Microsoft IIS Engineer (PowerShell, Shell, Bash, Python, JSON - TX, NC, NJ) - Randstad USA

Summary: The Middleware Engineer will

- Lead end-to-end and administration duties for critical banking platforms, delivering middleware infrastructure for enterprise projects and regulatory initiatives.

- Ensures production stability, platform remediation, patching and upgrades, mitigating and managing risk.

- Middleware engineering and administration includes middleware installation, configuration, risk mitigation and remediation, performance tuning and trouble-shooting/triage as L3 production support.

- Collaborates with customers (application teams and/or testing teams) on daily basis providing middleware advice, consultation, and support.

- Creates, maintains and supports the application deployment templates, serving as a Windows IIS administration architect and making recommendations on IIS best practices in application development.

- Designing Middleware infrastructure and topology design for high availability and failover capability.

- All solutions must meet all Policy, Baseline, and Standards along with business requirements. Providing technical consultation to other team members and their supported areas;

- Communicating with business partners at an enterprise level;

- Interfacing with internal customers and external vendors for consultation at various points of the software development life cycle (SDLC)

- Executing production changes for integrated and regulatory releases with precision.

- Participates in design, development and implementation of systems engineering activities, to include OS technical support, systems programming and data center capabilities.

- Responsible for components of complex engineering and/or analytical tasks and activities. Assists in establishment of input/output processes and working parameters for hardware compatibility and coordination of subsystems design and integration of total system.

- Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource; provides tech knowledge and capabilities as team member and individual contributor.

- Will not have direct reports but will influence and direct activities of a team related to special initiatives or operations.

- Provides input on staffing, budget and personnel.

- Typically 5 or more years of systems engineering experience.

Required Skills

Primary Skill - Middleware

Secondary Skill - IIS Internet Information Server v8.x

- Expert knowledge of Windows operating systems (Windows 2012/2019/2022) Windows .NET platform and Windows IIS administration

- Expert Coding and scripting in a Windows environment ¬¬ (PowerShell, Shell, Bash, Python, JSON, YAML, Jinja2)

- Expert knowledge of Ansible Core, Ansible Tower and Ansible Windows modules Ansible subject matter expert and mentor for other admins and developers

- Expert knowledge of build automation and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (Jira, XLR, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, and SQL)

Preferred Skills

-5 or more years of experience of Middleware Engineering experience

-Experience with 1 or more of the following Middleware products: Microsoft IIS , Apache,

-Prior Bank of America experience

-DEVOPS experience

-Other products: BMC Remedy, Harmon mDeliver, BMC Bladelogic Server Automation.

-Understanding of Network infrastructure (HTTP/S, TCP/IP, TLS,DNS, Load-balancers, firewalls, proxies, B2B links)

-Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong attention to detail 
location: Saint Louis, Missouri
job type: Contract
salary: $57 - 68 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:

Primary Skill - Middleware

Secondary Skill - IIS Internet Information Server v8.x

- Expert knowledge of Windows operating systems (Windows 2012/2019/2022) Windows .NET platform and Windows IIS administration

- Expert Coding and scripting in a Windows environment ¬¬ (PowerShell, Shell, Bash, Python, JSON, YAML, Jinja2)

- Expert knowledge of Ansible Core, Ansible Tower and Ansible Windows modules Ansible subject matter expert and mentor for other admins and developers

- Expert knowledge of build automation and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (Jira, XLR, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, and SQL)

Preferred Skills

-5 or more years of experience of Middleware Engineering experience

-Experience with 1 or more of the following Middleware products: Microsoft IIS , Apache,

-Prior Bank of America experience

-DEVOPS experienc