Java Application Server Administrator

Job description

Title
Java Application Server Administrator

Abstract
Java Application Server's infrastructure design, deployment and support

Background About the company
The group is the world's leading provider of domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity, fund and derivative transactions. User owned and user governed. The group settle a huge value of securities transactions.

The clients comprise over 2,000 professional financial institutions, located in over 80 countries worldwide:
leading banks
broker/dealers
custodians
other institutions professionally engaged in securities markets

The department - Mission Statement
A state-of-the-art and well-managed technology infrastructure is the cornerstone of the implementation of the group strategy. The goals of the department at the company relate to and complement the corporate mission and business goals of the organization. It follows that the mission of our division is:
Ensure the availability of the production environment - failure is not an option
Understand and reduce the total cost of ownership of information technology
Ensure that an appropriate enterprise wide architecture exists to support the current and future needs of the business
Establish testing services and processes to help improve system quality and time to market
Help ensure that the right skills are available at the right place at the right time.

The Middleware & Frameworks Group
The Middleware & Frameworks Group within the company's engineers (ie designs and develops), supports, and operates the communication and data management software tools and infrastructures. These enable integrating business applications with operating systems in a standardized way and whatever the hardware platform (Windows, Unix, Linux, Mainframe, and Tandem) while enforcing "ities" (security, availability, operability, manageability, reliability, scalability, portability requirements). The group works in a Lean environment.

Job details

Title and reporting structure
WebSphere Application Server administrator

Location
The post is based in Brussels

Role
Java application Servers infrastructure design, automation, deployment, administration and support with a general expertise on web technologies.

Profile
Necessary technical skills:
Implementation and administration of Internet infrastructures
Integration of the IBM WebSphere Application Server version 7 products on AIX
Willing to learn new tools and to share the experience

Responsible for

Main activities:
Work within the "Java Application Integration Services" team, with the objective to maintain and guarantee at group level the technical evolution regarding AS and Internet platforms infrastructure. This includes the following:
- Technical analyses necessary to the application design within great projects of the international teams.
- Analyze, control and anticipate needs of technical resources
- Realize and document changes, evolutions and important orders to maintain the level of service
- Software installation, maintenance and infrastructure tuning
- Software Release management
- Technical environments administration
- Deployment & supervision tools Scripting
- 2nd & 3thrd level of support for production incidents
- Watch duty role for production support
- Ensure compliance with security guidelines