Middleware Specialist - Senior
Senior Middleware Specialist to provide strategic and technical leadership for migration and modernization of mission-critical enterprise applications from on-premises infrastructure to AWS.
- Organization
- Children, Youth & Social Services Cluster
- Location
- 5775 Yonge St., Ontario
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Contract
- Compensation
- $744/day
- Reference
- RQ11227
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Middleware Specialist to provide strategic and technical leadership for the migration of multiple mission-critical enterprise applications from on-premises infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The consultant will support the migration and modernization of a complex application portfolio that includes Merative Cúram, Oracle Siebel, Oracle e-Business Suite, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW), Informatica, Cognos, WebSphere, WebLogic, Oracle databases, and related shared services.
The engagement will focus on a phased "migrate first, modernize second" approach, involving:
• Application and database migration to AWS
• Oracle Database upgrades (19c to 26ai)
• Infrastructure modernization
• Security and identity integration
• Migration planning and execution
• Future-state containerization and deployment to Amazon EKS
Responsibilities
• Assess and validate migration approaches for the mission-critical applications, and related systems.
• Develop detailed AWS migration strategies, roadmaps, and migration waves.
• Produce target-state cloud architecture designs and transition plans.
• Validate application, infrastructure, integration, and database dependencies.
• Design and review AWS architecture including VPCs, EC2s, EBS, S3, Route 53, Load Balancers, Transit Gateway, Network segmentation, Security Groups, IAM, CloudWatch, Backup and Disaster Recovery.
• Ensure alignment with government security, compliance, and operational standards.
• Provide guidance and implementation support for migration of Merative Cúram applications, Oracle Siebel CRM, Oracle e-Business Suite, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW), WebSphere Application Server, WebLogic, Cognos Analytics, Informatica, Shared services and integration platforms.
• Support future modernization initiatives including Java upgrades to Java 21, Migration from traditional WebSphere to WebSphere Liberty, Kubernetes architecture and implementation, Amazon EKS deployment strategy, CI/CD automation and DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Review cloud security architecture.
• Design IAM and access management strategies.
• Integrate enterprise identity and SSO services.
• Support secure connectivity between AWS and on-premises environments.
• Assess compliance, audit, and operational controls.
• Produce architecture decisions and technical documentation.
• Identify and manage migration risks and mitigation plans.
• Facilitate architecture reviews and technical workshops.
• Mentor internal teams and transfer knowledge.
• Support procurement, project planning, and executive reporting.
Mandatory Qualifications
General Skills:
• Hands-on experience with AWS or other cloud provider platforms migrating, deploying and managing cloud-native applications and services.
• Experience with DevOps tools such as CodePipeline, CDK/CloudFormation, Kiro, CloudWatch, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or others.
• Experience with web and applications tier servers.
• Experience in middleware software installation, configuration, tuning, system optimization and administration, as well as experience with application development.
• Experience with middleware and gateways.
• Experience on application monitoring and support.
• Experience Building and maintaining automated pipelines for build, test, and deployment.
• Experience building and deploying containers and workload orchestration platform.
• Experience with development framework/technologies.
• Experience with change management and release management as processes supporting the implementation of large applications.
• Experience with incident and problem management processes.
• Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of applications.
• Experience producing design artefacts, code, configurations, scripts, and test cases.
• Ability to analyze the results from functional, security, load-and-stress testing and resolve reported issues.
• Ability to analyze and solve data integrity, security, configuration and recovery issues.
• Assess and test Change Requests (CRQ) with technical content and updating as necessary.
• Ability to participate in release promotions/implementations.
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
Must haves:
• Experience in middleware software installation, configuration, tuning, system optimization and administration, as well as experience with application development.
• Experience with middleware and gateways.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or other cloud provider platforms migrating, deploying and managing cloud-native applications and services.
• Experience with DevOps tools such as CodePipeline, CDK/CloudFormation, Kiro, CloudWatch, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or others.
• Experience with web and applications tier servers.
Preferred Qualifications
Desirable Skills:
• Knowledge of GO-PKI Security or similar public/private key Infrastructure.
• Experience conducting system and application monitoring and performance and data integrity in accordance with ITIL standards.
• Experience sustaining large application implementations based on the following technology products:
• Merative Curam
• IBM WebSphere
• IBM Cognos Analytics
• IBM Business Automation Workflow
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Apache httpd
• Oracle Database 19c (and later)
• Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition
• Oracle Siebel
• Oracle Identity Manager / Oracle Internet Directory
• Oracle Analytics Server
• Oracle Intelligent Advisor
• Oracle Enterprise Business Suite (eBS)
• Informatica PowerCentre
• CTRL-M Workload Automation
• Nagios, Prometheus, DynaTrace, Grafana, SiteScope and other monitoring tools
• OpenSearch, Logstash
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server
• Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS
Skills and Experience
Evaluation criteria:
• Middleware Operational Support — 40
• Cloud-based Services and Migration — 30
• Service Management — 30
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