IBM DataPower

Job Title: Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Reston, VA (Remote)

Duration: 9 Months Contract to Hire

Lead Infrastructure Engineer responsible for Configuration, Administration, troubleshooting and Maintenance of technology solutions, especially IBM DataPower/APIM.

Provides technical support, Troubleshooting and Diagnostics, and performs scripting/programming to ensure stable and efficient operation of technology solutions.

Job Duties:

• Hands on technical and Architecture skills

• Exposure to a variety of other platforms and Technologies is a Plus, including IBM

• RHEL, TOMCAT, Cloud AWS, Ansible is a Plus

• Automation experience is a required

• Troubleshooting DataPower domain application issues and certificate crypto object issues

• Installation and configuration of DataPower Appliances.

• Experience automating the configuration of servers / virtual machines with solutions such as Ansible or equivalent

• Understanding of Middleware architecture and working knowledge of various Middleware application server integration

• Configure and administration of IBM API Connect and IBM DataPower appliances.

• Maintain working knowledge of API security standards and implementation (Oauth 2.0, OpenID, JSON, Web Token, JOSE, x509 certificates); Maintain knowledge of API security certification, authentication, authorization, IP security setup, and endpoint configuration.

• Good knowledge of Network concepts and F5 Load balancers

• Working knowledge on SSL certificates implementation

• Solid understanding of J2EE application deployment patterns and n-tier architectures

• Understanding of SOA and web services and their deployment in DataPower