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Job Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced administrator duties for IBM WebSphere Application Servers V8.5.5 and forthcoming V9.x and writing scripts to automate the manual tasks in a highly Virtualized Environment running on VMWare ESXi.
• Build/deploy/configure and maintain WebSphere, Tomcat and IIS environments.
• Be proficient in Apache and IBM HTTP Server (IHS). Manage and monitor SSL, certificates, private/public key pairs and be up to date with latest cipher strengths as per Security Requirements.
• Adhere to standards, processes, procedure and audit compliance controls. Maintain security audit requirements for Middleware Products and Servers.
• Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make deployments more consistent and issues predictable.
• Manage existing WordPress system, perform patching, and meet all security compliances.
• Leverage open source technologies such as Jenkins, ELK, TICK, Grafana and many more.
• Good knowledge on VMware - snapshots, revert and storage.
• Provide Linux support and develop/maintain Linux shell scripts. Implement and maintain Linux security and authorization integration with Active Directory.
• Perform appropriate Change Management duties to comply with IT policies and procedures.
• Perform appropriate Incident Management duties to comply with IT policies and procedures.
• Report progress on a weekly basis of status on all assigned work tasks.
• On-call support and occasional weekend onsite support. Provide Level2/Level3 support.
• Create process documentation for team and provide internal training to team members.
• Explain complex design items through documents and whiteboard sessions.
• Provide recommendation on Spring Frameworks upgrades.
• Advanced experience doing dump analysis with IBM tools.
• Work with software/hardware vendors for problem resolution or planning.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of working experience in supporting Production/QA/DEV Environments running on Middleware Products such as IBM WebSphere Application V8.5.5 & 9.0+, IHS and IIS.
• Experience with applying patches to Middleware environments. Must have worked with security audits in the past.
• Experience in analyzing memory leaks, Java thread, core and heap dumps.
• Experience in tuning and capacity planning.
• Knowledge of Java Infrastructure (jdk, jre, jks, etc.)
• 2+ years of Experience in Tomcat, Apache HTTP server.
• 2+ years of working experience with Jenkins pipelines (declarative scripts), telegraf, influxdb, Grafana and ELK Stack.
• Design automated CI/CD solutions for our middleware and IIS environment. Must have worked extensively with Jenkins pipelines to deliver automated deployments and testing.
• Experience with creating and maintaining certificates using iKeyman, openssl, keytool, SSL protocols, ciphers and other security requirements.
• 3+ years’ experience with Windows, Linux (CentOS, RHEL).
• 3+ years’ experience with installation and maintenance of software on Windows and Linux/Unix.
• Experience with shell scripts, such as bash or korn shell.
• Experience with file transfer protocols, such as FTPS or SFTP.
• Experience with Network and Application tier technologies.
• Strong understanding on DNS, LDAPS, AD, HTTP, TCP/IP, Web browsers, Firewalls.
• Open support tickets and work closely with the Vendors and business partners.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Flexibility to take over new software ownership.
• Ability to train senior and junior-level WebSphere Administrators.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Citrix Load Balancers.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Subversion, Maven and Ansible.ja
• Experience with Web Services Request/Response Model.
• Experience with Micro-Services technologies.
• Experience with WordPress and maintaining via patches.
• Experience with IBM COTS applications like Maximo, eClient and eNavigator.
• Experience with Manage Engine APM Insight Manager.
• Experience with scripting languages, such as YAML, JACL, JYTHON, PowerShell and Python.
• Experience with Microsoft’s Active Directory.
• Constantly keeping yourself aware of the latest technologies and providing process improvement solutions.
• Experience working in Disaster Recover (DR) environments.