DevOps Middleware Specialist

We are searching for a Talented DevOps Middleware specialist for our Client, a prestigious financial institution in Chicago. Client will sponsor the right candidate.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop new technology platforms on traditional on-site VMs, private cloud (Pivotal) and public cloud (Azure, AWS).
• Establish technology standards and ensure compliance – Eg: documentation, monitoring, logging, capacity management, disaster recovery.
• Manage technology platforms' products' lifecycle - patches and upgrades.
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems on technology platforms. 
• Enhance technology stack by building new capabilities and automation.
• Provide technology guidance to Business Units. Engage on application projects and fulfill platform team's SDLC responsibilities which include environment provisioning, functional and load test support, performance tuning and validation of standards compliance.
• Provide necessary documentation, knowledge transfer and oversight to the 24x7 support team to enable sustaining support. Act as the last level of escalation on production incidents.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure teams to facilitate lifecycle activities on network, OS, database and messaging systems.
• Handle occasional off-hours support escalations and project work in maintenance windows.

Requirements
Must have:
Web Server expertise - Apache, Nginx, HAProxy. 
Application Server expertise - WebLogic and Tomcat.
Security implementation - Oracle Access Manager integration and SSL management. 
Linux expertise. Shell scripting.

Highly desired:
Development using GIT based products.
Experience with Nexus or Artifactory.
Experience with automation using languages such as Java, C++, Python, Golang.
Experience building CI/CD pipeline using Bamboo or Azure DevOps.
Architect and implement solutions using container orchestration technologies such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
Build solutions on private cloud (Pivotal - PCF, PKS, Azure) and/or public cloud (Azure, AWS).
Design and implement monitoring and logging solutions using Azure Insights, ELK and Sysdig.
Experience with Ansible.
Experience building platforms that support Java/JEE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Microservices, Response UI Frameworks such as Angular/React.

Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
8+ years of experience in systems design and development.
8+ years of experience as Subject Matter Expert of critical production systems.
4+ years of experience with DevOps and Cloud solutions.

Full Benefits including Bonus.

Will Sponsor Visa for the right candidate.

Sage Talent Resources Group provides full-service staffing solutions to both employers and candidates.  We are a group of seasoned Recruiters with our average employee having over 15 years of experience.  We offer 100% transparency to both candidates and employers.