Sr Consultant- Middleware & Web Application Server

Job Description :

– Assess Middleware Integration Services (MQ & Broker)
– Understand message flow patterns and workloads to identify peak usage scenarios.
– Identify potential performance bottlenecks and scalability limitations.
– Review deployment architecture for high availability configurations, failover mechanisms, and load balancing.
– Evaluate the effectiveness of redundancy strategies to ensure uninterrupted message processing.
– Review access controls and authentication mechanisms for message queues and broker components.
– Evaluate middleware configuration settings, including connection pools, thread settings, and memory allocations.
– Review resource allocation and utilization to ensure optimal use of CPU, memory, and storage.
– Assess the effectiveness of monitoring tools and alerting mechanisms for timely identification of issues.
– Review logging and tracing mechanisms to aid in troubleshooting and performance analysis.
– Analyze network traffic, read/write operations, and performance of producers & consumers.
– Review reports on message queue lengths, message sizes, processing times, and system resource utilization.
– Assess IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and IBM HTTP Server
– Assess WAS deployment model including Cell, Profile, Nodes, and Server.
– Evaluate JVM server high availability deployment for each application.
– Assess the configuration in the plugin-cfg.xml file.
– Assess OS performance tuning parameters for each node in the WAS cell.
– Assess node agent configuration with Deployment Manager.
– Evaluate the underlying setup (VM) for WAS server.
– Review configuration files for HTTP service.
– Assess security elements for HTTP service (Certificate, concurrent sessions).
– Evaluate high availability setup for HTTP service.

Deliverables :

– Current State Report covering observations across each domain
– Phase 2: Develop Phase (Across All Streams)

Activities :

Recommendations & Initiatives :
– Develop a list of quick-wins to address gaps identified during the assessment.
– Formulate key strategic recommendations on IT infrastructure to inform the technology strategy current state report.
– Conduct meetings with relevant client stakeholders to discuss and finalize recommendations.
– Formulate a comprehensive draft report outlining strategic recommendations to improve IT infrastructure for each of the following domains:
– Middleware & Web Application Server.

Stakeholder Engagement :
– Engage with key stakeholders at the client to present the draft report.
– Facilitate discussions to incorporate stakeholders’ feedback.
– Synthesize insights from meetings to identify priority initiatives for enhancing IT infrastructure.

Develop a Detailed Roadmap :
– Outline initiatives, including objectives, scope, outcomes, and timelines.
– Link each initiative to the relevant strategic recommendation.
– Divide tasks into actionable projects for each initiative.
– Share the roadmap with stakeholders for feedback and validation.
– Incorporate stakeholders’ input to refine and improve the initiatives and their sequencing.
– Communicate the finalized roadmap to all relevant teams and stakeholders.

Deliverables :
– Recommendations & Inputs to the Roadmap Report