Middleware Integration Engineer

3 days ago

Montreal, Quebec, Canada Apptad Full-time

Job Title: Middleware Integration Engineer

Location: Montreal, QC (Hybrid)

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will:

  • Apply technical skills to design, build and automate middleware platforms both on-premises and cloud.
  • Partner with other groups such as Enterprise Infrastructure, MIS, Networking, Security, Storage, Database and Data Center teams to roll out technology platforms successfully as per best practices.
  • Coordinate signoffs for non-functional requirement testing with development and business teams.
  • Maintain a 360-degree view of applications and their underlying middleware and infrastructure components.
  • Produce reusable infrastructure and middleware designs patterns for future reference and refresh existing ones on a regular basis.
  • Support vendor / vendor technology onboarding following Morgan Stanley best practices and security blueprints.
  • Adopt, build and rollout new technology stacks for NFRT for cloud-based and on-prem applications.
  • Automate daily support functions, improve system stability, support hygiene initiatives and deliver innovation that creates efficiency and consistency.

Required Skills:

  • Strong infrastructure knowledge in Linux / Unix, Storage and Networking
  • Hands-on experience with load balancers, web servers (Apache / Nginx), application servers (Tomcat) to include application integration, configuration, and troubleshooting.
  • Expert level scripting skills using Python (mandatory) and Shell
  • Familiar with IT Automation & Config Management tools (Ansible / Helm)
  • Experience with source control and continuous integration / continuous delivery pipelines (Jenkins, Artifactory, Flux)
  • Familiar with security hardening concepts for hosting applications or middleware, including transport encryption, modern single sign-on authentication and authorization mechanisms
  • Basic operational knowledge of RDBMS and SQL.
  • Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms (Azure or AWS), Docker/Podman containers, Kubernetes / OpenShift
  • Prior experience managing large web-based n-tier applications in secure environments on cloud

Desired / Nice to have skills:

  • Hands-on experience with graph databases (GraphDB) and knowledge of SPARQL query language.
  • Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, Airflow
  • Exposure and experience in open-source Observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and Loki)
  • Identity management protocols like OIDC / OAuth, SAML, LDAP integration
  • Exposure to Big Data platforms like Hadoop / ELK Stack
  • Capacity planning and performance tuning of applications and middleware platforms

Experience:

  • 7 plus years in a similar role of hands-on application / middleware specialist.
  • Prior experience of working in a global financial organization is an advantage