Lead Middleware Infrastructure Engineer

Position: Lead Middleware Infrastructure Engineer
Employment Type: Contract to hire (CTH)
Contract Duration: 6 Month Contract (Possible Extension)
Work Location: Dallas, TX - HybridPosition Summary
We are seeking a Lead Middleware Infrastructure Engineer to support the Web Middleware Technology Team in designing, deploying, automating, and maintaining enterprise middleware infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in middleware administration, infrastructure automation, containerization, cloud technologies, CI/CD pipelines, and SSL certificate lifecycle management.Primary Responsibilities

• Support the Web Middleware Technology Team in onboarding new applications using Chef and CI/CD pipelines and work on lifecycle management of SSL certificates.
• Assist the development team in repairing the applications for ToClientat issues.
• Design, develop, and deploy applications by utilizing Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitLab within a robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
• Orchestrate the seamless installation and configuration of middleware software systems for smooth integration and operation.
• Leverage OpenShift to containerize applications, enabling easy movement across different environments and efficient scaling as needed.
• Utilize AWS Cloud Services to efficiently manage and support various aspects of the organization's infrastructure.
• Perform lifecycle management of SSL certificates, including creation, renewal, retention, and revocation.
• Ensure the application of necessary security patches to servers to safeguard against potential vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate with various teams on projects, propose solutions, and address technical issues.
• Define performance standards for middleware systems and continuously monitor their performance to ensure they meet established benchmarks.
• Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, upgrade interfaces, and improve performance.
• Monitor the functioning of equipment to ensure systems operate in conformance with specifications.
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.

Required Skills & Qualifications
Version Control Systems

• Atlassian Bitbucket
• GitHub

Containerization & Orchestration

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Red Hat OpenShift

Application Servers

• IBM WebSphere
• Apache ToClientat
• Red Hat JBoss EAP

Configuration Management & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Chef
• Terraform
• Puppet
• Ansible

Cloud Computing Platforms

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Google Cloud
• Microsoft Azure

Build & Dependency Management

• Jenkins
• Maven
• Gradle

Streaming Platform

• Apache Kafka

Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

• Ansible

Operating Systems & Scripting

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Bash Shell Scripting
• JavaScript
• Python