Portal & WAS & BPM administrator

Job Description

1. Experience & Qualifications: Candidate should have 5 to 8 years of experience, but 4 + Years in Administration of IBM Websphere Portal (now known as HCL Websphere portal), IBM Websphere Application Server (WAS) and IBM BPM Servers on Linux Hands on Webspehere Portal experience is a must WAS administration experience is desired BPM administration experience is good to have Need to possess the below or meet the criteria specified below. Maintaining resources as required by applications, such as:o JMSo Workload managers /Timerso Service Integration Bus (SiBus)o Connection Factorieso Queue destinationso Topic spaceso MQ Connection factorieso JDBC Providerso JDBC Datasourceso J2C Aliaseso Various other JEE resource types Deploying applicationso Manuallyo Understanding application resource bindingso Understanding deployment descriptors (Application.xml and Web.xml) Security Installing and configuring LDAPo Managing user repositories i.e. file-based, LDAP for federated repositories / virtual realms. Understanding the different requirements of use and nuances.o Setup and understand Security Domainso Setting up SSL certificates. Understanding CA (certificate Authorities), CSRs (Certificate Signing Requests) and how to manage chained certificates. Know how to manage key stores and trust stores via admin console and via scripting. Maybe also learn OpenSSL Tuningo Test, tweak and tune various WebSphere settings Understand the principles of migration Profile versions and how they affect DMGRs and Cells. Also profile augmentation. PMT and manageprofiles.sh etc. Application upgrades and typical issues with JDK versions Application Debuggingo Understanding how to spot general issues and help perform route-cause analysis for Java stack trace.o Appreciate how JEE applications are packaged, what they are comprised of for example: EJB, JAR, RAR, web modules (WARs). Be familiar with popular programming APIs such as Spring, Struts, JSF and know the differenceo Understand Web 2.0 so you can help debug applications Understand HMTL and Java script Know what the browser DOM is.o know how web-services work to debug endpoint issues General debuggingo Know how to use telnet, and other command-lines tools to debug network / firewall connectivity. Tools such as curl, ssh and other O/S related commands like netstat, ps, ifconfig, route etc Shell scriptingo Understand Korn Shell / Bash Shello Know the basics of loops, functions and environment variables in shell scripting Understand and appreciate JVMso Garbage collectiono JVM command line options Logging & Tracingo Learn WebSphere tracingo Tivoli Performance Monitoro understand Apache Commons / Log4j type logging systems Mbeanso Understand Java Mbeans (JMX) and how ti pertains to WebSphere Application Server. ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)o Be comfortable with these terms and the products offered i.e. DataPower BPMo Business Process Management and the appropriate IBM products such as IBM BPM Portalso WebSphere Portal Servero Appreciate the need for portal technologies using Portlets JSR-168, the Java Portlet API JSR-286, the Java Portlet API 2.0 Understand Databaseso Difference between Schema and Databaseo basic SQLo Table spaces etc File systemso Mainly Unix File Systemso NAS, NFS mounts etco File-system security/Shells Key terms like Synchronous vs. Asynchronous XML, XSLT, transformation and namespaces Protocols such as HTTP/HTTP/s, RMI CORBA, SOAP etc Ports Virtual Servers and Virtual Hosts in the context for HTTP web servers and Application Server Web containers Understand relationship between IBM HTTP Server and Apache Upgrades and Fixpacks IBM Passport advantage / Fix Central SSH keys and one-way vs. Two-way trusts Processes and user id s associated with them i.e. access rightsNice to have Skills JSR 186/286 Programming Java EE 6 (J2ee) Java Server Faces 2.1 Spring Framework 3.0 Log4j 1.2 Ajax and Dojo Key Skills: 1. Experience & Qualifications: Candidate should have 5 to 8 years of experience, but 4 + Years in Administration of IBM Websphere Portal (now known as HCL Websphere portal), IBM Websphere Application Server (WAS) and IBM BPM Servers on Linux Hands on Webspehere Portal experience is a must WAS administration experience is desired BPM administration experience is good to have Need to possess the below or meet the criteria specified below. Maintaining resources as required by applications, such as:o JMSo Workload managers /Timerso Service Integration Bus (SiBus)o Connection Factorieso Queue destinationso Topic spaceso MQ Connection factorieso JDBC Providerso JDBC Datasourceso J2C Aliaseso Various other JEE resource types Deploying applicationso Manuallyo Understanding application resource bindingso Understanding deployment descriptors (Application.xml and Web.xml) Security Installing and configuring LDAPo Managing user repositories i.e. file-based, LDAP for federated repositories / virtual realms. Understanding the different requirements of use and nuances.o Setup and understand Security Domainso Setting up SSL certificates. Understanding CA (certificate Authorities), CSRs (Certificate Signing Requests) and how to manage chained certificates. Know how to manage key stores and trust stores via admin console and via scripting. Maybe also learn OpenSSL Tuningo Test, tweak and tune various WebSphere settings Understand the principles of migration Profile versions and how they affect DMGRs and Cells. Also profile augmentation. PMT and manageprofiles.sh etc. Application upgrades and typical issues with JDK versions Application Debuggingo Understanding how to spot general issues and help perform route-cause analysis for Java stack trace.o Appreciate how JEE applications are packaged, what they are comprised of for example: EJB, JAR, RAR, web modules (WARs). Be familiar with popular programming APIs such as Spring, Struts, JSF and know the differenceo Understand Web 2.0 so you can help debug applications Understand HMTL and Java script Know what the browser DOM is.o know how web-services work to debug endpoint issues General debuggingo Know how to use telnet, and other command-lines tools to debug network / firewall connectivity. Tools such as curl, ssh and other O/S related commands like netstat, ps, ifconfig, route etc Shell scriptingo Understand Korn Shell / Bash Shello Know the basics of loops, functions and environment variables in shell scripting Understand and appreciate JVMso Garbage collectiono JVM command line options Logging & Tracingo Learn WebSphere tracingo Tivoli Performance Monitoro understand Apache Commons / Log4j type logging systems Mbeanso Understand Java Mbeans (JMX) and how ti pertains to WebSphere Application Server. ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)o Be comfortable with these terms and the products offered i.e. DataPower BPMo Business Process Management and the appropriate IBM products such as IBM BPM Portalso WebSphere Portal Servero Appreciate the need for portal technologies using Portlets JSR-168, the Java Portlet API JSR-286, the Java Portlet API 2.0 Understand Databaseso Difference between Schema and Databaseo basic SQLo Table spaces etc File systemso Mainly Unix File Systemso NAS, NFS mounts etco File-system security/Shells Key terms like Synchronous vs. Asynchronous XML, XSLT, transformation and namespaces Protocols such as HTTP/HTTP/s, RMI CORBA, SOAP etc Ports Virtual Servers and Virtual Hosts in the context for HTTP web servers and Application Server Web containers Understand relationship between IBM HTTP Server and Apache Upgrades and Fixpacks IBM Passport advantage / Fix Central SSH keys and one-way vs. Two-way trusts Processes and user id s associated with them i.e. access rightsNice to have Skills JSR 186/286 Programming Java EE 6 (J2ee) Java Server Faces 2.1 Spring Framework 3.0 Log4j 1.2 Ajax and Dojo,

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