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About the Role
Guardian is seeking a skilled Middleware Engineer to engineer and operate secure, resilient IBM MQ services, administer and improve IBM WebSphere Application Server and Apache Tomcat platforms, and automate operational tasks. This role involves enterprise-wide collaboration and leading technical troubleshooting for complex middleware incidents.
Responsibilities
- Enterprise-wide collaboration with application, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, compliance, network, and operations teams.
- Engineer and operate secure, resilient IBM MQ services, including Native High Availability, clustering, distributed messaging, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Administer and improve IBM WebSphere Application Server and Apache Tomcat platforms, including configuration, patching, upgrades, integrations, performance, and production support.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, validation, monitoring, and operational tasks using scripting, DevOps pipelines, and configuration-management tools.
- Lead technical troubleshooting for complex middleware incidents and problems, complete root-cause analysis, and implement durable corrective and preventive actions.
- Collaborate across application, infrastructure, cloud, network, cybersecurity, compliance, and operations teams to deliver middleware solutions aligned with enterprise standards, technology strategy, risk requirements, and business priorities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of middleware engineering or administration experience supporting mission-critical enterprise applications.
- Extensive hands-on experience with IBM MQ v9.3/v9.4, including installation, configuration, upgrades, migrations, security hardening, performance tuning, and enterprise production support.
- Strong experience with IBM MQ Native High Availability, including deployment, administration, failover testing, troubleshooting, monitoring, patching, and production support.
- Experience designing and supporting high availability and disaster recovery architectures for enterprise messaging platforms.
- Experience with MQ clustering, distributed queuing, publish/subscribe, and enterprise messaging patterns.
- Expertise implementing end-to-end security for messaging and integration technologies.
- Experience integrating IBM MQ with IBM WebSphere Application Server, Apache Tomcat, IBM App Connect Enterprise or IBM Integration Bus, and enterprise Java applications.
- Strong working knowledge of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment and Apache Tomcat administration and support.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across MQ, WebSphere, Tomcat, Java Virtual Machines, application deployments, connectivity, performance, and security.
- Proficiency with Linux or Unix administration and shell scripting for automation and operational efficiency.
- Experience with DevOps and automation tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, GitHub, or GitLab.
- Exposure to Amazon Web Services and hybrid-cloud middleware architectures.
- IBM Certified MQ Administrator certification.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or equivalent cloud certification.
- Experience with Splunk, AppDynamics, Amazon CloudWatch, or comparable observability platforms.
- Experience supporting middleware modernization, cloud migration, or platform transformation initiatives.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.
Skills
- IBM MQ v9.3/v9.4
- IBM MQ Native High Availability
- MQ clustering
- Distributed queuing
- Publish/subscribe
- Enterprise messaging patterns
- End-to-end security for messaging and integration technologies
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
- Apache Tomcat
- IBM App Connect Enterprise
- IBM Integration Bus
- Enterprise Java applications
- IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
- Linux administration
- Unix administration
- Shell scripting
- DevOps
- Automation tools
- Jenkins
- Ansible
- Puppet
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Amazon Web Services
- Hybrid-cloud middleware architectures
- Splunk
- AppDynamics
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Observability platforms
- Middleware modernization
- Cloud migration
- Platform transformation
Location
- Primary location of the position
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years of middleware engineering or administration experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $86,210.00 - $141,635.00
Benefits
- Skill-building
- Leadership development
- Philanthropic opportunities
- Supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources
About the Company
- At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
- As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.
Equal Opportunity
- Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
- Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MyHR@glic.com. Please note: this resource is for accommodation requests only. For all other inquires related to your application and careers at Guardian, refer to the Guardian Careers site.