RQ11227 - Middleware Specialist - Senior
Job Information
Term 123+129 days

Number of Positions 1

Work Experience 7-10 Years

City Toronto

State/Province Ontario

M4C

Job Description
Description:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Middleware Specialist to provide strategic and technical leadership for the migration of multiple mission-critical enterprise applications from on-premises infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The consultant will support the migration and modernization of a complex application portfolio that includes Merative Cúram, Oracle Siebel, Oracle e-Business Suite, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW), Informatica, Cognos, WebSphere, WebLogic,Oracle databases, andrelated shared services.

The engagement will focus on a phased migrate first, modernize second approach, involving:

Application and database migration to AWS

Oracle Database upgrades (19c to 26ai)

Infrastructure modernization

Security and identity integration

Migration planning and execution

Future-state containerization and deployment to Amazon EKS

Key Responsibilities:

Migration Strategy and Architecture:

Assess and validate migration approaches for the mission-critical applications, and related systems.

Develop detailed AWS migration strategies, roadmaps, and migration waves.

Produce target-state cloud architecture designs and transition plans.

Validate application, infrastructure, integration, and database dependencies.

Design and review AWS architecture including VPCs, EC2s, EBS, S3, Route 53, Load Balancers, Transit Gateway, Network segmentation,Security Groups,IAM, CloudWatch, Backup and Disaster Recovery

Ensure alignment with government security, compliance, and operational standards.

Application Migration:

Provide guidance and implementation support for migration of Merative Cúram applications, Oracle Siebel CRM, Oracle e-Business Suite, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW), WebSphere Application Server, WebLogic, Cognos Analytics, Informatica, Shared services and integration platforms

Containerization and Cloud Modernization:

Support future modernization initiatives including Java upgrades to Java 21,



Migration from traditional WebSphere to WebSphere Liberty, Kubernetes architecture and implementation, Amazon EKS deployment strategy, CI/CD automation and DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Security and Identity:

Review cloud security architecture.

Design IAM and access management strategies.

Integrate enterprise identity and SSO services.

Support secure connectivity between AWS and on-premises environments.

Assess compliance, audit, and operational controls.

Migration Governance:

Produce architecture decisions and technical documentation.

Identify and manage migration risks and mitigation plans.

Facilitate architecture reviews and technical workshops.

Mentor internal teams and transfer knowledge.

Support procurement, project planning, and executive reporting.

Requirements
Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

Experience in middleware software installation, configuration, tuning, system optimization and administration, as well as experience with application development

Experience with middleware and gateways

Hands-on experience with AWS or other cloud provider platforms migrating, deploying and managing cloud-native applications and services

Experience with DevOps tools such as CodePipeline, CDK/CloudFormation, Kiro, CloudWatch, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or others

Experience with web and applications tier servers

Skill Set Requirements:

General Skills:

Hands-on experience with AWS or other cloud provider platforms migrating, deploying and managing cloud-native applications and services

Experience with DevOps tools such such as CodePipeline, CDK/CloudFormation, Kiro, CloudWatch, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or others.





Experience with web and applications tier servers

Experience in middleware software installation, configuration, tuning, system optimization and administration, as well as experience with application development

Experience with middleware and gateways

Experience on application monitoring and support

Experience Building and maintaining automated pipelines for build, test, and deployment

Experience building and deploying containers and workload orchestration platform

Experience with development framework/technologies

Experience with change management and release management as processes supporting the implementation of large applications

Experience with incident and problem management processes

Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of applications

Experience producing design artefacts, code, configurations, scripts, and test cases

Ability to analyze the results from functional, security, load-and-stress testing and resolve reported issues

Ability to analyze and solve data integrity, security, configuration and recovery issues

Assess and test Change Requests (CRQ) with technical content and updating as necessary

Ability to participate in release promotions/implementations

A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

Knowledge of GO-PKI Security or similar public/private key Infrastructure

Experience conducting system and application monitoring and performance and data integrity in accordance with ITIL standards

Experience sustaining large application implementations based on the following technology products:

Merative Curam

IBM WebSphere

IBM Business Automation Workflow

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Apache httpd

Oracle Database 19c (and later)

Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition

Oracle Identity Manager / Oracle Internet Directory

Oracle Analytics Server

Oracle Enterprise Business Suite (eBS)

Nagios, Prometheus, DynaTrace, Grafana, SiteScope and other monitoring tools

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server

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📌 Middleware Specialist - Senior (Ontario)
🏢 Maarut
📍 Ontario