Apigee Middleware Engineer

***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote***

***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role***

 A prestigious company is looking for an Apigee Middleware Engineer.  This lead will be the subject matter expertise for implementation and ongoing support of Middleware integration technologies in production, non-production legacy and container-based environments (Apigee, Nginx, Apache in containers is a must).  This engineer will need to have experience with Terraform, Ansible, Github, and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and maintain 3rd party software components classified as middleware on multiple operating system platforms using Terraform, Ansible and GIT/ops
• Use subject matter expertise with products to advise on design and assist with development of applications using these tools.
• Configure production, development and testing environments and ensure the availability of these application services
• Write complex automation scripts using common automation tools, such as Jenkins and Ansible
• Provide performance tuning of components and services
• Design disaster recovery solutions for middleware technologies to comply with business continuity objectives
• Resolve configuration related problems
• Resolve complex support issues in both production and non-production environments.
• Assist production support and development staff in debugging middleware application defects.
• Create procedural and troubleshooting documentation related to middleware products
• Participate in or lead moderately or high complex projects.
• Properly secure middleware technologies
• Management of Vulnerabilities, SORT’s, Password rotations and Certificate renewals

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related area
• 7-10 years of related experience with
• Minimum 7 years experience working in a distributed multi-platform environment.
• Minimum 4 years supporting middleware technologies
• 6+ years of experience in design, develop, deploy and orchestrate the install/upgrade of Middleware technologies (Ideally Apigee/Nginx ) leveraging Terraform, Ansible, Gitops on Kubernetes clusters
• 6+ years of experience on Terraform and Ansible deployment model of Middleware Technologies is a must.
• 4+ years of experience in configuring, troubleshooting proxies on Apigee and applications on Nginx.
• 2+ years of experience in delivering, supporting and troubleshooting applications on Rancher and Open shift environments.
• 2+ years of experience writing Operational and Environment provisioning Jenkins pipelines.
• Fluid on D.R Strategies, failover plannings and implementation of complex Application Architecture in multi-Datacenters.
• Command on CI/CD stack which includes Harness, Artifactory and Hashi Corp vault
• Supports J2EE application services in containers and legacy systems.