Urgent NEED: Middleware Admin-WAS and Weblogic Chicago, IL/ Scottsdale, AZ

[aman tanwar]

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Position: Middleware Admin-WAS and Weblogic (both required)
Location: Chicago, IL/ Scottsdale, AZ
Duration: 12 months

Responsibilities
Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of Websphere Application Server ND, Message Broker, Message Queue and IBM HTTP Server in a multi clustered high availability environments.
Installation of fix packs on WAS different versions and installed on Sun Solaris, AIX, and Red Hat Linux platforms.
Responsible for application code promotions across different life cycle environments- developments (validation, integration, UAT and production systems).
Installation of Message Broker runtime components and MQ runtime on Linux, WMB tool kit and MQ explorer on Windows environment
Responsible for Deploying bar files, deploying Message flows, managing message flows, stopping and starting message flows, increasing instances for message flows.
Experience on configuring data sources for databases/ QCF MQ connectivity.
Create and deploy broker archive (bar) files to execution groups.
Actively take part in implementing Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for Department of corrections applications.
Should have hands-on in  defining Cell names, Node names, Clusters, Cluster members, logs, virtual hosts, J2C aliases, JDBC Providers, Data Sources, MQ Providers, MQ activation specifications at respective scope levels.
Update certificates according to the scheduled time frame.
Configure and create policies sets and Policy bindings to implement federal FFM Web Services between DHS applications and Federal applications.
Administer the end point listeners of configured FFM Web Services.
Implement vertical Clustering, Performance tuning and trouble shooting of IBM WebSphere Application Servers. Install EAR’s, configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console.
Configure the IHS web-server interfaces (plugin-cfg.xml and httpd.conf file), session management, virtual hosts, included custom modules provided.
Troubleshoot using logs, FFDC logs, Log Analyzer for activity logs, Thread Analyzer for thread dumps, custom shell scripts.
Administer, configured, tuned, troubleshot Web Sphere in both clustered and standalone environments, installed and updated with Fixpacks, Interim fixes.
Enable and configure SSL between Web server Plug-in and WebSphere Application Server.
Map the TAM and LDAP users and groups to J2EE security roles of the application module running on Web Sphere Application and also implement SSL communication between the Webserver Plug-in and Application Server.
Create Self-Signed Certificates and create Certificate Requests through IKeyman and send it to Certificates team to get DigiCerts and deploy the new certificates sent by Certification Authorities into the environment.
Administer the build tools like SVN Collabnet and Hudson applications in WebSphere application server.
Performance tuning the WebSphere Application Server by configuring Heap size and other JVM parameters.
Experience on working with Ticket/Change management tools like HP Service Manager.
Perform identification and resolution of the overall infrastructure problems/issues providing permanent solutions by root cause analysis.
Have experience in OLTP and Batch deployment on WAS.
Used garbage collection to evaluate application performance health and detected the presence of memory leaks.

Skills Required
8+ years of experience in Systems Administration, IBM Web Sphere Application Servers Administration, IBM Message Queue administration, IBM Message Broker Administration.
Strong experience in Planning, Installing, configuring, Tuning, Patching, Troubleshooting and Integrating - IBM  WAS, MQSeries, Apache Http, IHS v 7, SunOne Web Servers, LDAP.
Extensive experience in Web logic11g, WebLogic 12C
Expertise in Migration of servers - Web logic11g to WebSphere 8.5.
Strong experience in Planning, Installation and Configuration of IBM WebSphere Message Broker 7.x.
Strong experience in Oracle Weblogic and Red hat Jboss.
Strong experience in Administration and Maintenance of WAS ND clusters (vertical, horizontal) and deployment of applications in highly available, load balanced production environments.
Experience in configuring and maintaining IBM HTTP Server.
Experience on configuring data sources for databases/ QCF MQ connectivity.
Experience on IBM Process Manager and IBM Portal server.
Configuration and creation of policies sets and Policy bindings to implement Web Services between two applications.
Production Support to the application on 24/7.
Administer the end point listeners of configured Web Services.
Deploy applications in Development, Systems, Users Acceptance, Training and Production regions.
Configure JMS resources like Queues, Queue connection factories, Activation Specifications and JDBC resources like Data Providers, Data sources in IBM Web Sphere 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.0/8.5 Servers.
Expertise in setting up of JVMs, Clusters, virtual hosts and configuring authorization and authentication models using LDAP and Tivoli access Manager (TAM)
Extensive experience in zseries and iseries System and Deploy the WAS application on Z series system.
Experience in Recovery and Backup of Web Sphere configuration using Web Sphere backup utilities.
Good knowledge in Tuning of Application Servers by Tivoli Performance Viewer like setting the dynamic cache size and setting the JVM heap size using collected Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) data.
Experience in enabling Global Security with Local OS, Custom and LDAP users registries and experience in configuring SSL communication between Webserver Plugin and WAS.
Experience in configuring Workload Management (WLM) of Web Sphere Application Server and also in Performance Tuning using Resource Analyzer and IBM Suppor33t Assistant (ISA) tool.
Hands on experience in IBM Support Assistant (ISA) to identify the memory usage, leaks and analyzing Garbage Collection and configuring right GC parameters for better performance, evaluated application performance health and detected the presence of memory leaks.
Can work with MQ Queue Managers and its objects using MQ Explorer and MQSC Commands. Experience defining and managing Full Repository Queue Manager Clusters.

Thanks & Regards
Aman Tanwar