WebSphere Automation Engineer

Staffingine LLC; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffingine LLC seeks an Automation Engineer specializing in CI/CD pipeline development. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automation solutions with a strong focus on middleware tasks.

Required qualifications include extensive experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server administration and proficient knowledge of Ansible. This role involves significant troubleshooting of pipeline failures and automation-related problems in production environments, alongside complementary skills in Terraform and other orchestration tools.

Qualifications

• Over 15 years of experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server administration.
• Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Hands-on expertise in Ansible, including playbook development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for applications.
• Implement automation solutions using Ansible for configuration management.
• Troubleshoot deployment issues in enterprise production environments.

Skills

IBM WebSphere Application Server administration

Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Ansible playbook development

Troubleshooting pipeline failures

Integration with Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD

Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Middleware security and SSL configuration

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Automation Engineer for Middleware/Application Server

Duties include developing, deploying, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines used to automate common middleware tasks such as configuration management, server provisioning, and application deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate application build, deployment, validation, and release processes across multiple environments.
• Implement automation solutions using Ansible, including playbook development, configuration management, server provisioning, deployment automation, and middleware administration tasks.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines with automation tools to support continuous delivery, promote environment consistency, and reduce manual intervention.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, deployment issues, and automation‑related problems in enterprise production environments.
• Work with pipeline orchestration platforms such as Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD alongside Ansible automation frameworks.
• Leverage Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to provision and manage infrastructure.
• Ensure middleware security and SSL configuration best practices are applied.

Required Skills

• Deep experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server administration.
• Strong experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Hands‑on expertise in Ansible playbook development and automation for middleware administration.
• Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines with automation tools for continuous delivery.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting pipeline failures and deployment issues in production.
• Experience working with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar orchestration platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform and IaC.
• Experience in middleware security and SSL configuration.

Must‑Have Skills

• Deep experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server administration: over 15 years.
• Strong experience in designing, developing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Hands‑on expertise in Ansible, including playbook development, configuration management, server provisioning, deployment automation, middleware administration tasks, and operational support automation.
• Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines with automation tools to support continuous delivery and reduced manual intervention, using Jenkins.
• Proficient in troubleshooting pipeline failures, deployment issues, and automation‑related problems in enterprise production environments.
• Experience working with pipeline orchestration platforms such as Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD alongside Ansible automation frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience in middleware security and SSL configurations.