Infrastructure Engineer II - GBS IND

Job Description:

About US

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

 Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview

CTO part of the Global Technology & Operations organization, consists of more than 6,600 employees worldwide. With a presence in more than 35 countries, TI designs, builds and operates end-to-end technology infrastructure solutions and manages critical systems and platforms across the bank. TI delivers industry-leading infrastructure products and services to the company’s employees, customers and clients around the world.

Job Description

Individual will be required to provide Middleware Administration support for complex applications. He/she will work with stakeholders on a daily basis to provide design and build activities, manage and resolve incidents.

Responsibilities

• Support role working with the IBM WebSphere Application Server ( release 7.X/8.X/9.X)
• Strong experience in installing and configuring WAS in a multi instance environment (all flavors of UNIX platform and Windows)
• Experience of WAS clustering
• Need to be familiar with building servers, installing software, deployments of Wars, EAR’s and ongoing support.
• Ability to install and troubleshoot. Self managed proven ability to identify circumstances and changes which may impact deliverables.
• Skill/experience needed: extensive WebSphere administration; WebSphere application server v 7.X/8.X/9.X; IBM HTTP Server; WebSphere Security & SSL; Platform: AIX, Red Hat Linux, Solaris
• Experience with Introscope/AppDynamics/Sitescope Monitoring tool. Scripting experience (desirable).
• Needs solid WebSphere application server administration experience with strong emphasis on diagnostic & performance tuning skills.
• The candidates should be well versed in diagnosing out-of-memory, Thread Hung, Connection timeout issues as well as tuning the heaps.
• Excellent communication skills(both written and oral)
• Strong UNIX background
• Experience with other members of the IBM Websphere family of applications would also be helpful
• Candidates should also have shell/JACL/JYTHON scripting skills
• Ability to prepare and execute detailed implementation plans as well as review and approve peer created plans within a rigid change management framework
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Ability to follow, improve upon and create processes required for effective Application Administration.

Requirements

Education

• B.E. / B. Tech/M.E. /M. Tech/B.Sc./M.Sc./BCA/MCA (prefer IT/CS specialization)

Certifications

• If Any: Not Mandatory

Experience Range

• 6+ years

Foundational skills  

• WebSphere Administration and strong Unix knowledge
• Experience with the IBM IHS,TOMCAT, JBOSS and/or Apache web servers. 
•  Experience with administering WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (ND) 7.x and 8.x/9.X.
•  Experience with wsadmin script execution (Jacl or Jython).
•  Experience with WAS ND Installation and application deployment.
•  Experience with monitoring the JVM performance by WebSphere Heap Size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools Responsible for Architectural Design, Implementation and periodic testing and support of Web Environments with respect to High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
•  J2EE Framework knowledge.
•  Flexibility to cover various work schedules, for example, after-hours support or 15x7 support.
•  Experience with SSL Certificate management.
•  Troubleshooting experience of a WebSphere Application Server application in a J2EE context.
•  Responsible for support of JDBC connectivity to different Database Layers.
•  Must be proficient in Solaris, AIX and Linux or variants of UNIX environments.
•  Experience  with scripting (shell, Jython, JACL)
•  Experience in networking, TCP/IP, Ethernet, DNS, 3DNS, DHCP
•  Execute WebSphere version and patch deployments.
•  Assisting with tracking and managing vendor support tickets, and be able work with a team to triage and resolve urgent application issues.
•  Experience with on-call support for the production environment.
•  Experience with troubleshooting production applications.

Desired skills

• WebSphere Application Server Administration
• WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Manager/XD
• JBOSS , Tuxedo & Tomcat administration
• Desired experience integrating Websphere MQ
• JAVA/HTML
• Unix Shell scripting (C shell, Korn shell, Bourne, etc.)
• Exposure to load balancing tools (BigIP, WAS plug-ins) and Site minder.
• Understanding of applications integrated into a DMZ.
•  Java development is a plus.
•  Perl scripting is a plus.
•  Desired experience working in on high volume systems
•  Desired experience working with remote and multi-site deployments

Work Timings:

• Shift 1 : 06:30 AM to 03:30 PM IST
• Shift 2 : 01:30 PM to 10:30 PM IST
• Shift 3 : 11:30 AM to 08:30 PM IST 

Weekend Shift: Yes (Rotational)

Location: HYD