Job Details
Skills And Tools:
Job Description
The position will be responsible for performance tuning, regular housekeeping, Change Management and Disaster Recovery for the BizTalk environments. This individual should be very experienced in BizTalk administration. This is NOT a developer role, though understanding and abilities gained through development experience are a plus.
This position will also provide the opportunity to become the primary SharePoint administrator and the secondary database administrator. This role will include administering daily backup jobs, performing backup and restore tasks, troubleshooting performance issues and assisting with database deployments.
Responsibilities
Installing BizTalk Server
- Single Server environment
- Multi-server environment
- Virtual Machine environment
Configuration
- Configure BizTalk Server for single server environments
- Configure BizTalk Server for multi-server environments
- Configure BizTalk Server for Virtual Machine environments
BizTalk Hosts
- Creating Hosts
- Managing Hosts
BizTalk Host Instances
- Creating and configuring Host Instances
BizTalk Adapters
- Installing Adapters
- Installing adapter prerequisites
- Configuring Adapter prerequisites
- Assigning Host Instances to Adapters
Routine Performance Checklists
- Routine Maintenance Checklists
- Weekly Action Items
Maintaining the BizTalk Group
- Operational Readiness Checklists
Security and SSO
- Security Policies
- BAM Security
- BRE Security
- Using SSO Affiliate Applications
- Managing SSO Affiliate Applications
Disaster Recovery
- Creating a disaster recovery plan
- Planning a disaster recovery test
- Implementing a disaster recovery test
Deploying and Managing BizTalk Applications
- Generating MSI packages
- Generating Binding Files
- Importing MSI packages
- Importing Binding Files
- Port configuration
- Adapter configuration
- WCF-Adapter configuration
- Deployment validation
- Documenting Deployments
Business Rules Engine (BRE)
- Publishing BRE Artifacts
- Deploying BRE Artifacts
- Tracking
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
- Installing and Configuring BAM for single server environments
- Installing and Configuring BAM for multi-server environments
- Installing and Configuring BAM for Virtual Machine environments
- Deploying BAM Applications
- Managing BAM Applications
- BAM Management
- Managing the BAM Portal
- Creating and managing security
- Monitoring BAM
Change Management for BizTalk
- Change Management Documentation
- The approval process
The Performance Lab
- End to end performance testing
- Creating a performance lab.
- Running a performance lab.
Performance Optimization
- Performance Counters
- Host Throttling
Monitoring
- Monitoring Techniques
- WMI
- Tools
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
- Planning
- Installation
- Configuration
- Administration
BizTalk Database Administration
- Configuring the SQL Agents
- Monitoring the SQL Agent Jobs
Enterprise Service Bus 2.1
- Installing the ESB Toolkit 2.1
- Configuring the ESB Toolkit 2.1
- Deploying the ESB Application and Services
- Installing the ESB Portal
- Managing the ESB Portal
- ESB Portal Security
- ESB Fault Management
- Creating Fault Subscriptions
- Integrating the ESB with SCOM
- Monitoring
IIS Administration
- Managing IIS on BizTalk
- Creating Application Pools
- Security
- ESB Services Management
Documenting your BizTalk Environments
- Hardware Summary Diagram
- BizTalk Server Configuration
- Documenting BizTalk Applications
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting techniques
Third-Party Tools
- Installing
- Configuring
- Usage
Job Requirements
Job Requirements:
- Support of website, web services, SQL queries, problems escalated from the help desk.
- This is a reactive and proactive support function. Resource will be working on trouble shooting issues reported into the help desk (reactive), as well as, taking responsibility for reviewing and analyzing areas of improvements within the system/application and addressing upcoming needs for upgrades, addressing potential problems within application and improvements (proactive). The ideal candidate will have excellent trouble shooting and people skills, while possessing the ability to identify that need improvement through their knowledge and experience of supporting the BizTalk application.
- This position is less about development - Candidate may do some coding and draw on some of their knowledge with regards to coding and being able to work with and read code, but coding and development are not the primary objective of this position.
- BizTalk/SSIS Middleware and other core integration tools and services.
- Strong understanding of BizTalk message processing and databases.
- Ability to use the BizTalk Administration tools.
- Deploy BizTalk Applications via MSI.
- Configure hosts and host instances.
- Deploy and manage business rules.
- Configure and administer a clustered BizTalk environment with multiple message boxes.
- Develop a disaster recovery solution.
- Backup and restore BizTalk Databases.
- Work with BAM and failed message routing both inside the BAM Portal and SharePoint.
- Evaluate BizTalk performance using BizTalk specific Performance Monitor Snap-ins.
- Workflow Tools, SharePoint and SSRS development (Creating workflow, routing, rules, alerts, reports, etc.) is a plus.
Qualifications and required experience:
- Computer science or relevant discipline graduate.
- 2 years’ relevant experience in BizTalk Administration.
- Excellent analysis, design, and trouble shooting skills.
- Certified BizTalk Administration is a must.
