Middleware Devops Engineer

Job Title:Middleware Devops Engineer


Job Location: CA (Rancho Cordova or Oakland) or GA (Alpharetta) - Only Local


Job Type: Contract

Job Description:
Performs as an individual contributor of middleware team that builds and supports exceptional customer-facing applications with challenging business use cases, existing systems, and operational problems.


Experience working on various middleware application servers and containers from monolithic to modern versions.


Apply middleware infrastructure automation code with utmost attention to scalability, security, and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning capacity specifications, quality, release deployments, and monitoring of production health.


The candidate must also have some ShellPerl/Python scripting language experience and be able to use this to implement changes in pipelines.


Maintains technical documentation on any implementations, README files up-to-date, and status pages of the projects along with Release team handover.


Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation, and other teams to define, prioritize, sequence, and scope middleware around business and functional areas.


Accurately scopes effort identifies risks and clearly communicates trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.


Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation, and metrics (KPI) management.


Perform impact assessment of the product (hardware, software) upgrades, patching, migration, and hotfixes.


Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing projects across various environments (Regression, Performance, Production, and Post-production).


Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.


Familiarity with common issues that causes builds/deployments to fail such as out of memory, disk full, missing libraries or security certificates, etc.


Proven track record of handling troubleshooting various critical Production and nonproduction applications end to end infrastructure technical issues, providing comprehensive root cause.


This list is not all-inclusive and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned.

Skills/Experience: Skillsets: OS (Unix/Linux) From the basic Application maintenance perspective Knowledge about DNS, DHCP, Loadbalancer, DMZ, Firewalls, whitelisting, TCP/ API, etc Configuration Management Automation using Ansible/Chef/Puppet and scripting using shell, Perl, python, Jason, YAML, etc. CI/CD Pipeline - Hudson, Jenkins, Cloudbees with Ansible or Chef, etc, canary & blue/green deployment Middleware experience using Weblogic, Websphere, Tomcat, JWS, apache, proxy plugin setup Security - Siteminder, ODS, LDAP, AD, Azure AD, Patching for vulnerabilities, SSL certs, Openssl, Keytool, CSR, two way SSL Monitoring - AppDynamics, Cloudwatch, Log Stash, Kibana, Splunk, Nagios, Dynatrace, etc Troubleshoot experience on Production & Non-production issues with infrastructure knowledge Nice to have read either of The Phoenix Project and Googles Site Reliability Engineering books Knowledge or exposure to Agile/Scrum development methodologies, Cloud-native technologies (preferably Azure), and Knowledge or exposure to Agile/Scrum processes and methodologies.

Required Skills: Desired Skills: Degree Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
(1.) To be responsible for providing technical guidance to a team of developers, enhancing their technical capabilities and increasing productivity.
(2.) To conduct comprehensive code reviews, establish and oversee quality assurance processes, performance optimization