Contract IBM Middleware Engineer — Onsite in Alpharetta

Themesoft Inc; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Job summary

The IBM Middleware Engineer role with Themesoft Inc in Alpharetta, GA is an onsite contract position requiring three days in office. Duration expected 6-12+ months.

You will manage IBM BAW solutions and install/configure IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation to ensure high availability and performance. Responsibilities include CP4BA setup on-prem/cloud, middleware management (WAS/Liberty, DB2/Oracle, MQ, LDAP), health checks, patches, automation with Ansible/Jenkins, and cross-team collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 3+ years hands-on experience supporting IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) in production.
• Experience configuring IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA), ideally on Red Hat OpenShift.
• Strong middleware and integration knowledge including WebSphere, Liberty, DB2/Oracle, MQ, FileNet, LDAP.

Responsibilities

• Lead or participate in setup, configuration, and administration of CP4BA on-premises and cloud (OpenShift/Kubernetes).
• Manage middleware components (WebSphere, Liberty, DB2/Oracle, MQ, FileNet, LDAP integration) for BAW and Cloud Pak.
• Perform health checks, capacity planning, system monitoring, and performance tuning of middleware and workflow environments.
• Execute patches, upgrades, and hotfixes for IBM BAW and related middleware with minimal downtime.
• Automate deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management using tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, or similar.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base articles.
• Collaborate with development, OA, infrastructure, and security teams for provisioning and troubleshooting.
• Implement, configure, and monitor HA/DR solutions for IBM BAW and Cloud Pak at the middleware layer.
• Provide support for IBM BAW environments, including root cause analysis and incident resolution.
• Participate in weekend production deployment and support.
• Ensure compliance with security guidelines and best practices throughout middleware stack.

Skills

Middleware expertise

CI/CD automation

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Security compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related

Tools

WebSphere Application Server

Liberty

DB2/Oracle

Elastic Search

Kafka

LDAP integration

Jenkins

Ansible

Bash/PowerShell scripting

OpenShift

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

JIRA

ServiceNow

Zapplets

Job description

The IBM Middleware Engineer role with Themesoft Inc in Alpharetta, GA is an onsite contract position requiring three days in office. Duration expected 6-12+ months.

You will manage IBM BAW solutions and install/configure IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation to ensure high availability and performance. Responsibilities include CP4BA setup on-prem/cloud, middleware management (WAS/Liberty, DB2/Oracle, MQ, LDAP), health checks, patches, automation with Ansible/Jenkins, and cross-team collaboration