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Job Title:Senior Platform Engineer- Websphere & DevSec Ops SME - REMOTE

Jacksonville, United States | Posted on 02/26/2026

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer- Websphere & DevSec Ops SME - REMOTE

Team : Middleware Engineering

Overview: Summary

The Senior Platform Engineer will play a key role in engineering Horizon

middleware platforms and automations. This role focuses on architecting

solutions, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating across teams to

automate deployments. In addition, the Senior Platform Engineer is

responsible for creating required automation using latest DevOps tools &

services to reduce manual tasks and speed to market. They should be able to

write SOPs to document processes and procedures following the required

standards and industry best practices.

• Need to be a hands-onlead level person - 10+ years
  
• Kubernetes - Openshift is prefernce. If not, then EKS/AKS/GKE
  
• Service Mesh experience - Istio
  
• IBM Webswphere experiencee
  
• Overall DevOps and DevSecOps experience.
  

Design and implement highly available, resilient, and

costeffective platforms and middleware solutions.

Drive automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

and DevOps practices to improve efficiency and reduce manual

operations.

Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting

containerized applications.

Engineer and support container platforms such as RedHat

OpenShift (OCP) and other Kubernetes platforms

(EKS/AKS/ECS) in enterprise environments.

Implement and manage service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio)

to enhance traffic management, observability, and microservices

security.

Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting standards to ensure

platform reliability, performance, and SLA compliance.

Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for Middleware

platforms, advising teams on architecture, best practices, and

operational excellence.

Partner with security and compliance teams to embed

governance, security controls, and DevSecOps practices into

Lead troubleshooting efforts and act as an escalation point for

complex Level III and Level IV production issues.

Install, configure, and maintain middleware platforms,

Kubernetes clusters, applications and supporting infrastructure.

Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting best practices and

supporting technical growth across the team.

Document architecture, operational procedures, and standard

operating processes following industry standards.

Participate in and lead technical discussions, contributing to

architectural decisions and crossfunctional collaboration.

Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements

that enhance platform performance, security, and scalability.

Education &

Experience

Education:

Bachelor’s degree required or 12 years of relevant experience in lieu

of degree

Work Experience:

10+ years of related IT work experience.

Hands on experience in engineering and implementation of RedHat

OpenShift (OCP) or similar Kubernetes / Container platforms like

ECS/EKS.

Hands on experience in automating CI / CD pipelines for RedHat

OpenShift (OCP) or related Kubernetes / Container platforms.

Hands-on working knowledge with Docker/Podman Git, Jenkins, other

CI/CD tools.

Hand-on experience implementing, configure, and maintenance Istio

Service Mesh or another service mesh for traffic management,

observability, and security of microservices.

Experience with DevSecOps concepts/working tools is needed.

Proven working experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools,

specifically Terraform, for provisioning and managing cloud resources.

Hand-on experience in Cloud platforms like AWS (Preferred) or Azure.

Experience with IBM Event Streams or IBM App Connect Enterprise

(MQ) is highly preferred

Working knowledge for AWS Foundational Services like ECS, EC2, IAM,

VPCs, DNS, Networking, Security Groups, Load Balancers, etc.

Experience with any industry leading Scripting languages such as Shell

scripting/Python/Groovy/PowerShell is needed.

Any experience or knowledge with IBM CloudPak products is a plus.

Core Middleware experience in handling IBM WebSphere products /

Application Server / Webservers is a plus.

Working knowledge on distributed operating systems like Linux /

Windows / AIX.

Knowledge of Load balancers, DNS resolutions, basic Network issues

troubleshooting related to Middleware technologies is needed.

Skills:

Requires strong problem solving and analytical skills

Requires excellent communication skills and ability to write and

discuss clear procedures regarding technical issues

Requires excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interface with

all levels of personnel.

Ability to work independently and as a team

Work closely with development teams to containerize legacy

applications and optimize performance on Kubernetes.