Sr. WebLogic-Systems Engineer

Titan International Technologies Ltd. - Orlando, FL

Full-time - Senior

Orlando, FL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Sr. WebLogic-Systems Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of middleware infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and availability of applications. This role involves complex troubleshooting, upgrades, and technical support during both critical and non-critical business hours, while adhering to continuous delivery principles. The engineer will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that meet business requirements and proactively address performance and security issues.

Responsibilities

• Supports cross-functional project teams with planning and execution, as well as IT system support and maintenance activities.
• Responsible for engagement with Development, Architecture and Performance Engineering to design solutions that deliver on Operability, Release and Configuration Management, Infrastructure and Application capacity management, and provisioning.
• Learn new third-party software, hardware, and other solutions quickly and integrate them into our platform and other deliverables.
• Deploys, configures, and supports moderately complex middleware and applications in physical, virtual, and containerized environments.
• Provides technical support on middleware and applications (in-house and third-party). Is proactive and reactive for problem alerting, analysis, resolution, and follow-up to ensure platform stability.
• Performs application software upgrades as well as periodic health checks in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Creates and maintains technical reference documentation to be used in support and training of Information Technology personnel.
• Proactively identifies and automates the resolution to availability and performance failures throughout the environment.
• Proactively identifies work requests that can be automated via software automation and orchestration tools.
• Proactively identifies the platform's security vulnerabilities and works with the respective vendors to resolve issues.
• Participates in the creation of corporate standards, best practices, and roadmaps for IT systems and technologies.
• Participates in the creation of designs for corporate IT systems.
• Designs tools, run books, and provides training for operations staff responsible for providing 24*7 site up services for the application portfolio.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience as an Oracle WebLogic administrator, including Oracle WebLogic Dynamic Cluster installations, SOA/OSB upgrades, Java Messaging Administration, Enterprise Manager administration, Oracle 12c WebCenter and Portal Administration, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and applications/web server configuration and maintenance.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with WebLogic environments in excess of 100 instances in a 24/7 environment.
• Demonstrated migration and implementation experience with multiple Oracle technologies and versions, including Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g through 12c, Oracle SOA, OSB, Coherence, Oracle Java Messaging System, Oracle 12c Web Center and Portal Stack of products, and Oracle Enterprise Manager.
• Thorough understanding of WLST scripts, written and executed in all automation activities.
• Thorough knowledge of Python scripts.
• Thorough knowledge of Linux/Unix environments.
• Experience with DevOps Tools and Technologies such as Jenkins, SVN, TFS, and Release Automation.
• Experience with Kafka Messaging Framework, preferably Confluent Kafka.
• Understanding of Azure Cloud Technologies, including Azure Spring and Function Apps.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated experience with Git, Artifactory, Ansible, and Puppet.
• Tomcat and JBoss Application server experience.
• TLS, SSL, and Certificate management.
• Azure DevOps Administration with experience in build pipelines.
• Layer 7 Gateway Administration.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k plan
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities