WebSphere Admin

Role: WebSphere Admin

Location: Chicago(IL) / Richardson(TX) / Naperville(IL) (Hybrid)

Contract - 6+ months

Mode of Interview: Video

Description: Job responsibilities will include the following: Installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server, deploying enterprise applications, configuring or modifying platform, proactively monitoring the health of environment, configuring and managing the security of the platform. Job will also entail monitoring, optimizing, tuning and troubleshooting WebSphere applications. The successful candidate will be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in WAS/Tomcat/JBoss and their related components. The candidate will be a self-motivated individual who works well with groups and independently with minimal supervision to achieve stated goals and project tasks.

Required Job Qualifications

Excellent knowleddge of administrating WebSphere Application Server/Tomcat/JBoss servers

Infrastructure Automation (such ansible tool preferred)

Operations Management and IT standards, procedures, and policies

Experts level knowledge of IBM WAS/Tomcat/JBoss in design, installation, fixpack upgrade, migration, and configuration

Experts level knowledge with WAS horizontal/vertical Clustering

Ability to simplify & standardize complex concepts / processes

Understanding of business priorities (e.g., vision), trends (e.g., industry knowledge) and markets (e.g., existing/ planned)

Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills are required; teamwork and collaboration

Problem solving / analytical skills, tools and techniques with experience in troubleshooting WAS/Tomcat/JBoss issues as well as other complex performance issues

Ability to create long and short term plan and prioritize tasks and make trade-off decisions

Ability to drive cross functional executions and manage project schedule

Adaptability and ability to introduce / manage change with ServiceNow and Jari

Basic understanding of AIX/RedHat/Windows administration and including basic shell scripting

Required Qualifications

WAS/Tomcat/JBoss admin skills and linux system admin knowledge as plus