WebSphere & Cloud Platform Engineer

Engagement Type

Contract

Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of Unix,

Linux, Windows operating system and system administration tasks

• Highly available vertical

/ horizontal scaling, disaster recovery capabilities

• Single Sign On, network

load balancer, firewall, IP subnets.

• On-Prem monitoring tools

like Splunk, Dynatrace,

• Cloud monitoring

capabilities like Azure Monitor

• CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins,

Nexis, Azure DevOps, etc.)

• Version control subsystem

like: Git, Subversion, etc.

• Storage subsystem

• Salesforce

• Knowledge of application

development, implementation and deployment experience.

Web services and data integration techniques, messaging and transformation.

Skills

• Experience performing

system and software audits.

• Assesses and analyzes

business requirements, current state environment and technology choices to

evaluate security solution alternatives that meet solution architecture needs

and support enterprise requirements.

• Demonstrate advanced

knowledge and skills related to Cloud, IAM and privileged access management.

• Excellent written and

verbal communication skills, on both technical and non-technical topics

• Prioritize tasks

effectively to ensure that project deliverables and deadlines are met.

• Advanced root cause

analysis and written and verbal communications skills.

• Experience supporting and

participating in 24 X 7 on-call weekly rotation.

• Experience handling and

reacting to infrastructure alerts reacting quickly.

• Communicating:

o Communicate with clients,

assisting them with their needs to ensure client satisfaction. Communicate

the deployment/release schedule, release artifacts, priorities, and status to

all stakeholders.

• Coordinate releases with

internal stakeholders.

• Champion best practices

and quality standards.

• Participate in functional

and technical meetings throughout the development lifecycle.

Abilities

WebSphere

• Perform upgrades,

patches, and fix security issues.

• Monitor application

performance, system performance, troubleshoot and diagnose issues and

implement fixes.

• Work closely with the

development teams to design solutions, deploy and maintain application.

• Install, configure and

deploy new WebSphere application servers on AIX and Linux

• Write and deploy shell

scripts, automate tasks.

• Experience with one or

more webserver setup Apache, IBM Http Server and IIS

• Experience working with

SSL and application security in WebSphere.

• Troubleshoot, collaborate

with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical issues.

• Participate in defining

corporate implementation and integration strategies of new technologies.

• Experience administering

platforms like MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, Docker / Podman, Azure CI / CD.

Containers and Cloud

Management

• Work with cloud platforms

Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.

• Experience support SaaS

products in the cloud - Adobe enterprise, MuleSoft Cloud Integration

• Deploy and manage

containerized application in a cloud environment.

• Understands clustered

container orchestration configuration and setup of Kubernetes / OpenShift

platform.

• Work with cloud vendors

and cloud hosting service providers and recommend infrastructure solutions.

• Experience implementing

security and best practices for cloud-based systems.

• Experience deploying

Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud.

Experience in deploying

infrastructure as code using Azure CI/CD Pipe lines from Azure repos

Mandatory skills

WebSphere

• Perform upgrades,

patches, and fix security issues.

• Monitor application

performance, system performance, troubleshoot and diagnose issues and

implement fixes.

• Work closely with the

development teams to design solutions, deploy and maintain application.

• Install, configure and

deploy new WebSphere application servers on AIX and Linux

• Write and deploy shell

scripts, automate tasks.

• Experience working with

SSL and application security in WebSphere.

• Troubleshoot, collaborate

with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical issues.

• Participate in defining

corporate implementation and integration strategies of new technologies.

• Experience administering

platforms like MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, Docker / Podman, Promethus, Azure CI / CD.

Containers and Cloud

Management

• Work with cloud platforms

Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.

• Experience support SaaS

products in the cloud - Adobe enterprise, MuleSoft Cloud Integration

• Deploy and manage

containerized application in a cloud environment.

• Understands clustered

container orchestration configuration and setup of Kubernetes / OpenShift

platform.

• Work with cloud vendors

and cloud hosting service providers and recommend infrastructure solutions.

• Experience implementing

security and best practices for cloud-based systems.

• Experience deploying

Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud.

• Experience in deploying

infrastructure as code using Azure CI/CD Pipelines from Azure repos

Certifications or Desired

skills if any

WebSphere, AIX / Unix,

Linux, Azure CI/CD, Azure or AWS. RedHat Open Shit, Docker,

Python, Windows Power Shell

and JavaScript

Nice To Have Skills

Azure repos and Azure

DevOps.

Required/Desired Skills

Skill Required/Desired Amount of Experience 10 years experience Required 4 Year college degree or equivalent - Computer Science Required Experience administering platforms like MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, Docker / Podman, Promethus, Azure CI / CD. Required 8.0 Years Install, configure and deploy new WebSphere application servers on AIX and Linux Required 8.0 Years Experience deploying Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud. Required 8.0 Years Certified in WebSphere, AIX / Unix, Linux, Azure CI/CD, Azure or AWS. RedHat Open Shit, Docker, Python, Windows Power Shell and JavaScript Highly desired Azure repos and Azure DevOps experience Highly desired Highly available vertical / horizontal scaling, disaster recovery capabilities Required 10.0 Years hands-on experience in a multi-tier and multi-platform enterprise class environments. Required 10.0 Years advanced skills in administering WebSphere Application Server, cloud system administration and containerized applications Required 10.0 Years

Skills:

10 years experience, 4 Year college degree or equivalent - Computer Science, Experience administering platforms like MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, Docker / Podman, Promethus, Azure CI / CD., Install, Experience deploying Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, etc. both in on-prem and cloud., Certified in WebSphere, AIX / Unix, Linux, Azure CI/CD, Azure or AWS. RedHat Open Shit, Docker, Python, Windows Power Shell and JavaScript, Azure repos and Azure DevOps experience, Highly available vertical / horizontal scaling, disaster recovery capabilities, advanced skills in administering WebSphere Application Server, cloud system administration and containerized applications