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Middleware Engineer

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Hybrid (2-3 days onsite)– Newtown Square, PA

The candidate will be a team player in a technology organization responsible for Middleware Infrastructure environment. The organization consists of highly trained system engineers and administrators, whose responsibilities include sustaining, engineering and production support of our Middleware environments. At client, Middleware technologies include OpenShift, Kubernetes, containers, Kafka, Apigee, IBM ESB, IBM MQ, Java, Tomcat, Apache, IIS etc.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage Middleware products/environments including new installations, upgrades, maintenance and tuning, monitoring and capacity planning.
• Provide system/technical expertise while managing application deployments and troubleshooting application and platform issues.
• Participate in 24x7 rotational On-Call production Middleware Infrastructure administration support for business-critical applications.
• Design, build and manage OpenShift clusters across Development, test and production environments.
• Develop and implement CI/CD pipelines leveraging Jenkins, Git or similar
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes/OpenShift resources, Pods,Services,Routes,operators,Helm Charts etc.)
• Review system logs on critical servers regularly and address system generated errors and warnings immediately to ensure minimum downtimes and disruption to users
• Expertise in reviewing, implementing and supporting Enterprise Security solutions including Web Service Security, SSL Mutual Authentication, SSL certificate management.
• Expertise in Various middleware technologies including Apache, application and web servers, Expertise in administering and architecture of IBM MQ environments, Kafka, Apigee including deployment, upgrades, configurations, setup, performance tuning.
• Regularly review security patches on all servers and install the latest security patches/service packs periodically.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science , Information Technology with equivalent experience.
• At least ten(10) years of experience of overall support of Middleware Technologies and Infrastructure.
• 5-7 + years’ experience in containerization and Orchestration (Kubernetes, docker Etc.)
• Experience with Kubernetes concepts (pods, deployments, namespaces, RBAC, networking)
• Assist in updating documented guidelines and procedures for the IT-Infrastructure unit and ensure that the documentation reflects any/all procedural changes.
• Perform system health checks of core infrastructure systems as needed.
• Integrate proactive monitoring, logging and alerting using enterprise monitoring tools.
• Must be a self-starter with the ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment.
• Extensive experience and skill in the use of scripting (bash, python, PowerShell) to report on systems and automate processes.
• Participate in planning, testing and implementation of disaster recovery plans at the Primary and Secondary Disaster Recovery site.
• Certifications are preferred (i.e. Redhat OpenShift/Kubernetes certification,)