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Unclassified - Chicago, IL
posted 2 months ago
About the position
The DevOps Associate Specialist (Middleware) role is focused on designing and developing technology platforms across various environments, including traditional on-site VMs, private cloud, and public cloud. The position involves establishing technology standards, managing product lifecycles, troubleshooting issues, and enhancing the technology stack through automation. The specialist will also provide guidance to business units and support the platform team's responsibilities in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Responsibilities
- Design and develop new technology platforms on traditional on-site VMs, private cloud (Pivotal) and public cloud (Azure, AWS).
- Establish technology standards and ensure compliance, including documentation, monitoring, logging, capacity management, and disaster recovery.
- Manage technology platforms' products' lifecycle, including patches and upgrades.
- Troubleshoot and resolve problems on technology platforms.
- Enhance technology stack by building new capabilities and automation.
- Provide technology guidance to Business Units and engage on application projects.
- Fulfill platform team's SDLC responsibilities, including environment provisioning, functional and load test support, performance tuning, and validation of standards compliance.
- Provide necessary documentation, knowledge transfer, and oversight to the 24x7 support team.
- Act as the last level of escalation on production incidents.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure teams to facilitate lifecycle activities on network, OS, database, and messaging systems.
- Handle occasional off-hours support escalations and project work in maintenance windows.
Requirements
- Web Server expertise - Apache, Nginx, HAProxy.
- Application Server expertise - WebLogic and Tomcat.
- Security implementation - Oracle Access Manager integration and SSL management.
- Linux expertise and shell scripting.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in systems design and development.
- 8+ years of experience as Subject Matter Expert of critical production systems.
- 4+ years of experience with DevOps and Cloud solutions.
Nice-to-haves
- Development using GIT based products.
- Experience with Nexus or Artifactory.
- Experience with automation using languages such as Java, C++, Python, Golang.
- Experience building CI/CD pipeline using Bamboo or Azure DevOps.
- Architect and implement solutions using container orchestration technologies such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
- Build solutions on private cloud (Pivotal - PCF, PKS, Azure) and/or public cloud (Azure, AWS).
- Design and implement monitoring and logging solutions using Azure Insights, ELK, and Sysdig.
- Experience with Ansible.
- Experience building platforms that support Java/JEE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Microservices, Response UI Frameworks such as Angular/React.
Benefits
- An opportunity to be a part of a great culture.
- An awesome team and a challenging work environment.
