WAS/Senior Consultant Specialist

In this role, you will:

• Technical SME for WAS Admin, and associated technologies and automation.
• Working with lead solution and infrastructure architects to deliver quality, scalable and performant services
• Responsible for rollout of operational toolkits and service monitoring solutions required by the role to enhance the ability to troubleshoot and ultimately prevent customer facing issues
• Hands on admin experience on IBM MQ, WAS and Portals
• Leading technical team and oversee digital Middleware products for business-critical applications
• Analyzing, planning, and defining Middleware architecture framework, including security and governance
• Support on application deployment, troubleshooting and incidents management
• Provide consultancy, support and performance tuning on Middleware products
• Develop pipelines and configure tools for automation
• Support and maintain High-Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and project managers to deliver suitable infrastructure solution which can cope with the business need
• Ensure systems comply with group infrastructure policies and standards
• Work closely with infrastructure domain teams to influence the practice and standard of infrastructure products
• Responsible for rollout of operational toolkits and service monitoring solutions required by the role to enhance the ability to troubleshoot and ultimately prevent customer facing issues
• Delivery of new and upgraded Infrastructure services
• Delivery of security enhancements and fixes as required

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• IBM WAS and RHEL certified desirable
• 5-7 years of Experience of Websphere related products (WAS, Liberty, Portal) desirable
• Unix / RHEL OS Admins skills
• Solid technical knowledges in Middleware products such as IBM MQ, WAS, Portal, IHS, redis, Apache, Tomcat, Node.js, Hazelcast and Kong
• Good technical design and implementation skills with proven track record of delivering large and complex projects
• Hands on experience on installing/upgrading/patching the Middleware products
• Experience in delivering large scale projects and working with stakeholders in different levels
• Experience in Python/shell scripting
• Automation tool knowledge on Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet is preferable
• Experience on AWS, Azure, GCP, Ali cloud technology is a plus - certification is desired
• DevOps principles for efficient delivery
• Familiar with IaC (Infrastructure as Code)