Sr. Middleware Admin Position

Key Responsibilities

• Act as primary middleware support for concurrent projects: own deployments, releases, and change management processes for seamless QA-to-Production transitions.
• Manage and resolve high-volume AMS incidents/change requests (daily/weekly) with timeliness and quality; track dependencies and keep cross-team efforts on schedule.
• Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues affecting dealer-facing (e.g., EMDCS) and public-facing websites to prevent outages.
• Handle security vulnerabilities, patching (OS/product-level), upgrades, and compliance (JSOX, data privacy); participate in alert reviews and trend analysis.
• Administer and optimize middleware environments: IBM WebSphere (incl. Portal), Tomcat; web servers (IHS, Apache, Oracle HTTP); monitoring tools (ITCAM, AppDynamics, JavaMelody, ElasticSearch).
• Automate CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure tasks, and scripting (Python, PowerShell, wsadmin/Jython, Shell) using Jenkins, TFS/Azure DevOps.
• Lead/support transformation projects: data governance tools (DvSum/Octopai), MS Azure POCs (AKS, DevSecOps), Adobe Cloud migrations (AEM), eVehicle data platform infrastructure.
• Provide knowledge transfer (KT), training to team members, documentation (proposals, architectures, updates), and maintain professional/corporate standards.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years in middleware administration, infrastructure engineering, and DevOps/release management in large-scale enterprise settings.
• Deep hands-on expertise:
• Middleware: IBM WebSphere (Portal/wsadmin), Tomcat
• Monitoring: Datadog,ITCAM, AppDynamics, JavaMelody, ElasticSearch/Nagios
• CI/CD & Scripting: Jenkins, TFS, Python, PowerShell, wsadmin, ANT
• Platforms: Windows, Linux (RedHat), AIX, VMware
• Security/Compliance: Patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation
• Proven ability to manage high-incident volumes, own critical issues (P1/P2), and resolve high-visibility problems.
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and team leadership/KT skills.
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., IBM WebSphere Admin, Java Programmer) preferred.