Middleware Administrator

Job Title - Middleware Administrator

Job Location - HCLTech Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (on-site)

Relevant Experience - 5-7 Years

Key Responsibilities (not limited to):

• Over 57 years of relevant experience as a Middleware Administrator in IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, Apache HTTP, IHS, IIS on Unix, Linux, Solaris, and Windows platforms.
• Resolve and troubleshoot middleware applications and ensure 100% availability, keeping them up and running at all times.
• Set up middleware application environments from scratch as per project requirements and dependencies.
• Provide 247 application support for all middleware application environments.
• Strong analytical ability to provide RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for incidents.
• Should be proficient in Unix shell scripting and automation.
• Working knowledge across mission-critical domains such as insurance, telecom, banking, and other financial services.
• Experience in administration of application servers using J2EE design patterns.
• Experience with Greenfield, Brownfield, and Whitefield application migrations and implementations.
• Administration experience on application servers, web servers, content servers, application deployment, etc.
• Excellent communication skills with a clear understanding of business procedures and the ability to work individually as well as part of a team.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Involved in the installation and configuration of middleware applications.
• Creating application deployment diagrams and request flows.
• Installation and configuration of different middleware technologies for application environment setup.
• Creation of JMS servers, topics, sub-deployments, data sources, and connection factories.
• Developed proxies and business services using WSDL, text, and XML message payloads to expose services to consumers and route them to backend services.
• Deployment of applications across production, QA, and development environments, including application upgrades.
• Cluster setup and configuration.
• Migration of App/Web/MQ/MB/Content servers from Linux to Windows and vice versa.
• Patching and upgrading all middleware servers and environments.
• Planning and executing changes on the server and application sides.
• Creating and analyzing logs, debug logs, traces, thread dumps, memory dumps, and APMs.
• Automation of regular tasks such as maintenance activity scripts, log archiving, auto-deployment, and server start/stop.
• Configuring monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, and Nagios.
• URL request routing, analysis, and troubleshooting from the internet to backend servers and vice versa.
• SSL certificate creation, renewal, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Application performance testing and working experience with EAPT/VAPT vulnerabilities.
• Well-versed in client coordination, MOM (Minutes of Meeting), and bridge calls.

Technical Environment:

• Environment: Linux, Unix, Solaris, Windows
• App/Web: WLS, WAS, JBoss, Tomcat, IIS, Apache HTTP, IHS, OHS, Nginx
• DB: Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL
• Tools: PuTTY, WinSCP, Dynatrace, Splunk, AppDynamics, Nagios, Zabbix, Helix
• Directory Services: LDAP, AD, Tivoli

Interested candidates may share their updated resume at:

anjali-m@hcltech.com & subject line: Middleware Administrators