTP Server and MQM Administration
- 5 years’ experience in working in UNIX/Linux environments
- 5 years’ experience in Setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, including planning installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server
- 5 years’ experience successfully implementing Work Load Management (WLM) using clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover
- 5 years’ experience in deployment of J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Servers
- 5 years’ experience in analyzing Logs, Head Dumps and Thread Dumps
- 5 years’ experience in setting up WebSphere Global Security
- 5 years’ experience configuring IBM MQ series queue managers, queue manager objects, queues, channels and clustering.
- 5 years’ experience installing the fix packs for both MQM and WAS.
- 5 years’ experience taking backup of WebSphere and MQM series.