DevOps / Middleware Engineer

Job Title: DevOps / Middleware Engineer

Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid 2 Days Onsite per Week)
Employment Type: Contract

Job Summary

STAFFXPERT LLC is seeking a DevOps / Middleware Engineer on behalf of our client in Alpharetta, GA. We are looking for a highly motivated engineer with hands-on expertise in cloud platforms, middleware technologies, automation, and infrastructure support. This role involves supporting customer-facing applications, managing middleware environments, automating deployments, and ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performing systems across production and non-production environments.

The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys solving complex technical challenges, and collaborates effectively across engineering, product, and operations teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Support, maintain, and optimize middleware environments and customer-facing applications.

• Deploy, configure, and manage applications across cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS.

• Perform Linux/Unix systems administration, monitoring, and maintenance activities.

• Design, build, and support CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Maven, and Artifactory.

• Configure and maintain middleware servers including WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, and Apache, including patching and proxy configuration.

• Implement infrastructure automation using Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and scripting languages such as Shell, Python, Perl, and PowerShell.

• Support containerized deployments using Docker/Podman and orchestration with Kubernetes.

• Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues through root cause analysis across production and non-production environments.

• Configure and manage identity, security, and access controls, including SSL certificates, RBAC, MFA, Okta, LDAP, Entra ID, OpenSSL, and Keytool.

• Monitor system performance and availability using tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Kibana, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and Nagios.

• Maintain technical documentation, deployment records, release handovers, and project updates.

• Collaborate with engineering, QA, product, and leadership teams in Agile, Scrum, or Kanban environments.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Middleware Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Support.

• Strong experience with Azure, AWS, or other cloud platforms.

• Experience with Linux/Unix system administration and middleware technologies.

• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and scripting.

• Understanding of networking concepts including DNS, DHCP, Load Balancers, Firewalls, DMZ, TCP/IP, HTTP, SOAP, and REST APIs.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in enterprise environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Blue/Green and Canary deployments.

• Exposure to high-availability systems, infrastructure monitoring, capacity planning, migrations, patching, and hotfix implementations.

• Familiarity with container orchestration and modern DevOps best practices.

If you are passionate about building reliable systems, automating infrastructure, and supporting enterprise-scale environments, we encourage you to apply and explore this opportunity with STAFFXPERT LLC.