Middleware Administrator

International Turnkey Systems - ITS; Kuwait City; On-site; KWD 12,000 - 19,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown Islamic Bank in Kuwait City seeks a Middleware Technical Support Engineer to administer, monitor, troubleshoot, and support enterprise middleware platforms that connect applications with backend systems.

The role ensures high availability, performance, security, and rapid resolution of production incidents while supporting critical services. 5+ years in middleware/app support and experience with OpenShift, WebLogic, API gateways, and Unix/Linux are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Middleware/Application Support experience.
• Experience with WebLogic, OpenShift, API Gateway, and Unix/Linux.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management abilities.
• Experience developing/resting SOAP/REST web services and handling load balancing.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and support middleware production environments 24x7.
• Troubleshoot application, middleware, and infrastructure issues.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive actions.
• Deploy and validate application releases.
• Support incident, problem, and change management.
• Monitor system health, availability, and performance.
• Coordinate with application, infrastructure, database, and vendor teams.
• Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Perform capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Support Disaster Recovery (DR) testing.
• Automate operational tasks using scripting.
• Ensure compliance with security and operational standards.

Skills

Middleware Support

OpenShift

Kubernetes

WebLogic

Unix/Linux

API Gateway

IBM MQ

REST/SOAP

Load Balancing

Security

Tools

oc CLI

WebLogic Admin Console

NGINX

JMX/JVM Tuning

Job description

For a well-known Islamic Bank, we are looking for Middleware Technical Support Engineer to be responsible for the administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and support of enterprise middleware platforms that enable integration between applications and backend systems. Ensure high availability, performance, security, and timely resolution of production incidents while supporting business-critical services.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and support middleware production environments 24x7.
• Troubleshoot application, middleware, and infrastructure issues.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement preventive actions.
• Deploy and validate application releases.
• Support incident, problem, and change management.
• Monitor system health, availability, and performance.
• Coordinate with application, infrastructure, database, and vendor teams.
• Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Perform capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Support Disaster Recovery (DR) testing.
• Automate operational tasks using scripting.
• Ensure compliance with security and operational standards.

Required Experience

• 5+ years of Middleware/Application Support experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise production environments.
• Experience with WebLogic, OpenShift, API Gateway, and Unix/Linux.

Required Technical Skills

OpenShift & Container Platforms

• Strong experience in OpenShift administration and Kubernetes fundamentals
• Proficiency with oc command operations, including: Pods, Deployments, ReplicaSets, Services, Routes, ConfigMaps, Secrets Logs and Events monitoring. Rollout management, scaling, and resource utilization

Oracle WebLogic

• Expertise in Oracle WebLogic administration
• Domain and cluster configuration and management
• Node Manager operations and application deployment
• JVM tuning, thread/heap analysis, and connection pool optimization
• Security management, including SSL configuration

Middleware & Integration Technologies

• Administration of API Gateways
• Experience with IBM MQ and JMS messaging
• Development and integration of REST/SOAP Web Services
• Knowledge of load balancing and reverse proxy technologies (F5, NGINX)
• Familiarity with IIS and Tomcat (preferred)

Database Platforms

Hands-on experience with one or more of the following:

• Oracle Database
• Sybase ASE
• Microsoft SQL Server

Preferred Knowledge

• Banking middleware architecture
• High Availability (HA)
• Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Microservices
• Kubernetes
• API Management
• OAuth, JWT, SSL/TLS
• ITIL
• TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, Load Balancing