IBM WebSphere Administrator – Letshego

Company: Letshego Holdings Limited
Reference # IBM WebSphere Administrator
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Market Related
Location: Gaborone, South East, Botswana

Introduction

To administrate and maintain IBM WebSphere Servers including tasks such as scheduled jobs, maintenance plans, backups / restores, installations / patching / upgrading of IBM WebSphere Servers. Performance tuning and monitoring.

Specification

Serve as the organization’s technical advisor on the Group’s core Business Applications for information technology functions.
Perform and/or provide guidance on IBM WebSphere parametrization to meet best practice.
Investigation into user/system problems by performing a root cause analysis, verifying by test case scenarios and collecting required data/log information to be sent to the Vendor for resolution.
Supervise a thorough verifications/tests of Vendor supplied solutions in UAT environments before deploying to production.
Liaise with the application vendors and outsourced contractors directly on departmental support and performance against service level agreements.
Continuously seeks to improve user satisfaction and ultimately customer satisfaction, loyalty and retention by ensuring the department provides an excellent user experience.
Help develop the team by continually improving processes and Provide mentoring and leadership to other IT peers within the Group, and serve as a role model for the Organisation.
Set standards around confidentiality and reliability of corporate data, proprietary information and intellectual property
Lead the Disaster Recovery processes including restoration procedures (test/live) in accordance with approved plans.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree – preferably in Information Technology or a diploma in computer science or related IT certificates
Minimum of 3 – 6 years of work experience with IBM WebShere 8.0 and above
Must have some knowledge in a specialised areas of the business such as lending, finance, operations and banking.
Basic Linux skills
Basic Java Enterprise Edition knowledge
Basic web application architecture and deployments
ITIL
IBM Certified System Administrator – WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment v8.0 or above.
Keeps up with Technology Refreshes and has an awareness with new features and functions
Clustering and Workload Management.
Knowledge of working with Large Topologies
Understanding and knowledge Core Banking Systems
Sound IT Systems , concepts and principles
Ability to troubleshoot standard/common operating systems and software issues.
Ability to listen to symptoms descriptions to analyse problems and resolve effectively
Knowledge of complex modelling techniques
Ability to fix error fast and able to apply fixes
Understanding of IBM Security standards.

Able to convert technical jargon to a business audience.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
Good interpersonal and teamwork skills.
Analytical and conceptual expertise
Problem solving
Incident handling & analysis

Job Closing Date 18/05/2021

 

 

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