Principle Engineer - Middleware

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description:

The Principle Engineer, Middleware plays a critical role in maintaining Hedge SERV’s middleware and application-stack engineering and operations functions. This includes the development, maintenance, and enhancement of both the tech stack and the operations technologies that facilitate their management. The position will reflect a combination of technology engineering and administration, process management, and the administration / use of related tool sets. The position reports to the Director, Application Engineering Services, based in NY.

The successful candidate will be a skilled engineer that knows how to execute and innovate in a modern, dynamic, and fast paced environment.

Responsibilities :

• Engineer solutions that enable compliance and effective operational practices without introducing material operational friction
• Must be conversant with a tech stack composed of Python, Java,  Citrix XA, Citrix NetScaler, NGINX and Redis
• Design and deploy systems with various modern HA methods, strong focus on deprecating legacy HA methods such as OS clustering and active / passive, with a move toward cloud enablement (stateless systems, horizontal scaling, etc.)
• Be responsible for engineering and administration of all systems above the OS and below the load balancers.
• Collaborate with platform, network, and release automation teams to build effective and efficient operations framework
• Work well in a team setting, leverage influence, and embrace a focus on outcomes
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Requirements :  

• Expertise in middleware MQ’s, Consul and Rabbit
• Proficient in scripting languages, such as Bash / Python / Ruby / PowerShell
• Expertise in CentOS, Ubuntu and other Linux Operating Systems
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes 
• Experience with NGINX, Redis, Tomcat 
• Experience with Cloud technologies - VMware. 
• Experience with Chef or equivalent configuration management tool is a plus
• Experience with building, monitoring, and alerting on logs and metrics, and triggering actions based on them
• Experience with Citrix hosted applications, along with Tomcat / Java, and Python services a plus 
• Working knowledge of Citrix XA server management and Citrix NetScaler configuration a plus
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows 2008 / 2012 /2016

Benefits:

• Attractive compensation package including extensive set of benefits.
• Professional environment with great development opportunities.
• Flexibility in working hours.
• Brand new office in the heart of New York.