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Our client, a global financial services firm and a market leader in securities, asset management and credit services, is seeking a Middleware Specialist / SRE (Engineer)
Location: New York, NY Position Type: Contract The successful candidate will: -Apply technical skills to design, build and automate application platforms both on-premises and cloud. -Partner with other teams in Morgan Stanley like enterprise infrastructure, MIS, networking, security, storage, and database and data center to roll out application platforms successfully as per the design. -Coordinate with development and business teams to obtain sign off for non-functional requirement testing. -Maintain a 360-degree view of an application and its underlying middleware and infrastructure components. -Produce reusable infrastructure designs patterns for future reference and periodically review / refresh the patterns. -Support vendor / vendor technology onboarding following the Morgan Stanley best practices and security blueprint. -Apply technical skills to automate daily support functions, improve system stability, support hygiene initiatives and deliver innovation that creates efficiency and consistency. Required Skills: -Hands-on experience of Linux 7 operating system. -Hands-on experience of web servers (Apache / Nginx), Application Servers (Tomcat / JBoss) to include application integration, configuration and troubleshooting. -Hands-on experience on Cloud platforms (Azure or AWS), Docker containers, Kubernetes -Expert level scripting skills using Python (mandatory) and Shell. -Exposure and experience of open source tools like Grafana, Prometheus, open telemetry and Loki. -Basic operational knowledge of RDBMS and SQL. -Clear concept of load balancer, web proxies and storage platforms like NAS / SAN from an implementation perspective only. -Familiar with basic security policies for secure hosting solutions, Kerberos and standard encryption methodologies including SSL and TLS. -Prior experience managing large web-based n-tier applications in secure environments on cloud -Should have worked in an agile delivery model with exposure to CI / CD. Desired / Nice to have skills -Exposure to tools like App Dynamics, Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Ansible -Familiarity with NoSQL database and SPARQL -Exposure to Big Data platforms like Hadoop / Cloudera and ELK Stack -Capacity planning and performance tuning exercise -Identity management protocols like OIDC / OAuth, SAML, LDAP integration -A system architecture / developer work experience Experience: -8 plus years in as similar role of hands-on application / middleware specialist. -Prior experience of working in a global financial organization is an advantageVacancy expired!