Middleware Infrastructure Engineer ll

Bank of America•Pennington, AL

2d•$104,200 - $155,300•Onsite

About The Position

This job is responsible for tool and service designs within a technical domain that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include creating infrastructure tools and their integration as a service, facilitating deployment of technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include looking for opportunities to improve efficiency when implementing and maintaining tools/services and embracing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Information Technology professional with 7 years of experience
Middleware products: Apache, J2EE, Java, JBoss, WebSphere Application Server, Tomcat
Operating System: Linux
Java/Container Framework Knowledge
Knowledge of shell, jython, and perl scripting
Understanding of Network infrastructure (HTTP/S, TCP/IP, TLS,DNS, Load-balancers, firewalls, proxies, B2B links)
Experience with Release Deploy Tools: Ansible, Ansible Tower, XLR, BitBucket
Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong attention to detail

Nice To Haves

Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
Prior Bank of America experience
Worked with WebSphere Extreme Scale, BPM Middleware Administration
DEVOPS experience
Other products: BMC Truesight Server Automation, Harman mDeliver, Ansible Tower, Terraform.

Responsibilities

Provides subject matter expertise and consulting services on a range of technologies and assists Technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers to ensure that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
Assists with translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
Assists in the evaluation of reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose
Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes
Conducts on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption
Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
Contributes to the creation/selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains
Provide middleware administration duties for critical banking platforms, end-to-end, including WebSphere, jBoss, Tomcat, Apache, IBM HTTP Server, and WXS (extreme scale cache);
Delivering middleware enterprise projects and regulatory legislative initiatives;
Ensuring production stability from an ongoing support standpoint;
Ensuring middleware platforms are patched with the most current version of software, helping to manage risk to the customer;
Providing Middleware Server administration which includes server installation, configuration, performance tuning and production support;
Working with customers (application teams and/or testing teams) on a daily basis and providing Middleware and Java support;
Create, maintain and support the application deployment templates;
Serving as a J2EE architect and making recommendations on J2EE best practices in application development;
Designing Middleware infrastructure and topology design for high availability and failover capability; All solutions must meet all Policy, Baseline, and Standards along with business requirements.
Providing technical consultation to other team members and their supported areas; Communicating with business partners at an enterprise level;
Interfacing with internal customers and external vendors for consultation at various points of the software development life cycle (SDLC); and, Executing production changes for Bank integrated and regulatory releases with precision.