TCC Seeks a Websphere Administrator (Contract)

Posted by Kelly Grant, TCC Senior Technical Recruiter

When you join the TCC team, you join a team of exceptional individuals who are experts in their fields.  At TCC, you will have the opportunity to use technology to make our clients’ lives easier and their businesses more profitable.

Type: Contract

Duration: 1 year plus

Location: Indianapolis, IN

TCC has a client in Indianapolis working on a large software development effort. This is a long-term contract engagement with the potential for multiple one-year extension.

Responsibilities:

• Creating multiple env’s for development team, Testing team and Client
• Installing, configuring and performance tuning IBM WebSphere Application Server
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server and generated plug-in files
• Performance tuning of JVM parameters for large distributed applications
• Helping the build with INFRA related issues

Required Skills:

• 2Good design and deployment level knowledge of the JEE Framework and its components and working knowledge in most of the following areas: EJB, JSP, Servlets, Logging mechanism (ex, Log4J), Eclipse development interface, XML SPY, SQL Developer, JSF, JMS, JDBC, Java Transaction Management, Thread Management, Developing Asynchronous Java Processes
• Federated multiple nodes to the Deployment Manager
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server and generated plug-in files
• Enabled SSL Security in Web Environments for IBM HTTP Server & Web Sphere application Server
• Two (+) years working with transactional database systems; i.e., Oracle, SQL Server, DB2
• Experience in installing, configuring and performance tuning IBM WebSphere Application Server
• Experience in performance tuning of JVM parameters for large distributed applications
• Monitoring the JVM performance by analyzing WebSphere Heap Size and garbage collection
• Experience with configuring, installing and administration of ESB products such as MuleESB, IBM WebSphere ESB or SoftwareAG WebMethods and HORNETQ
• Experience with developing services around COTS APIs in JEE
• Exposure and understanding of webservers like tomcat or Apache or Similar
• Exposure and understanding of configuring proxies
• Exposure and understanding of server shell scripting in a windows environment
• Good understanding of ANT and perl scripts
• Good understanding of build and deploy procedures
• Good understanding of HTML UI, CSS and Javascript
• Strong experience in working with server teams and understanding of server configurations for large JEE applications
• Strong understanding of configuring clustering and load balancing for server products
• Strong understanding of content switches, both hardware and software based
• Strong understanding of network file systems

Preferred Skills:

• Ability to adapt quickly to an existing, complex environment
• Ability to quickly learn new concepts and software is necessary
• Candidate should be a self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, responsible team-player
• Strong background in server administration, network configuration for applications, firewall ports and security integration using Active Directory
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Passionate about building high-quality systems with software implementation best practices
• Ability to multi-task & support multiple priorities / multiple deliverables
• Strong Analytical and Problem Solving Skills
• Any OS certifications are a plus
• Product administration experience for large complex COTS (Informatica, Infinispan and HP Extreme) is a plus
• Installed and configured IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Applications, Resource Value Units is a plus

To see open positions at TCC, please visit our website http://e-tcc.com/open-positions.