Gemfire Administrator

Role Gemfire Administrator

• Strong experience in administration of VMware Tanzu Gem Fire and Gem Fire Management Console environments.

• Design, install, configure, and maintain large-scale Gem Fire clusters across multi-data-centre environments.

• Manage Gem Fire components including Locators, Cache Servers, JMX Managers, Gateway Senders/Receivers and WAN replication setup.

• Create and manage regions (Partitioned, Replicated, Local), deploy functions, and administer clusters using GFSH.

• Perform GemFire cluster rolling/offline upgrades, backup & restore activities, and import/export of GemFire data and configurations.

• Configure TTL (Time-to-Live), TTI (Time-to-Idle), eviction policies, and optimize cluster performance and memory usage.

• Implement SSL/TLS encryption, configure ciphers, LDAP/RBAC integration, and manage GemFire Security Manager authentication/authorization.

• Design, install, configure, and maintain GMC clusters with proactive monitoring, operational health checks, automation, and self-service capabilities for application teams.

• Strong troubleshooting skills with log analysis, thread dumps, heap/memory dumps, support bundle collection, and RCA preparation.

• Develop Shell scripts for health checks, scheduled maintenance, and node startup/shutdown/restart automation activities.

• Strong RHEL administration skills including networking diagnostics (tcpdump, traceroute, netstat, ss) and storage/LVM management.