Senior Middleware Ops: WebSphere to Liberty

PrimeIT; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 13,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Prime Academy

Prime Mobility

Prime Health

Food Allowance

Flex Benefits

Job summary

PrimeIT is seeking a Senior Middleware Operations Engineer to ensure stability of WebSphere services and drive the modernization toward Liberty in a hybrid Lisbon setup. You will manage incidents, migrations, and deployments with automation tools, while coordinating across middleware, infra and production teams.

Experience in WebSphere, Liberty, Ansible, XL Deploy/XL Release, Shell and Python is required, along with English proficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of middleware operations experience in production support.
• Hands-on WebSphere Application Server administration.
• Migration delivery from WebSphere ND/Base to Liberty.
• Liberty configuration, deployment and troubleshooting skills.
• Linux/Unix, JVM fundamentals, security and log analysis.
• Experience with monitoring, incidents and production stabilization.
• Familiarity with Ansible and XL Deploy/XL Release or equivalents.
• Shell scripting and Python knowledge.
• Understanding COBOL ecosystem constraints and workloads.
• Ability to manage RUN activities autonomously and escalate risks.

Responsibilities

• Ensure stability, reliability and support of WebSphere production environments.
• Manage L2/L3 incidents, investigate runtime issues and restore services.
• Support migration activities to Liberty from WebSphere ND/Base.
• Review monitoring, optimize performance and analyze server resources.
• Support patching, lifecycle activities and remediation of technical debt.
• Automate tasks and support deployments using Ansible and XL Deploy/XL Release.
• Prepare operational runbooks and handovers for migrations.
• Coordinate with middleware, infrastructure and production scheduling teams.

Skills

Middleware operations experience

Linux/Unix fundamentals

JVM fundamentals

Incident management

Performance optimisation

Shell scripting

Python scripting

Automation concepts

Tools

WebSphere Application Server

XL Deploy/XL Release

Ansible

Shell

Python

Linux/Unix

COBOL ecosystem awareness

Workload automation (TWS or equivalent)

Job description

PrimeIT is seeking a Senior Middleware Operations Engineer to ensure stability of WebSphere services and drive the modernization toward Liberty in a hybrid Lisbon setup. You will manage incidents, migrations, and deployments with automation tools, while coordinating across middleware, infra and production teams.

Experience in WebSphere, Liberty, Ansible, XL Deploy/XL Release, Shell and Python is required, along with English proficiency.