The Panther Group has an immediate need for a Middleware Administrator for our well-known client in the Insurance Industry.  This is a hybrid opportunity, targeting a candidates located in either NJ or PA.Â
Middleware Administrator
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Experience:
7 years of Tibco Suite Administration (BW5, BW6, ActiveSpaces, EMS, iProcess)
3 years of Developing Hawk rules, Grafana Prometheus Familiar with IT Service Management tools like ServiceNow Experience with Splunk Appd, Zenoss, AWS CloudWatch, CICD tools Strong Windows, AIX/Unix/Linus administration skills.
Strong JAVA coding skills.
Expert level JVM dump reading, end to end trouble shooting skills
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Skills:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
•   Install, patch, monitor, diagnose, performance tune Tibco softwareÂ
•   Provide 24x7 third-level support.  Â
•   Provide SME advice on architecture, design, and implementation of new projects and deliverables to applications.
•   Follow best practice implementation process – checklist, pre/post implementation validation and checkout, exercised backout procedures for platform stability and high success rate. Â
•   Analyze and performance tune the Middleware platforms Tibco, Kafka.
•   Develop and manage Hawk rules, Confluent monitoring, Grafana Prometheus
•   Devise automation and autonomics trigger and scripts for best performance, self-tuning, and outage avoidance.
•   Work with the vendor in root cause analysis, managing tickets, collecting doc, devising workarounds, taking corrective or preventative actions, and implementing vendor fixes.
•   Abide by all requirements from Security, Compliance, and Audit. Â
•   Provide backup support for IBM MQ, utilizing QPasa or IR360 monitor tool, SNS/SQS, Redis
•   Keep all platforms at supported software levels and apply CIS security patching
•   Team Player
•   Customer service orientation.
•   Experience with Jenkins, GIT, AWS, Zenoss, Splunk, AppD
Knowledge:Â Â Â
•   Tibco Suite Administration (BW5, BW6, ActiveSpaces, EMS, iProcess)Â
•   Confluent product suite (Zookeeper, Broker, Control Center, Connect, Replicator, Schema Reg)
•   Developing Hawk rules, Grafana Prometheus, Confluent Monitoring
•   ServiceNow, or other ticketing management tools, Jira
•   Strong Windows, AIX/Unix/Linux administration skills and AWS tools.
•   Diagnostic and root cause determination skills.Â
•   Knowledge of JVM, Thread, Core dump reading
•   Migration experience Tibco iProcess 11.8, BW 5.14, 6.8, EMS 10.x, ActiveSpaces, Kafka latest versions
•   Experience with JAVA, Shell/Python Scripting, RDBMS, SQL
•   Experience with web services, certificates, SOAP, API management
•   Mandatory knowledge of adapters preferably ADB adapter, MQ, SalesForce, ActiveSpaces, CICS, File adapter
•   Ability to multitask and prioritize responsibilities on a daily basis, often under pressure.
•   Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Technology:Â
•   Tibco Suite Administration (BW5, BW6, ActiveSpaces, EMS, iProcess)
•   Kafka suite Administration
•   Windows, AIX/Unix/Linux, AWS
•   JAVA, Shell/Python Scripting, RDBMS, SQL
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