Middleware Specialist jobs in Aurora, IL

• 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 – Eg: documentation, monitoring, logging, capacity management, disaster recovery.
• Manage technology platforms' products' lifecycle - 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. Engage on application projects and fulfill platform team's SDLC responsibilities which include 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 to enable sustaining support. 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.

• Web Server expertise - Apache, Nginx, HAProxy. 
• Application Server expertise - WebLogic and Tomcat.
• Security implementation - Oracle Access Manager integration and SSL management. 
• Linux expertise. Shell scripting.

• 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.

• 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.

• An opportunity to be a part of a great culture, an awesome team, a challenging work environment, and some fun along the way!
• Apply today to learn more and be part of our Growth story.

Department: Scout
This is a full time position