WebSphere Administrator

Tech Valley Talent (TVT) has an opening for a WebSphere Administrator.

DURATION: 6 months

LOCATION: Hybrid; Albany, New York

***Can only work with W2 - no third party or C2C.

Seeking a talented WebSphere Administrator to provide development and sustainment services for, both pre- and post-implementation. The successful candidate will be a key software developer for the implementation and/or support of various client applications. Responsibilities include working with System Architects and Business Analysts to understand business requirements and solutions architecture. Not only will the candidate be joining a project team, they will also be joining a team of resources dedicated to delivering client engagements from an off-site location focused on common tools, technologies, and methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 3 plus years of experience with JAVA
• Good 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, Toad for Oracle, SQL Developer, JSF, JMS, JDBC, Java Transaction Management, Thread Management, Developing Asynchronous Java Processes
• 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 Web Methods.
• 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, shell and Perl scripts
• Good understanding of build and deploy procedures
• Good understanding of HTML UI, CSS and Java-script
• Should have hands on experience on rapid application development platforms like eclipse or IBM RAD or similar
• 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
• Ability to adapt quickly to an existing, complex environment preferred.
• Ability to quickly learn new concepts and software is necessary preferred.
• Self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, responsible team-player preferred.
• Strong background in server administration, network configuration for applications, firewall ports and security integration using Active Directory preferred.
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral preferred.
• Passionate about building high-quality systems with software implementation best practices preferred.
• Ability to multi-task & support multiple priorities / multiple deliverables preferred.
• Strong Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills preferred.
• Any OS certifications are a plus
• Product administration experience for large complex COTS is a plus

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TVT is an Information Technology (IT) professional business leader providing IT services to the public sector. Our firm is founded on the values of high integrity, trust, honesty, and commitment. We take pride in providing exceptional value to our clients by supplying and delivering the best IT project-based and hourly talent across the nation. We are business partners with many technology solution providers such as IBM, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Tableau, Salesforce, and others. Tech Valley Talent provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

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