Responsibilities

- Provide planning, consulting, technical analysis, design, deployment, development, testing, implementation, maintenance, upgrades and daily support of middleware products.

General Skills

- Experience with web and applications tier servers
- Experience with message brokers
- Experience with messaging services
- Experience with adapters
- Experience with development framework/technologies
- Experience in middleware software installation, configuration, tuning, system optimization and administration, as well as experience with application development
- 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
- Experience with middleware and gateways
- Experience on application monitoring and support
- Experience with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or others.
- Experience Building and maintaining automated pipelines for build, test, and deployment
- Experience building and deploying containers and workload orchestration platform




- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or other cloud provider platform deploying and managing cloud-native applications and services
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

Desirable Skills

- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.
- Knowledge of portal services
- Knowledge of GO-PKI Security or similar public/private key Infrastructure
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
- 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:

- Windows Internet Information Server (IIS)
- IBM HTTP Server, Apache
- IBM WebSphere
- IBM Cognos Analytics
- IBM Business Automation Workflow
- Oracle Database 19c (and later)
- Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition
- Oracle Siebel
- Oracle Identity Manager / Oracle Internet Directory
- Oracle Analytics Server
- Oracle Intelligent Advisor
- Oracle Enterprise Business Suite (eBS)
- Informatica PowerCentre
- CTRL-M Workload Automation
- Nagios, Prometheus, DynaTrace,



Grafana,SiteScope and other monitoring tools
- ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana
- Solaris, Windows, AIX and Linux (e.g., Red Hat Ent Linux)
- Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS

Experience Requirements

1. Core Skills and Experience (40%)

- Minimum 7 years of experience in middleware/integration technologies in complex enterprise environments
- Proven experience designing, implementing, and supporting integration solutions using middleware platforms
- Deep understanding of system integration patterns (synchronous/asynchronous, REST, SOAP, event-driven, messaging)
- Robust problem-solving skills with experience troubleshooting across multiple systems and layers (application, middleware, infrastructure)
- Experience supporting mission-critical systems with high availability and performance requirements

2. Technical Skills and Experience (30%)

- Expertise in middleware platforms such as IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE), IBM WebSphere, MuleSoft, Azure Integration Services, or similar ESBs
- Experience with API Gateway and Management platforms (e.g., IBM API Connect, Azure APIM)
- Proficiency in working with messaging and event platforms (e.g., MQ, Kafka, JMS, Event Grid)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and hybrid integration scenarios
- Knowledge of security protocols and integration (OAuth2.0, SAML, mutual TLS, API keys)
- Experience integrating with enterprise platforms such as SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Siebel, Curam, or other COTS solutions
- Hands-on experience with scripting and automation (e.g., Shell, P

📌 Middleware Specialist (Toronto)
🏢 Softline Technology
📍 Toronto