Middleware Support Engineer / WebSphere Administrator Mid / Senior Level - FTE- US Hours
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Centroid Systems, Inc. Middleware Support Engineer / WebSphere Administrator Mid / Senior Level - FTE- US Hours
Middleware Support Engineer / WebSphere Administrator
Mid / Senior Level - Full Time
Location: Hyderabad, India Office, Telangana, India
Department: Managed Services
Type: Full Time
Min. Experience: Mid Level / Senior Level
The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical professional with strong production support experience, disciplined documentation habits, and the judgment to respond effectively to incidents, escalations, scheduled maintenance, and on-call needs.
Mid / Senior Level - Full Time
Location: Hyderabad, India Office, Telangana, India
Department: Managed Services
Type: Full Time
Min. Experience: Mid Level / Senior Level
About Centroid
Centroid helps clients modernize and support mission-critical enterprise environments through cloud services and managed services. We are looking for technically strong, customer-focused team members who thrive in structured support environments and are committed to high-quality service for North American clients.Position Summary
Centroid is seeking a Middleware Support Engineer / WebSphere Administrator to join our Managed Services team in Hyderabad, India. This full-time role will provide production support for U.S.-based clients during U.S. business hours, with responsibility for monitoring, administration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and support of HCL WebSphere Application Server and related middleware technologies.The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical professional with strong production support experience, disciplined documentation habits, and the judgment to respond effectively to incidents, escalations, scheduled maintenance, and on-call needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide managed services support for enterprise middleware environments, including IBM WebSphere Application Server, HCL Portal, IBM ACE, and related integration and security components.
- Perform daily system health checks, monitoring review, incident triage, service request fulfillment, and operational follow-up for assigned client environments.
- Deploy, update, and support enterprise applications, including artifact release management, application rollouts, and post-deployment validation.
- Troubleshoot application and middleware issues by reviewing logs, heap dumps, system alerts, configuration settings, and performance indicators.
- Apply fix packs, patches, configuration changes, and maintenance updates in accordance with approved change control processes.
- Support SSL certificate management, user access administration, authentication mechanisms, SAML/SSO-related configurations, and security-related maintenance activities.
- Create, maintain, and execute administrative scripts using Jython, wsadmin, shell scripting, or similar automation tools to improve operational efficiency.
- Prepare clear documentation for incidents, service requests, operational procedures, root cause analysis inputs, and knowledge base articles.
- Coordinate with Centroid service delivery managers, U.S.-based technical teams, and client stakeholders to resolve issues and meet service commitments.
- Participate in after-hours maintenance windows, escalation coverage, and rotating on-call support when required.
- 8+ years of experience in middleware administration, production support, or enterprise application support environments.
- Hands-on experience administering IBM WebSphere Application Server version 8.5 or later in enterprise environments.
- Experience installing, updating, deploying, and supporting enterprise applications and related middleware artifacts.
- Strong troubleshooting skills, including log analysis, heap dump review, patching support, error diagnosis, and root cause analysis.
- Working knowledge of Linux or AIX operating systems, networking fundamentals, and database integration concepts.
- Experience with middleware security administration, including SSL certificates, access roles, authentication, and secure configuration practices.
- Ability to create and maintain automation scripts using Jython, wsadmin, shell scripting, or similar tools.
- Strong verbal, written, organizational, and technical documentation skills.
- Ability to provide accurate and realistic effort estimates, commit to assigned work, and deliver accordingly.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced managed services environment and prioritize multiple incidents, service requests, maintenance activities, and client commitments.
- Ability to work productively in a team environment and participate as a positive, collaborative, and cooperative team member.
- Candidates should be flexible to cover U.S. business hours from India and support scheduled maintenance windows, incident escalations, and after-hours on-call coverage as required.
- Experience with HCL Portal version 8.5 or later, including Web Content Management, syndication, portlet deployment, and xmlaccess.
- Experience with IBM Application Connect Enterprise (ACE) version 12.
- Experience with IBM Security Verify Access / ISVA / ISAM version 10 or later, including Federation, SAML, and SSO.
- Experience supporting managed services, production operations, or client-facing support environments.
- Familiarity with ITIL-based incident, problem, change, and service request management processes.
- Experience working with ticketing, monitoring, and knowledge management tools in a structured support environment.
- Experience supporting multiple client environments or shared services operations.
- Immediate joiners preferred.