Job Description: | - Performs as an individual contributor of DevOps/ middleware team that builds and supports exceptional customer-facing applications with challenging business use cases, existing systems and operational problems.
- Experience working on various middleware application servers and containers from monolithic to modern versions.
- Apply middleware infrastructure automation code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning capacity specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.
- The candidate must also have some Shell/Perl/Python scripting language experience and be able to use this to implement changes in pipelines.
- Maintains technical documentation on any implementations, README files up-to-date, and status pages of the projects along with Release team handover.
- Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation and other teams to define, prioritize, sequence and scope middleware around business and functional areas.
- Accurately scopes effort, identifies risks and clearly communicates trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.
- Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management.
- Perform impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades, patching, migration and hot fixes.
- Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing projects across various environments (Regression, Performance, Production and Post-production).
- Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.
- Familiarity on common issues that causes builds/deployments to fail such as out of memory, disk full, missing libraries or security certificates etc.
- Proven track record of handling & troubleshooting various critical Production and nonproduction applications end to end & infrastructure technical issues, providing comprehensive root cause.
- This list is not all-inclusive, and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned such as On-call rotation and knowledge sharing sessions as part of the team.
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Skills/Experience: | - OS (Unix/Linux) From the basic Application administration and maintenance support perspective.
- Knowledge about DNS, DHCP, Load balancer, DMZ, Firewalls, listing, TCP/HTTP/SOAP/RESTAPI etc.
- Configuration Management Tools with Ansible/Chef/Puppet and scripting with Shell, Perl, python, Jason, YAML, PowerShell etc.
- CI/CD Pipeline - GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CloudBees, Artifactory, Maven Canary & Blue/Green deployment with High availability of applications.
- Middleware - Experience using any Enterprise servers like WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, proxy setup and security patching support.
- Containerization - Leveraging Docker/Podman and Kubernetes for application deployment, ensuring portability across cloud platforms.
- Cloud technologies - AWS/Azure on Load balancer, DNS, virtual machines (EC2), storage solutions (S3, EBS), and networking components (VPC, Route 53)
- Security Okta, SiteMinder, LDAP, AD, Entra ID, RBAC, SSL certificates lifecycle management, OpenSSL, Keytool, CSR and MFA knowledge.
- Monitoring Tools - Preferably with any of these: Datadog, AppDynamics, Kibana, Splunk, Nagios, Dynatrace, Grafana etc.
- Troubleshooting experience on Production & Non-production issues with infrastructure knowledge and in-depth root cause analysis.
- Knowledge and exposure to Agile Kanban/Scrum process and methodologies.
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