What are the responsibilities and job description for the SOA Systems Engineer position at Advantage Tech?
Advantage Tech is looking for a SOA System Engineer for our Kansas City, MO client.
The SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Infrastructure team provides support for our IBM products/appliances (i.e. DataPower, MQ, IIB) that are widely used in the banking and financial services industry to provide services such as authentication, authorization, API management, message translation, and message queueing. These services together represent the platform upon which web services can quickly and easily be developed and accessed/consumed both by internal applications or external clients. The team ensures this platform is performing at peak capacity to avoid any business disruption.
As a SOA Systems Engineer, you will be part of a team involved in making sure these services are functioning properly through successful performance and coordination of activities involving triage / troubleshooting, patching, and software implementations / upgrades just to name a few. This is a subset of the overall responsibilities which will include multiple initiatives assigned by IT leadership.
How You Will Spend Your Time
The SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Infrastructure team provides support for our IBM products/appliances (i.e. DataPower, MQ, IIB) that are widely used in the banking and financial services industry to provide services such as authentication, authorization, API management, message translation, and message queueing. These services together represent the platform upon which web services can quickly and easily be developed and accessed/consumed both by internal applications or external clients. The team ensures this platform is performing at peak capacity to avoid any business disruption.
As a SOA Systems Engineer, you will be part of a team involved in making sure these services are functioning properly through successful performance and coordination of activities involving triage / troubleshooting, patching, and software implementations / upgrades just to name a few. This is a subset of the overall responsibilities which will include multiple initiatives assigned by IT leadership.
How You Will Spend Your Time
- Work closely with all levels of IT to coordinate the service support and delivery of middleware technologies with multiple teams from application development to infrastructure.
- Coordinate, escalate, resolve, and close issues from service requests to change management assigned to the SOA Infrastructure team.
- Assist and champion triage and troubleshooting of production and non-production middleware/SOA technologies.
- Perform patching, software implementation, and upgrades.
- At least 3 years of experience in a SOA infrastructure environment working with IBM technologies (i.e. IIB, MQ, DataPower).
- Experience in production support maintaining middleware systems from software implementation / upgrades to troubleshooting.
- Exposure to architectural design specifically layout / configuration of different components to provide a robust, reliable and efficient platform to support a required volume of banking transactions.
- Banking or financial services industry experience.