Digital Applications Administrator - IBM APP CONNECT: IBM ACE

Role Overview

Digital Applications Administrator – IBM APP CONNECT for IBM ACE deployed on RedHat OpenShift with VAM Systems in Qatar.

Role Purpose

Administer, support, and optimize integration applications and middleware platforms running on RedHat OpenShift, ensuring high availability, security compliance, and operational excellence across IBM integration solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Support & Monitoring

• Support, monitor, and troubleshoot services and logs for servers and applications.
• Monitor and maintain system performance across all deployed services.

Deployment & Configuration Management

• Manage deployments, configuration changes, incident handling, and performance tuning across channels.
• Ensure high availability and best system performance.
• Manage patching and hardening of operating systems and applications.

IBM Integration Platform Administration

• Administer IBM ACE, message flows, REST/SOAP services, and integration troubleshooting.
• Manage IBM API CONNECT, including API security policies, DataPower gateway, REST/SOAP APIs, SSL/TLS, and environment promotion.
• Administer IBM MQ queue managers, channel security, SSL/TLS, and message tracking.
• Manage IBM DataPower Multi-Protocol Gateway, XML/JSON processing, AAA policies, and certificate management.

Cloud & Container Operations

• Administer CP4I (Cloud Pak for Integration) on OpenShift, including operators, integration platforms, DevOps pipelines, and platform patching.
• Administer CP4D (Cloud Pak for Data) on OpenShift, including platform administration, storage integration, IAM, and service monitoring.
• Manage Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm charts deployments.

Security & Compliance

• Enforce HSTS, SSL hardening, and vulnerability scanning protocols.
• Maintain audit documentation and security policies.
• Ensure compliance with defined SLAs from all perspectives: Operations, Security Policies, and Audit Findings.
• Manage certificate administration and API security across platforms.

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

• Maintain a replicated system in Disaster Recovery for Business Continuity.

Infrastructure & Administration

• Perform Linux administration and RedHat Linux system management.
• Develop and maintain shell scripts for operational automation.
• Manage Redis cluster configuration, persistence, failover, and performance tuning.
• Troubleshoot Redis client connectivity issues.

Qualifications & Experience

• 6–8 years of experience in applications administration, middleware management, or related infrastructure roles.

Skills & Competencies

• Kubernetes, Docker, Helm charts.
• DevOps pipelines: Jenkins, GitLab.
• Monitoring tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, ELK stack.
• IBM ACE, REST/SOAP APIs, API Gateways.
• Message brokers: Kafka, IBM MQ.
• IBM API CONNECT: API security policies, DataPower gateway, REST/SOAP APIs, SSL/TLS, environment promotion.
• IBM APP CONNECT: IBM ACE, ESQL, message flows, REST/SOAP services, integration troubleshooting.
• IBM MQ: Queue manager HA, channel security, SSL/TLS, message tracking.
• CP4I: OpenShift, operators, integration platforms, DevOps pipelines, platform patching.
• CP4D: OpenShift, platform administration, storage integration, IAM, service monitoring.
• IBM DataPower: Multi-Protocol Gateway, XML/JSON processing, AAA policies, certificate management, API security.
• Redis: Cluster management, persistence, failover, performance tuning, client connectivity troubleshooting.
• RedHat Linux and Apache.
• Shell scripting.
• ITIL processes.
• HSTS, SSL hardening, vulnerability scanners.

Additional Information

• Location: Qatar.
• Joining timeframe: 2 weeks (maximum 1 month).