Back-End Developer - II

Backend Infrastructure Administrator

Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid – office 2X or more per week)

Duration: 6 months (possible extension)

Job Description:

• Bachelor's Degree or master's degree in computer science or similar.
• 6 years of technology experience.
• Develop / Support deliverables based on business enhancements.
• Enhance existing applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Work on digital transformation and modernize the application based on new technologies.
• Experience in working with very complex systems using micro services architecture and on large databases.
• Installing and configuring Kafka.
• Installing and configuring IBM MQ.

Primary Technical Skill Sets:

• 2+ years of IBM MQ administration and technology experience.
• 4+ yrs of well-versed experience as Kafka administrator.
• Installing and configuring Kafka.
• Hands-on experience in creating Kafka topics/brokers & setup Zookeeper instances.
• Know how to setup - scheduler as well as real time data ingestion (from source to sink) using Kafka connectors (supporting CRUD operations).
• Experienced in creating Kafka producers and consumers using micro services.
• Error handling & retry/replay of messages if upstream/downstream system fails (error topic/queue concept).
• Well-versed in deploying Kafka nodes as POD or Docker containers on Oracle cloud environment (OCI).
• Kafka monitoring dashboard setup using tools like Grafana.
• Experience installing and upgrading WebSphere MQ on Linux.
• Experienced in creating the MQ clustering queues and channels.
• Experience in IBM MQ/ WMQ Administration like QMgr, Channels, Cluster, Remote Queues.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of SSL for Queue managers.
• Working knowledge of WebSphere MQ distributed queuing environment.
• Working knowledge of WebSphere MQ 9.0/9.1 on Linux platform.
• J2EE Integration Developer.
• Experience in - Docker, Kubernetes containerization, Spring boot framework for systems integration.
• Jenkins, Ansible, GIT, Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes.
• Scripting and code writing skills needed for utility and adhoc projects.
• Experience using SQL on Oracle 12c or 19c.
• Unix shell scripting experience.
• J2EE Integration Developer.
• Exposure to working with cloud computing, especially Oracle Cloud.
• Exposure to infrastructure automation, scalability, micro services architecture.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience installing and upgrading WebSphere MQ on Linux.
• Experience working with IBM vendor for any product-related issues and apply the fix.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of SSL for Queue managers.
• Experience working with Java JDK Ver 11+, microservices development.
• Working knowledge of JMS.
• Required experience in Camel.
• Understand, in detail, the different MQ functions.
• Time management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed to collaborate and work with multiple teams.