Middleware Platform Engineer

*Position is bonus eligible*

Prestigious Enterprise Company is currently seeking a Sr. Middleware Platform Engineer., preferably with MicroServices and CI/CD experience. Candidate will have a solid understanding of the business process, workflows and data.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in technical specifications and other deliverable documents.
• Responsible for implementing appropriate monitoring, alerting, and measurements to ensure the health of our environment.
• Develop and document disaster recovery plans and participate in testing to ensure environment is recoverable within pre-determined SLAs.
• Develop a deep understanding of applications and integration and bring issues to resolution.
• Develop, Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines following the best practices.
• Become subject-matter expert (SME) on the software packages you are assigned to support.
• Monitor application performance and improve response times.
• Provide on-call support for production applications and mentor junior members of the team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science.
• 8+ years experience supporting Middleware and packaged applications.
• 4 years of hands-on experience administering Java containers such as WebSphere Application Server, JBoss, Tomcat or Weblogic, MQ with expertise in installation, support, analysis of logs and performance tuning.
• Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes container orchestration tools a plus.
• Experience with tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, Git, UrbanCode Deploy, Ansible, puppet or Dynatrace a huge plus.
• Strong understanding of network and security concepts, such as loadbalancing and routing, DHCP, DNS, SSL, TCP, UDP, IP, QoS and ICMP; ability to carry out basic network troubleshooting in a server runtime.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, collaborative and communication skills.