Middleware Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Middleware Engineer . This is a 12months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Pennington, NJ / Atlanta, GA (Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested. Job ID:24-44476 Pay Range: $70 - $75/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location). Key Responsibilities: The responsibilities include but are not limited to managing the environments by minimizing environmental defects in an agile manner, deploying business and infrastructure software across both Lower Level and production environments for monthly releases, and implementing configurations and manual software changes. Multiple testing environments and servers and releases must be supported in parallel. Working one weekend shift a month is mandatory to support release efforts as well as participating in the weekly on-call rotation. Key Requirements and Technology Experience: Key Skills: WebSphere, Tomcat, Ansible. Primary Skill - Linux , Ansible , Bitbucket . 4-year degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Communication, Information Technology with at least 5 years' experience in the field. Proven leadership skills with record of excellent workmanship, dedication, and ownership. Proactive team member with a history of leading, implementing, XLR and documenting process improvements who can step up and lead triage and customer support events who can think independently, be proactive and take initiative from little or no requirements. Self-starter with the ability to multi-task and prioritize daily workload. Software Delivery using an automated toolset such as JIRA, Ansible Tower, XLR etc. (Minimum 4 years of experience). UNIX/Linux Operating System and Infrastructure: SAN, NAS, filesystems, debugging server and service issues in single and multi-tier system and application architectures, system commands (Minimum 5 years of experience). Understanding of Agile Software Delivery methodology. Ability to troubleshoot and analyze enterprise java applications end to end flow. Extensive WebSphere/JBOSS troubleshooting in Linux, networking, and following applications from login to activation (Minimum 5 years' experience). Working experience on UNIX Application Environments: WebSphere, Tomcat, JBOSS, etc. Experience with web application communication protocols - JSON, HTTP, XML, etc. Understanding of web application architecture. Hands-on knowledge of UNIX Shell, Perl, Python, and similar scripting language (Minimum 5 years of experience). Continuous Integration & Deployment knowledge and hands on skill involving any or all of Jenkins, Maven/Ant, JFrog Artifactory, BitBucket, and similar CI/CD technologies. Exposure to Docker/OpenShift container technologies. Good Database experience - Comfortable using/writing SQL queries. Exposure with troubleshooting issues related to Routers/DNS/VIP/FIREWALL/LTM etc. The ability to communicate clearly and effectively (verbally and written) with the business and teammates. Exposure to financial, banking business processes, technologies, system, and process architecture. Experience supporting large scale releases (50 applications). Understanding of Network Infrastructure - HTTP/S, TCP/IP, TLS, DNS, Load Balancers, Firewalls. Knowledge of Release Deploy Tools: Ansible Tower and XLRelease, Bitbucket. Our client is a leading Banking and Financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration. Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. BOA