Middleware Engineer

Realign Llc; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Realign Llc in Alpharetta, GA seeks an experienced Middleware Engineer to manage IBM BAW solutions, install, configure, and maintain IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability.

You will lead setup and operations on OpenShift/Kubernetes, manage middleware stack, perform health checks, patches, automation with Ansible/Jenkins, and collaborate with security and infra teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting IBM BAW in production environments.
• Experience setting up and supporting IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA), ideally on Red Hat OpenShift.
• Strong knowledge of middleware technologies: IBM WebSphere Application Server, Liberty, Elasticsearch, Postgres DB, DB2/Oracle, MQ, FileNet, LDAP integrations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Bash/PowerShell scripting).
• Demonstrated expertise in issue troubleshooting, performance tuning, and environment management.
• Strong knowledge on OpenTelemetry monitoring tools - Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Splunk
• Familiarity with high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR) configurations, and related concepts.
• Experience with cloud and containerization platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Good understanding of ITIL JIRA, Service NOW, Zapplets

Responsibilities

• Lead or participate in CP4BA setup and admin on-prem and cloud.
• Manage middleware components and integrations for BAW.
• Perform health checks, capacity planning, monitoring, and tuning.
• Apply patches, upgrades, and hotfixes minimizing downtime.
• Automate deployment, scaling, and lifecycle tasks with automation tools.
• Develop and maintain runbooks and technical docs.
• Collaborate with dev, OA, infra, and security teams for deployments.
• Implement and monitor HA/DR for IBM BAW and Cloud Pak.
• Provide support for BAW environments, troubleshooting incidents.
• Participate in weekend production deployment and support.
• Ensure security guidelines compliance across the stack.

Skills

BAW experience

Middleware admin

OpenShift/Kubernetes

CI/CD automation

Performance tuning

HA/DR concepts

Monitoring tools

Jira/ServiceNow

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

WebSphere Application Server

Liberty

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

DB2/Oracle

MQ

FileNet

LDAP integration

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Ansible

Bash/PowerShell

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Splunk

Jira

ServiceNow

Zapplets

Job description

Duration: Long Term Contract

Summary

We are seeking an experienced Middleware Engineer to manage, support, and optimize IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) solutions. This role will also be responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability of business automation platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead or participate in the setup, configuration, and administration of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) both on-premises and on cloud (OpenShift/Kubernetes).
• Manage middleware components (WebSphere Application Server/Liberty, DB2/Oracle, MQ, FileNet, LDAP integration, etc.) for BAW and Cloud Pak.
• Perform regular 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 components while minimizing downtime.
• Automate routine tasks involving deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management using tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, or similar.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base articles for internal support teams.
• Collaborate with development, OA, infrastructure, and security teams for environment provisioning, deployments, and troubleshooting cross-functional issues.
• Implement, configure, and monitor HA/DR solutions for IBM BAW and Cloud Pak at the middleware layer.
• Provide support for IBM BAW environments, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of incidents impacting business workflows.
• Participate in weekend production deployment and support.
• Ensure compliance with security guidelines and best practices throughout middleware stack.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW, BPM, or similar) in production environments.
• Experience setting up and supporting IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA), ideally on Red Hat OpenShift.
• Strong knowledge of middleware technologies: IBM WebSphere Application Server, Liberty, Elastic Search, Postgres DB. DB2/Oracle, IBM MO, Kafka, and LDAP integrations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Bash/PowerShell scripting).
• Demonstrated expertise in issue troubleshooting, performance tuning, and environment management.
• Strong knowledge on Open telemetry monitoring tool - Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Splunk
• Familiarity with high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR) configurations, and related concepts.
• Experience with cloud and containerization platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Good understanding of ITIL JIRA, Service NOW, Zapplets