Principal Engineer - Integration Platforms

Description

Job overview and responsibilities

The Principal Engineer - Integration Platforms leverages technical expertise in the area of Container and SOA technologies to strengthen the reliability, efficiency, and performance of the enterprise. This role requires deep knowledge of middleware platforms combined with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Execution against the IT Operations strategy & roadmap

Contribute toward creating, maintaining, and marketing the architectural vision and direction for Information Technology

Understand and provide recommendations for improvement and usage of Middleware strategies by leveraging existing IT capabilities, identifying improvements to existing IT capabilities and define new strategic IT capabilitie

Stay abreast of business strategy, goals, objectives and operational performance

Be a Thought Partner, i.e. engaged with Applications Developers/Busine

Monitor industry trends and anticipates future direction for system platform

Lead in providing consultation and direct technical support in life cycle planning, problem management, integration, and systems programming

Implements multiple complex releases, upgrades, and/or changes into the environment

Oversees and sets platform performance and availability improvements measures based on metric analysi

Duties may include leading highly complex capacity planning, workload modeling, system maintenance/administration, and diagnostic

Implements reliable solutions that maintain the integrity of the existing infrastructure as well as meet the customer objective

Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines for middleware components and containerized application

Lead incident response and root cause analysis for critical middleware platform issue

Define and enforce security standards, compliance requirements, and best practices for middleware platform

Ensure that goals or objectives of projects are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameter

Assesses existing procedures to ensure requirements continue to be met

Makes necessary improvements to procedures that are not effective

Develops documentation to support the infrastructure and as a guide for establishing common practices across the enterprise

Works effectively in a team fashion to establish alignments with IT peers across the corporation

Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual operational overhead and improve deployment efficiency

Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers and development teams on middleware best practice

Qualifications

What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

Bachelor's degree

Information Technology or relevant field referred

7+ years of relevant IT experience

5+ years years of experience in MessagingSolution such as Solace & IBM MQ.

Solid experience Messaging & Eventing platform

Experience with CICD tools like Jenkins/Harness

Experience setting up EKS cluster and Solace Broker

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

Master's degree

3+ years of experience in, TIBCO EMS & Apache Kafka

2+ years of experience in IBM ACE

2+ years of airline business experience

Experience with foundational AWS Service

Experience in IBM MQ & IBM ACE Technologies