RQ10405 Middleware Specialist Senior

Overview:

• The Labour and Transportation I&IT Cluster (LTC) Operations Maintenance and Support Branch (OMSB) is responsible for delivering and supporting the Employment Services (IES) program hosted on Ontario Information System (EOIS) platform that servers to nearly one million clients across the province.
  
• To meet the demands of the EO & IES cloud Operations Maintenance and Support the Labour and Transportation I&IT Cluster (LTC) is looking to hire a Middleware Specialist consultant to work as Azure Administrator.
  

Deliverables:

The Middleware Specialists will complete the following activities:

Contribute to ongoing support activities:

• Contribute to the technical design of the environment
  
• Build and deploy the new environment
  
• Provide on-going support to cloud environments
  
• Define and develop build book and support guides and provide knowledge transfer and training to IT team
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

• 10 working on IBM WebSphere Curam Abode Experience Manager Oracle and RedHat Linux
  
• Hands-on experience of Azure Cloud to build and test production and non-production environments through CI/CD pipeline including
  

• Configure and manage VNet and Load Balancing
  
• Implement and manage Storage Compute resources (VM) Containers Azure Resources and Application Insights Azure App Service Azure Spring App service Azure Application Gateway
  
• Setup Azure Backup & Restore High Availability
  
• Azure AD Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Storage Compute Networking Monitoring Backup & Restore High Availability (HA) & Disaster Recovery (DR)
  

• Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator (Preferable)
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Have:

• IBM WebSphere Curam Abode Experience Manager and RedHat Linux
  
• Implement virtual networking (VNet) using IP addressing Network Security Groups (NSG) Azure Firewall Azure DNS
  
• Implement Application Gateway using Azure Load Balancer Network routing Endpoints with SSL/TLS certificates
  
• Implement monitoring using App Insights Azure Monitor Log Analytics
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Azure Administration:

Demonstrated experience to

• Manage Azure resources by using Azure Portal Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI
  
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation using Terraform / Ansible and Azure DevOps tool with Git Repo
  

Middleware Specialist:

Demonstrated experience to

• IBM WebSphere Curam Abode Experience Manager and RedHat Linux
  

Azure Virtual Machines (VM) Serverless Computing and Storage:

Demonstrated experience to

• Plan create and manage Virtual Machines
  
• Implement Docker Image using Azure App Service Azure Spring App Service and Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
  
• Implement Storage Security and manage Azure Storage Blob File/File Sync and Storage Accounts
  
• Knowledge of Azure Foundry Jenkins Kubernetes OpenShift and Microsoft Azure Services an asset
  

Virtual Private Networking / and Traffic management:

Demonstrated experience to

• Implement virtual networking (VNet) using IP addressing Network Security Groups (NSG) Azure Firewall Azure DNS
  
• Implement Application Gateway using Azure Load Balancer Network routing Endpoints with SSL/TLS certificates
  
• Excellent research skills
  

Data Protection / Monitoring / Governance:

• Implement data protection File / Folder and Virtual Machines backups
  
• Implement monitoring using App Insights Azure Monitor Log Analytics
  
• Implement Governance & Compliance via Azure Policy and manage through Azure AD identities Subscriptions & RBAC.