Middleware Specialist at WesBank

Role Purpose

• Analyzes and applies various middleware technologies to help fulfill company's requirements in the operations space. Solves technical problems of middleware involving large scale inter-disciplinary objectives within multiple systems. Provides coherent distributed middleware that connects software components and applications.

Responsibilities

• Work independently with minimal direction
• Design, architect, automate and deliver large scale production-ready services. 
• Be an analytical thinker and exceptional problem solver
• Explain and teach complex ideas to audiences with varying levels of understanding
• Be motivated by empowering / helping others to add business value
• Research and review relevant IT trends and best practices
• Provide information as input to strategic decision making
• Establish relationships with key stakeholders and representation at relevant forums
• Document and propose viable new solutions architecture frameworks 
• Define, maintain, configure and support infrastructure and systems
• Deliver required reporting and trend analysis
• Monitor, maintain and update systems
• Standby support after business hours and during weekends 

Qualification and Experience

• 3 Year relevant degree / NQF Level 5 / or Industry equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years' specialty experience.
• Solid Experience and Understanding (architecture and implementation) (Certification an advantage) in
• Oracle Fusion Middleware Stack 11g and 12c SOA, OSB, WEBLOGIC, OHS, FORMS & REPORTS, OFSAA, EDQ, ODI, OBIEE, OIAM Suite
• WebSphere Application Server
• Understanding of F5/Load Balancer architecture
• Solid understanding of FTP protocol and managed FTP architectures
• Solid Understanding of Deployment processes
• AIX and Linux experience
• Experience with Informatica an advantage
• J2EE Development will be an advantage
• AWS (Cloud) Experience an advantage.
• Should have experience in Jboss Installation configuration deployment and troubleshooting.
• Should have experience in configuring and running Bamboo Jobs.
• Kubernetes and Docker experience an advantage.

Experience with Dynatrace an advantage.