Senior TIBCO Administrator Remote Senior / Lead Level Department Integration & Middleware Engineering Reports To Director of Integration / VP of Engineering Location USA On-site / Hybrid / Remote (as applicable) Experience 8+ years in TIBCO middleware; 3+ years in senior/lead capacity
About the Role
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior TIBCO Administrator to join our Integration Platform team. In this
role you will be responsible for the design, deployment, administration, and continuous improvement of our
enterprise TIBCO middleware stack spanning BusinessWorks 5.x / 6.x, TIBCO BusinessWorks Container
Edition (BWCE), TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS), and TIBCO Enterprise Administrator (TEA). You
will work closely with development, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure teams to ensure reliable, scalable, and
secure integration services across on-premises and cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities
TIBCO Platform Administration
Install, configure, patch, and upgrade TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.x and 6.x engines and domain
infrastructure.
Deploy and manage TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE) applications on
Docker/Kubernetes both on-premises and cloud-hosted clusters.
Administer TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) manage servers, queues, topics, bridges,
clustering, failover, and user/ACL configurations.
Operate and maintain TIBCO Enterprise Administrator (TEA) for centralized agent and application
lifecycle management.
Monitor service health, application logs, thread dumps, and memory usage; diagnose and resolve
performance bottlenecks.
Define and enforce TIBCO domain security policies, SSL/TLS configurations, and credential
management.
DevOps, CI/CD & Automation
Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines for TIBCO deployments using Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD.
Manage source code, branching strategies, merge requests, and release tagging in GitLab.
Write and maintain automation scripts for deployment, health checks, log collection, and environment
housekeeping using Unix Shell and/or Python.
Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices for TIBCO environment provisioning.
Collaborate with the DevOps team to containerize legacy TIBCO workloads and migrate them to
BWCE where applicable.
Reliability, Monitoring & Observability
Integrate TIBCO platform metrics and logs with enterprise observability tools (e.g., New Relic, Splunk,
Dynatrace, ELK).
Establish alerting thresholds, runbooks, and on-call procedures for critical TIBCO services.
Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning, and disaster recovery exercises.
Maintain SLA compliance for middleware services across all environments (DEV, QA, STAGE, PROD).
Collaboration & Governance
Define and enforce change management procedures for PROD TIBCO configuration changes
including JIRA-tracked approvals, GitLab branch hygiene, and staged validation gates.
Serve as a subject-matter expert (SME) for TIBCO integration patterns and best practices.
Partner with application developers to review integration designs, EMS messaging patterns, and
deployment architectures.
Mentor junior administrators and document platform standards, runbooks, and architecture decisions.
Required Qualifications
Core TIBCO Experience
8+ years of hands-on TIBCO middleware administration experience.
Proven expertise in TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.x domain management, deployment descriptors, BW
engine configuration, and fault handling.
Strong experience with TIBCO BusinessWorks 6.x palette usage, shared modules, process engine
sizing, and monitoring.
Hands-on experience with TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE) containerization,
Docker builds.
Deep knowledge of TIBCO EMS clustering, failover, bridges, destination-level security, durable
subscribers, and performance tuning.
Proficient with TIBCO Enterprise Administrator (TEA) agent management, application lifecycle, and
monitoring dashboards.
DevOps & Scripting
Solid experience with GitLab branching models (GitFlow or trunk-based), MR/PR workflows,
protected branches, and pipeline YAML.
Proficiency in Jenkins Jenkinsfile authoring, shared libraries, multi-branch pipelines, and artifact
management.
Strong scripting skills in Unix/Bash startup/shutdown scripts, cron automation, log parsing, and
environment management.
Working knowledge of Python automation scripts, REST API integrations, and configuration
management utilities.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with TIBCO Spotfire, TIBCO Jaspersoft, or TIBCO Data Virtualization for observability or
reporting integrations.
Familiarity with Helm, ArgoCD, or FluxCD for GitOps-based deployment of containerized TIBCO
workloads.
Exposure to service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) for microservices traffic management.
Knowledge of Apache Kafka or other messaging platforms useful for hybrid EMS/Kafka integration
patterns.
Experience with Terraform or Ansible for IaC provisioning of cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
Awareness of emerging iPaaS and API Gateway tools (e.g., MuleSoft, Apigee, AWS API Gateway) to
support platform evolution roadmap.
TIBCO certification (e.g., TIBCO BW Certified Administrator or Developer) is a strong plus.
Technical Skills at a Glance
TIBCO BW 5.x TIBCO BW 6.x TIBCO BWCE
TIBCO EMS TIBCO TEA Docker / Kubernetes
GitLab Jenkins / CI-CD Unix / Bash Scripting
Python Google Cloud Platform / AWS / Azure New Relic / Observability
ELK JIRA / Agile
Emerging Tools & Technologies (Roadmap Awareness)
Candidates who demonstrate awareness of and curiosity about the following evolving tools will be given
preferential consideration. You will not be expected to have deep production experience in all of these on day
one, but an ability to ramp up quickly is expected.
Area Tools / Technologies
GitOps / CD ArgoCD, FluxCD declarative continuous delivery for Kubernetes
workloads
Service Mesh Istio / Linkerd traffic management, mTLS, observability for containerized
services
IaC & Config Mgmt Terraform, Ansible cloud resource provisioning and configuration
automation
API Management Apigee, AWS API Gateway API gateway patterns to complement EMS
messaging
Observability Stack OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki unified tracing, metrics, and log
aggregation
Event Streaming Apache Kafka (Confluent) high-throughput event streaming as EMS
complement
Secrets Management HashiCorp Vault, Kubernetes Secrets Operator dynamic credentials for
pipelines
AI-Assisted DevOps GitHub Copilot, AI-driven anomaly detection in observability tools
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