Senior DevOps and Middleware Platform Engineer

Job Description

Senior DevOps and Middleware Platform Engineer

Position Summary

The Senior DevOps and Middleware Platform Engineer is responsible for the architecture, engineering, administration, automation, security, and operational support of enterprise middleware and DevOps platforms. The role covers traditional middleware, web servers, container platforms, CI/CD services, infrastructure automation, certificate management, monitoring, and application deployment services across on-premises and public-cloud environments.

The position provides end-to-end technical ownership of middleware services, including platform design, installation, configuration, qualification, patching, performance optimization, high availability, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation, lifecycle management, and production support. The engineer will collaborate with application teams, infrastructure teams, security functions, service providers, and technology vendors to deliver reliable, secure, scalable, and compliant platform services in accordance with Novartis standards.

Key Responsibilities

In-Scope Technologies

Middleware and Web Platforms

• Red Hat JBoss Core Services HTTP Server
• Oracle WebLogic Server
• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
• Microsoft Internet Information Services
• Apache Tomcat
• Nginx

DevOps and Automation

• Jenkins CI/CD
• Ansible
• Git and Bitbucket
• JFrog Artifactory
• Sonatype Nexus Repository
• Python
• Shell scripting
• REST API integrations

Container Platforms

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Container registries
• Kubernetes ingress and service configurations
• Container deployment and release automation

Security and Certificate Services

• DigiCert certificate services
• Public Key Infrastructure
• TLS certificates
• Java keystores and trust stores
• Windows certificate stores
• Secrets and credential-management solutions
• Enterprise monitoring and log-management tools
• IT service-management and change-management platforms

Core Technical Skills

• Enterprise middleware architecture, engineering, and administration
• Web-server installation, configuration, security, and troubleshooting
• CI/CD pipeline engineering and release automation
• Infrastructure and configuration automation using Ansible
• Python and shell scripting
• Git-based version control and branching practices
• Artifact repository administration and integration
• Docker image creation and container lifecycle management
• Kubernetes application deployment and troubleshooting
• Linux and Windows Server administration
• JVM configuration, analysis, and performance tuning
• Middleware clustering, load balancing, and session management
• High-availability and disaster-recovery engineering
• TLS certificate and keystore management
• Middleware security hardening and vulnerability remediation
• Monitoring, logging, alerting, and event analysis
• Capacity planning and performance optimization
• Application deployment, release, and rollback management
• Incident, problem, change, and configuration management
• Technical documentation and platform qualification

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least five years of relevant experience in DevOps engineering, middleware administration, platform engineering, application infrastructure, or production operations.
• Hands-on experience with several supported middleware technologies, including WebLogic, JBoss, Apache or JBCS HTTPD, Tomcat, IIS, and Nginx.
• Practical experience with Jenkins, Ansible, Git or Bitbucket, and JFrog Artifactory or Nexus.
• Experience developing automation using Python and shell scripting.
• Working experience with Docker and Kubernetes application deployments.
• Experience installing, configuring, patching, upgrading, and troubleshooting enterprise middleware platforms.
• Strong understanding of application deployment, web protocols, TLS, DNS, reverse proxies, load balancing, and network connectivity.
• Experience with certificate signing requests, server certificates, keystores, trust stores, and certificate renewal processes.
• Experience with monitoring, log analysis, performance tuning, capacity management, and production support.
• Experience supporting high-availability and disaster-recovery configurations.
• Experience working within formal incident, problem, change, release, and service-management processes.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to participate in on-call, planned maintenance, and major incident support when required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting middleware services in regulated or validated enterprise environments.
• Experience performing platform qualification and preparing installation qualification documentation and evidence.
• Experience supporting applications and middleware hosted on public-cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines with security scanning, testing, artifact repositories, and change-management systems.
• Experience with DigiCert or another enterprise certificate lifecycle-management platform.
• Knowledge of API gateways, application security controls, reverse proxies, and web application firewalls.
• Experience with platform migration, modernization, technology currency, and end-of-life remediation programs.
• Familiarity with observability platforms, centralized logging, application performance monitoring, and automated health checks.
• Knowledge of ITIL practices and enterprise service-management processes.
• Relevant certifications in DevOps, Kubernetes, Red Hat, Oracle WebLogic, Microsoft, cloud platforms, Ansible, or information security.