Web App Engineer

About

• Long‑term contract (18 + months) with a well‑known financial services company that has been operating for over 150 years.
• Hybrid position available in Chandler, AZ; Irving, TX; Charlotte, NC; Des Moines, IA; and Minneapolis, MN.
• W2 employment with a competitive benefits package.
• Part of the Enterprise Middleware Services App/Web team, which builds, engineers, and evangelizes middleware, web, and app products for the technology organization.

Requirements

• Ability to interact with all levels of an organization, including leadership.
• Strong team or technical leadership experience.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• 10 + years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience (or equivalent through work, training, military, education).
• 6 + years of hands‑on experience at scale with Middleware administration (Tomcat, Apache, WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Liberty, IIS) – including build, installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, deployment, configuration, patching, and compliance.
• 6 + years of Middleware production support on Linux and Windows platforms.
• Experience with SSL certificate management.
• Experience using Ansible jobs.
• Experience with observability tools such as Grafana and Splunk.
• Experience writing Shell/Python scripts.

Desired Skills

• Strong team or technical leadership experience.
• Experience supporting an enterprise‑level environment.
• Understanding of compliance and risk‑management requirements for the supported systems.
• Ability to provide implementation support for key risk initiatives.
• Experience with WebSphere, WebSphere Liberty, and WebLogic.
• Familiarity with Incident Management systems (ServiceNow preferred).
• Experience monitoring alerts, batch failures, and ServiceNow queues.
• Ability to handle outage calls efficiently, triage issues, and resolve them.
• Experience with Ansible.
• Ability to troubleshoot basic Java application server issues.

Responsibilities

• Outline and implement product upgrades.
• Contribute to analysis of business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements.
• Design, code, test, debug, and document programs using Agile development practices.
• Lead high‑level technical concepts spanning technology and business.
• Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, and design and test solutions.
• Generate documentation, operational policies, procedures, and playbooks.
• Employ monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana) for business application and operations teams.
• Contribute to testing of business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements.
• Direct daily risk and control flow of compliance, focusing on policies and procedures.
• Lead provisioning of builds, configurations, and runtime infrastructure for middleware products.
• Ensure teams meet security, reliability, monitoring, and support standards through daily risk and control oversight.
• Collaborate with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
• Lead teams during enterprise incidents, focusing on application and web stability as part of an on‑call rotation.