Senior Middleware Specialist

Position Description:

The Middleware Specialist will be working closely with DBAs Cloud Engineers and other Middleware Specialists. The Middleware Specialists primary responsibility is to ensure that middleware environments are well maintained evolved secure and compliant with evolving technology standards. This includes both on-premise and cloud-native platforms.

The Middleware Specialist will participate in the delivery of changes required to implement new components and ensure their successful integration with applications and infrastructure including containerized and platform-based solutions. At a minimum the Middleware Specialist can expect to be responsible for the following activities:

Your future duties and responsibilities:

. Provide expert advice guidance and knowledge sharing in the middle-tier domain and design and implement middleware solutions across on-premise and cloud environments.
. Lead all middle-tier initiatives required for platform maintenance modernization and evolution including containerization and cloud adoption.
. Responsible for the maintenance configuration and setup of on-premise and AWS cloud environments including provisioning and management of compute storage and networking resources (e.g. EC2 VPC security groups IAM).
. Design deploy and support middleware platforms running on OpenShift and Kubernetes including containerized application runtimes and supporting services.
. Install configure and maintain operating systems middleware software and platform services across virtual machines and container platforms.
. Assist with client implementations software deployments CI/CD packaging and release deliverables as required.
. Monitor system and application performance based on service-level agreements (SLAs) and ensure that they are met across VM-based and containerized environments.
. Restore services as quickly as possible; participate in root-cause analysis develop and implement permanent solutions and establish mechanisms to monitor track and report on service levels using metrics and dashboards.
. Provide on-call support as needed for critical middleware and platform issues.
. Ensure consistency with architectural standards security policies and industry best practices including AWS Well-Architected and Kubernetes best practices.
. Take ownership and responsibility for the resolution of middleware-related technical issues.
. Identify document and enforce technology-specific standards for middleware cloud and container platforms.
. Responsible for monitoring adherence to middle-tier standards and platform governance.
. Maintain accurate documentation and actively participate in continuous improvement and knowledge sharing with colleagues.
. Conduct research into leading-edge solutions monitor technology development and industry trends and lead the evaluation of new middleware AWS services and container platform capabilities.
. Share technological trends and recommendations with colleagues domain architects and management.
. Develop and maintain middle-tier cloud and container platform policies and standards.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

. A minimum of three years of recent work experience in middle-tier administration.
. Experience building and maintaining Linux and Windows Server virtual machines both on-premise and in AWS.
. Strong experience with Linux/UNIX administration with preference for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
. Demonstrated experience installing configuring and supporting Apache Tomcat and Payara application servers.
. Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2 VPC IAM security groups load balancing and basic cloud networking concepts.
. Experience working with container platforms including OpenShift and Kubernetes for deploying and operating middleware and application runtimes.
. Familiarity with container concepts such as images pods services ingress config maps and secrets.
. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to gather information and make sound decisions when providing guidance or recommendations.
. Ability to deliver results under limited supervision follow a general work plan track progress report deviations identify issues and seek guidance as appropriate.
. Ability to be flexible logical and creative when solving problems.
. Ability to work on call and/or overtime support multiple concurrent projects handle high-visibility middleware components and perform effectively under pressure while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
. Experience developing documenting and applying best practices and operational standards.
. Strong skills in technical data-management practices and systems-development disciplines.
. Experience with middleware infrastructure and platform management tools and monitoring solutions.
CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors including but not limited to skill set level geographic market experience and training and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $60000 - $110000.
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Skills:

• English
• Linux
• Middle Tier / Middleware
• Middleware
• Unix

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