Middleware Infrastructure Engineer

Role: Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Charlotte NC / Irving, TX, 75039 (onsite)

Duration: Long term Project  

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business

• Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design and test solutions

• Contribute to the testing of business, application and technical infrastructure requirements

• Drive solutions to reduce recovery

• Review and analyze solutions for cloud security, secrets management and key rotations

• Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices

• Design complex system upgrades

• Resolve troublesome trends as they develop

• Develop a long range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring

• Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success

• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 4+ years of hands-on experience at scale on Middleware Messaging environments (IBM MQ, IBM Message Broker (ACE/IIB), KAFKA, Solace) Administration performing activities build, installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting, deploys, configuring, patching and compliance

• 4+ experience in Middleware Production Support in Linux and/or Mainframe platforms

• Ability to interact with all levels of an organization, including leadership

• Strong team or technical leadership experience Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

• Experience in configuring MQ Queue Managers and troubleshooting issues involving MQ Clusters

• Creating, configuring, and maintaining MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Topics

• Good understanding of MQ monitoring tools like IR360

• Hands on experience on IBM ACE/IIB

• Experience with Kafka Connect - worker and connectors (Source and Sink).

• Ability to troubleshoot Authentication and Authorization issues

• Experience SSL certificate management

• Experience in using Ansible jobs

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong team or technical leadership experience

• Experience supporting an enterprise-level environment

• Understands compliance and risk management requirements for supported system area

• Provide implementation support for key risk initiatives

• Experience with IBM MQ on zOS, zLinux, AIX is a plus

• Experience with IBM MQ Appliance

• Understanding Incident Management System (ServiceNow preferred)

• Monitoring Alerts, Batch Failures, Service Now Queue

• Handle outage calls efficiently, triage any issues, and fix them

• Experience in Ansible, and UDeploy

• Experience with types of Jobs Failures and Troubleshooting

• Shell Commands

• Linux Administration Basics

• Basic Networking Commands

• Understanding the Networking topology, Load Balancers such as F5/AVI