IBM WebSphere\Portal Administrator

IBM WebSphere/Portal Administrator

Toronto, Canada

Founded in 1944, Parsons, an engineering, construction, technical, and management services firm with revenues of $2.7 billion in 2010, is 100% owned by the Employee Stock Ownership Trust. We conquer the toughest logistical challenges and deliver design/design-build, program/construction management, professional services, and innovative alternative delivery solutions to private industrial customers worldwide as well as to federal, regional, and local government agencies. Parsons is a leader in many diversified markets with a focus on infrastructure, environmental, and defense/security. Currently, more than 10,500 Parsons’ employees are engaged in more than 4,500 projects in 50 states and 24 countries. These dedicated workers speak 72 languages collectively, and hold more than 7,900 college degrees and professional registrations. Parsons' employees continue to go anywhere in the world, meet every technical and management challenge, and persevere until the job is done.

Position Overview:

The WAS/Portal Administrator works closely with peers and will be expected to demonstrate an expert understanding of all elements to successfully install, manage, tune, and resolve issues in a complex highly available environment. This position requires working outside business hours and needs to provide his/her share of on call duty.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and manage middleware applications in a Unix environment. This includes products such as WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, Apache Web Server, IBM Web Server (IHS) and others.
• WAS and Portal Administration and performance tuning
• Create, test and maintain standby environments to ensure high availability
• Conduct trend analysis of WebSphere Application and Portal Server performance and provide recommendations
• Identify, document and automate administrative tasks in order to improve processes and ensure better performance of environments under his/her responsibility
• Perform application deployments
• Act as a liaison with IBM technical support to resolve issues in the environment
• Provide technical coaching and developing of other team members in the area of expertise
• Provide infrastructure consulting and support to application development teams

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of experience building, deploying and administering WebSphere Application Server and Portal Server solutions in a high-availability cluster environment.
• Certified IBM WebSphere System expert (preferred)
• Experience with high availability architectures and load balancing mechanism
• Expert working knowledge of supported technology (IHS Web Server, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, MQ, SSL, XML).
• Expert knowledge of Unix Shell scripting, WSADMIN scripting including JYTHON.
• Experience, automating enterprise application installations and resource configurations using scripting
• Good understanding of Portal migration procedures (XMLAccess or WPS scripting interface)
• Knowledge of the J2EE programming model
• Troubleshooting experience of WebSphere Application Server and Portal Server and Applications (Analysis of JVM logs, Trace logs, native logs, heap dumps, access/activity logs, etc.)
• Experience and understanding of integrations of WebSphere Application and Portal Servers with Oracle database.
• Advanced problem determination skills to identify and resolve application server problems running in a complex cluster environment.
• Comfortable with working in a rapidly changing, technically complex environment.
• Proficiency with MS office product suite (Word, Excel PowerPoint etc.).
• Familiarity with the other Web and Application Servers, Workflow infrastructure
• Very good communication (both written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Organized, self-motivated, as well as a team player

Parsons offers an ethical, challenging, diverse, rewarding and fun work experience where enthusiastic, responsible people use their energy, talent and dedication to make a difference in the world.