Ignite 33

Ignite 33

Senior Middleware Engineer - Oracle WebLogic Cloud

Suitland-Silver Hill, Maryland, United States · Senior

No sponsorshipDetected 65 days ago
JavaBashKubernetesCI/CDLinuxKafkaIncident Response

About the role

  • This role is responsible for maintaining platform stability, scalability, security, observability, and operational performance for mission-critical federal applications and shared services.
  • Troubleshoot middleware incidents involving application deployments, authentication failures, JVM memory utilization, thread contention, connectivity, SSL/TLS certificate issues, and platform performance degradation.
  • 8+ years of enterprise middleware engineering and administration experience.

Responsibilities

  • Engineer, configure, administer, maintain, and optimize Oracle WebLogic middleware environments operating across both cloud-hosted and on-premises infrastructure environments.
  • Deploy, configure, and support enterprise Java applications within clustered Oracle WebLogic environments.
  • Administer, maintain, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot Oracle WebLogic platforms hosted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 8) servers in both on-premises and Amazon EC2-hosted environments.
  • Perform middleware lifecycle maintenance activities including WebLogic patching, version upgrades, JDK upgrades, JDK certificate updates, JVM tuning, configuration management, security remediation, and operational support for enterprise production systems.
  • Provide operations and maintenance support for Oracle WebLogic middleware platforms installed within cloud-hosted enterprise environments, including deployments, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and middleware administration above the operating system layer.
  • Support administration, configuration, patching, and operational maintenance activities for Apache Tomcat and Microsoft IIS middleware environments.
  • Support operational integrations involving Apache Kafka and enterprise messaging services.
  • Support SSL/TLS certificate management, JDK keystore and truststore maintenance, authentication integrations, identity management services, and middleware security hardening activities.
  • Develop automation scripts and operational tooling to streamline middleware administration and recurring maintenance activities.
  • Support CI/CD deployment pipelines and automated deployment workflows for enterprise middleware environments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field.
  • Strong experience with Linux administration, shell scripting, and middleware automation.
  • Strong understanding of Linux system administration concepts related to middleware hosting, application support, service management, log analysis, and operational troubleshooting.

Nice to have

  • Federal government contracting experience.
  • Familiarity with Apache Kafka environments and enterprise messaging architectures.
  • Experience supporting high availability, disaster recovery, and enterprise resiliency initiatives.
  • Oracle Middleware certification preferred.
  • Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
  • Applicants selected may be required to possess and maintain a government clearance US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED

Benefits

  • Configure and maintain operational monitoring, alerting, and centralized logging solutions supporting middleware platform health and operational performance.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Applicants selected may be required to possess and maintain a government clearance US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED

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