Middleware Engineer/Japan

Job description

Description and Requirements

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 MetLife 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