Middleware devops engineer

Contract

Pan India

Middleware Administration

- Strong hands-on experience in middleware platforms such as WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, Nginx, or equivalent.
- Experience in installation, configuration, upgrade, patching, SSL certificate renewal, clustering, deployment, and performance tuning of middleware components.
- Good knowledge of application server logs, JVM parameters, thread dumps, heap dumps, data source configuration, connection pools, and troubleshooting production issues.

Jenkins & CI/CD Pipeline
- Strong command of Jenkins administration including jobs, folders, credentials, plugins, agents, shared libraries, pipeline syntax, and Jenkins file management.
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, code quality scan, artifact management, deployment, rollback, and release activities.
- Hands-on experience integrating Jenkins with Git, Maven/Gradle, Nexus/Artifactory, SonarQube, Docker/Kubernetes, Ansible, and notification tools as applicable.

DevOps Automation & Scripting
- Good experience in DevOps practices, automation procedures, source code management, branching strategies, pull requests, and release governance.
- Ability to automate repetitive operational tasks using Shell scripting, Groovy, Python basics, YAML, Ansible playbooks, or equivalent automation tools.
- Experience in creating reusable pipeline templates, standard build/deployment frameworks, and environment-specific configuration management.

Linux, Deployment & Release Support
- Valuable knowledge of Linux commands, filesystem, process management, user permissions, cron jobs, service management, network troubleshooting, and log analysis.
- Experience supporting production and non-production deployments, release windows, application restarts, rollback planning, and change implementation.




- Ability to coordinate with development, QA, release, infrastructure, database, network, and security teams for end-to-end delivery.

Monitoring, Security & Compliance
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools for application availability, middleware health, server resource utilization, and pipeline status.
- Ensure secure handling of credentials, certificates, access control, audit evidence, change records, and compliance requirements throughout deployment lifecycle.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex incidents, perform root cause analysis, document findings, and drive permanent remediation actions.

Key responsibilities

- Administer and support OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)
- Manage and support WebSphere Application Server (Traditional & ND) and WebSphere Liberty.
- Work with Jenkins pipelines for deployment automation.
- Use Git/Bitbucket for version control.
- Develop and maintain Shell scripts for automation.
- Support AWS services: EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, ACM, Load Balancer, Auto Scaling.
- Handle production support, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Provide day-to-day middleware, DevOps, CI/CD, and Jenkins operational support across production and non-production environments.
- Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and maintain middleware components including WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, Nginx, or equivalent tools.
- Design, build, enhance, and maintain Jenkins jobs and pipelines for build, test, deploy, rollback,



environment validation, and release automation.
- Manage CI/CD integrations with Git repositories, build tools, artifact repositories, code quality tools, container platforms, and automation frameworks.
- Troubleshoot failed builds, deployment errors, middleware startup issues, application connectivity issues, SSL issues, and performance bottlenecks.
- Maintain source control standards, branching strategies, Jenkins shared libraries, pipeline templates, and deployment documentation.
- Support production deployments, emergency changes, release validation, rollback activities, and post-deployment monitoring.
- Automate manual operational tasks using Shell, Groovy, Python basics, YAML, Ansible, or equivalent scripting approaches.
- Ensure security best practices, compliance checks, credential management, certificate lifecycle management, and audit readiness are followed.
- Create and maintain SOPs, runbooks, known error documents, implementation plans, and operational handover documents.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, database, network, security, and vendor teams for issue resolution and delivery improvements.
- Participate in incident, problem, change, release, and DR activities as per ITIL process and account governance requirements.
- Identify automation opportunities, process gaps, recurring incidents, and propose improvement or remediation plans.
- Track assigned tasks, provide accurate updates, follow SLA timelines, and escalate risks or dependencies proactively.
- Strong hands-on experience in OpenShift (OCP)
- Experience with WebSphere (Traditional & Liberty)
- CI/CD knowledge (Jenkins pipelines)
- Git/Bitbucket proficiency
- Strong Shell scripting or python skills
- Working knowledge of AWS services
- Linux troubleshooting skills

📌 Middleware devops engineer || Contract || Pan India (Hyderabad)
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