Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities for middleware engineering
•Required to adhere to standards and processes as defined and ensure production implementations adhere to those standards
•Patch Web and JAVA JDK/SDK products on various OS platforms (mainly Redhat and AIX)
•Coordinate patch implementation and post patch testing/validation
•Working with Engineering groups - prepare for support of additional java based Web environments and applications
•rchitect, install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot MQSeries and IBM's Integration Bus in clustered configurations on Linux
•Evaluate new technologies and identify if there is a potential benefit
•The position will be responsible to provide on-call support in a 24/7 environment to diagnose complex technical issues resolve and restore service
•BI Platform - installs and maintains BI and third party products, patches
•Database Administration - administration of Cognos meta data repository and support connections to disparate data marts and data warehouse platforms
•Project managers - to support their project goals
Qualifications for middleware engineer
•Optional skills (will be considered as PLUS) are
•Web - Webserver / Appserver- Webshpere / Weblogic
•Minimum 10+ years architecting and deploying high availability and disaster recovery MQSeries and IBM Integration Bus configurations
•Report developers - to familiarize them with our tool set and the standards we enforce
•pplication developers - to assist in creating interfaces to applications that want to invoke Cognos reports as part of their application
•Users - to assist when they have difficulties