WebSphere Middleware Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

McCulloh Consulting is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer with deep expertise in middleware platforms, enterprise applications, automation, and secure digital technology environments. This is a strong opportunity for a senior engineer who enjoys owning complex technical work, collaborating with cross-functional teams, working directly with stakeholders, and helping guide junior engineers in a highly complex enterprise environment.

This role stands out as it is not a basic administration role. This position sits at the center of platform engineering, middleware infrastructure, automation, application support, performance tuning, and continuous improvement. You will help design, develop, support, and improve the digital infrastructure that keeps critical enterprise applications running securely, reliably, and efficiently. This is a strong fit for someone who enjoys solving complex platform issues, improving deployment processes, supporting application teams, and driving better performance, stability, scalability, and security across enterprise systems.

What you will be doing includes:

• Design, develop, and maintain digital technology infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and services
• Support, administer, and optimize IBM Web Sphere and Oracle Web Logic environments
• Configure and tune middleware platforms for performance, reliability, scalability, clustering, and security
• Support web hosting technologies such as Apache, IIS, IBM HTTP Server, Oracle HTTP Server, NGINX, or similar platforms
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using tools and languages such as wsadmin, WLST, Python, Shell, or similar scripting technologies
• Integrate platform automation with CI/CD pipelines to support smooth and reliable software releases
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, stakeholders, and cross-functional technology teams
• Write clean, efficient, scalable code and contribute to software development and platform engineering initiatives
• Support testing, debugging, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex platform and application issues
• Create and maintain documentation for applications, deployment processes, platform configurations, and system operations
• Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement efforts
• Support monitoring, performance optimization, and production reliability using tools such as App Dynamics, Datadog, or similar platforms
• Apply security best practices related to SSL/TLS, LDAP, SSO, authentication, secure configurations, and compliance standards
• Support cloud hosting and containerized middleware workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, or related technologies

This role is a strong fit for a Senior Platform Engineer, Middleware Engineer, Web Sphere Administrator, Web Logic Administrator, Dev Ops Engineer, Platform Reliability Engineer, Application Infrastructure Engineer, or Enterprise Systems Engineer with strong hands-on experience supporting middleware platforms in complex environments. The strongest candidates will have deep Web Sphere and Web Logic experience, strong scripting and automation skills, CI/CD exposure, security awareness, and the ability to troubleshoot complex enterprise platform issues.

Important note:

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Requirements include:

• Five or more years of relevant platform engineering, middleware, systems engineering, Dev Ops, or enterprise application infrastructure experience
• Deep professional expertise with IBM Web Sphere and Oracle Web Logic administration
• Experience with clustering, performance tuning, secure configurations, troubleshooting, and platform optimization
• Strong knowledge of web hosting technologies, including Apache, IIS, IBM HTTP Server, Oracle HTTP Server, NGINX, or similar tools
• Professional experience with automation and scripting using wsadmin, WLST, Python, Shell, or related technologies
• Experience integrating automation with CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with security best practices, SSL/TLS, LDAP, SSO, authentication, and compliance standards
• Experience with monitoring and performance optimization tools such as App Dynamics, Datadog, or similar platforms
• Exposure to cloud hosting and containerization, including Docker, Kubernetes, or related technologies
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to lead complex platform initiatives
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers
• Experience working in a highly complex enterprise environment
• Experience supporting geographically dispersed teams
• Experience working directly with stakeholders, application teams, infrastructure teams, and security teams
• Strong understanding of twelve-factor application methodology, deployment automation, and platform reliability
• Experience improving software development and deployment processes
• Background supporting…