What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Middleware Engineer / Platform Engineer position at VDart, Inc.?
Role Senior -Middleware Engineer / Platform Engineer
Location :- Iselin NJ/Charlotte, NC
Contract
Key Responsibilities
- Support application deployment strategies and enforce SDLC, change management, and release governance.
- Design and manage SSL/TLS, certificate lifecycle management, and secure communications.
- Architect, install, configure, and optimize Tomcat clusters on Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual servers.
- Implement authentication, authorization, and Single Sign-On (SSO) integrations using LDAP and enterprise identity platforms.
- Drive security hardening standards, vulnerability remediation, and compliance alignment for middleware and Linux systems.
- Perform advanced root cause analysis and resolution of complex middleware, OS, and application issues.
- Establish and maintain platform monitoring, logging, and alerting standards.
- Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automation, and deployment tooling (e.g., Jenkins).
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance across middleware and platform operations.
- Collaborate with application development, database, network, and storage teams to deliver stable and scalable platforms.
- Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation for critical platform incidents and escalations.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration (physical and virtual).
- Advanced experience with SSL/TLS, certificate authorities, and secure communications.
- Proven expertise in middleware and OS security hardening, vulnerability management, and patching.
- Experience designing and supporting high availability and disaster recovery architectures.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across application, middleware, OS, and infrastructure layers.
- Working knowledge of LDAP/SSO integrations and identity management concepts.
- Experience with CI/CD and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, Control-M).
- Familiarity with SAN storage concepts and enterprise storage platforms.
Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent professional experience accepted.
Nice to Have / Platform Engineering Enhancements
- Experience with infrastructure automation (Ansible, scripting).
- Exposure to containerization or Kubernetes (Tomcat on containers), RedHat OpenShift
- Experience supporting Spring Boot or Java microservices platforms.
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Splunk, ELK, Prometheus).
Salary : $46 - $48