Direct client - Websphere Engineer (Windows) - CA

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Title: Websphere Engineer (Windows)
Location: Pleasanton, CA
Type of position: Long Term Contract

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Description:
We are currently looking for highly motivated Websphere Engineer with systems knowledge to work in the Release Engineering team. This position focused on expertise in Websphere, WebLogic and IIS.  This position supports the State Fund Online application and integrated systems at State Fund.  This position will also work closely with engineering teams to create consistent and repeatable code and server deployments. An ideal candidate will have a strong operations background as well as some development experience. Candidates for this position must be able to, from day one, roll up their sleeves and hit the ground running, and bring their experience to the team to make the project deployments much smoother. Most importantly, the right individual will be with a positive, “can-do” attitude and a passion for delivering technical solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfer and mentorship to State Fund internal engineering peers as required and lead technical staff responsibilities.
Server Maintenance based on updates, system requirements, data usage, and antivirus requirements.
Actively monitor and administer the applications and hosting environment to increase efficiency, improve reliability, and minimize downtimes
Triage and provide technical solutions to environment related issues encountered by the State Fund Online application
Support developers with change requests, uptime, performance related issues, and access
Documentation of work in regards to bug reports, systems analysis, application monitoring, and common task reporting
Author internal documentation, such as environment diagrams, installation/configuration documents and release notes.
Assist in establishing and implementing configuration management program and policies.
Troubleshoot and debug environment and infrastructure problems found in the production and non-production environments.
Measurement, optimization, and tuning of system performance and ensuring that systems will run reliably and are highly available in a 24/7 production environment.
Automate systems monitoring tasks using standard monitoring tools.
Manage and control the continuous release promotion cycle (manually short-term, through automation long-term) including the following environments: development, integration, staging, QA, Load and production.
Provide 24 by 7 production and pre-prod support

Required Experience:
Minimum of 5 years hands on experience supporting Websphere application server installation, configuration and management in a Windows or UNIX environment.
3 – 5 years’ experience in working with management and maintenance of applications running on IIS.
2 – 4 years’ experience working with Windows 2008 - 2012 R2 in a virtualized (VMWare) environment
3+ years hands on experience with Clear Case, SCM or equivalent experience with similar version control product
Minimum of 3  years of Windows system administration experience with Windows Server 2008 / 2012
Experience scripting with  wsadmin, Jacl or Jython
Understanding of basic SQL and PL/SQL   commands is a plus.
Understanding of installation / configuration of DB2 Data Server Client a plus
Hands on experience deploying and configuring Java Web applications on Websphere 6.1, 7.0 and 8.5.5
Experience with build automation and deployment tools such as ANT a strong plus
Strong troubleshooting and analysis skills
Willing and capable of mentoring others and leading by example.

Required Technical Skills
Thorough knowledge of  managing Windows 2008 and 2012 R2 Operating Systems in virtualized environment
Thorough understanding of building, deploying configuring and troubleshooting Websphere applications integrated with IIS 8.5
Thorough understanding of and experience with managing web applications in a highly available environment
Understanding of networks and firewall systems

Qualifications and Certifications:
BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Thanks and Regards,

Mohammed

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