Senior Platform Engineer- WebSphere and WebLogic

Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Professional Platform Engineering job designsdevelopsandmaintainsdigital technology infrastructure to support information technology applications and services. With minimal supervision this job collaborates with cross functional teams to define design and implement new features to meet user needs and business goals and upgrade existing platforms to improve performance and functionality through writing cleanefficientand scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging complex issues. This job alsoparticipatesin code reviews tomaintainhigh code quality and share knowledge with platform engineering team members.

Key Accountabilities

• SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Designs and develops high quality software solutions by writing clean maintainable and efficient codes.
• AUTOMATION: Leads the application of internal software deployment platform continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
• COLLABORATION: Partners with cross functional team of product managers designers and other engineers to gather complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
• TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains complex unit tests and integration tests and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software applying test driven development as needed.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Recommends options for improving the software development and deployment processes and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
• DOCUMENTATION: Creates and maintains comprehensive documentation for complex software applications deployment processes and system configurations.
• TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.

Qualifications

Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep expertise in IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic administration including clustering performance tuning and secure configurations.
• Strong knowledge of web hosting technologies (Apache IIS) and reverse proxy/load balancing (IBM HTTP Server Oracle HTTP Server NGINX or equivalent).
• Experience with automation and scripting (wsadmin WLST Python Shell) and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with security best practices SSL/TLS authentication (LDAP SSO) and compliance standards.
• Proficiency in monitoring and performance optimization using tools like AppDynamics or Datadog.
  Exposure to cloud hosting and containerization (Docker Kubernetes) for middleware workloads.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to lead complex platform initiatives.