Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Job Description:

This job is responsible for tool and service designs within a technical domain that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards, and policies. Ensuring middleware platforms are patched with the most current version of software, helping to manage risk to the customer; Providing WebSphere Application Server administration that includes server installation, configuration, performance tuning and production support; Working with customers (application teams and/or testing teams) on a daily basis and providing WebSphere and Java support; Serving as a J2EE architect and making recommendations on J2EE best practices in application development; Designing WebSphere infrastructure and WebSphere topology design for high availability and failover capability; Providing technical consultation to other team members and their supported areas; Communicating with business partners at an enterprise level; Interfacing with internal customers and external vendors for consultation at various points of the software development life cycle (SDLC); and, Executing production changes for Bank integrated and regulatory releases with precision. Job expectations include looking for opportunities to improve efficiency when implementing and maintaining tools/services and embracing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Provides subject matter expertise and consulting services on a range of technologies and assists Technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers to ensure that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.
• Assists with translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies.
• Assists in the evaluation of reference models, blueprints, and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose.
• Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes.
• Conducts on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption.
• Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers.
• Contributes to the creation/selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains.
• Work on Linux platform middleware engineering and environment support
• work on CICD - Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process and tools
• Day–to-day administration includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting server problems. 
• This is to provide 3rd Level Support - Incident troubleshooting, analysis and resolution for web applications.
• This position demands the person to be absolutely hands on. 

Required Qualifications:

• Candidate must have 5+ year experience in Java/ Linux Middleware Engineering. 
• Providing middleware engineering support of WebSphere, JBoss, Apache, IBM HTTP Server, Tomcat, Appian, etc.
• Delivering middleware enterprise projects and regulatory legislative initiatives
• Ensuring production stability from an ongoing support standpoint; Ensuring middleware platforms are patched with the most current version of software, helping to manage risk to the customer
• Providing WebSphere Application Server administration that includes server installation, configuration, performance tuning and production support; Working with customers (application teams and/or testing teams) on a daily basis and providing WebSphere and Java support
• Serving as a J2EE architect and making recommendations on J2EE best practices in application development
• Designing WebSphere infrastructure and WebSphere topology design for high availability and failover capability
• Providing technical consultation to other team members and their supported areas
• Communicating with business partners at an enterprise level
• Interfacing with internal customers and external vendors for consultation at various points of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Executing production changes for Bank integrated and regulatory releases with precision.

Desired Qualifications:

• WebSphere/JBoss/Tomcat/Appian/IBM Http Server/Apache Middleware administration.
• Knowledge of shell, jython and Perl scripting.
• Information Technology professional with 5 plus years’ experience
• Tools: BladeLogic, Dynatrace, JIRA, Ansible Tower
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong attention to detail
• Hands on experience with release orchestration tools like Xebia Labs Release is an added advantage.

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Automation
• Production Support
• Risk Management
• Adaptability
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Architecture
• Collaboration
• Innovative Thinking
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40