WebSphere Administrator - Banking - Permanent - Edinburgh

The Requirements

We're currently looking for WebSphere Analysts to join our dedicated WebSphere team. We'll look to you to undertake and deliver technical change and support for relevant platforms, activities, and processes relating to your area of specialist knowledge - either locally or globally. Every day will be a new challenge, working with a diverse variety of Middleware technologies, to perform a wide range of day-to-day activities that will shape and support new services.

Specialist area introduction

The WebSphere team provides support to our entire WebSphere estate. The platform consists of WebSphere Application Server and Portal, BPM, Process Servers, WESB and IHS infrastructure on AIX, Linux and Z/OS. The team is responsible for proactively monitoring the availability of this infrastructure. They also participate in the management and delivery of the technical workstack, including incident/problem activity, WebSphere maintenance and the development of automation for WebSphere, repeatable tasks.

The role

You'll be responsible for proactively monitoring and enhancing the availability of the WebSphere Application Server, portal, WESB, IHS and JBOSS infrastructure on windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux and Z/OS. You'll also control the recovery and tuning of infrastructure for critical banking and insurance services, using root cause analysis to permanently resolve issues. All while assisting with installations, maintenance and upgrades across all platforms, and supporting the day-to-day operation of technology across the group.

Skills

You'll have an in depth technical knowledge of WebSphere analysis in a large, complex support environment, as well as in one or more service management discipline. We're looking for collaborative problem solvers, who can drive improvement while working on a wide range of platforms.