Remote DevOps Engineer – JBoss Middleware & Azure Pipelines

Optomi

Des Moines (IA)

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USD 130,000 - 170,000

Full time

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Benefits offered by this job

100% remote

Long-term opportunity

Collaborative team environment

Leadership visibility

Onshore middleware/DevOps growth

Production/staging ownership

Job summary

Optomi, in partnership with a leading technology and consulting organization, is seeking a Senior Consultant to manage middleware environments on JBoss EAP, while administering Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation. This role supports production readiness, go-live activities, and modernization efforts across multiple teams.

The ideal candidate has hands-on JBoss EAP, clustering, and failover experience, plus Azure DevOps administration and release management expertise.

Qualifications

Hands-on experience administering JBoss EAP 7.x/8.x.
Experience with JBoss standalone and domain modes.
Experience with JBoss clustering and failover.
Azure DevOps administration and CI/CD pipeline management.
Experience with Azure Repos, branching strategies, pull requests, and branch policies.
Release management and deployment automation experience.
Middleware and web server administration experience.
Production support, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution experience.
Ability to independently manage production and staging environments.

Responsibilities

Provision, install, configure, monitor, and administer JBoss EAP environments across development, QA, staging, and production.
Configure and support JBoss clustering and failover to maintain high availability.
Administer and troubleshoot integrations between JBoss, web servers, and enterprise applications.
Manage Azure DevOps integrations with JBoss for automated application deployments.
Manage Azure DevOps workflows, including branching, pull requests, approvals, release tagging, and access controls.
Configure and support Azure Pipelines for automated builds, deployments, testing, artifact management, and environment promotions.
Package and deploy enterprise applications to JBoss using GUI and CLI tools.
Perform post-deployment validation, smoke testing, log analysis, health checks, and performance verification.
Develop rollback procedures, deployment runbooks, operational checklists, and release documentation.
Provide day-to-day middleware administration and production operational support.
Monitor applications and troubleshoot authentication, web server, and JBoss runtime issues.
Plan and execute JBoss upgrades, fix packs, and patching activities.
Perform performance tuning and analyze logs, thread dumps, and heap dumps to identify bottlenecks.
Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventative actions.
Develop Shell/Bash scripts to automate health checks, deployments, maintenance, and operational tasks.
Monitor system utilization, perform capacity planning, and identify infrastructure bottlenecks.
Collaborate with infrastructure, security, networking, application support, and DevOps teams.
Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge base materials.
Provide technical guidance and training to support teams when needed.