Websphere Application Server (WAS) Specialist

We are seeking a Senior WebSphere Application Server Specialist to implement and test complex WAS infrastructures that are highly stable, scalable and maintainable.  This position will require troubleshooting and setting-up of new environments.

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

- Installing WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on various platforms from version V5.1 up to V8.0
- Installing IBM HTTP Server (HIS)
- Installing the WebSphere Plugin
- Administering WebSphere
- Maintaining resources as required by applications, such as:
-     JMS
-     Workload managers/Timers
-     Service Integration Bus (SiBus)
-     Connection Factories
-     Queue destinations
-     Topic spaces
-     MQ Connection factories
-     JDBC Providers
-     JDBC Data sources
-     J2C Aliases
-     Various other JEE resource types
- Understanding of Key concepts such as:
-     Cell, Node, Profile, JVM, JRE,
-     Server, Stand alone Server,
-     WASND (WebSphere Network Deployment)
-     Clustering,Clone
-     High Availability
-     Scalability
-     Workload management
- Deploying applications
-     Manually
-     Understanding application resource bindings
-     Understanding deployment descriptors (Application.XML and Web.XML)
-     Automatically using Jython
- Application upgrades and typical issues with JDK versions
- Application Debugging
-  Understanding how to spot general issues and help perform route-cause analysis for Java stack trace.
- Appreciate how JEE applications are packaged, what they are comprised of for example: EJB, JAR, RAR, web modules (WARs). Be familiar with popular programming APIs such as Spring, Struts, JSF and know the difference
-  Understand Web 2.0 so you can help debug applications
-  Understand HTML and JavaScript
-  Know what the browser DOM is.
- Tuning
-     Test, tweak and tune various WebSphere settings

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

-  Must be able to work independently and be self-motivated to 'hit the ground running'
- Ability to work with minimum supervision
- Ability to work as part of a team, working together to achieve goals
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Excellent knowledge sharing/coaching/mentoring abilities

REQUIRED

- Bachelor's Degree in IT
- At least 3 years WebSphere Application Server experience
- English: fluent