Middleware Integration Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain middleware components on various operating systems using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps.
• Design and advise on application development utilizing middleware products, ensuring best practices.
• Configure and manage production, development, and testing environments to ensure high availability of services.
• Develop complex automation scripts with Jenkins and Ansible to streamline deployment and operations.
• Perform performance tuning of middleware components and services to optimize efficiency.
• Design disaster recovery solutions for middleware platforms to meet business continuity requirements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve configuration issues in both production and non-production environments.
• Support debugging of middleware application defects for development and support teams.
• Document procedures and troubleshooting steps related to middleware products.
• Lead or participate in moderately to highly complex projects, ensuring security and compliance standards are met.
• Manage vulnerabilities, patching, password rotations, and certificate renewals for middleware components such as Apigee, NGINX, and SFTP gateways, addressing CVEs and applying security patches.
• Harden middleware and API gateway configurations against industry security benchmarks, enforcing least-privilege access, auditing, and encryption standards.
• Collaborate with security teams to track remediation efforts, report on vulnerability status, and ensure compliance with audit timelines.
• Provide day-to-day management of middleware staff when required, supporting operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience designing, deploying, and orchestrating middleware technologies, specifically Apigee and NGINX, leveraging Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps on Kubernetes clusters.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible for middleware deployment.
• 4+ years of configuring and troubleshooting proxies on Apigee, including API proxy design, OAuth 2.0, API key security, and environment promotion.
• 4+ years of experience with NGINX reverse proxy, load balancing, SSL/TLS termination, and ingress deployment on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• 2+ years supporting SFTP gateways and managed file transfer solutions, including key-based authentication and transfer monitoring.
• 2+ years supporting applications on Rancher and OpenShift environments.
• 2+ years writing operational and environment provisioning pipelines using Jenkins.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery strategies, failover planning, and multi-data center application architecture.
• Familiarity with vulnerability scanning tools (e.g., Nessus, Qualys) and applying CVE-based patches in regulated environments.
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and prioritize effectively.
• Strong problem-solving skills, communication skills, and accountability.

About Delphi-US Peacemakers in the Talent War

Delphi-US is a national IT Services firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. Delphi attracts our nation's best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and positions our nation's finest employers to further their competitive advantages. Delphi's core technical focus includes Data Intelligence Engineering & Analytics, AI/ML Operational Excellence, DevOps & Cloud Computing, Health IT & Life Sciences, and Energy Management/Power Systems; serving domains from sensitive national energy sectors to critical financial services, biomed, life sciences & pharma, major government & municipal institutions, and much of the USA's Fortune 500 corporations. Delphi Associates are deployed on critical IT Projects where their consultative business acumen, comprehensive technical expertise, and committed service mission drives our client's success. Our proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process results in higher qualified project teams, custom curated for our client's specific technical & functional goals. We are supremely experienced, friendly, professional, and ready to advocate on your behalf. Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations, a track record of project success and we deliver lasting results.