Summary
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A technology organization is seeking a Middleware Integration Engineer in Montreal to design, build, automate, and maintain middleware platforms across cloud and on-premises environments. The role involves infrastructure design patterns, security-aligned technology onboarding, non-functional testing, and automation of operational support.
Highlights
Hybrid engineering role focused on designing, automating, and modernizing middleware platforms across cloud and on-premises environments, with strong exposure to infrastructure architecture, security, and cross-functional technology delivery.
Description
Job Title: Middleware Integration Engineer
Location: Montreal, QC (Hybrid)
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
Apply technical skills to design, build and automate middleware platforms both on-premises and cloud.Partner with other groups such as Enterprise Infrastructure, MIS, Networking, Security, Storage, Database and Data Center teams to roll out technology platforms successfully as per best practices.Coordinate signoffs for non-functional requirement testing with development and business teams.Maintain a 360-degree view of applications and their underlying middleware and infrastructure components.Produce reusable infrastructure and middleware designs patterns for future reference and refresh existing ones on a regular basis.Support vendor / vendor technology onboarding following Morgan Stanley best practices and security blueprints.Adopt, build and rollout new technology stacks for NFRT for cloud-based and on-prem applications.Automate daily support functions, improve system stability, support hygiene initiatives and deliver innovation that creates efficiency and consistency.
Required Skills:
Strong infrastructure knowledge in Linux / Unix, Storage and NetworkingHands-on experience with load balancers, web servers (Apache / Nginx), application servers (Tomcat) to include application integration, configuration, and troubleshooting.Expert level scripting skills using Python (mandatory) and ShellFamiliar with IT Automation & Config Management tools (Ansible / Helm)Experience with source control and continuous integration / continuous delivery pipelines (Jenkins, Artifactory, Flux)Familiar with security hardening concepts for hosting applications or middleware, including transport encryption, modern single sign-on authentication and authorization mechanismsBasic operational knowledge of RDBMS and SQL.Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms (Azure or AWS), Docker/Podman containers, Kubernetes / OpenShiftPrior experience managing large web-based n-tier applications in secure environments on cloud
Desired / Nice to have skills:
Hands-on experience with graph databases (GraphDB) and knowledge of SPARQL query language.Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, AirflowExposure and experience in open-source Observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and Loki)Identity management protocols like OIDC / OAuth, SAML, LDAP integrationExposure to Big Data platforms like Hadoop / ELK StackCapacity planning and performance tuning of applications and middleware platformsA system architecture / developer work experience
Experience:
7 plus years in a similar role of hands-on application / middleware specialist.Prior experience of working in a global financial organization is an advantage
