W2 Contract - Middleware Engineer - Dallas, TX (Onsite)

Role: Middleware Engineer (Tomcat Admin)

Location: Dallas, TX (Onsite)

Rate: $50/HR on W2 all inclusive.

Required Skills:

• Version Control Systems: Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, Nexus.
• Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTPD
• Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Chef, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
• Cloud Computing Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Build and Dependency Management: Jenkins, Maven
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Ansible.
• Operating Systems and Scripting: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Bash Shell script, and Python.
• Experience with environment replication / multi region builds
• Linux/Unix administration
• Enterprise security and certificate management
• Coordination with Network, Storage, Security, and App teams
• Monitoring and Alerting: Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk automation skills like Chef, Ansible, python

Job Description:

• 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 Tomcat issues.
• Designing, developing, and deploying the applications by utilizing Chef, Ansible, Jenkins and GitLab within a robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
• Orchestrating the seamless installation and configuration of middleware software systems for the 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.
• Life cycle management of SSL certificates like creation, renewal, retention, and revocation
• Ensuring the application of necessary security patches to the servers to safeguard against potential vulnerabilities.
• Collaborating with various teams on projects, propose solutions, and address the technical issues.
• Defining performance standards for the middleware systems and continuously monitoring their performance to ensure they meet established benchmarks.
• Modify the existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, or upgrade interfaces and improve performance.
• Monitor functioning of equipment to ensure system operates in conformance with specifications.
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.