Comptroller - Middleware Engineer VI

Job Description

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Are you ready to grow, make a positive impact? If you are seeking to gain knowledge, build your career, and network among goal-oriented professionals, this is the place for you!

Innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence best describes the culture here at the Comptroller's Office. We take pride in the work we do serving as Texas' accountant, tax collector, treasurer, and much more! The Comptroller's office serves virtually every citizen in the state. As Texas' chief tax collector, accountant, revenue estimator, treasurer and purchasing manager, the agency is responsible for writing the checks and keeping the books for the multi-billion-dollar business of state government.

Our agency workforce is as diverse as the people of Texas we serve. We value our employees and take very seriously our collective commitment to public service. Personal development opportunities are strongly encouraged through available workshops, teambuilding exercises, and on the job training. We offer flexible scheduling that helps employees maintain a healthy work-life balance.

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ABOUT THE Division

General description

The Middleware Team in Information Technology division is a mission critical team that provides exceptional customer service for the Texas Comptroller of Public accounts tax applications portfolio. We are seeking an experienced Middleware Engineer to join our team supporting our custom applications' infrastructure, while working closely with the Web Application's development teams and various other IT teams. As part of the Middleware Team, you will be continually challenged and directly contribute to the success of IT.

You'll be involved in day-to-day operations and continuous improvement of infrastructure for full-stack and micro-services-based solutions, enterprise software maintenance/upgrades, platform monitoring, incident response and resolution, security, stability, performance, and availability. You are a great fit for this position if you are self-motivated, are exceptional at attention to details, have excellent communication skills, sound judgement, and work well in a team environment!

Work Hours

Work Hours are 8:00AM to 5:00PM, 40-hour week, Monday - Friday. Occasionally work additional hours on evenings, weekends, and/or holidays, including working on-call 24 hours a day during a rotation. Hours may change based on business need.

Teleworking may be considered if certain working conditions are met. The candidate must have permanent residency within the state of Texas and must be able to meet in office requirements, which can vary among different sections (i.e. report to office 1 day/month, 3 days/week, etc.). Travel reimbursements are not provided for teleworking.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree.

• Six (6) years of general technology experience in either software development, server administration, or middleware administration

• Six (6) years of experience with middleware system administration, configuration, and troubleshooting in multiple technology stacks.

• Four (4) year of experience with system programming/scripting for automation in Ansible, Python, BASH scripts, Perl or similar.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science or related field.

• Experience with web application and web services development and/or deployments.

• Experience with Amazon AWS, Mule Soft, IBM Web…