Middleware Specialist - Senior

Responsibilities:

Provide planning, consulting, technical analysis, design, deployment, development, testing, implementation, maintenance, upgrades and daily support of middleware products.

General Skills: Experience with applications servers.

Contribute to ongoing project activities:

• Contribute to the technical design of the environment
• Define migration strategy
• Build and deploy the new environment
• Execute the migration of individual application solutions and re-platform as needed

Application publishing to the Internet and Intranet via web proxies:

• Using Azure Native publication tools such as Azure Application Gateway in multiple environments.
• Defining requirements, designing and deploying solutions when requirements from clients may not be straightforward or complete
• Use different network proxies to public applications (i.e. F5, Azure Application Gateway)
• Solutions integration and deployment
• Utilizing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Implementation and utilization of networks and network infrastructure (including switches, firewalls, virtual switches, and virtual firewalls) – applying knowledge of how the physical networking infrastructure interacts with Azure and solutions hosted on it
• Design, build, deploy and manage security policies using Active Directory
• Define and review the deployment requirements for .NET hosted applications.
• Experience in providing operational support to existing and new environments through the migrations as well as support of post migration operations:
• Participation in deployment and release (CRQs) related to the .NET platform

• Experience in the design, build, and deployment of Microsoft Azure (IaaS, PaaS) services
• Experience migrating and deploying .NET applications into a cloud-based hosting service
• Experience with publishing applications to the Internet and Intranet
• Proven track record of end to end integration of complex solutions that cross multiple platforms
• Experience with web and application servers
• Experience working with application solutions that require cross-platform integration
• Extensive experience working with network proxies to publish applications and endpoints to the Internet and Intranet (such as F5 and Azure Application Gateway)
• Experience/expert level with deployment of .NET applications
• DNS, split DNS, and local hosts resolution
• Firewall/NSG concepts design and implementation
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 10.0 or newer advanced publishing
• SSL/TLS Certificates, Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI), device certificates
• Scripting (PowerShell, VBS, Teraform)
• Azure Security Centre
• Auditing and reporting of system level security events per GO ITS standards
• Experience and knowledge in SharePoint 2013 server farms
• Automation of migration and operational tasks with scripting tools such as PowerShell
• Experience with development framework and technologies such as Agile, DevOPS, etc.
• Expert in troubleshooting (Internet Information Services (IIS) logs, SQL query, SQL trace route, Application Insights)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and 2019
• Strong problem solving, reasoning, and trouble-shooting experience in a multi-platform environment
• Experience in restoring availability of infrastructure services
• Experience conducting system monitoring and performance and data integrity in accordance with ITIL standards
• Monitoring Azure resources for right sizing to provide financial recommendation for cloud services
• OS and middleware patching

• Experience in the design, build, and deployment of Microsoft Azure (IaaS, PaaS) services
• Expertise in Azure Cloud and DevOps
• Azure Security Centre
• Azure Monitoring
• Azure DevOps pipelines
• Azure PaaS websites and applications
• Azure IaaS virtual machine
• Azure AKS (Kubernetes)
• IIS
• Dynamics CRM
• SQL Server
• SQL Server Analysis Services
• SQL Reporting
• Strong Communication skills

• Strong experience in an Enterprise environment (Public or OPS related environment) - preferred