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DevOps/Middleware Engineer / Contract / Hybrid / Alpharetta, GA

Alpharetta, GA

Hybrid

Contract

$76.67/hr - $80/hr

Exciting contract DevOps/Middleware Engineer opportunity with an established firm. This is a hybrid role local to Alpharetta, GA.

**Contract Duration:** 6-Months

Required Skills & Experience

+ OS (Unix/Linux) From the basic Application administration and maintenance support perspective.

+ Knowledge about DNS, DHCP, Load balancer, DMZ, Firewalls, whitelisting, TCP/HTTP/SOAP/RESTAPI etc.

+ Configuration Management Tools with Ansible/Chef/Puppet and scripting with Shell, Perl, python, Jason, YAML, PowerShell etc.

+ CI/CD Pipeline - GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CloudBees, Artifactory, Maven Canary & Blue/Green deployment with High availability of applications.

+ Middleware - Experience using any Enterprise servers like WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, proxy setup and security patching support.

+ Containerization - Leveraging Docker/Podman and Kubernetes for application deployment, ensuring portability across cloud platforms.

+ Cloud technologies - AWS/Azure on Load balancer, DNS, virtual machines (EC2), storage solutions (S3, EBS), and networking components (VPC, Route 53)

+ Security Okta, SiteMinder, LDAP, AD, Entra ID, RBAC, SSL certificates lifecycle management, OpenSSL, Keytool, CSR and MFA knowledge.

+ Monitoring Tools - Preferably with any of these: Datadog, AppDynamics, Kibana, Splunk, Nagios, Dynatrace, Grafana etc.

+ Troubleshooting experience on Production & Non-production issues with infrastructure knowledge and in-depth root cause analysis.

+ Knowledge and exposure to Agile Kanban/Scrum process and methodologies.

What You Will Be Doing

Daily Responsibilities

+ Performs as an individual contributor of DevOps/ middleware team that builds and supports exceptional customer-facing applications with challenging business use cases, existing systems and operational problems.

+ Experience working on various middleware application servers and containers from monolithic to modern versions.

+ Apply middleware infrastructure automation code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning capacity specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.

+ The candidate must also have some Shell/Perl/Python scripting language experience and be able to use this to implement changes in pipelines.

+ Maintains technical documentation on any implementations, README files up-to-date, and status pages of the projects along with Release team handover.

+ Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation and other teams to define, prioritize, sequence and scope middleware around business and functional areas.

+ Accurately scopes effort, identifies risks and clearly communicates trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.

+ Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management.

+ Perform impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades, patching, migration and hot fixes.

+ Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing projects across various environments (Regression, Performance, Production and Post-production).

+ Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.

+ Familiarity on common issues that causes builds/deployments to fail such as out of memory, disk full, missing libraries or security certificates etc.

+ Proven track record of handling & troubleshooting various critical Production and nonproduction applications end to end & infrastructure technical issues, providing comprehensive root cause.

+ This list is not all-inclusive, and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned such as On-call rotation and knowledge sharing sessions as part of the team.

You will receive the following benefits:

+ Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family

+ Dental & Orthodontia Benefits

+ Vision Benefits

+ Health Savings Account (HSA)

+ Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance

+ Hospital Indemnity Insurance

+ 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options

+ Paid Sick Time Leave

+ Legal and Identity Protection Plans

+ Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

+ 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

**Posted by:** Valerie Harrison

Specialization:

+ Software Engineering