Engineer III - Middleware

What you can expect!

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About the role

The Engineer III - Middleware serves as a senior technical expert responsible for leading the design, implementation, and maintenance of IEHP’s middleware applications like Nginx, IIS, Kafka, Kubernetes, and others to enable secure, scalable, and reliable integration across systems.

Responsibilities

• Leads strategic middleware initiatives, including roadmap development, architecture design, and performance optimization, while ensuring compliance with security and regulatory standards.
• Provides technical leadership, oversees complex deployments, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performing solutions that support organizational goals.
• Manages incident resolution, capacity planning, and continuous improvement efforts to enhance middleware capabilities and operational efficiency.
• Responsible for production code release with the support of the IEHP’s Application Development teams.

Requirements

• Commitment to Quality: The IEHP Team is committed to incorporating IEHP’s Quality Program goals including, but not limited to, HEDIS, CAHPS, and NCQA Accreditation.
• Competitive salary
• State of the art fitness center on-site
• Medical Insurance with Dental and Vision
• Life, short-term, and long-term disability options
• Career advancement opportunities and professional development
• Wellness programs that promote a healthy work-life balance
• Paid life insurance for employees
• Pet care insurance

Qualifications

• A minimum of eight (8) years of experience required in a combination of the following:
• Middleware applications like Kafka, IIS, Tomcat, WebSphere, performance tuning and managing them in clustered environments
• Container orchestration and automation tools, with a strong focus on Kubernetes and Helm for managing deployments, scaling, and configuration of microservices in production environments
• Executing scripts and independently performing troubleshooting on Linux and/or Unix (RHEL/Solaris) operating systems
• Bachelor’s degree with a major in a Computer Systems-related field or similar technical field from an accredited institution required

Key Qualifications

• Expert comprehensive knowledge and understanding in the following:
• Installing, configuring, administering, implementing and performance tuning clustered Middleware environments
• Writing UNIX Shell Scripts (Korn, Bourne), WLST and Python Scripts
• The JVM and how it operates and optimize it for best performance and availability, i.e., Garbage Collection, Tuning, etc.
• DevOps toolsets such as Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker etc. desirable
• AZURE or any other cloud technologies
• Strong planning, organization, critical thinking, decision-making, and communication (verbal and written) skills
• Skills in root cause analysis and rapid resolution of service interruptions
• Strong analytical skills for performance tuning and optimization
• Proven ability to:
• Work effectively with application development, infrastructure, and security teams
• Manage projects, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with organizational goals
• Lead initiatives, provide guidance to junior staff, and influence architectural decisions
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders

Pay

$118,601.60 USD Annually - $157,144.00 USD Annually