Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Polar IT is seeking a Senior Middleware Administrator to contribute to the design, deployment, and support of middleware technologies. The role involves ensuring performance, operations, maintenance, scalability, and security across the application ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Administer, configure, and maintain middleware platforms across development, test, and production environments
- Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for middleware-related issues
- Collaborate with application developers, Security, and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration
- Monitor system performance and implement tuning strategies for optimal throughput and reliability
- Manage SSL certificates, security configurations, and compliance standards
- Support patching, upgrades, and vulnerability remediation for middleware components
- Contribute to documenting architecture, configurations, and operational procedures
- Contribute to new project planning, research, development and deployment
- Provide expertise in environment refresh projects
- Participate in disaster recovery planning and execution
Skills
- Must be a US citizen with no outstanding debt they are not paying off and no felonies (Public trust eligible)
- Must have good communication/ability to be customer facing
- 5+ years of experience supporting middleware technologies/platforms such as MS Server, MS SQL, Apache tomcat, and JBoss
- Bachelor's degree in related field
- 5-7 years of relevant professional experience required
- Equivalent combination of education and experience considered in lieu of degree
- Must be able to obtain a 6C Public Trust government clearance
- Must currently reside in the U.S
- Must be able to pass a criminal background check
- Must not be delinquent or in default on any federal student loans
- Employment and continued employment are contingent upon obtaining and maintaining a favorable clearance
- Experience with AWS cloud services
- Experience in deployment and integration of COTS products as well as ETL scripting
- Understanding of and history of deploying Single Sign On (SSO) and Two Factor Authentication (TFA) solutions
- Prior experience in Federal security standards and PII masking desirable
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