Middleware engineer

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a new team member in our Engineering Chapter that wants to work with a diverse set of technologies. As a Middleware Engineer at EBPI you are responsible for engineering of standardised middleware platforms, software and services. If you are the type of Engineer that is interested in a position where you can focus on exploring new possibilities within Middleware, but also learn about other technologies with a high complexity? This could be the job for you.

What will you be doing?

• You will evaluate and approve technical feasibility.
• Work through non-functional requirements and establish solutions as needed.
• You will be responsible for the development of our middleware platform.
• Staying current on new developments in relevant middleware or infrastructure technologies.
• Also you will take an active role in LCM on various middleware products.
• Besides these responsibilities you will also handle 3^rd line support requests, incidents and problems.

What do you bring to the table?  

• Experience in IBM Middleware, TIBCO Middleware, Enterprise Architecture collaboration.
• Experience with Solutions Architecture definition and collaboration.
• Knowledge of highly scalable systems design and architecture.
• A completed relevant IT education and at least 8 years working experience in the field of IT engineering or operations.
• At least 5 years WebSphere experience as (project) engineer and/or operations.
• Knowledge of products like WebSphere Application Server, MQ and IBM Business Process Manager, Datapower, F5.
• Knowledge of and experience in Linux, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Knowledge of and experience in eg. XML, J2EE architecture.
• Experienced in tuning and troubleshooting JVM’s on various WebSphere platforms.
• Experience with configuration management tooling, eg. Ansible,
• Experience with repositories like GIT.
• Experience with Clustering and High Availability.
• Experienced in tuning and troubleshooting.
• Ability to relay ideas concretely
• You know one or more scripting languages like wsadmin, jython, ksh.

​What would be nice to have?

• Preferably knowledge of open source products like JBOSS Glassfish or Tomcat.
• Preferably knowledge of RDBMS, eg. DB2.
• Preferably knowledge of NoSQL, eg. MongoDB.
• Experience with Linux Infrastructure, DB2 Infrastructure or MongoDB Infrastructure.