Senior IBM Sterling MFTS Engineer – OpenShift & 24/7 Support

Volto Consulting; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Volto Consulting seeks an experienced MFT engineer for full-time on-site work in Bellevue, WA. The role requires deep expertise with IBM Sterling File Gateway and related Sterling tools, plus strong security, UNIX, and cloud skills.

You will provide Level 3 production support and drive secure file transfer implementations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage incidents, and develop automation to improve transfer reliability and performance in a 24/7 environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in engineering, development and support of MFT solutions.
• Experience with IBM Sterling suite and related components.
• Strong knowledge of secure file transfer protocols (FTP, SFTP, FTPS, SSH, HTTPS).
• Unix/Shell scripting and system health monitoring.
• Knowledge of cryptographic standards and key exchanges (FIPS, ciphers).
• SQL development and Oracle database troubleshooting.
• Experience configuring Sterling Control Center and Jasper reporting.
• Familiar with cloud deployments, especially OpenShift.
• Proven 24/7 production support and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Provide Level 3 support to promptly resolve issues.
• Manage end-to-end file transfer lifecycle: planning, scheduling, execution and monitoring.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
• On-call support and incident response.
• Monitor performance and implement alerting with automation.
• Ensure security/compliance and protect data throughout transfers.
• Build automation and self-service tools to streamline data transfers.
• Develop and run web-based reports on transfer operations and KPIs.
• Drive integrations with new file transfer processes and platforms.
• Coordinate with teams to implement secure file transfer solutions.

Skills

MFT Expertise

Unix/Linux

SQL/Oracle

Security/ Cryptography

Cloud/OpenShift

Scripting (Shell)

Incident & Change Mgmt

L3 Production Support

Networking basics

Automation & Tooling

GitLab

Splunk

ServiceNow

Tools

IBM Sterling File Gateway

Sterling B2Bi Integrator

Sterling Control Center

FTP/SFTP/FTPS/SSH

OpenShift

Oracle Database

GitLab DevSecOps

Splunk Platform

ServiceNow

Networking & Firewalls

Job description

Volto Consulting seeks an experienced MFT engineer for full-time on-site work in Bellevue, WA. The role requires deep expertise with IBM Sterling File Gateway and related Sterling tools, plus strong security, UNIX, and cloud skills.

You will provide Level 3 production support and drive secure file transfer implementations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage incidents, and develop automation to improve transfer reliability and performance in a 24/7 environment.