What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU - people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world. At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story. As a Platform Delivery Middleware Services Engineer at Cognizant, you will ensure the availability and performance of Middleware and Application environments for a global banking client. Your role involves maintaining critical applications, collaborating with architecture teams, and providing middleware expertise. You will monitor systems, resolve issues, and implement high availability solutions, leveraging your skills in IBM iSystems, Linux administration, and middleware technologies like IBM MQ and GoAnywhere. Your contributions will drive innovation and success in a dynamic, international environment, Responsibilities/Day-to-day: - Responsible for ensuring availability and performance of the Middleware or Application environments - Maintenance, build, performance tuning of Crown Jewel applications and MW solutions - Works with the architecture team to provide IBMi Operating System on IBM Power Servers, CL Control Language, SQL Database DB2, MQ on IBMI - Strong Linux administration skills IBM MQ, Strong SFTP or FTP or SCP File Transfer software and Linux native processes. - GoAnywhere, Dollar Universe, Payplus, Middleware expertise to define and implement a global infrastructure to support existing and future projects - Provides GoAnywhere or MQ expertise to the development team internal and external regarding development and deployment best practice and configuration for Clearing applications - Ownership of technical workloads Works closely with support team colleagues to ensure that the associated hardware resources for the Middle Tiers are configured for optimum performance and availability - Proactively monitors Middleware or Application Servers to ensure minimum downtime - Provides regular trend analysis to track Middleware or Application Servers performance and throughput, for capacity planning purposes. - Responsible for enhancements, maintenance and upgrades to the Middle Tier environments. - Works with business, development and technical colleagues to manage and implement changes - Carries out analysis of potential hardware problems prior to contacting third party support. - Escalates problems to third-party support when necessary or acting as a point of contact. - Analyses and resolves problems when they arise providing details of the resolution in the call logging system. - Liaises with users to ensure fast and satisfactory problems resolution. - Develops automated housekeeping and alerting tasks to reduce the need for manual intervention. - Investigates and develops methods for performance optimisation and the prevention of recurring problems. Maintains system documentation. - Ensures all system and application changes are approved via the appropriate Change Control methods. - Develops and maintain runbooks for High Availability and Disaster Recovery tests and is responsible for planning and running these tests. - Handles the implementation of the banks business applications running in development, test and production environments. This will include installation of applications, releases and patch management as well as upgrades. - Keeps up to date with existing and emerging middleware technologies and integrate with the development/architecture teams of their suitability for use within - Experience of implementing and supporting high availability solutions To apply for this role, your soft skills, expertise and experience should include: - IBM iSystems - IBM MQ - Dollar Universe - IBM i Admin - IBM i Access - IBM MQ - MFT (GoAnywhere) - Control Language Programming - IBM i Programming - Linux Admin (RHEL/SLES/OEL) - MQ Administration Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us. For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit http://www.cognizant.com/careers. Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check. Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
