Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Middleware

What You'll Do

Provide subject matter expertise for implementation and ongoing support of Middleware integration technologies in production, non-production legacy and container-based environments. Work under general supervision; typically reports to a project leader or manager.  Provide technical expertise to Middleware staff. Manage day-to-day activities when called upon.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Install, configure and maintain 3rd party software components on multiple operating system platforms using Terraform, Ansible and GIT/ops
• Use subject matter expertise with products to advise on design and assist with development of applications using these tools. 
• Configure production, development and testing environments and ensure the availability of these application services
• Write complex automation scripts using common automation tools, such as Jenkins and Ansible
• Provide performance tuning of components and services
• Design disaster recovery solutions to comply with business continuity objectives
• Resolve configuration related problems
• Resolve complex support issues in both production and non-production environments.
• Assist production support and development staff in debugging application defects.
• Create procedural and troubleshooting documentation
• Participate in or lead moderately or high complex projects.
• Properly secure middleware technologies
• Advise on industry best practices as it relates to new product selection.
• Manage day-to-day activities when called upon to do so.
• Management of Vulnerabilities, SORT’s, Password rotations and Certificate renewals.
• Become an SME on multiple products and create SME’s within environment

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Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Qualifications

• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to multi-task and work with management to prioritize tasks.
• Demonstrate strong confidence in abilities and knowledge.
• Ability to work well in crisis situations.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision
• Flexibility to be on call as per team’ schedule
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrate accountability and Transparency
• Ability to collaborate, cross train and maintain healthy team environment

Technical Skills

• 6+ years of experience in design, develop, deploy and orchestrate the install/upgrade of Middleware technologies (Ideally Apigee/Nginx ) leveraging Terraform, Ansible, Gitops on Kubernetes clusters
• 6+ years of experience on Terraform and Ansible deployments is a must.
• 4+ years of experience in configuring, troubleshooting proxies on Apigee and applications on Nginx.
• 2+ years of experience in delivering, supporting and troubleshooting applications on Rancher and Open shift environments.
• 2+ years of experience writing Operational and Environment provisioning Jenkins pipelines.
• Fluid on D.R Strategies, failover plannings and implementation of complex Application Architecture in multi-Datacenters.
• Command on CI/CD stack which includes Harness, Artifactory and Hashi Corp vault
• Supports J2EE application services in containers and legacy systems.

Education and/or Exper8ience

• Bachelor's degree in a related area
• 5+ years of related experience with
  • Minimum 5 years experience working in a distributed multi-platform environment.
  • Minimum 4 years supporting middleware technologies

Certifications

• DevOps Engineer, AWS solution Architect, Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) will be ideal

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

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