Middleware Engineer

Requirements

• 84 months of experience working in a Linux-based environment, including experience with Linux internals.
• 84 Months of experience installing, configuring, managing, and maintaining Oracle Fusion Middleware Products, including Oracle WebLogic servers, Web servers, and SOA suite.
• 60 months of experience installing, configuring, and maintaining IBM WebSphere Servers, IBM HTTP Web Servers and managing the WAS platform for FileNet Enterprise Content Management System.
• 60 Months of experience installing, configuring, administering, and maintaining Business Intelligence products like OBIEE (Oracle Analytics Server) and BI Publisher.
• 60 months of experience in implementing Single Sign-On (SSO) in WebLogic and Oracle Business Intelligence OBIEE (Oracle Analytics Server) platforms.
• 60 months of experience with WebLogic server troubleshooting, performance tuning and analyzing thread Dumps using tools like samurai, thread dump analyzer, jvisualvm etc.
• 60 months of experience with application performance and monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Wily New Relic.
• 60 months of experience configuring, managing, and maintaining other application servers like Tomcat, Apache and nginx.

Responsibilities
Duties include, but are not limited to the following: Staff will perform Middleware System architecture, design and implementation tasks in Oracle Fusion Middleware and IBM WebSphere platforms. Duties also include routine Systems administration, other Middleware platform System architecture design, maintenance tasks on Red Hat Linux, and AIX operating systems.
• Work with clients to architect, design and build latest WebLogic and WebSphere middleware platforms. Consolidate legacy systems to newer ( Nor N-1) platforms per ITS standards ,On-board, configure and maintain the WLS 12c and 14c environments in the Linux Operating System.
• Work with the Client agency to develop, support and maintain the IBM WAS 9 ND FileNet platform for Enterprise Content management. Perform WAS 9 ND maintenance including upgrades , patches and assist the Client FileNet team with the FileNet component upgrades and maintenance.
• Architect , configure and implement the Oracle Business Intelligence (Analytics Software) platform. Perform routine deployments of the OBIEE reports and dashboards. Assist developers with troubleshooting and performance enhancement.
• Configure Web Servers and maintain J2EE software applications running on WebLogic middleware systems. Perform routine server administration, configuration backups, SSO configuration, server-side performance tuning, analysis and troubleshooting tasks.
• Candidate will be tasked with applying software enhancements, security patches and bug fixes to the WebLogic and WAS and other supported middleware environment on a schedule basis.
• Collaborate with the development staff and other teams on a regular basis to determine best approach for new application development (ex. Database connections, Security, External vs. Internal)
• Candidate will proactively monitor server and web server logs to meet service level agreements for application uptime.
• Candidate will be responsible for running UNIX commands to perform UNIX OS and Middleware tasks.
• Address and resolve technical issues in a timely manner 24x7x365. If necessary, work with vendor support to resolve web server and operating system issues.
• Candidate will be tasked with documenting procedures in SharePoint and training staff members as needed. Also provide off-hours support if necessary