Application Engineer - Infrastructure (Python, Cloud, DevOps, Linux)

Job Description

Looking to onboard a middleware specialist to provide platform engineering, tooling automation, and elevated production support services conforming to client’s security blueprints. Focused on performance reliability and scalability by understanding the technical requirements from application owners and business. Participate in technical evaluation of vendors and vendor technologies. Conduct proof of concept, packaging, and deploying middleware products.

• The team supports strategic initiatives like cloud migration, containerization, SRE, and agile transformation. Build and manage services across LCG.
• This team also partners with central technology teams like Infrastructure, Security, Network, Database, and procurement to design and deliver solutions.

Responsibilities

• The successful candidate will apply technical skills to design, build, and automate application platforms both on-premises and cloud.
• Partner with other teams like enterprise infrastructure, MIS, networking, security, storage, and database/data center to roll out application platforms successfully as per design.
• Coordinate with development and business teams to obtain sign-off for non-functional requirement testing.
• Maintain a 360-degree view of an application and its underlying middleware and infrastructure components.
• Produce reusable infrastructure designs patterns for future reference and periodically review/refresh the same.
• Support vendor technology onboarding following client’s best practices and security blueprint.
• Apply technical skills to automate daily support functions, improve system stability, support hygiene initiatives, and deliver innovation that creates efficiency and consistency.

Required Skills

• Hands-on experience of Operating Systems mainly Linux 7 and Windows Server 2016 and above and virtualization technologies like VMWare.
• Hands-on working experience of middleware technologies like Cloud platforms Azure or AWS, Docker containers, Kubernetes, S3, ADLS, web servers (Apache, IBM HTTPD), Application Servers (Web Sphere, Tomcat, Kafka, and Airflow) to include application integration configuration and troubleshooting.
• Expert-level scripting skills using Python mandatory, Perl, and Shell. Identity management protocols like OIDC, OAuth, SAML, LDAP integration.
• Basic operational knowledge of RDBMS like DB2, Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, etc. Clear concept of load balancer, firewalls, web proxies, and HTTP protocol. Storage platforms like NAS, SAN from an implementation perspective only.
• Familiar with basic security policies for secure hosting solutions, Kerberos, and standard encryption methodologies including SSL and TLS.
• Prior experience managing large web-based n-tier applications in secure environments on cloud. Should have worked in an agile delivery model with exposure to CI/CD.