Middleware Engineer (San Francisco Bay Area)

Position : Sr Middleware Engineer

Location : Oakland, CA, Rancho Cordova, CA or Alpharetta, GA(Hybrid)

Duration : Longterm Contract

Job Description :

• Performs as an individual contributor of 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 the product (hardware, software) upgrades, patching, migration, and hotfixes.
• 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 with 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.

Required Skills : The ideal candidate will need 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles and have hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure API Management (APIM), YAML scripting, Datadog instrumentation, and containerization technologies including Docker and Podman.