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Principal Engineer – Integration Platforms
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Description

Job overview and responsibilities

The Principal Engineer – Integration Platforms leverages technical expertise in the area of Container and SOA technologies to strengthen the reliability, efficiency, and performance of the enterprise. This role requires deep knowledge of middleware platforms combined with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Execution against the IT Operations strategy & roadmap

Contribute toward creating, maintaining, and marketing the architectural vision and direction for Information Technology

Understand and provide recommendations for improvement and usage of Middleware strategies by leveraging existing IT capabilities, identifying improvements to existing IT capabilities and define new strategic IT capabilities

Stay abreast of business strategy, goals, objectives and operational performance

Be a Thought Partner, i.e. engaged with Applications Developers/Business

Monitor industry trends and anticipates future direction for system platforms

Lead in providing consultation and direct technical support in life cycle planning, problem management, integration, and systems programming

Implements multiple complex releases, upgrades, and/or changes into the environment

Oversees and sets platform performance and availability improvements measures based on metric analysis

Duties may include leading highly complex capacity planning, workload modeling, system maintenance/administration, and diagnostics

Implements reliable solutions that maintain the integrity of the existing infrastructure as well as meet the customer objectives

Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines for middleware components and containerized applications

Lead incident response and root cause analysis for critical middleware platform issues

Define and enforce security standards, compliance requirements, and best practices for middleware platforms

Ensure that goals or objectives of projects are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters

Assesses existing procedures to ensure requirements continue to be met

Makes necessary improvements to procedures that are not effective

Develops documentation to support the infrastructure and as a guide for establishing common practices across the enterprise

Works effectively in a team fashion to establish alignments with IT peers across the corporation

Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual operational overhead and improve deployment efficiency

Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers and development teams on middleware best practices

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

Bachelors degree

Information Technology or relevant field referred

7+ years of relevant IT experience

5+ years years of experience in MessagingSolution such as Solace & IBM MQ.

Solid experience Messaging & Eventing platforms

Experience with CICD tools like Jenkins/Harness

Experience setting up EKS cluster and Solace Brokers

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

Masters degree

3+ years of experience in, TIBCO EMS & Apache Kafka

2+ years of experience in IBM ACE

2+ years of airline business experience

Experience with foundational AWS Services

Experience in IBM MQ & IBM ACE Technologies


The base pay range for this role is $140,600.00 to $183,108.00.
The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.

You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.

United Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact JobAccommodationsunited.com","industry":"Industry
Company Details
United Airlines
1200 Algonquin Rd
Elk Grove Village, Illinois 60666 USA
www.united.com
111 Open Jobs Available
Commercial aviation carrying passengers and cargo worldwide.

Benefits:
Employees enjoy a full benefit package including unlimited travel for themselves and their families.
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Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Type
Permanent
Company Details
United Airlines
1200 Algonquin Rd
Elk Grove Village, Illinois 60666 USA
www.united.com
111 Open Jobs Available
Commercial aviation carrying passengers and cargo worldwide.

Benefits:
Employees enjoy a full benefit package including unlimited travel for themselves and their families.

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