WebSphere Admin - Schenectady, NY - 24 Months - # K17801/180756

Company Description

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Job Description

Title:  WebSphere Admin - Schenectady, NY - 24 Months - # K17801/180756

Location: Schenectady, NY

Duration: 24 Months 

• Staff will perform WebSphere Administration and UNIX System Administration tasks on Red Hat and AIX operating systems.

• Work with OPWDD’s WebSphere Administrator to configure and maintain the WAS ND 8.5 environment on AIX


• Provide assistance in migrating and configuring Java applications from SunOne/Red Hat environment to WAS ND/AIX environment


• Responsibilities include providing web server support for the agency’s developers running mission critical java application. This responsibility includes troubleshooting java errors, java code, web server errors and database connection issues.


• Candidate will be tasked with applying software enhancements, security patches and bug fixes to the WAS environment on a schedule basis.


• Work with the development staff and other teams on a regular basis to determine best approach for new application development (ex. Database connections, Security, External vs. Internal)


• Candidate will proactively monitor server and web server logs in order to meet service level agreements for application uptime.


• Candidate will be tasks with maintaining the java migration tool used by the agency developers to migrate code between dev, test, train and production environments. The custom application is written in PHP with a MySQL database.


• Address and resolve technical issues in a timely manner. If necessary work with vendor support to resolve web server and operating system issues.


• Candidate will be tasked with documenting procedures for both team members and developers

Qualifications

Candidates should have at least 84 months experience, and following should apply:

Experience as an IBM Websphere Administrator conducting high availability builds, upgrades, WAR file migrations and performance turning on AIX or Linux.

Experience doing installs, upgrades, application/code migrations and performance tuning on Non-IBM web servers. For example Apache, Sun One, iPlanet, Weblogic and JBoss.

Experience working closely with Java developers to troubleshooting critical Java applications. This includes reviewing application error logs, Java code and making recommend code changes in order to fix critical issues.

Basic experience with Unix operating systems. (Disk, CPU, monitoring, file systems).

Experience understanding the following web server and application security concepts: ACLs, LDAP, SSL, Load Balancing, Firewalls, Database Connection Pooling

Recent experience programming in one of the following languages: PHP, Perl, Java and HTML

Experience using scripting languages (ksh, perl, wsadmin) to automate operating system and web server tasks.

Additional Information

Please respond with updated resume and covering letter with few sentences how you meet each Requested Qualification referring your earlier projects

3 references are must with the resume.

Please note that our client does allow Skype/remote interviews. However they reserve the right to require an in-person interview.

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