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Role: webMethods Administrator/ Developer

Reveille TechnologiesColumbus, OH🇺🇸United States

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SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeHybrid
LocationColumbus, OH, United States
DockerShellGitAPI GatewayLoad BalancingSplunkTCP/IPDNSDatadogHTTPHTTPSJenkinsPowerShellRESTSOAPKubernetesCI/CDLinuxWindows Server

Job description

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A webMethods Administrator (Software AG / IBM webMethods) is responsible for the health, performance, security, and lifecycle management of an enterprise’s middleware and integration infrastructure.

Key Core Components Managed

An administrator typically oversees multiple components of the webMethods suite across Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments:

  • Integration Server (IS): The core engine executing services and integration flows.
  • Universal Messaging (UM) / Broker: Enterprise messaging backbone for publish-subscribe and queue-based communication.
  • API Gateway: Managing, securing, and throttling enterprise APIs.
  • My webMethods Server (MWS): User interface portal for administration, task management, and monitoring.
  • Trading Networks (TN): B2B and EDI integration management.
  • Command Central: Centralized provisioning, configuration, and patch management tool.

Primary Responsibilities

  1. Platform Administration & Provisioning: Installing, configuring, patching, and upgrading webMethods products, fix packs, and service releases.
  1. Performance Tuning & Capacity Planning: Monitoring thread pools, JVM memory settings, JDBC connection pools, and server logs to ensure optimal throughput and proactive scaling.
  1. Security & Access Control: Managing user accounts, ACLs (Access Control Lists), certificates (SSL/TLS), keystores, and truststores, while collaborating with cybersecurity teams to address vulnerabilities.
  1. Deployment & Release Management: Migrating packages, configurations, and code deployments across environments (Dev → QA → Prod) using build and release pipelines.
  1. Troubleshooting & Incident Support: Serving as escalation point (L2/L3) for production issues, analyzing server error logs (server.log, wrapper.log), and performing root cause analysis (RCA).
  1. High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Configuring clustering, load balancing, reverse proxies, and failover mechanisms to guarantee zero single points of failure.

Key Technical Skills Required

  • Middleware Expertise: Hands-on experience with webMethods architecture, JDBC adapters, flat file adapters, and messaging channels.
  • OS & Infrastructure: Strong command of Linux (RHEL) and Windows Server administration, shell scripting, or PowerShell for automation.
  • Networking & Protocols: Solid grasp of TCP/IP, DNS, Firewalls, Load Balancers, HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP/REST web services, and SSL certificate management.
  • Monitoring Tools: Familiarity with APM and logging solutions like Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, or AppDynamics.
  • Modern Practices: Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab) for middleware deployment.

Are you looking to draft a job description, prepare interview questions, design a deployment architecture, or troubleshoot a specific error log in webMethods?

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