Websphere configuration engineer

Role : Websphere configuration engineer with WAS background.

location : Houston, texas.

duration : 12 months contract

Skillset (Operations/Administration/Platform Engineer role):

Must have:

Minimum 6-8 years overall IT experience as Middleware Engineer/Platform Engineer/SRE

Experience working with various middleware tools and technologies on a day-to-day basis.

Hands on experience on cloud and/or cloud native technologies.

Good understanding of Multi-tiered application architecture. With exposure to infrastructure concepts like Networking , DMZs , firewalls etc

Good understanding of Java based applications from a development as well as troubleshooting standpoint.

Application Servers : Configuration, administration and troubleshooting.

o IBM WebSphere

o Apache Tomcat

Webservers : Configuration, administration and troubleshooting.

o IBM HTTP Server

o Apache HTTP Server

o Nginx

o IIS

SSL/Certs :

o Good understanding of SSL and experience working with CA and Self signed certs.

o Experience working on CSR generation, renewals, configuring websites/apps/servers for SSL.

Cloud:

o Good understanding on cloud development and infrastructure concepts.

o Experience working on at least one major public cloud ( AWS, Azure, GCP )

CICD tools:

o Jenkins

o Azure DevOps

o IBM UCD/UCR

Experience with scripting and automation.

o Bash

o Powershell/windows batch

o Ansible

o Terraform

Experience working with containers:

o Docker

o docker swarm/RedHat Openshift/Kubernetes/Nomad

Unix/Linux :

o Familiar with basic commands and utilities

o Writing/creating Bash/Shell scripts

Experience working with APM products and application/server performance tuning exercises.

Nice To have:

Web development experience(with Java, react, angular etc)

Good understanding of .Net based applications from a development as well as troubleshooting standpoint.

Database Skills

o Oracle PL/SQL

o MS-SQL PL/SQL

Knowledge of enterprise content management platform like EMC documentum, EMC InfoArchive, SDL Tridion, Adobe AEM, SiteCore