Job Description: Responsibilities:
- Serve as subject matter expert on IBM MQ/IIB/ACE/MQ MFT/MuleSoft, includes technical assistance to application developers on Middleware related problems.
- Understand technology vision and strategic direction of business needs.
- Production support 24/7 for a week, at least once a month.
- ssess and make recommendations of best-practice solutions and/or new middleware and web technologies that will enhance the capabilities of the existing infrastructure.
- Participate product roadmaps in alignment with other middleware/cloud products and business roadmaps.
- Participate in designing integrated solutions with design patterns, blueprints, guidelines, and standard methodologies for products.
- ssist in developing architecture and design conceptual solutions by incorporating cloud native and 3rd party vendor products.
- Participate in research and perform POCs (proofs of concept) with emerging technologies and adopt industry best practices, in the middleware space, for cloud migration and hybrid solutions.
- Successfully troubleshoot production issues application developers can't resolve; may include writing build and deployment scripts.
- Demonstrate automation as Infrastructure as code (IaC) to increase build efficiency in the cloud.
- Support both rehydration and HA along with emerging processes and technologies.
- ssist the development of validation and certification processes through automation tools.
- Monitoring - monitor middleware performance and availability.
- Demonstrate collaboration on projects and initiatives as a team member.
- Demonstrates mutual respect, embraces diversity, and acts with authenticity.
- Demonstrates analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Subject matter expertise in IBM Middleware products like MQ/IIB/ACE/MQ MFT and Mule Soft.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience; advanced degree preferred.
- 3+ years in design/support of MQ/IIB/ACE Middleware solutions.
- Experience in cloud specific solutions related to middleware.
- Hands on experience in one or more languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript.
- Experience with other AWS middleware solutions including various compute and storage offerings.
- Strong background in observability, networking, performance, and scalability.
- Experience with leveraging CI/CD pipelines and GitLab is a plus.
- Hands on experience in Terraform, Python, Ansible and OS shell scripts including automation tools is a plus.
- Must be familiar with Agile methodologies and able to work in an Agile manner.
- Must have a very strong application development background.
- Microservices experience is a plus.
- Cloud Certification is a plus.
- Containerized platform experience is a plus.
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience is a plus.