Employment Spot

Job Description

The position will identify, evaluate and recommend technical solutions within and across systems. The architect must also be able to design solutions within the context of the available infrastructure, taking into account scalability, availability, reliability, stability, security and performance.

• Should be able to or have previous knowledge of migrating J2EE application from WebLogic to WebSphere container.

• Provide information needed to assess the risk of production deployment of a business critical application: installation and configuration readiness, performance and scalability evaluation, stability and durability evaluation, and best practices procedures.

• Assess the processes that will be used to operate, support and maintain the Enterprise implementation(s). Refine the deployment process and architecture so that it will easily scale to fit into an enterprise scope.

• Needs to be extensible to changing platform requirements or other advancements in the distributed computing model.

• Assist in determining Service Level Agreements (SLA’s), for immediate needs/deployments, and enterprise SLA’s to support ongoing operations, if any.

• Develop performance, scalability, and durability evaluations and monitoring for load testing and real time.

• Create real time performance, profiling, and monitoring components to be utilized during load testing and for real time monitoring of all stages of application deployment (Dev, Test, Staging, Prod).

• Design an automated deployment strategy that can be leveraged despite originating development environment (WebSphere, etc).

• Also consider unified deployment of utilities needed by WebSphere Shared Services projects â€" Oracle Client, DB2Clien, MQClient.

• J2EE container Enterprise Planning, Analysis and Implementation. ENTERPRISE â€" not just for one project, but MANY that runs the spectrum.

• Experience with WebSphere Administration and Monitoring.

• Experience configuring and administering unique deployments of custom applications for any J2EE container.

• Advanced WebLogic and WebSphere performance and tuning experience including development of custom tools. (Java MBeans Extentions)

• Experience implementing tools that are extensions to WebLogic & WebSphere such as monitoring tools, code profiling tools, etc.

• Experience designing & implementing Clusters, WebSphere Network Deployment and Deployment Manger along with Directory authentication.

Other knowledge:

• Working knowledge of Solaris and Linux is a must.

• Prior experience of development and n-tier architecture would be extremely helpful.

• JCL/Jython scripting is a must

• Knowledge of WebSphere Portal is a must. 

Job Requirements

J2EE

J2EE Architecture

Java

SOA

UML

WebSphere Portal