Senior Middleware/Tomcat/WebLogic Engineer

SFI Spatial Front Incorporated; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a senior Tomcat Administrator to manage and support Tomcat environments, both in cloud and on-premises. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in system administration, application deployments, and automation scripting, while also possessing strong communication skills to engage with senior stakeholders. This position offers a flexible work arrangement with occasional on-site requirements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT experience.
• 5+ years of Tomcat server administration experience.
• Experience with AWS environments.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and troubleshoot Tomcat Server on premise and in AWS.
• Develop scripts for automation using Shell and Ansible.
• Manage patching and security upgrades in the Tomcat environment.

Skills

Tomcat Server Administration

Automation Scripting

Strong Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Description

SFI is seeking a senior Tomcat Administrator with 7 years of combined/mixed IT experience of System Administrator on-premises and cloud environments. The senior candidate for this position is required to install, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot development, test and production environments, multi-node middleware farms consisting of Tomcat Applications on a Linux platform on premise and on AWS. Responsibilities will include application deployments, operation support and troubleshooting the Tomcat environments. Deployment will include developing automation scripts into hybrid architectures consisting of both local and cloud infrastructures. The candidate will need strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex technical topics to senior stakeholders within the client organization. This candidate will be a member of an Operations team of senior Cloud and Middleware administrators.

This role offers a flexible work arrangement, primarily remote with the understanding that occasional on-site presence may be required to support client needs.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support the installation, Configuration, Tuning and Troubleshooting Tomcat Server on premise and in AWS environments.
• Manage and support patching/security fixes/upgrades to Tomcat environment.
• Develop scripts for tasks automation utilizing Shell scripts, Ansible and WLST.
• Support the Installing/Configuring/Administering Apache Web server in Linux environment.
• Support server infrastructure in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery CI/CD and/or DevSecOps deployment.
• Deploy war/ear/jar files into a clustered environment.
• Set and manage Tomcat user security.
• Install, support, and configure Oracle WebLogic servers and migrating applications from WebLogic to Tomcat.
• Create and maintain technical documentation in assigned areas of responsibility.
• Configure Tomcat and WebLogic clusters with SSL certificates.
• Support daily operation tasks through a ticketing system to app owners /users.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent
• 7+ years of IT experience
• 5+ years of Tomcat server administration experience
• Experience in deployment, configuration, and support of Tomcat servers in a middle to large size environment
• Experience supporting Tomcat servers on-premises and AWS environments in Linux Environment
• Sloid experience developing automation scripts using Shell and Ansible
• Experience with DevSecOps automation and deployment
• Familiarity with AWS EKS Cloud Deployments using Cloud Tools
• o Experience in Configuring SAML Authentication/Authorization

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• Proficient in installation, support and troubleshooting of Oracle SSO tier of OAM/OID
• Working knowledge of Java
• Exposure and experience with ORACLE databases
• Knowledge of Oracle fusion middle ware stack of tools
• Able to develop and troubleshoot JSON or YAML object scripts
• Knowledge of AWS operations in migrating on premise application to AWS Cloud environment
• Familiar with AWS services that include EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, CloudFormation, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups
• Assist in Troubleshooting Application Performance Issues

Additional Information

• In order to meet the clearance requirements for this opportunity, candidates must beauthorized to work in the US
• All candidates will be subject to a complete background check to include, but not limited to Criminal History, Education Verification, Professional Certification Verification, Verification of Previous Employment and Credit History.
• Public Trust background investigations can take approximately four to eight weeks and requires fingerprinting.

Other Information

• The salary for this position is$90,000 - $120,000annually
• This role offers a flexible work arrangement, primarily remote with the understanding that occasional on-site presence may be required to support client needs
• For information on SFI's benefits please visit http://www.spatialfront.com/pages/career.html
• This is a full-time W2 position.
• Please no agencies, third parties, or Corp-to-corp.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal-opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
• Spatial Front Inc. participates in E-Verify.