Lead Middleware Infrastructure Engineer - Dallas, TX

StradIT•Dallas, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for driving application modernization and migration initiatives from legacy platforms to OpenShift and cloud-native architectures. The engineer will develop and maintain automation solutions for server provisioning, middleware configuration, patching, SSL certificate management, and operational tasks. They will also build and enhance self-service platform capabilities, administer and troubleshoot applications on Red Hat OpenShift, manage Kubernetes resources, and support production incidents. Additionally, the role involves building and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, creating and maintaining Chef Cookbooks, configuring and troubleshooting Apache Tomcat and Red Hat JBoss Web Server environments, and partnering with application development teams. The engineer will also perform application startup analysis, support middleware workloads in AWS, implement and manage SSL/TLS, configure and support observability solutions, automate self-healing capabilities, perform advanced troubleshooting, and collaborate with various engineering teams. Participation in production support rotations, change management, release management, disaster recovery testing, and platform governance is also expected.

Requirements

Version Control Systems: Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub.
Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift.
Application Servers: IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, Redhat JBoss EAP.
Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Chef, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
Cloud Computing Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google cloud, Azure.
Build and Dependency Management: Jenkins, Maven, and Gradle.
Streaming Platform: Apache Kafka.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Ansible.
Operating Systems and Scripting: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Bash Shell script, Java Script and Python.

Responsibilities

Drive application modernization and migration initiatives from legacy platforms to OpenShift and cloud-native architectures.
Develop and maintain automation solutions using Ansible, Chef Cookbooks, Python, and Shell scripting for server provisioning, middleware configuration, patching, SSL certificate management, and operational tasks.
Build and enhance self-service platform capabilities to improve operational efficiency and developer experience.
Administer, configure, and troubleshoot applications running on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP), including Kubernetes resources, Helm Charts, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Routes, Persistent Volumes, and containerized workloads.
Manage Kubernetes resources including Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Services, Ingresses, Routes, and Operators.
Troubleshoot OpenShift cluster, networking, storage, security, performance, and high-availability issues across development, test, and production environments.
Support production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and lead Major Incident Management (MIM) and technical bridge calls during critical outages.
Build, enhance, and support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, Maven, and enterprise deployment frameworks to enable automated deployments and platform lifecycle management.
Create and maintain Chef Cookbooks for Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, SSL certificate automation, middleware patching, platform upgrades, and infrastructure standardization.
Configure, administer, and troubleshoot Apache Tomcat and Red Hat JBoss Web Server (JWS) environments, including server.xml, context.xml, JVM settings, connectors, clustering, session management, security configurations, and application deployments.
Partner with application development teams to onboard, deploy, troubleshoot, and optimize Java-based applications running on OpenShift and VM-hosted platforms.
Perform application startup analysis, thread dump analysis, heap dump analysis, garbage collection tuning, JVM performance optimization, log analysis, and troubleshooting of application connectivity, memory, SSL/TLS, and deployment-related issues.
Support middleware workloads hosted in AWS cloud environments, including deployment automation, upgrades, patching, and operational support.
Implement and manage SSL/TLS, mTLS, certificate lifecycle management, and security compliance controls across middleware platforms.
Configure and support observability solutions using Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk, and Dynatrace for monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, capacity planning, and platform health visibility.
Automate self-healing, auto-remediation, and operational resiliency capabilities to improve platform reliability and reduce manual intervention.
Perform advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance tuning, and production issue resolution for Tomcat, Apache, Java, Spring Boot, and containerized applications.
Collaborate with Application Development, Infrastructure, Security, Cloud Engineering, and Platform Engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and standardized platform solutions.
Participate in production support rotations, change management, release management, disaster recovery testing, and platform governance activities.