Middleware Platform Engineer; IBM WebSphere & DataStage

Job Description

Employees in this job function are focused on developing and maintaining reusable software components that serve the needs of product developers in the organization. They are responsible for designing, implementing, integrating and maintaining the underlying infrastructure and software applications that support developer productivity and self-service.

• Collaborate with enterprise architects, software architects, software engineering teams, etc. to design the platform infrastructure and tools encompassing servers, networks, storage, databases, cloud services, etc.
• Implement and manage the infrastructure that supports the platform tools and ensuring that upgrades, security patches and other performance improvements are regularly performed.
• Evaluate cloud providers, containerization solutions and other complex technologies to deeply understand the configurations available and create abstractions of common configurations that can be utilized easily by application teams for their workloads.
• Write and execute automated Infrastructure as Code scripts and utilize processes like CI/CD to streamline and automate how the platform infrastructure is provisioned, configured and managed to improve consistency, traceability and repeatability.
• Integrate performance and monitoring best practices including QoS and SLA metrics to scale platform applications and managed services automatically due to demand.
• Incorporate security and disaster recovery best practices into the infrastructure applications by integrating access control, identity management, logging/monitoring, public/private network configurations, data encryption, storage backup and disaster recovery, etc.
• Facilitate the integration of enterprise managed software configurations into deployment pipelines managed by application teams to ensure approved configurations and best practices around security, networking, logging & monitoring, performance & scale, etc. are applied.
• Advocate feedback with service providers and developers, to ensure the platform continues to grow and evolve to meet their needs.

• Scripting, Kubernetes, IBM Websphere Application Server, Linux, Git Hub, Jenkins, Docker, Python

• Kubernetes, Scripting, Linux, IBM Websphere Application Server, Git Hub, Jenkins, Python, Docker

• Engineer 3 Exp: 2+ years in 2 coding languages or advanced practice in 1 language, 6+ years in IT; 4+ years in development.

• Experience with Data Stage on IBM Information Server / Data Stage 11.x versions and good experience in CP4d is nice to have.
• Experience containerizing Data Stage or integration workloads, or familiarity with hybrid Data Stage deployments.
• Experience with enterprise backup and DR solutions for middleware.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Open Shift Administration, IBM Data Stage certifications.
• Platforms: IBM Info Sphere Data Stage, Apache NiFi, Red Hat Open Shift.
• OS: RHEL/SUSE Linux.
• Scripting:
  Bash, Python (or Perl).
• Containers:
  Docker, Kubernetes / Open Shift.
• CI/CD:
  Jenkins, Git Lab CI, ArgoCD, Git Ops concepts.
• SCM:
  Git.

• Bachelor's Degree.

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