Middleware Engineer-6

Realign Llc; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Realign Llc in Alpharetta, GA is seeking an experienced Middleware Engineer to manage IBM BAW solutions, install and maintain IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, and ensure high availability and performance of automation platforms.

The role covers setup of CP4BA on OpenShift, monitoring and tuning middleware, automation via Ansible/Jenkins, and collaboration with security and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, scalable environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting IBM BAW in production environments.
• Experience setting up CP4BA on Red Hat OpenShift.

Responsibilities

• Lead or participate in setup, configuration, and administration of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) on-premises and cloud.
• Manage middleware components (WebSphere, Liberty, DB2/Oracle, MQ, LDAP) for BAW and CP4BA.
• Perform health checks, capacity planning, monitoring, and performance tuning of middleware environments.

Skills

BAW experience

OpenShift

WebSphere

DB2/Oracle

CI/CD tooling

Ansible

Jenkins

Scripting Bash/PowerShell

HA/DR knowledge

LDAP integration

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenShift

Jenkins

Ansible

Kubernetes

IBM WebSphere

Liberty

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