Middleware Engineer

Description

Middleware Engineer

18 Month W2 Contract

Chandler, AZ

Hybrid 3 days onsite 2 days remote

$60-$70/hour

We are seeking a Middleware Software Engineer to join our engineering team responsible for building, packaging, and delivering enterprise middleware solutions for containerized platforms. This is a software engineering role, not an operations or production support position.

The ideal candidate will have experience engineering middleware products into reusable, enterprise-ready software packages that can be deployed consistently across Kubernetes and OpenShift environments. This role focuses on software packaging, automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and cloud-native application delivery.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, customize, and package enterprise middleware products for internal consumption and deployment.
• Take open-source middleware technologies and build enterprise-supported, reusable software packages for internal platforms.
• Develop standardized deployment artifacts for containerized environments using automation and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Build and maintain automated deployment pipelines for middleware products.
• Customize, configure, and optimize middleware platforms to meet internal engineering standards.
• Collaborate with platform engineering teams to deploy middleware solutions into Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.
• Develop reusable automation for installation, configuration, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Work closely with software engineering teams to integrate middleware platforms into enterprise application delivery pipelines.
• Contribute to CI/CD automation and release engineering practices.
• Support cloud-native deployment strategies across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with enterprise middleware technologies.

• Strong experience packaging and engineering middleware software for enterprise environments.

• Hands-on experience with one or more middleware platforms including:

• Apache HTTP Server

• Apache Tomcat

• JBoss EAP

• Experience containerizing middleware applications for:

• Kubernetes

• OpenShift

• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience using:

• Terraform

• Ansible

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

• Experience with Helm charts and ArgoCD for Kubernetes application deployment.

• Experience working with at least one major cloud platform:

• AWS

• Azure

• GCP

• Strong understanding of container technologies and cloud-native application deployment.

• Experience building reusable deployment packages rather than simply administering middleware environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Python scripting or development experience for automation and tooling.
• Experience developing internal platform products or engineering reusable middleware frameworks.
• Knowledge of GitOps methodologies.
• Experience working with enterprise platform engineering teams.
• Familiarity with software lifecycle management and release engineering.

Technical Environment

• Middleware: Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, JBoss EAP
• Containers: Kubernetes, OpenShift
• Automation: Ansible, Terraform
• CI/CD: ArgoCD, Helm, Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI
• Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Languages: Python (nice to have)

Ideal Candidate The ideal candidate is a software engineer with middleware expertise, not a traditional middleware administrator or operations engineer. They should be comfortable taking open-source middleware products, customizing and packaging them into enterprise-ready solutions, and automating deployments across modern container platforms using Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD best practices. Python experience is a plus but not required.