Middleware-Architecture & Design-Apache

Qualification 

• 4+ years experience as a Linux Middleware Engineer along with AWS.
• Strong Linux administration skills (Solaris, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu) — installation, filesystem, networking, process, kernel tuning, SELinux basics.
• Deep experience with one or more middleware technologies: e.g., Apache HTTPD / NGINX, Tomcat, JBoss, , WebLogic, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, Memcached, HAProxy, F5 (basic), etc.
• Solid knowledge of automation and configuration management: Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, or equivalent; ability to write reusable playbooks/modules.
• Scripting proficiency: Bash, Python, or Perl for automation and troubleshooting.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub., Azure DevOps, etc.) and integrating middleware deploys into pipelines.
• Familiar with high-availability, clustering, load balancing, and failover techniques for middleware.
• Strong problem-solving, incident management, and communication skills; able to interact with developers, architects.

Responsibility

• Deploy, configure, and maintain middleware components (application servers, web servers, message brokers, integration platforms, caching layers, etc.) on Linux.
• Design and operate middleware in AWS using native services and best practices (EC2, EBS, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling, VPC, IAM, AWS Systems Manager, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, AWS Certificate Manager, etc.).
• Install, patch, and harden middleware software following security and configuration standards.
• Build and maintain automation for software deployment (Ansible, Python, shell scripts, etc.).
• Monitor middleware health, capacity, and performance; tune middleware and OS parameters to meet SLAs.
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents across the middleware stack; perform root cause analysis and drive permanent fixes.
• Manage lifecycle activities: upgrades, patching, platform migrations, and decommissioning.
• Support CI/CD pipelines by integrating middleware deployments, managing artifacts, and validating releases.
• Create and maintain runbooks, run-time documentation, and standard operating procedures.
• Collaborate with application teams to onboard applications, define requirements, and optimize middleware configurations.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response for critical production environments (if applicable).
• Ensure compliance with security, change control, backup, and disaster recovery policies.