Production Support of the WAS B2C and B2B Farm. B2B/ B2C LCM Website Redesign Scope of work: Key responsibilities include the identification and resolution of hardware, software or WebSphere problems/outages in any of the company*s WebSphere related services. Owning, maintaining and setting up environments on multiple platforms across the enterprise. Deployment, administration and operational support of (prd, stg, tst and dev) environments for multiple Web/J2EE projects using WebSphere Application Server as the runtime. Help with installations, upgrades, application migrations and support of WebSphere applications for QA and development teams for multiple projects. Participate in performance analysis and certification of all Web / J2EE WebSphere Application Server runtime environments. These responsibilities require 24x7 coverage and response to systems alerts during after-hour periods. Specific WebSphere performance issues, error messages or service problems will be routed directly to the IT WebSphere Support team and be assigned to a WebSphere Engineer. Required Skills/Experience: * Bachelor's degree (computer science & engineering preferred) * Systems Engineering experience working in complex enterprise environment (IBM pSeries and iSeries partitioned servers) * 2+ years WebSphere Application Server experience, 2+ years in a 24/7/365 environment * Demonstrated experience with implementation, management and operational support of WebSphere Application Server environment * Demonstrated knowledge of WebSphere Application Server architecture, components and tools * Demonstrated experience with Java support, tuning and troubleshooting * Fluent with a flavor of UNIX type operating system (AIX is preferred) * Fluent with a flavor of UNIX shell scripting (ksh and csh is preferred) * Experience with highly available WebSphere Application Server cluster solutions * Experience in WebSphere Application Server application design and solution * WebSphere Performance Tuning Experience * Security experience (experience working in secure enterprise WebSphere environments) Preferred Skills: Additional Skills/Experience: * Experience working with WebSphere InterChange Server, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Portal * Perl and Jacl scripting * Experience with J2EE and WebSphere industry best practices Local Candidates Sorry no 3rd parties...must be authorized to work for any US employer on a permanent basis!