Senior Middleware Administrator

Overview

The Senior Middleware Administrator administers, configures, maintains, secures and automates enterprise middleware platforms and supporting infrastructure, keeping environments highly available, secure and compliant.

What you'll do

• Manage and support IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, Oracle WebLogic, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, and WebSphere Portal environments.
• Perform security remediation activities, vulnerability management, patching, upgrades, and compliance validation.
• Manage SSL/TLS certificates, keystores, truststores, LDAP, Kerberos, Active Directory integration, SSO, and LTPA security.
• Administer Linux and Windows servers supporting middleware environments.
• Design, develop, and maintain automation solutions for middleware administration, patching, compliance validation, and operational support activities.
• Develop and maintain Shell, Python, and JACL scripts to automate recurring administrative tasks.
• Automate deployments, middleware configuration updates, certificate management processes, reporting, and system health checks.
• Support CI/CD deployment processes and enterprise automation tools where applicable.
• Perform middleware performance monitoring, JVM tuning, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Execute change management, incident management, and service restoration activities.
• Maintain documentation, procedures, audit evidence, and compliance records.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of middleware administration experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise WebSphere and WebLogic environments.
• Experience in security remediation, vulnerability management, and audit compliance.
• Demonstrated experience developing automation solutions that improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, WebLogic, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, WebSphere Portal.
• Linux (RHEL, SUSE, AIX, Solaris) and Windows Server administration.
• SSL/TLS, LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos, SSO, security hardening.
• Shell Scripting, Python, JACL, XML, HTML, Awk, Sed, Curl.
• Automation, REST API integration, task scheduling, and operational scripting.
• IBM DB2 and Oracle databases.
• JVM tuning, monitoring, and performance analysis.

Nice to have

• WebSphere Liberty experience.
• Kafka, Zookeeper, Artifactory, WordPress, ServiceNow, or Remedy administration experience.
• Ansible, Jenkins, Git, GitLab CI/CD, or similar automation tools.
• Experience supporting security audits and compliance frameworks.

Details

• Location: USA, remote.
• Applicants should be eligible for any required U.S. Government authorizations for export-controlled commodities and technology.