Websphere Administrator

Great Fortune 500 Company is currently seeking a Websphere Administrator on the UNIX platform. Candidate will be providing WebSphere administration and management to new and existing WebSphere environments running on IBM AIX systems. Additionally, this individual will assist in the development of architectural designs and roadmaps for current and future WebSphere applications and infrastructures.

Specific responsibilities include:

Provide product installation, configuration and deployment of J2EE applications, performance tuning, and troubleshooting as well as manage all WebSphere environments in AIX/UNIX environment and support the development team's deployments into a clustered environment.

Implement security policies and standards into technical designs and solution development

Validate technology designs and provide consultation to software development and engineering teams.


Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

Experience installing, configuring, tuning, automating, and troubleshooting WebSphere Application Server v6 in a clustered deployment model

Solid understanding of Internet concepts including firewalls, web browsers, TCP/IP, SSL, HTTP

Solid understanding of the J2EE application model, including EJBs, JSP, HTTP sessions, and servlets and J2EE technologies, such as JDBC, JMS, JNDI, JTA, and JAAS

Good understanding of XML, HTML, Web services, including SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL

Strong understanding of High Availability standards and methods with WebSphere application environments

Basic programming knowledge

Experience in system administration on UNIX operating systems such as AIX including operating system functions and utilities, Shell scripting, hardware architecture is preferred

3 years of experience in WebSphere