Senior Middleware Administrator

Description & Requirements

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Middleware Software Administrator to contribute to design, deployment, and support of middleware technologies that enable seamless communication between applications. This role demands deep understanding in middleware platforms such as but not limited to Microsoft Server, Microsoft SQL platforms, Apache Tomcat, and JBoss. This role will play a significant part in ensuring performance, operations & maintenance, scalability, and security across our application ecosystem.

This position is remote.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform work submitted by the project when reporting application issues such as performance and service availability.
- Application service management for all managed instances which includes monitoring request for compliance with corporate change policy standards.
- Manage the execution of all environmental changes such as deployments or key configuration changes performed outside the application.
- Manage the shutdown, recovery and testing of all impacted applications during Operating System patching cycles.
- Perform new environment startups and builds which comply with the application administration build standards.
- Manage application administrations and user provisioning as required or when these tasks cannot be delegated without introducing stability issues within the supported solution.
- Participate in after- hours support for assistance in production recovery or time sensitive changes which can only occur outside of standard business hours.
- Provide cross team mentoring and training to assist in propagating application knowledge to the junior team members and assist in strengthening their skills to avoid accidental application impacts to supported environments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Administer, configure, and maintain middleware platforms across development, test, and production.
- Troubleshoot performance and integration issues, lead root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with developers, security, and infrastructure teams.
- Monitor system performance, implement tuning, and manage SSL/security compliance.
- Support patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and disaster recovery.
- Document configurations and operational procedures.

Minimum Requirements:

- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or an additional 4 years of relevant professional experience in lieu of degree.
- Proficiency with Unix shell scripting, automation tools (Puppet/Ansible), clustering, and load balancing.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
- Experience across all phases of the system development life cycle.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 5+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

- Master's degree preferred.

- Weblogic, Tomcat or TC server and apache experience.
- In-depth knowledge of administration in a UNIX (Solaris) or Linux (RHEL) command-line environment.
- Proficient in writing and maintaining Unix shell scripts to automate system tasks.
- Experience with Puppet/Ansible or equivalent technologies.
- Optimize application performance by tuning application server components
- Thorough understanding of architectural elements required to support large installations and maintain high availability such as clustering, and load balancing w.r.t above listed applications.
- Able to work in fast paced environments and have understanding of programming environments.
- Proactive, can-do attitude whose actions work toward continuous process improvement.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, knowledge sharing, collaborative and mentoring skills.
- Superior troubleshooting and diagnostic abilities.
- Must be able to write effective technical documents and reports as a primary focus of daily duties.
- Excellent communication ability (verbal, written, and presentation) and a effective team player.
- Experience supporting all phases of the system development life cycle including development, testing, QA and production.
- Must exercise effective judgment and follow established procedures in support of production, 24x7, and other critical environments.
- Experience in installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Kofax Capture solutions a plus.
- Experience within supporting one or more of the following application instances desired: LifeRay, Crystal Report Server, Siebel CRM, OBIEE, OID, Oracle Forms and Reports, JIRA, IBM SmartCloud, Comodo TFA, InQuira, OnDemand, MicroStrategy, Hyperic, OEM, F5 and/or VMware Ops Center.
- Relevant industry certifications (Java, Unix/Linux, MCSE, Application Server, Database, Image Capture) preferred.
- Familiar with Microsoft IIS administration, configuration, and deployments for .NET applications preferred.
- Experience with database related utilities and tools such as Oracle SQL*Plus, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Manager, and Microsoft Data Sources preferred.
- Knowledge of government sponsored health care programs and systems preferred.

Preferred:

- AWS, COTS/ETL integration, SSO/TFA, Federal security standards, database tools (Oracle/MS SQL).

EEO Statement


Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Pay Transparency


Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

Minimum Salary


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100,000.00

Maximum Salary


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110,000.00