Sr. Data Power Admin

Our IT System Operations team is searching for a Sr. Data Power Administrator who will provide support DEV, SIT, TST and Production data power appliances, data power domains and all rules defined within those domains. This position is responsible to play the role of data power developer and data power administrator for promoting changes created by data power developer through the environments and into production.  This position is responsible for maintaining system availability, troubleshooting problems, and considered the “owners” of the technology.  Connectivity configuration such MQ Queue Manager objects, WSRR Server objects, etc. are also owned by this position.

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for DataPower appliances employed within TracFone distributed applications and systems, ensuring that the management capability for these appliances are maintained and supported with the highest level of quality and availability, ensuring Service Level targets are met.
• Play a lead role in the administration, installation and maintenance of Data Power x series appliances, ensuring that all changes are performed professionally and with minimal operational impact. This will be achieved by developing and enforcing standards for management capabilities within the distributed environment, wherever possible programmatically managing Data Power Appliances. Provide 3rd /4th level 24x7 support and software maintenance. Document all applications.
• Manage configuration and maintenance of Data Power appliance. Should be familiar with SSL protocol, key exchange (public and private), digital signatures, cryptographic algorithms, and certificate authorities. Configure and manage network access to the appliance. Be familiar with XML, XML Style sheet Language Transformation (XSLT), X-Path, and XML Schema Definition (XSD) SOAP and Web Services.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the appliance. Manage the domain backups, as well as lifecycle migration of primary objects. Manage access to all resources, access policies, Role Based Management (RBM), cryptographic keys, authentication, and authorization. Managing the firmware image and be able to apply firmware images, and rollback back an upgrade. Experience of trouble shooting Multiprotocol Gateways and Web Service Proxies.
• Provide a weekly/monthly management report on change and problem activity. Demonstrate the use of tracking and trending of Data Power appliances.
• Interfaces between the applications, other IT Operation teams, IT Dev group, and other corporate teams, install and maintain DEV, SIT, TST, and Production Java applications, J2EE application servers, and assure optimum performance of the applications.
• Diagnose performance/connectivity problems and errors. Provide 3rd tier support for production systems.