Middleware Engineer

SATX or Arlington, VA

*US Citizenship Required

Profile/Role Description:

Looking for highly motivated Application Implementation/Infrastructure Support Engineers. Resource will provide integration and operational support for production and lower environment cloud and web based applications with JBoss, MQ, Apache, VMWare, F5 Load balancer and other network and cloud components. Resource will join a team of System Engineers and O&M technicians who work collaboratively with infrastructure engineers, project managers, and end users to make our process run efficiently.

Role responsibilities include:

Provide oversight and expertise in installing, supporting, integrating, and maintaining Red Hat JBoss EAP Application /Apache web servers/AWS Cloud components in development, test integration, and production environments.

Provide production deployment support for VMware virtualized environment by validating and changing performance parameters with J2EE and XML.

Help solution and troubleshoot new application being on-boarded

Help resolve issues by identifying problems, understanding system capabilities, and suggesting solutions

Interface with client app teams to help troubleshooting efforts

Activities:

Running deployment/patching scripts via VMWare vCenter

Perform automated deployments via VMWare and AWS automation tools

Use Splunk as a troubleshooting tool during incident triaging

Troubleshooting deployment issues and application bundles

Coordinate and collaborate with the client and other external teams

Understand how to navigate Apache and JBoss directories and log files

Understand application error codes

Ability to communicate and work well with others

Support the team s after hours on-call rotation

Minimum skills and qualifications:

Bachelor s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field or equivalent relevant experience.

3-5 years of experience in information technology, systems engineering, or other IT related field.

Experience with supporting an AWS Cloud environment and/or pertinent AWS Cloud certifications

Ability to provide infrastructure integration and operational support for web applications with Jboss and Apache

Ability to demonstrate critical thinking, problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Good written and oral communication skills

Preferred skills and qualifications:

Public Trust Clearance - Preferred

Be able to use Splunk or similar SQL querying type tool for application issues on an end-to-end analysis

Ability to provide integration and operational support for web applications with VMWare, F5 Load balancer and other network components

Ability to navigate the Linux OS and use Linux commands

Understand common HTTP error codes (401, 404, etc.) and how to resolve

Understanding of Kubernetes or containerization concepts