Description:

Requirement :

Legal Compliance and Corporate Governance Technology division (LCG) at our company is looking to onboard a middleware specialist for their Application and Infrastructure Engineering Services (A&IE) group.A&IE provides platform engineering, tooling, automation and elevated production support services conforming to our company security blueprints and focused on performance, reliability and scalability by understanding the technical requirement from application owners and business, participate in technical evaluation of vendors and vendor technologies, conduct proof of concept, packaging and deploying middleware productsThe team also supports strategic initiatives like cloud migration, containerization, SRE, and agile transformation, build and manage services across LCG.This team also partners with central technology teams like Infrastructure, Security, Network, Database and procurement to design and deliver solutions. The team leverages a variety of tools for platform design and application trouble shooting as they also provide level 4 support to the application operations team.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will:

Apply technical skills to design, build and automate application platforms both on premises and cloud.

Partner with other teams in our company like enterprise infrastructure, MIS, networking, security, storage, and database and data center to roll out application platforms successfully as per the design.

Coordinate with development and business teams to obtain sign off for non-functional requirement testing.

Maintain a 360-degree view of an application and its underlying middleware and infrastructure components.

Produce reusable infrastructure designs patterns for future reference and periodically review / refresh the same.

Support vendor / vendor technology onboarding following the our company best practices and security blueprint.

Apply technical skills to automate daily support functions, improve system stability, support hygiene initiatives and deliver innovation that creates efficiency and consistency.

Required Skills:

Hands-on experience of Operating Systems (mainly Linux 6 / 7 and Windows Server 2016 and above) and virtualization technologies like VMWare,

Hands-on working experience of middleware technologies like Cloud platforms (Azure or AWS), Docker containers, Kubernetes, S3, ADLS, web servers (Apache / IBM HTTPD), Application Servers (Web Sphere, Tomcat), Kafka and Airflow to include application integration, configuration and troubleshooting.? Expert level scripting skills using Python (mandatory), Perl and Shell.? Identity management protocols like OIDC / OAuth, SAML, LDAP integration

Basic operational knowledge of RDBMS like DB2, Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres etc. (not all) and query language.

Clear concept of load balancer, firewalls, web proxies and HTTP protocol, storage platforms like NAS / SAN from an implementation perspective only.

Familiar with basic security policies for secure hosting solutions, Kerberos and standard encryption methodologies including SSL and TLS.

Prior experience managing large web-based n-tier applications in secure environments on cloud

Should have worked in an agile delivery model with exposure to CI / CD.

Desired / Nice to have skills:

Exposure to tools like App Dynamics, Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Ansible etc.

Familiarity with NoSQL database (MarkLogic, MongoDB) and query languages.

Exposure to Big Data platforms like Hadoop / Cloudera and Elastic

Should have performed capacity planning and performance tuning exercise

A system architecture / developer work experience.

Experience:

7 plus years in as similar role of hands-on application / middleware specialist.

Prior experience of working in a global financial organization is an advantage.