Senior Middleware Engineer

Enterprise Middleware Services organization at City National Bank is going through a transformation to scale and support a centralized hybrid cloud middleware ecosystem. Sr. Middleware Engineer will be part of the Enterprise Middleware Services Organization and will be responsible for the Engineering, Security, Compliance and Governance functions for Middleware technologies.

• Install, configure, troubleshoot and deploy applications in an enterprise middleware environment (Weblogic, Websphere, JBoss, tomcat, apache, Node.js, etc).
• Architect, build, and scale middle tier infrastructure and applications
• Partner with Architects, Developers, Project Managers and other engineers to implement middleware solutions and support Business requirements
• Contribute to key technical directions and strategic decision discussions for Middleware solutions
• Provide technical leadership and coordinate with onshore and offshore teams
• Utilize best practices and provide recommendations to improve application and system performance

• Works closely with Information Security to ensure all databases conform to TSS standards.
• Establishes procedures and standards pertaining to middleware management, security and maintenance.
• Works closely with infrastructure team to help design infrastructure requirements for middleware components to ensure high resilience and stability in production and recoverability in a DR environment.
• Designs, develops, maintains, and executes scripts.
• Monitors execution of the loads and resolves operational or other technical issues when necessary.
• Patches environment regularly as per enterprise patching guidelines

• Setting up health check, monitoring and alerting
• Vendor coordination.

• Work well as a team and as an individual with minimal supervision.

Must-Have*

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 7 years of IT experience
• Minimum 5 years experience in database design, administration, programming, and support of at least one industry standard database platform

Skills and Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of Wintel and/or Unix
• Strong knowledge of programming and scripting tools such as Unix Shell, Powershell etc.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise storage solutions
• Azure certification is highly desired
• Strong understanding of Middleware Engineering, Security and Architecture.
• 15+ years of relevant IT experience with a bachelor's degree or an Advanced Degree e.g., Masters
• 7-10 years of experience in Middleware Technologies (IIS, Jboss, Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, Websphere, OpenShift/Container) supporting largescale organization.
• Minimum 2 years Infrastructure-as-Code experience
• Proficient with JBoss Installation, Java EE architecture, JBoss AS Structure and Architecture
• Proficient with Application server/webserver build automation through Chef or Ansible.
• Broad market and technology knowledge combined with the experience managing highly compliant platform and infrastructure services
• Strong process engineering and re-engineering background to ensure controls and processes are accounted for across vertical and horizontal functions validated by continuity and sustainability measures
• Experience designing platform services enabled by hyper infrastructure automation
• Experience in designing, implementing and supporting complex infrastructures across multiple landing zones in a hybrid cloud environment
• Experience working with cloud-based platforms (primarily Azure) in an enterprise environment
• Strong ability to clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message
• Excellent interpersonal skills and influencing ability who can win the confidence of individuals at all levels, both inside and outside of the organization
• Ability to influence resources to deliver in a matrix environment while maintaining high customer satisfaction.
• A strong understanding of Information/Application Security and compliance requirements on premise and in the cloud
• Understanding of cloud ecosystem and leading-edge cloud emerging technologies
• Knowledge of varying architecture methodologies, with demonstrated ability to select and apply the appropriate method to the problem at-hand.