Senior Platform Engineer – WebSphere / WebLogic
📍 Atlanta, Georgia (Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite)
💰 $105,000 - $160,000 Base Salary + Annual Incentive Opportunity
🏠 Flexible Hybrid Schedule (Teams Select Their Onsite Days)
☁️ Enterprise Middleware & Platform Engineering
🚀 Modernization, Automation & Cloud Enablement Initiatives
Help Power the Critical Middleware Platforms Behind a Global Enterprise
A global organization supporting large-scale technology operations across multiple business units is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer – WebSphere / WebLogic to join its enterprise platform engineering team.
This is an outstanding opportunity for a middleware expert who enjoys designing, maintaining, automating, and modernizing mission-critical application platforms that support thousands of users and business-critical applications worldwide.
You'll play a key role in the evolution of a highly complex enterprise environment, helping drive reliability, security, performance, automation, and modernization initiatives across a diverse application hosting landscape.
If you're passionate about enterprise infrastructure, middleware technologies, automation, and cloud transformation, this role offers significant ownership, technical challenge, and long-term career growth.
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
This isn't a traditional support role.
You'll be a senior member of a geographically dispersed engineering team responsible for some of the organization's most critical application platforms. You'll work closely with architects, developers, security teams, cloud engineers, and business stakeholders to ensure highly available, secure, and scalable environments.
This role offers the opportunity to influence platform strategy, drive modernization efforts, mentor junior engineers, and help shape the future of enterprise middleware services.
Highlights include:
Ownership of mission-critical WebSphere and WebLogic environments
Significant involvement in automation and platform modernization initiatives
Exposure to cloud hosting and containerized workloads
Opportunity to influence platform architecture and engineering standards
Work within a highly collaborative enterprise technology environment
Mentor and guide junior engineering talent
Strong career progression opportunities within a large-scale technology organization
What You'll Be Doing
Enterprise Middleware Administration
Design, build, maintain, and optimize enterprise application hosting platforms
Administer complex IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic environments
Configure and manage clustered middleware environments
Implement secure, highly available, and scalable platform solutions
Perform platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization activities
Ensure platform reliability, availability, and performance across production environments
Platform Engineering & Automation
Drive automation initiatives across platform deployment and administration activities
Develop and maintain scripts, tooling, and automation frameworks
Support CI/CD pipeline integration and deployment automation
Improve operational efficiency through infrastructure and platform automation
Implement repeatable engineering standards and best practices
Performance Optimization & Reliability
Monitor and optimize middleware platform performance
Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning activities
Troubleshoot complex platform, application, and infrastructure issues
Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions
Support business-critical applications with a focus on uptime and stability
Security & Compliance
Implement security best practices across middleware environments
Manage SSL/TLS certificates and secure communications
Support authentication and authorization solutions including LDAP and SSO
Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards and policies
Partner with security teams on platform hardening initiatives
Cloud & Containerization Initiatives
Support modernization efforts involving cloud-hosted middleware platforms
Participate in containerization initiatives utilizing Docker and Kubernetes
Assist with migration and transformation projects
Help establish best practices for modern application hosting environments
Collaboration & Technical Leadership
Partner with developers, architects, product teams, and infrastructure teams
Support complex technical initiatives from design through implementation
Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers
Participate in technical reviews and knowledge-sharing activities
Create and maintain platform documentation, standards, and procedures
What We're Looking For
Required Experience
5+ years of enterprise platform engineering, middleware administration, or infrastructure engineering experience
Deep expertise in IBM WebSphere and/or Oracle WebLogic administration
Experience managing highly available and clustered environments
Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning capabilities
Experience supporting mission-critical enterprise applications
Ability to work independently while collaborating across distributed teams
Required Technical Expertise
Middleware Platforms
IBM WebSphere Application Server
Oracle WebLogic Server
Middleware clustering and high availability
Performance tuning and optimization
Secure configuration and administration
Web Hosting & Load Balancing
Strong experience with:
Apache
IIS
IBM HTTP Server
Oracle HTTP Server
NGINX
Reverse proxy architectures
Load balancing technologies
Automation & Scripting
Hands-on experience with:
wsadmin
WLST
Python
Shell scripting
CI/CD integration
Infrastructure automation
Highly Preferred Experience
Security & Authentication
SSL/TLS implementation and management
LDAP integration
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Enterprise security frameworks
Compliance and governance standards
Monitoring & Observability
Experience with tools such as:
AppDynamics
Datadog
Enterprise monitoring platforms
Performance analytics and diagnostics
Cloud & Container Technologies
Experience with:
Docker
Kubernetes
Cloud-hosted middleware workloads
Platform modernization initiatives
Hybrid cloud environments
Ideal Candidate Profile
The successful candidate will thrive in complex enterprise environments and enjoy taking ownership of critical platform services.
You'll be someone who:
Takes pride in engineering reliable, scalable solutions
Enjoys solving complex technical problems
Communicates effectively with both technical and business stakeholders
Can balance operational support with long-term strategic improvements
Is comfortable mentoring others and sharing knowledge
Works effectively across geographically distributed teams
This role is particularly well suited to engineers who enjoy both traditional enterprise middleware technologies and modern cloud-native platform engineering.
Compensation & Benefits
💰 Base Salary: $105,000 - $160,000
Additional rewards include:
Annual performance-based incentive opportunity
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Retirement savings programs
Paid time off and holiday benefits
Professional development and certification support
Exposure to large-scale enterprise modernization initiatives
Flexible hybrid work environment
Long-term career growth opportunities
Work Authorization Requirements
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis.
This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship or transfer.
Why Join?
This is an opportunity to become a key contributor within a highly sophisticated enterprise technology environment where your expertise will directly influence platform reliability, security, automation, and modernization efforts.
You'll work alongside talented engineers, support business-critical systems, and play a central role in driving the future of enterprise middleware and platform engineering.
If you're a WebSphere or WebLogic expert looking for a role that combines technical depth, platform ownership, modernization initiatives, and long-term career growth, we'd love to hear from you.