Lead the administration and support of WebSphere Application Server and Liberty environments, ensuring performance and operational excellence through troubleshooting and process improvements.
Description and Requirements
The Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer role is to support Enterprise Configuration and Integration Technologies for IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and WebSphere Liberty and ensure platform stability and process improvements. Responsibilities include planning, support, and implementation of application platform infrastructure to include operational processes and procedures
Job Responsibilities
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Education
Experience
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
The Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer role is to support Enterprise Configuration and Integration Technologies for IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and WebSphere Liberty and ensure platform stability and process improvements. Responsibilities include planning, support, and implementation of application platform infrastructure to include operational processes and procedures
Job Responsibilities
- WebSphere 8.5, 9.x WebSphere Liberty administration and Operations
- Installation and configuration of WebSphere environments
- WAS Liberty environment building
- Provide support, maintenance, and guidance in support of current WAS and WAS Liberty platforms as well as advise on new versions of software platforms
- Troubleshoot any identified and reported issues
- Support work across WAS or other hosting platforms as necessary
- Provide support, maintenance, and guidance in support of current WAS and WAS Liberty platforms as well as advise on new versions of software platforms
- Deployment, administration, and operational support of (production, staging, test and development) environments for multiple projects using WebSphere Application Server
- Working knowledge of production Web hosting environments is required
- Provide technical support to application developers when required. This includes promoting use of best practices, ensuring standardization across applications and trouble shooting
- Able to debug production issues by analyzing the logs directly and using tools like Splunk
- Good Communication skill with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field.
Experience
- 3+ years of total experience and at least 2+ years of experience in WebSphere and Liberty applications.
- WebSphere 8.5, 9.x WebSphere Liberty administration and Operations
- Installation and configuration of WebSphere environments
- Apache / HIS
- Linux/Windows OS
- Communication
- Integration of authentication and authorization methods
- Web to jvm communications
- SSL/TLS protocols/cipher suites and certificates/keystores
- WebSphere ND administration
- Liberty administration
- Troubleshooting
- Integration with middleware technologies
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Top Skills
Apache
Ci/Cd
Linux
Ssl/Tls
Websphere Application Server
Websphere Liberty
Windows
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