Middleware Administrator - Infrastructure Engineer II

Bank of America • Newark, NJ

8d • Onsite

About The Position

At Bank of America, the Middleware Administrator - Infrastructure Engineer II supports middleware administration and tool and service design within a technical domain. The role enables business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards, and policies, and helps deliver infrastructure tools and integrations as services. It facilitates deployment of technical solutions through templates, playbooks, and automation, while seeking opportunities to improve implementation and maintenance efficiency and promoting innovation and continuous improvement.

The position provides end-to-end administration for critical banking middleware platforms, including WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, IBM HTTP Server, and WXS. It supports production stability, software patching, installation, configuration, performance tuning, deployments, and Java and middleware support for application and testing teams. The role also contributes to enterprise projects and regulatory initiatives, infrastructure and topology design for high availability and failover, and adherence to policies, baselines, standards, and business requirements.

This role provides subject matter expertise and consultation, helps translate business requirements into technical definitions and deployment materials, and develops software solutions to automate manual or repeatable work. It also supports technical product evaluations, collaborates with internal customers, business partners, team members, and external vendors, and helps resolve organizational impediments. The position is based at the listed Pennington, New Jersey location and is designated first shift, 40 hours per week. Bank of America describes itself as committed to an in-office culture, with flexibility based on role responsibilities and business needs.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of information technology experience with Apache, J2EE, Java, JBoss, WebSphere Application Server, and Tomcat.
• Experience with BPM products, including Appian.
• Linux knowledge.
• Java and container framework knowledge.
• Knowledge of shell, Python, and Perl scripting.
• Understanding of network infrastructure, including HTTP/S, TCP/IP, TLS, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, proxies, and B2B links.
• Experience with release deployment tools, including Ansible, Ansible Tower, XLR, and BitBucket.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with WebSphere Extreme Scale.
• BPM middleware administration experience.
• DevOps experience.
• Experience with BMC Truesight Server Automation, Harman mDeliver, Ansible Tower, or Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end middleware administration for critical banking platforms, including WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, IBM HTTP Server, and WXS.
• Deliver middleware enterprise projects and regulatory or legislative initiatives.
• Support ongoing production stability and keep middleware platforms patched with current software versions to help manage customer risk.
• Install, configure, tune performance, and provide production support for middleware servers.
• Work daily with application and testing teams, providing middleware and Java support.
• Create, maintain, and support application deployment templates.
• Serve as a J2EE architect and recommend J2EE application-development best practices.
• Design middleware infrastructure and topology for high availability and failover.
• Ensure solutions meet policies, baselines, standards, and business requirements.
• Provide technical consultation to team members and supported areas, and communicate with enterprise business partners.
• Consult with internal customers and external vendors at points throughout the software development life cycle.
• Execute production changes for Bank-integrated and regulatory releases precisely.
• Provide subject matter expertise and consulting on technologies, helping Technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers ensure solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.
• Help translate business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and deployment playbooks in compliance with architecture standards and policies.
• Assist in evaluating reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for fitness for purpose.
• Develop software solutions to address manual, repeatable work or inefficient processes.
• Conduct on-site evaluations of third-party products considered for firm adoption.
• Promote an inclusive and healthy working environment and help resolve organizational impediments and blockers.

Benefits

• Benefits eligibility.
• Access to paid time off.
• Resources and support for employees’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness.
• Affordable, competitive, and flexible benefits.
• Eligibility to participate in an annual discretionary incentive plan and award, based on individual performance and behaviors, line-of-business or group performance, and company success.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed