Technical Consultant - B2B Administrator

Introduction
The Cloud and Cognitive Software Essential Management team is looking for enthusiastic and talented individuals to join us. Are ou passionate about helping clients achieve their business goals? Do you enjoy learning new technology and problem solving? Then Essential Management is for you!
You will have the opportunity to be a part of the Expert Labs organization where you develop critical-thinking skills and work with Subject Matters Experts to resolve complex problems for our worldwide clients. In addition you will help drive delivery to leading-edge technology in OpenShift Cloud Pak for Data Watson Knowledge catalog Instana and Watson Artificial Intelligent IT Operations (Watson AIOps)

Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator helps companies integrate all their complex B2B and EDI processes across partner communities in a single gateway. It provides a flexible platform available on premises or through hybrid cloud that supports data transformation and most communication protocols; secures your B2B network and data; provides certified container support; and achieves high availability for operations with IBM Sterling Global Mailbox. B2B Integrator enables you to reduce costs by consolidating on a single platform and automating B2B processes across enterprises while providing governance adherence to standards and visibility for those processes.

Hands-on management of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator IBM Sterling File Gateway IBM Sterling Secure Proxy IBM Sterling External Authentication Server IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor and IBM Sterling Connect Direct.

• Continuous evaluation of system health and performance optimization.
• Design configure/develop and maintain messaging communication and processing flows.
• Provide administer and maintain secure environments for development and testing.
• Maintain system interface and configuration documentation.
• Provide issue management resolution and technical support; systems flow and translation issue determination troubleshooting and customer interaction as necessary
• Conduct appropriate change performance and capacity management.
• Respond to EDI and communication (AS2/FTP/SFTP/ebXML/OFTP2/Web Service) subsystem monitoring alerts.
• Disaster recovery design implementation and testing.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Prior Experience:

• 3+ years’ hands-on experience with administering IBM Sterling B2Bi.
• 3+ years’ Linux including shell scripting and Python and Java.
• 3+ years’ RDBMS concepts including SQL and adhoc report generation.
• 3+ years’ XML DTD XPATH and other XML entities.
• 3+ years’ EDI (EDIFACT X12).

Skills & Qualities:

• Proficient with IBM Sterling B2Bi UNIX and RDBMS/SQL.
• Working knowledge of EDI (EDIFACT X12 Flat File XML).
• Familiarity with partner onboarding.
• Familiarity with networking concepts is a must.
• Familiarity with SSH keys pgp keys and digital certificates is a preferred skill.
• Experience and understanding of change and patch management.
• Experience with Sterling upgrades and patching is must.
• Demonstrable motivation and initiative in working with a global operations team.
• Demonstrable problem-solving skill.
• Job requires flexibility. There are shifts person should be flexible.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Familiarity with Linux is big plus.
• Familiarity with OpenShift/Kubernetes is a plus.
• Familiarity with SWIFT is a plus.
• Familiarity with IBM MQ Series or other message queuing technologies is a plus.