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Infrastructure Specialist (IBM WebSphere DataPower)
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Infrastructure Specialist (IBM WebSphere DataPower)
Location: London (Hybrid)
Contract: Initial 6 Months
Day Rate: Up to £500 per day (Inside IR35)
The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Specialist with strong expertise in IBM WebSphere DataPower to support the operation, maintenance, and enhancement of critical enterprise infrastructure and integration platforms.
This is a hands-on technical role where you'll be responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and security of DataPower environments while supporting the delivery of new services, infrastructure changes, and business-critical integration solutions. You'll work closely with infrastructure, networking, security, and application teams to maintain highly available services and contribute to ongoing platform improvements.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, support, and maintain IBM WebSphere DataPower Gateway environments.
- Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, and capacity, ensuring services meet agreed SLAs.
- Support the design, implementation, and deployment of infrastructure and integration solutions.
- Manage incidents, service requests, and problem investigations, driving issues through to resolution.
- Support change management activities, ensuring infrastructure changes are implemented safely and effectively.
- Work closely with application, middleware, and infrastructure teams to support business-critical services.
- Configure, troubleshoot, and optimize DataPower services, policies, and security configurations.
- Ensure compliance with organizational, regulatory, and security standards.
- Produce service reports, operational documentation, and technical procedures.
- Support risk assessments, contingency planning, and disaster recovery activities.
- Collaborate with third-party suppliers and managed service providers where required.
- Identify opportunities to improve service reliability, automation, and operational efficiency.
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Required Skills & Experience
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- Strong commercial experience supporting IBM WebSphere DataPower Gateway.
- Experience administering enterprise infrastructure within complex production environments.
- Knowledge of API gateways, middleware, and integration technologies.
- Experience supporting highly available, business-critical platforms.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure operations, service management, and ITIL principles.
- Experience managing incidents, problems, and change requests.
- Knowledge of networking concepts including HTTP/S, SSL/TLS, DNS, TCP/IP, and load balancing.
- Experience working with Linux or Unix environments.
- Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
- Strong stakeholder communication and collaboration skills.
If you are interested, please apply or send your CV to luke.sandilands@cpl.com
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