Job D5688 Description Click to apply: Please attach resume to mail
SOFT's client is looking for an AWS Middleware Administrator for a long term contract assignment. This is a remote position.  MQ -EMSS-ESB is essential.

Responsibilities:
• Serve as subject matter expert on Middleware includes technical assistance to application developers on Middleware related problems; AWS, API Gateway Lambda Ansible & Terraform. Linux Infrastructure troubleshooting, Java & Python
• Understand technology vision and strategic direction of business needs
• Production support 24/7 for a week, at least once a month
• Assess and make recommendations of best-practice solutions and/or new middleware and web technologies that will enhance the capabilities of the existing infrastructure.
• Participate product roadmaps in alignment with other middleware/cloud products and business roadmaps
• Participate in designing integrated solutions with design patterns, blueprints, guidelines, and standard methodologies for products
• Assist in developing architecture and design conceptual solutions by incorporating cloud native and 3rd party vendor products
• Participate in research and perform POCs (proofs of concept) with emerging technologies and adopt industry best practices, in the middleware space, for cloud migration and hybrid solutions
• Successfully troubleshoot production issues application developers can't resolve; may include writing build and deployment scripts
• Demonstrate automation as Infrastructure as code (IaC) to increase build efficiency in the cloud
• Support both rehydration and HA along with emerging processes and technologies
• Assist the development of validation and certification processes through automation tools
• Monitoring - monitor middleware performance and availability
• Demonstrate collaboration on projects and initiatives as a team member

Qualifications
• Demonstrates analytical and problem-solving skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience; advance degree preferred
• 3+ years in design/support of MQ/IIB/ACE Middleware solutions
• Experience in cloud specific solutions related to middleware
• Hands on experience in one or more languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript
• Experience with other AWS middleware solutions including various compute and storage offerings
• Strong background in observability, networking, performance, and scalability.
• Experience with leveraging CI/CD pipelines and GitLab is a plus
• Hands on experience in Terraform, Python, Ansible and OS shell scripts including automation tools is a plus
• Must be familiar with Agile methodologies and able to work in an Agile manner
• Must have a very strong application development background
• Microservices experience is a plus
• Cloud Certification is a plus
• Containerized platform experience is a plus
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience is a plus