Middleware-Architecture & Design-Apache

Qualification

• 4 years experience as a Linux Middleware Engineer along with AWS.
• Strong Linux administration skills (Solaris Oracle Linux Ubuntu) installation filesystem networking process kernel tuning SELinux basics.
• Deep experience with one or more middleware technologies: e.g. Apache HTTPD / NGINX Tomcat JBoss WebLogic IBM MQ RabbitMQ Kafka Redis Memcached HAProxy F5 (basic) etc.
• Solid knowledge of automation and configuration management: Ansible Terraform Puppet Chef or equivalent; ability to write reusable playbooks/modules.
• Scripting proficiency: Bash Python or Perl for automation and troubleshooting.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (Jenkins GitHub. Azure DevOps etc.) and integrating middleware deploys into pipelines.
• Familiar with high-availability clustering load balancing and failover techniques for middleware.
• Strong problem-solving incident management and communication skills; able to interact with developers architects.

Responsibility

• Deploy configure and maintain middleware components (application servers web servers message brokers integration platforms caching layers etc.) on Linux.
• Design and operate middleware in AWS using native services and best practices (EC2 EBS ELB/ALB Auto Scaling VPC IAM AWS Systems Manager CloudWatch CloudFormation AWS Certificate Manager etc.).
• Install patch and harden middleware software following security and configuration standards.
• Build and maintain automation for software deployment (Ansible Python shell scripts etc.).
• Monitor middleware health capacity and performance; tune middleware and OS parameters to meet SLAs.
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents across the middleware stack; perform root cause analysis and drive permanent fixes.
• Manage lifecycle activities: upgrades patching platform migrations and decommissioning.
• Support CI/CD pipelines by integrating middleware deployments managing artifacts and validating releases.
• Create and maintain runbooks run-time documentation and standard operating procedures.
• Collaborate with application teams to onboard applications define requirements and optimize middleware configurations.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response for critical production environments (if applicable).
• Ensure compliance with security change control backup and disaster recovery policies.