Responsibilities for middleware engineering
•    Required to adhere to standards and processes as defined and ensure production implementations adhere to those standards
•    Patch Web and JAVA JDK/SDK products on various OS platforms (mainly Redhat and AIX)
•    Coordinate patch implementation and post patch testing/validation
•    Working with Engineering groups - prepare for support of additional java based Web environments and applications
•    Architect, install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot MQSeries and IBM’s Integration Bus in clustered configurations on Linux
•    Evaluate new technologies and identify if there is a potential benefit 
•    The position will be responsible to provide on-call support in a 24/7 environment to diagnose complex technical issues resolve and restore service
•    BI Platform – installs and maintains BI and third party products, patches
•    Database Administration – administration of Cognos meta data repository and support connections to disparate data marts and data warehouse platforms
•    Project managers - to support their project goals
Qualifications for middleware engineer
•    Optional skills (will be considered as PLUS) are
•    Web – Webserver / Appserver- Webshpere / Weblogic
•    Minimum 10+ years architecting and deploying high availability and disaster recovery MQSeries and IBM Integration Bus configurations
•    Report developers - to familiarize them with our tool set and the standards we enforce
•    Application developers – to assist in creating interfaces to applications that want to invoke Cognos reports as part of their application
•    Users – to assist when they have difficulties