Middleware Engineer (NIS ESB)

Job title:-  Middleware Engineer (NIS ESB)
Location:- Richmond, VA 23219
Duration:- 18 Months
 
Overview:

• Role: Middleware Consultant for NIS ESB Admin Engineer team
• Critical Initiative: As part of Accelerated Cloud initiative moving of on-prem ESB to AWS Gov cloud. (Build and support ESB on 4 platforms (on-prem, CFS2, CFS1 and HRCE)
• Support Area: NIS ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)

• Build the IaC (Infrastructure as Code) code using Terraform, Python and Shell scripting.
• 5+ years of experience in designing and implementing large-scale IBM ACE (IIB) infrastructures in AWS and on-premises environments.
• 3+ years of experience with IBM MQ
• Analyzing and tuning IBM ACE performance with in-depth knowledge of logs, and memory management.
• Implementing IBM ACE certificate management
• Designing Disaster strategies with region failover, and site failover.
• Managing IBM ACE in Linux and AIX environments.
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and terraform.
• Subject matter expertise in Python, Shell scripting and AWS skills
• AWS Expertise - Expertise in AWS IAM, S3, EC2 and Lambda services
• AWS certified architect Associate Criticality and Value: This role is critical to build and support NIS Enterprise Service Bus products in CFS2, HRCE, CFS1 and on-prem platforms.
• Currently only 1 FTE with 4 consultants supporting this whole effort.
• The role requires Advanced IBM ACE (Application Connect Enterprise) skills and AWS knowledge for administering current ESB product in On-Prem (AIX) and AWS (Linux) environments independently with minimal oversight.
• ESB product is critical for multiple client business application integration and not hiring the resource would impact on the ongoing ACC effort timelines.