Middleware Administrator at Randstad USA

job summary:

Randstad Digital is seeking a middleware engineer to provide on-going enterprise support for middleware running on OpenShift associated with the installation, upgrading, testing, migration and maintenance of software applications & containers. This is 100% remote, however talent must must reside in the 12 state area: Arizona - California - Colorado - Georgia - Illinois - Kansas - Maryland - Massachusetts - Minnesota - Missouri - New Jersey - New York - North Carolina - Ohio - Oregon - Pennsylvania - South Carolina - Texas - Utah - Virginia - Washington - West Virginia

 
location: Richmond, Virginia
job type: Contract
salary: $50 - 52 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: No Degree Required
 
responsibilities:

Required Skills -RedHat OpenShift Container Platform

Middleware

Infrastructure as Code

Relational Database

Kubernetes

Scripting

US citizen, Must reside in the 12 state area: Arizona - California - Colorado - Georgia - Illinois - Kansas - Maryland - Massachusetts - Minnesota - Missouri - New Jersey - New York - North Carolina - Ohio - Oregon - Pennsylvania - South Carolina - Texas - Utah - Virginia - Washington - West Virginia

Job Duties -As the DevOps Middleware Administrator, you will provide on-going enterprise support for middleware running on OpenShift associated with the installation, upgrading, testing, migration and maintenance of software applications, containers.

What You Will Do:

- Follow detailed work plans for both installation and continuing maintenance

- Work with developers, application owners and vendors to facilitate app installs, upgrades and migrations.

- Conduct tests, configure monitoring & alerting for new installations

- Address security, compliance, vulnerability and audit findings

- Produce technical documentation to enable the operational support of migrated workloads.

- Participate in an on-call rotation, which provides 24/7 support to applications the team is responsible for.

- Troubleshoot degraded or impacted applications, participate in Incident Management & After-Action Review calls

- Optimize and automate current manual processes to reduce TOIL (Continual Improvement)

- Work productively within a strict change controlled and locked down environment

Job Requirements -- 5+ years of working with containerized platforms optimizing and troubleshooting complex applications

- Basic understanding or experience with cloud technologies and terminology

- DevOps/DevSecOPs engineering experience - Certificate install, Ansible

- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) - Git Hub,

- Experienced with RedHat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) - will be containerizing the App

- Knowledge of Relational Database Services (RDS). MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL. **1 or 2 of these

- Experience working in with Enterprise Change Management Systems (Remedy, ServiceNow) they use SNOW, understand ITIL principles. Understand large Enterprise concerns

- knowledge of automation/scripting languages/programming languages (Node.js, Python, Shell Scripting (bash)) Very important / helpful

- Middleware knowledge:

- -webserver/application server- JBoss EAP, Adobe ColdFusion, Messaging services (WebSphere MQ) **must have 2 or 3

- IT Security: Networking

- Cryptography (Concepts, Ciphers, Encryption, Key Management and PKI, Internet Security etc.),

- OpenShift/Kubernetes Experience

- Developing apps on Kubernetes

- (Bonus) Administering Kubernetes Experience

- Build pipelines

- Linux background

- System administration

- Scripting

- Networking

- Layered OSI Model

- Technologies

o Java Development Background

? Experienced developing production/enterprise software

? Use of popular Java frameworks (at least one)

- Spring

- Springboot

- Jave EE

- (Bonus) Grails

? Hibernate

Desired Skills & Experience -Agile

Nodejs Development Background

 
qualifications:

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 5 years of experience
• Education: No Degree Required

 
skills:

• DevOps
  

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