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Ohio Farmers Insurance Company IBM MQ Administrator in Seville, Ohio
The Middleware Engineer, is a role working under moderate supervision, is responsible for the delivery, optimization, and scalability of middleware assets, services, and APIs. The role collaborates with various IT Teams to ensure successful and secure communication between various IT systems, application components, and vendors. The role requires an understanding of middleware infrastructures as well as supports XML and web services. The role optimizes the performance of integration environments by planning, testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and supporting various systems integrations. #LI-DNI Assesses, deploys, and supports middleware products that provide capabilities for advanced application business functionality and security, across a wide and varied portfolio of products in an enterprise hybrid environment. Develops solutions for middleware platforms by creating a standard framework or utilizing automation, where applicable, to efficiently reuse existing components and ensure consistent repeatability in deploying applications. Performs a variety of troubleshooting services across multiple middleware platforms in production and non-production environments. Executes middleware technology roadmap initiatives to ensure platform currency, stability and optimization and installs routine security related patches to mitigate vulnerabilities. Stays current with existing and emerging technologies, practices, trends and polices through research, industry events, networking, and other educational and information opportunities. Works with technology vendors and application development teams on implementing technical services, tools, and techniques. Monitors system services use, validating that performance levels experienced meet Service Level Agreements/Operating Level Agreements and recommends mitigation strategies if required. Collaborates with business units, and other technology teams to coordinate the implementation of middleware capabilities and components and ensures successful, seamless, and secure communication between various IT systems, application components, and vendors, both internal and external. Demonstrates personal accountability and ensures successful team outcomes by proactively identifying and mitigating delivery impediments, dependencies, and risks. Engages in Disaster Recovery planning. Participates in proof-of-concept studies to evaluate technology decisions. 2-5 years of experience in Middleware Technologies or a related field. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and/or commensurate work experience. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Required Skills: Proven experience in IBM MQ, IBM App Connect, IBM DataPower and related tools Proficiency in management of SSL/TLS certificates Understanding of Linux navigation and scripting Troubleshooting Desired Skills: Knowledge of Middleware platforms such as MuleSoft or Kafka Familiarity with log management technologies such as Graylog ReST and SOAP API's utilizing OAuth 2.0 and SAML 2.0 security Understanding of build and deployment process ideally with tools such IBM UCD and Azure DevOps Insurance industry knowledge Location Hybrid defined as three (3) or more days per week in the office Behavioral Competencies Collaborates Communicates Effectively Customer Focus Decision Quality Nimble Learning Founded in 1848, Westfield is a global leader in property and casualty insurance, delivering superior risk insights and innovative solutions to customers through a diverse portfolio of insurance products. Westfield underwrites commercial, personal, surety, and specialty lines of coverage through a network of leading independent agents and brokers in the United States and specialty products through Llo