Infrastructure Engineer - 2090972

Job Posting

Administer and support IBM InfoSphere DataStage environments (development, test, staging, production): installs, upgrades, patching, configuration, and licensing.

Architect, evaluate, and optimize deployment strategies for various complex enterprise platforms and applications across diverse Kubernetes environments (e.g., Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), performing in-depth engineering analysis to identify technical benefits, risks, and strategic advantages for the organization.

Maintain Red Hat OpenShift clusters used for deployment of data services and pipelines: application deployment, scaling, resource quotas, operator lifecycle, and troubleshooting.

Implement, operate, and troubleshoot Apache NiFi flows and NiFi clusters; manage templates, controllers, and provenance.

Create, maintain, and improve automation and operational scripts (Bash, Python, or similar) for deployments, backups, monitoring, rollbacks, and routine maintenance.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for DataStage, NiFi templates, and containerized services.

Monitor platform health and data pipelines; implement alerting, capacity planning, and performance tuning.

Plan and execute backups, disaster recovery drills, and restore procedures for DataStage and NiFi artifacts.

Enforce security best practices: secrets management, role-based access control, patching, vulnerability remediation, and audit logging.

Troubleshoot incidents across integration stack, perform root cause analysis, and produce post-incident reports.

Maintain accurate operational documentation, runbooks, playbooks, and run regular housekeeping tasks.

Mentor junior admins/engineers and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver integration solutions.

Skills Required:

• Scripting
• Kubernetes
• IBM Websphere Application Server
• Linux
• GitHub
• Jenkins
• Docker
• Python

Experience Required:

• 5+ years of production systems administration and platform support experience (or equivalent).
• 3+ years administering IBM InfoSphere DataStage (installation, configuration, upgrade, job deployment, troubleshooting).
• Demonstrated engineering expertise in evaluating, designing, and implementing deployment architectures for a variety of complex data and application platforms.
• Red Hat OpenShift (cluster ops, deployments, operators, resource management).
• Apache NiFi (flow development ops, templates, clustering, provenance) (Preferred, not mandatory).
• Strong Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS) and networking fundamentals.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation (Bash and one or more: Python, Perl).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or similar) and container workflows (Docker).
• Solid understanding of security practices for data platforms (RBAC, secrets management, TLS, patching).
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

Experience Preferred:

• Experience with DataStage on IBM Information Server / DataStage 11.x versions and good experience in CP4d is nice to have.
• Experience containerizing DataStage or integration workloads, or familiarity with hybrid DataStage deployments.
• Experience with enterprise backup and DR solutions for middleware.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration, IBM DataStage certifications.

Technical Skills Summary:

• Platforms: IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Apache NiFi, Red Hat OpenShift
• OS: RHEL/SUSE Linux
• Scripting: Bash, Python (or Perl)
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes / OpenShift