Middleware Administrator

Who are we

Circana is a leading provider of market research, data analytics, and consumer insights, serving over 7,000 global brands across 26 industries. Formed through the merger of IRI and NPD, Circana leverages decades of expertise and its proprietary Liquid Data™ platform to help businesses understand consumer behavior, measure market performance, and drive growth. Headquartered in Chicago, the company combines advanced technology, AI, and a vast data ecosystem to deliver actionable intelligence to clients in retail, manufacturing, and consumer packaged goods sectors

Job Responsibilities:

• Server Management: Configure and maintain web and application servers such as Nginx, Apache, Tomcat and commercial product IBM WebSphere Application servers.
• Environment Provisioning: Deploy and manage Python environments, package dependencies, virtual environments, and runtimes.
• Performance Tuning: Analyze logs, javacore and help resolve memory leaks or latency bottlenecks.
• CI/CD Integration: Maintain automated deployment pipelines, continuous delivery mechanisms, and container infrastructure.
• Security & Compliance: Implement server-side security patches, SSL/TLS certificates, and identity access management. Assists in resolving web, application server vulnerabilities in coordination with security team and application engineering.
• Database Maintenance: Configure and troubleshoot connections to relational databases.
• Infrastructure Automation: Build custom Python CLI utilities, cron jobs, and scripts to automate routine system tasks.
• Disaster Recovery: Design, test, and execute server data backup protocols and failover procedures.

Required Skills:

• Python Expertise: Core Python, scripting, and subprocess management.
• Web/App Server Stacks: Deep knowledge of application servers (IBM WebSphere Application Server, Tomcat) and proxy servers (HTTPD server, Nginx) and load balancers.
• OS Administration: Expert proficiency with Linux environments, shell scripting (Bash), and system-level configuration.
• Framework Familiarity: Practical understanding of Python web frameworks.
• Containerization: Experience with Docker containerization and Kubernetes orchestration platforms.
• Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure services (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and infrastructure as code tools like Ansible.
• Networking Protocol: Solid understanding of OSI layer, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, load balancing, and firewall rule configurations.

Experience: 4 to 7 Years

Skills: Middleware administration, IBM Websphere, Python/Shell Scripting, Ansible(good to have)

Location: Whitefield, Bangalore (Hybrid Model)