Senior Infrastructure

Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer responsible for configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and maintenance of technology solutions. Provides technical support, troubleshooting and diagnostics, and performs scripting/programming to ensure stable and efficient operation of technology solutions.

Essential Functions

• Performs installation, monitoring, testing, configuration, migration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of assigned technology
• Manages system/application environment and ongoing operations
• Ensures that the technologies are updated with current, stable, and compliant architecture and applications that meet enterprise standards
• Researches, designs, implements, and tests technology solutions
• Proactively monitors and reports performance and utilization of assigned technologies
• Troubleshoots software and/or hardware issues/failures
• Resolves alerts and performs remediation activities
• Manages problem or escalated tickets and tasks and out of cycle requests from systems/software owners
• Collects and presents data for reporting and planning
• Assists with developing tactical strategies, processes, and procedures related to systems/application administration
• Determines migration and upgrade impacts and diagnose/resolve complex technology/application errors
• Collaborates with IT and business area partners on work groups and initiatives
• Determines best course of action for meeting business needs
• Provides input into infrastructure architecture designs
• Writes programming/scripting
• May participate in Disaster Recovery planning and exercises
• Ensures execution and alignment to architectural standards and blueprints.
• May contribute input to infrastructure architecture
• Performs on-call activities as needed for the environment and technologies

Competencies

• Solid leadership and technical experience
• Excellent communication skills
• The internal drive, intellectual curiosity, ability to learn, lead, and desire to help the customers succeed
• Ability to work proactively and engage stakeholders
• Consistently demonstrates passion and drive, with a desire to improve solutions
• Extensive working knowledge of multiple technologies and their interfaces and integration
• Competent working in one or more environments highly integrated with an operating system.
• Extensive experience implementing and administering/managing technical solutions in major, large-scale system implementations
• High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy.
• Ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities
• Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback to improve performance
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly and articulately.
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Experience analyzing business requirements and translating them into technical solutions
• Experience using Agile and DevOps methodology

Specific Required Skills

• Infrastructure engineer with a minimum of 5 years’ experience with:
• Experience building robust test environments
• Environment infrastructure build and automation
• Excellent scripting and automation experience
• Excellent hands-on middleware experience
• Extensive SDLC experience
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot mid-tier/mainframe infrastructure issues.

Responsibilities

• Hands on technical and architecture skills
• Exposure to a variety of other platforms and technologies is a plus, including IBM
• RHEL, TOMCAT, Cloud AWS, Ansible is a plus
• Automation experience is a required
• Experience in supporting WebSphere Application Server across multiple operating systems to include design, deployment, and management as well as application migrations
• Troubleshooting DataPower domain application issues and certificate crypto object issues
• Installation and configuration of DataPower Appliances.
• Experience administering middle-tier systems using WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 8.0/9/0, IBM Server
• Demonstrable experience in a multi-tier environment, monitoring, and deep analysis of Java applications with distributed and clustered environments
• Experience with MQSeries installation and administration
• Experience automating the configuration of servers/virtual machines with solutions such as Ansible or equivalent
• Experience configuring databases within WebSphere
• Experience in Pega, and WAS 9.0 application server
• Hands on experience in Pega with specific experience in the healthcare industry will be a plus
• Understanding of middleware architecture and working knowledge of various middleware application server integration
• Configure and administration of IBM API Connect and IBM DataPower appliances.
• Maintain working knowledge of API security standards and implementation (Oauth 2.0, OpenID, JSON, Web Token, JOSE, x509 certificates); maintain knowledge of API security certification, authentication, authorization, IP security setup, and endpoint configuration.
• Good knowledge of network concepts and F5 load balancers
• Working knowledge on SSL certificates implementation
• Solid understanding of J2EE application deployment patterns and n-tier architectures
• Understanding of SOA and web services and their deployment in DataPower.
• Installation and tuning of Sterling Integrator & Axway products is a plus.
• Experience in the Sterling File Gateway, Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling Control Center, Sterling Secure Proxy, ITXA, and Axway B2Bi environments is a plus.

Required Experience

• Experience in WAS 9.0 and above on AIX, RedHat platforms, 32- and 64-bit JDK, WAS ND, WAS MQ.
• IBM WebSphere MQ, 8.0., 9.0
• Expert knowledge of scripting for automation (BASH, Python, or Ruby).
• Should have good product knowledge on the functionality and different components of the product. Experience on versions of MQ v7, v8 is preferred.
• Extensive experience in configuration and administration of IBM DataPower and IBM APIM Appliances.
• Experience in IBM DataPower XI52 and WebSphere 8.x+ architectures.
• Configuring certificates/encryption decryption – filed level message level.
• Expertise in troubleshooting DataPower, channels, listeners, intercommunications (TCP/IP) and triggering.
• Experience in initializing/setup of IBM DataPower SOA appliances.
• Perform administrative tasks on IBM DataPower configuration, interface design, development, maintenance, and administrative activity.
• Working knowledge of general security concepts (Authentication, Authorization, Encryption, and Digital signatures), PKI concepts, and TLS.
• Good troubleshooting skills with overall knowledge on DataPower features/concepts.
• Excellent UNIX/LINUX experience.
• Excellent Tomcat with RedHat Linux experience is desired
• The candidate should have a excellent focus on IBM DataPower and would require extensive knowledge of various integration patterns and security standards, best practices, hands-on experience with administration and management of DataPower.
• Programming experience in Oracle SOA platform is a plus.
• Java/J2EE programming background is a plus.
• Experience with Sterling B2B Integrator and ITXA is a Plus.