JOB DESCRIPTION:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.
Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.
At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

JOB DESCRIPTION:

This job is responsible for tool and service designs within a technical domain that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include creating infrastructure tools and their integration as a service, facilitating deployment of technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include looking for opportunities to improve efficiency when implementing and maintaining tools/services and embracing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Role ensures middleware platforms are patched with the most current version of software, helping to manage risk to the customer, provides Middleware Server administration which includes server installation, configuration, performance tuning and production support.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Information Technology professional with 10+ years of experience
• Provide middleware administration duties for Global Information Security (GIS) platforms, end-to-end, including WebSphere, jBoss, Tomcat, Apache, IBM HTTP Server, and WXS (extreme scale cache)
• Delivering middleware enterprise projects and regulatory legislative initiatives
• Providing Middleware Server administration which includes server installation, configuration, performance tuning and production support.
• Working with customers (application teams and/or testing teams) daily and providing Middleware and Java support.
• Create, maintain and support the application deployment templates; Serving as a J2EE architect and making recommendations on J2EE best practices in application development.
• Designing Middleware infrastructure and topology design for high availability and failover capability.
• BPM products: Appian
• Operating System: Linux
• Knowledge of shell, jython, and perl scripting
• Understanding of Network infrastructure (HTTP/S, TCP/IP, TLS,DNS, Load-balancers, firewalls, proxies, B2B links)
• Experience with Release Deploy Tools: Ansible, Ansible Tower, XLR, BitBucket

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Prior Bank of America experience is a plus.
• Work with WebSphere Extreme Scale, BPM Middleware Administration
• DEVOPS experience
• Other products: BMC Truesight Server Automation, Harman mDeliver, Ansible Tower, Terraform

SKILLS:

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Automation
• Production Support
• Risk Management
• Adaptability
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Architecture
• Collaboration
• Innovative Thinking
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
  Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

• Provides subject matter expertise and consulting services on a range of technologies and assists Technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers to ensure that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.
• Assists with translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies.
• Assists in the evaluation of reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose.
• Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes.
• Conducts on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption.
• Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers.
• Contributes to the creation/selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains.