Middleware Systems Senior Infrastructure Lead

  • Full-time

Company Description

About Sopra Steria
Sopra Steria, a European tech leader recognised for its consulting, digital services and software development, helps its clients drive their digital transformation to obtain tangible and sustainable benefits. It provides end-to-end solutions to make large companies and organisations more competitive by combining in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business sectors and innovative technologies with a fully collaborative approach. Sopra Steria places people at the heart of everything it does and is committed to putting digital to work for its clients in order to build a positive future for all. With 50,000 employees in nearly 30 countries, the Group generated revenue of €5.1 billion in 2022.  The world is how we shape it.

Sopra Steria (SOP) is listed on Euronext Paris (Compartment A) – ISIN: FR0000050809  For more information, visit us at www.soprasteria.com

Job Description

·      Middleware Administrator experience in Application Server (Tomcat/ WebLogic / WebSphere / IIS) L3

-         L3 Troubleshooting of Middleware Applications to make them up and running. Environment Setup from scratch as per the project requirement and dependencies. Strong Analyzing power for the root cause of the issue.

-         Good Implementation skills for Middleware Infrastructure build from the scratch. Good in Scripting (Unix, Bash, PowerShell, Shell) and Automation.

-         experience in administration of applications servers using Web Server (Apache / Nginx) L2 / L3, System (Window/Linux) L2, Azure (Cloud Environment) L2

-         Experience in the installation and configuration of environment.

-         Experience in deployment of applications and servers, Data sources, Connections factories.

-         Development of proxy & business services, message payloads route to backend services.

-         Deployment of the applications on Productions, QA & Test environments

-         Upgradation of application cluster, setup & configuration.

-         Migration of application to Azure.

-         Patching of applications.

-         Planning & executing the changes on the server or application end.

-         Creating and analyzing the thread dumps.

-         Automation for regular tasks to reduce human efforts like logs removal, auto deployment scripts.

-         Finding loops & gaps in the existing environments. Getting the root cause and the solution to fix it permanently.

-         URL Request routing from Web Servers to Application Servers.

-         Environment: Linux, Windows, Oracle WebLogic, IIS WebSphere, IHS Web Servers, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat.

-         Troubleshooting of middleware applications servers

-         Experience in installation, configuration of domains, configuration of resources and setting up the environments.

-         Configuring the Environment from scratch and handover to the application teams as per the requirements.

-          Route the requests as Proxy and reverse proxy from web servers to the application servers.

-         Knowledge of creating and preparing Technical Exploitation Document

-         Experience in diagnosis and troubleshooting of regular occurring issues and finding the root cause and fixing them.

-         Upgrading the WebLogic versions and other applications.

-         Extension of JVM's on running applications to add on new servers and in clusters.

-         Hands on experience in Performance Testing, UAT.

-         Hot and Cold deployments across all environments.

-         Experience in UAT and PROD environment release validations.

-         Experience in Preparing low-level design documents.

-         Proposing feasible solutions for the gaps that are identified in gap analysis phase.

-         Experience in meetings with the stake holders and business users in understanding the requirements and proposing the best possible solution.

-         Should be able assisting team whenever there is any complexity Suggested best practices in the development of services.

-         Should be able to configure crashed WebLogic Environment with new JDK setup.

-         Should have Hands on experience on setting the reverse proxy on Servers for the applications hosted on WebLogic and Application Servers.

-         Knowledge of Conditional Based Routing, Dynamic Routing and Routing tables to route messages to provider services.

-         Knowledge of UAT and production release validations

-         Configure the DEV, QA and Production virtual host with in WebCache10g/11g by using OHS11g.

-         Knowledge of configuration of WebLogic domains by using Configuration Wizard or by using WLST and configured the Admin Server. Create, configure, and tune WebLogic domains/applications for performance on production environment.

-         Knowledge of deployment and assistance in troubleshooting JAR, WAR, Composite applications and EAR files in domain and clustered environments. Deployment of composite and managing WebLogic Application Servers.

-         Status tracking and reporting to the customer at Client location doing 24X7 support for non-production. (not sure to understand??)

-         Installation and configuration of Application servers, directory servers and Webservers O Deployment of the applications on distributed environment using deployment scripts. Migrating the scripts related to upgraded environment

-         Installing SSL on the webservers on timely interval.

-         Excellent Communication Skills and has clear understanding of business procedures and ability to work as an individual and as a part of a team. Provide weekend/after office hour support to production environment.

Total Experience Expected: 08-10 years

Qualifications

BE/B.Tech/MCA

Additional Information

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All of our positions are open to people with disabilities.

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