Middleware Consultant

What will you do:

• Applies software engineering principles to the operations domain.

• Ensures service reliability meets users’ needs, including internally critical and externally visible services

• Uses software & systems engineering to design, build, and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems

• Develop API’s using Red Hat technology products and service

• Design, develop, and manage Kafka-based data pipelines

• Provide issue analysis on Kafka applications

• Monitor Kafka performance and troubleshoot issues to minimize downtime and ensure uninterrupted data flow, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency.

• Participates in an on-call rotation within a geographically distributed team to provide 24x7x365 production support, with responsibility to respond to urgent customer issues

• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

• Help us cover domains including microservices, API management, and web-scale architectures, DevOps engineering and application delivery, container-based continuous delivery (CD), i.e., using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform,

• Team up with Red Hat and the open source community to engineer innovation-based software solutions, designed to further accelerate our customers’ success at their transformation journey

• Work as a trusted adviser to our customers and use your critical thinking skills to tackle tough problems in an innovative way

• Train and coach team members both on technical and non-technical skills

• Remain an active coder as this is required during our engagements and maintain deep direct technical knowledge of container management systems (CMSs), application infrastructure, architectures, and development solutions

• Support presales and post-sales field teams during workshops, proofs of concepts, pilots, and production deployments

What will you bring:

• 4+ years of experience and advanced knowledge of middleware technologies, including enterprise web or middleware development project experience with application integration

• Knowledge and some experience in OpenShift by Red Hat;

• Experience with another Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution will also be considered

• Hands on experience using Cloud as a development environment

• JEE and Middleware technology

• Good technical skills and experience designing and implementing JEE solutions.

• Thorough experience with at least one of the major middleware solutions, preferably Red Hat JBoss Middleware; experience in Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, WebMethods, Tibco, etc. will also be considered.

• Hands on experience in application development with Agile approach

• Hands on experience on building pipelines and CI/CD.

• Knowledge on Devops and Microservices

• Enterprise Java development skills are an advantage.

• Knowledge of Hibernate and Tomcat is an advantage.

• Hands-on experience on AMQ, API management like 3scale.

• Ability and desire to learn new technologies on your own and apply new concepts to problems

Good to have Skills:

• Experience with or knowledge of Red Hat’s technologies like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Fuse, Red Hat 3Scale, Red Hat AMQ, or Red Hat AMQ Streams (Kafka)

• Working with some community technologies like Argo CD, Tekton Pipelines, Helm, or Jenkins

• Working with application and infrastructure monitoring

• Experience with or knowledge of JavaScript, Golang, Python, or Shell Scripting

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