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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