Middleware Support Engineer

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Middleware Support Engineer for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution located in Iselin, NJ. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

This is a support-focused role aligned to middleware and platform services. The project involves supporting a resiliency framework developed internally for our client's applications, with the goal to standardize applications onto a common framework. This role will support and enable adoption of this framework, focusing on resiliency, recovery time, and proactive thinking about application and infrastructure resiliency.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, install, configure, and optimize Tomcat clusters on Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual servers
• Support application deployment strategies and enforce SDLC, change management, and release governance
• Design and manage SSL/TLS, certificate lifecycle management, and secure communications
• Implement authentication, authorization, and Single Sign-On (SSO) integrations using LDAP and enterprise identity platforms
• Drive security hardening standards, vulnerability remediation, and compliance alignment for middleware and Linux systems
• Perform advanced root cause analysis and resolution of complex middleware, OS, and application issues
• Establish and maintain platform monitoring, logging, and alerting standards
• Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automation, and deployment tooling (e.g., Jenkins)
• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Systems Operations Engineering
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Systems Operations Engineering challenges

Requirements:

• 5+ years of Systems Engineering or Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education
• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration (physical and virtual)
• Advanced experience with SSL/TLS, certificate authorities, and secure communications
• Proven expertise in middleware and OS security hardening, vulnerability management, and patching
• Experience designing and supporting high availability and disaster recovery architectures
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, middleware, OS, and infrastructure layers
• Working knowledge of LDAP/SSO integrations and identity management concepts
• Experience with CI/CD and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, Control-M)
• Familiarity with SAN storage concepts and enterprise storage platforms
• Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent professional experience accepted

Desired skills:

• Experience with infrastructure automation (Ansible, scripting)
• Exposure to containerization or Kubernetes (Tomcat on containers)
• Experience supporting Spring Boot or Java microservices platforms
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Splunk, ELK, Prometheus)

Pay range: $57.81 - $65.81 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

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