Middleware Development Engineer

Everyone deserves the best internet possible and that s the refreshingly great experience we re creating at Ziply Fiber. We re bringing fiber to more than one million homes and businesses across the broader Northwest. By pairing brilliantly fast internet with customer choice and control, we re making it simple and easy for you to connect to the things that matter most to you. Ziply Fiber is based in Kirkland, Washington, providing communities across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana with fiber internet in addition to streaming TV, privacy products and phone service as well.

Job Summary:

As a Middleware Development Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, monitoring, and deploying middleware solutions as well as suggesting and making changes within middleware to meet requirements from internal business units in support of projects. You will work closely with developers and business units who rely on these tools to support our customers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities listed below are a range of duties performed by the employee and not intended to reflect all duties performed.

• Actively and continually support and simplify the customer experience through automation, superior support services and building a customer friendly and focused team.
• Meet with various stakeholders to identify improvement opportunities, while being challenged with creating new undefined processes, resolutions and continually looking to simplify and improve the company s ability to provide superior services.
• Proactively recommend, lead and sponsor new development and migration activities.
• Listen and interpret the needs of the business unit team members.
• Must be available to work regular business hours Pacific Standard Time.
• Must also be available to work on-call, evenings and weekends as needed.
• Performs other duties as required to support the business and evolving organization.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of seven years of experience in developing enterprise grade integration solutions using TIBCO Suite of Products (BW 5.x, BW 6.x).
• Minimum of seven years of experience in designing and developing SOAP Services and REST API's using TIBCO BusinessWorks.
• Minimum of five years of experience in designing and implementing caching solutions using TIBCO ActiveSpaces 2.x.
• Minimum of five years of experience in developing and administering messaging solutions using TIBCO EMS.
• Extensive experience deploying TIBCO applications using TIBCO Enterprise Administrator 2.x, and Tibco Administrator 5.x.
• Extensive experience deploying to and maintaining a KONG application stack. Migrating from a TIBCO environment to a KONG environment is a plus.
• Experience troubleshooting API issues including checking for API failures, identifying the points of failure, and communicating those failures to the proper application owners.
• Practical knowledge of XML, XSD, JSON and related technologies.
• Working knowledge of LINUX/UNIX system commands and networking knowledge.
• Experience working in API management product such as APIGEE is a plus.
• Experience working in Kibana log collection is a plus.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work independently and apply sound judgment and reasoning skills to a variety of situations.
• Ability to multi-task and collaborate effectively with other personnel to meet deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication, attention to detail, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work within critical deadlines.
• Ability to adjust to rapidly changing priorities and schedules.
• Ability to provide excellent customer service.

Work Authorization:

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US for any employer. Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment and Additional Information:

Work is performed in an office setting with exposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system. The work is primarily a modern office setting.

At all times, Ziply Fiber must be your primary employer. Unless otherwise prohibited by law, employees may not hold outside employment nor be self-employed without obtaining approval in writing from Ziply Fiber. In holding outside employment or self-employment, employees should ensure that participation does not conflict with responsibilities to Ziply Fiber or its business interests.

Diverse Workforce / EEO:

Ziply Fiber is an equal opportunity employer. Ziply Fiber will consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, and the presence of a non-job-related handicap or disability or any other legally protected status.

Ziply Fiber requires a pre-employment background check as conditions of employment. Ziply Fiber may require a pre-employment drug screening.

Ziply Fiber is a drug free workplace.