Websphere Application Developer

Websphere Application Developer

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Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA

Summary: The role of Product Specialist involves serving as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on enterprise systems, particularly in administering WebSphere Application Server and cloud systems like Azure, AWS, and Google. The position requires extensive experience in multi-tier environments and a strong knowledge of various operating systems and cloud management. The candidate will also be responsible for on-call support and ensuring client satisfaction through effective communication. This is a fully remote position with flexible working hours within specified core times.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Function as a SME on enterprise systems, particularly WebSphere Application Server and cloud administration.
  • Perform system and software audits and assess business requirements.
  • Communicate with clients to ensure satisfaction and coordinate releases with stakeholders.
  • Monitor application and system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement fixes.
  • Participate in defining corporate implementation and integration strategies for new technologies.
  • Support and manage containerized applications in cloud environments.
  • Work closely with development teams to design, deploy, and maintain applications.

Key Skills:

  • 10 years of relevant experience in enterprise systems and cloud administration.
  • Strong knowledge of Unix, Linux, Windows operating systems, and system administration tasks.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and cloud monitoring tools.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience with WebSphere, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift).
  • Ability to perform upgrades, patches, and security fixes on WebSphere.
  • Experience with scripting languages like Python and shell scripting.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

One of our clients is looking for the position of Product Specialist based on following skills:

Fully Remote

Teams Interview

8-10 hours per day

M-F Core hours: 7am-6pm (any 8-10 hours w/in those times)

Subject to On-Call (24/7 daily, 365 days a Year)

Years of Relevant Experience:

10 Years

Preferred Education:

4 Year college degree or equivalent Computer Science

Job Description:

Looking for candidate to function as a SME on enterprise systems, with advance skills in administering WebSphere Application Server, cloud system administration (including Azure, AWS, and Google) and containerized application platform on Linux / AIX. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in a multi-tier and multi-platform enterprise class environments.

8-10 hours per day

M-F Core hours: 7am-6pm (any 8-10 hours w/in those times)

Subject to On-Call (24/7 daily, 365 days a Year)

Knowledge

Strong knowledge of Unix, Linux, Windows operating system and system administration tasks

Highly available vertical / horizontal scaling, disaster recovery capabilities

Single Sign On, network load balancer, firewall, IP subnets.

On-Prem monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace,

Cloud monitoring capabilities like Azure Monitor

CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, Nexis, Azure DevOps, etc.)

Version control subsystem like: Git, Subversion, etc.

Storage subsystem

Salesforce

Knowledge of application development, implementation and deployment experience.
Web services and data integration techniques, messaging and transformation.

Skills

Experience performing system and software audits.

Assesses and analyzes business requirements, current state environment and technology choices to evaluate security solution alternatives that meet solution architecture needs and support enterprise requirements.

Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills related to Cloud, IAM and privileged access management.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, on both technical and non-technical topics

Prioritize tasks effectively to ensure that project deliverables and deadlines are met.

Advanced root cause analysis and written and verbal communications skills.

Experience supporting and participating in 24 X 7 on-call weekly rotation.

Experience handling and reacting to infrastructure alerts reacting quickly.

Communicating:

Communicate with clients, assisting them with their needs to ensure client satisfaction. Communicate the deployment/release schedule, release artifacts, priorities, and status to all stakeholders.

Coordinate releases with internal stakeholders.

Champion best practices and quality standards.

Participate in functional and technical meetings throughout the development lifecycle.

Abilities

WebSphere

Perform upgrades, patches, and fix security issues.

Monitor application performance, system performance, troubleshoot and diagnose issues and implement fixes.

Work closely with the development teams to design solutions, deploy and maintain application.

Install, configure and deploy new WebSphere application servers on AIX and Linux

Write and deploy shell scripts, automate tasks.

Experience with one or more webserver setup Apache, IBM Http Server and IIS

Experience working with SSL and application security in WebSphere.

Troubleshoot, collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical issues.

Participate in defining corporate implementation and integration strategies of new technologies.

Experience administering platforms like MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, Docker / Podman, Azure CI / CD.

Containers and Cloud Management

Work with cloud platforms Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.

Experience support SaaS products in the cloud Adobe enterprise, MuleSoft Cloud Integration

Deploy and manage containerized application in a cloud environment.

Understands clustered container orchestration configuration and setup of Kubernetes / OpenShift platform.

Work with cloud vendors and cloud hosting service providers and recommend infrastructure solutions.

Experience implementing security and best practices for cloud-based systems.

Experience deploying Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud.

Experience in deploying infrastructure as code using Azure CI/CD Pipe lines from Azure repos

Mandatory skills

WebSphere

Perform upgrades, patches, and fix security issues.

Monitor application performance, system performance, troubleshoot and diagnose issues and implement fixes.

Work closely with the development teams to design solutions, deploy and maintain application.

Install, configure and deploy new WebSphere application servers on AIX and Linux

Write and deploy shell scripts, automate tasks.

Experience working with SSL and application security in WebSphere.

Troubleshoot, collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical issues.

Participate in defining corporate implementation and integration strategies of new technologies.

Experience administering platforms like MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, Docker / Podman, Promethus, Azure CI / CD.

Containers and Cloud Management

Work with cloud platforms Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.

Experience support SaaS products in the cloud Adobe enterprise, MuleSoft Cloud Integration

Deploy and manage containerized application in a cloud environment.

Understands clustered container orchestration configuration and setup of Kubernetes / OpenShift platform.

Work with cloud vendors and cloud hosting service providers and recommend infrastructure solutions.

Experience implementing security and best practices for cloud-based systems.

Experience deploying Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud.

Experience in deploying infrastructure as code using Azure CI/CD Pipelines from Azure repos

Certifications or Desired skills if any

WebSphere, AIX / Unix, Linux, Azure CI/CD, Azure or AWS. RedHat Open Shit, Docker,

Python, Windows Power Shell and JavaScript

Nice To Have Skills

Azure repos and Azure DevOps.

The successful candidate may have to undergo a drug test and background check.


Sincerely,

Tamana Nair

Digitek Software, Inc.

650 Radio Drive, Lewis

Center, OH 43035 Tel No ext. 3105/ Fax

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