[Remote] DevOps Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optomi, in partnership with a leading technology and consulting organization, is seeking a Senior Consultant – Middleware System Administrator / DevOps Engineer. The role administers and supports enterprise JBoss EAP middleware environments while managing Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release processes, production support, and modernization initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Provision, install, configure, monitor, and administer JBoss EAP environments across development, QA, staging, and production
- Configure and support JBoss clustering and failover to maintain high availability
- Administer and troubleshoot integrations between JBoss, web servers, and enterprise applications
- Manage Azure DevOps integrations with JBoss for automated application deployments
- Manage Azure DevOps workflows, including branching, pull requests, approvals, release tagging, and access controls
- Configure and support Azure Pipelines for automated builds, deployments, testing, artifact management, and environment promotions
- Package and deploy enterprise applications to JBoss using GUI and CLI tools
- Perform post-deployment validation, smoke testing, log analysis, health checks, and performance verification
- Develop rollback procedures, deployment runbooks, operational checklists, and release documentation
- Provide day-to-day middleware administration and production operational support
- Monitor applications and troubleshoot authentication, web server, and JBoss runtime issues
- Plan and execute JBoss upgrades, fix packs, and patching activities
- Perform performance tuning and analyze logs, thread dumps, and heap dumps to identify bottlenecks
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventative actions
- Develop Shell/Bash scripts to automate health checks, deployments, maintenance, and operational tasks
- Monitor system utilization, perform capacity planning, and identify infrastructure bottlenecks
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, networking, application support, and DevOps teams
- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge base materials
- Provide technical guidance and training to support teams when needed
Skills
- Strong hands-on experience administering JBoss EAP 7.x/8.x
- Experience with JBoss standalone and domain modes
- Experience with JBoss clustering and failover
- Azure DevOps administration and CI/CD pipeline management
- Experience with Azure Repos, branching strategies, pull requests, and branch policies
- Release management and deployment automation experience
- Experience with artifact management, environment approvals, and release gates
- Middleware and web server administration experience
- Production support, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution experience
- Strong Shell/Bash scripting skills
- Ability to independently manage production and staging environments
- Experience with application deployment using GUI and CLI tools
- Understanding of datasource, JVM, and server configuration management
Benefits
- 100% remote work with occasional travel, potentially once per quarter
- A long-term opportunity supporting major technology modernization initiatives
- A collaborative team environment across infrastructure, application, security, networking, and DevOps
- Strong visibility with leadership and project stakeholders
- Opportunity to help establish and grow an onshore middleware and DevOps support organization
- Hands-on ownership of production and staging environments
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