Middleware Engineer/Japan

Job Summary

Provide technical support for middleware (mainly WAS/MQ portion).

Manage managed service vendor for day-to-day engineering and operation for middleware layer.　Support team management for line manager.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes daily activity of the team to explore area to be improve.
• Manages internal and external service suppliers including product vendors.
• Provides middleware engineering/operation team leadership in areas of expertise.
• Ensures business requirements are met in a timely manner.
• Participate/conduct middleware related projects as IT PL role.
• Works closely with other organizations including Met Life global team to promote efficient IT go-live optimization.
• Identifies root cause of the incidents and fix the incident in areas of expertise.
• Identifies improvement areas and plans and implements systems to boost company effectiveness.
• Assists to upper management in setting initiatives that promote stability improvement in DB operations.
• Assists to upper management in preparing key goals, budgets, schedules, and other organizational reports as needed.
• Assists to upper management in promoting and enforcing stability of systems.
• Assists to upper management in developing plans to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
• Assists to upper management in managing assets and inventory.

Requirements (Experience, Skills, Education)

Experience:

• 8 + years of IT experience including infrastructure engineering and/or operation roles.
• 2 + years of staff management in IT department

Skills:

• Technical skill in Web Application (WAS, Tomcat, IIS), MQ, Cloud (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS), CICD, Docker
• Tendering, contracting, contract supervision and financial management
• Identification and creation of automation scripts and software implementation with the goal of infrastructure operation automation
• Leading meetings to review requirements, review gap analysis, review a technical methodology, and assist in conducting demonstrations of solution.
• Problem-solving & decision making that supports a defect resolution process by bringing an understanding of operations scheme, its engineering, and the underlying business processes.

Preferable

• Experience as a Solution Architect/Software Engineer/Project Manager/IT System Administrator
• A background in Life Insurance company
• ITIL, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or equivalent training

Language

• Japanese:Advanced/Intermediate
• English:Advanced/Intermediate