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Senior Platform Engineer – WebSphere / WebLogic | Enterprise Middleware Engineering | Atlanta, GA

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.

 

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Senior Manager, Systems Engineering | Aerospace & Defense Leadership | Waco, TX

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Senior Manager, Systems Engineering

📍 Waco, Texas (Onsite)
🕒 9/80 Schedule – Every Other Friday Off
💰 $190,000 - $220,000 Base Salary
🚚 Relocation Assistance Available
✈️ Aerospace, Defense & Advanced Mission Systems
👥 Engineering Leadership Opportunity

Lead High-Impact Engineering Teams Supporting Advanced Aerospace & Defense Programs

An industry-leading aerospace and defense organization is seeking a Senior Manager, Systems Engineering to lead and develop multidisciplinary engineering teams supporting complex aircraft modification, systems integration, mission systems, and advanced technology programs.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced engineering leader who combines strong technical depth with proven people leadership, strategic planning, and program execution capabilities.

You'll oversee teams responsible for the design, integration, and delivery of sophisticated systems supporting both military and commercial customers while playing a key role in shaping departmental strategy, workforce planning, technical excellence, and long-term business growth.

If you're passionate about leading engineers, solving complex technical challenges, influencing organizational strategy, and delivering mission-critical solutions, this role offers outstanding visibility, responsibility, and career progression.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

This is not a traditional engineering management role.

You'll operate at the intersection of engineering leadership, program execution, customer engagement, workforce planning, and strategic business growth.

You'll help define how engineering teams support future programs, influence hiring and staffing strategies, drive technical excellence, and partner directly with senior leadership to ensure successful program execution.

Highlights include:

  • Lead multiple engineering teams supporting complex aerospace and defense programs

  • Direct influence on departmental strategy and workforce growth

  • High visibility with executive leadership and customers

  • Opportunity to shape future engineering capabilities and talent development

  • Significant involvement in proposal development and business growth initiatives

  • Exposure to both military and commercial aviation programs

  • Strong technical and leadership career progression opportunities

What You'll Be Doing

Engineering Leadership & Team Development

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a diverse team of Systems Engineers and technical professionals

  • Create a culture focused on technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

  • Establish training and professional development plans to support long-term organizational goals

  • Support employee growth, performance management, succession planning, and talent development initiatives

  • Foster strong collaboration across engineering, program management, operations, and customer teams

Strategic Workforce Planning

  • Forecast engineering resource requirements based on current and future program demand

  • Develop hiring strategies and workforce plans to support business growth

  • Lead recruiting efforts and participate in candidate selection processes

  • Ensure teams are appropriately staffed to meet program commitments and customer expectations

  • Support long-term capability development across the engineering organization

Program & Technical Leadership

  • Provide leadership and oversight across multiple engineering programs and integration efforts

  • Partner closely with Program Managers and Project Engineers to ensure successful execution

  • Review engineering schedules, budgets, risks, and resource allocations

  • Support engineering teams throughout the full program lifecycle

  • Ensure technical solutions align with customer requirements, budgets, and schedules

Systems Engineering Excellence

  • Lead and review systems engineering activities including:

    • Requirements analysis

    • System architecture development

    • Trade studies

    • System integration planning

    • Verification and validation activities

    • Technical baseline management

  • Ensure customer requirements are translated into clear, verifiable system-level requirements

  • Review engineering trade studies for technical accuracy, completeness, and feasibility

  • Support development of complex integrated system architectures

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Serve as a key technical leader during customer interactions

  • Build strong relationships with military, government, commercial, and internal stakeholders

  • Present technical information to executive leadership, customers, and engineering teams

  • Represent the organization during technical reviews, program meetings, and customer engagements

  • Facilitate collaboration between engineering, program management, and customers to ensure alignment and success

Business Growth & Proposal Support

  • Support new business capture activities and proposal development efforts

  • Participate in labor estimating, Basis of Estimate (BOE) creation, and technical proposal development

  • Contribute to growth strategies and future program planning

  • Support investment planning and technical roadmap development

Department Operations & Financial Management

  • Manage departmental budgets and overhead spending

  • Ensure engineering teams have the tools, resources, and infrastructure required to succeed

  • Monitor departmental performance against strategic goals and operating plans

  • Drive process improvements and operational efficiencies across the organization

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline

  • Minimum 12 years of relevant engineering experience with a Bachelor's Degree

OR

  • Minimum 10 years of relevant engineering experience with an advanced degree

  • Previous engineering leadership or management experience

  • Strong understanding of Systems Engineering principles and methodologies

  • Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams

  • Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills

Highly Preferred Experience

Systems Engineering

  • Requirements management

  • System architecture development

  • Trade study execution and evaluation

  • System integration

  • Verification & validation

  • Technical baseline management

  • Full engineering lifecycle experience

Leadership & Program Management

  • Functional management experience

  • IPT (Integrated Product Team) leadership

  • Workforce planning and hiring

  • Resource forecasting

  • Budget management

  • Engineering operations leadership

  • Strategic planning and execution

Business Development

  • Proposal development

  • Basis of Estimate (BOE) creation

  • Technical volume development

  • Customer engagement and presentations

Aerospace, Defense & Mission Systems

Experience supporting:

  • Aircraft modification programs

  • Avionics integration

  • Mission systems

  • Defense platforms

  • Government programs

  • Complex system integration efforts

Cybersecurity Experience

Experience supporting cybersecurity-focused engineering teams or cybersecurity programs is considered a strong plus.

Leadership Competencies

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

  • Strategic thinking and planning

  • Exceptional problem-solving abilities

  • Strong business acumen

  • Critical thinking and sound decision-making

  • Team leadership and coaching skills

  • Executive-level communication capabilities

  • Accountability and ownership mentality

  • Ability to influence across multiple functions and stakeholder groups

Security & Eligibility Requirements

Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Preferred

  • Active Secret Clearance

Compensation & Benefits

💰 Base Salary: $190,000 - $220,000

Additional benefits include:

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

  • Retirement savings plans

  • Paid time off and company holidays

  • Professional development opportunities

  • Relocation assistance for qualified candidates

  • Interview travel reimbursement

  • Long-term career advancement opportunities

  • 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off

Why Join?

This is an outstanding opportunity to lead talented engineering teams working on complex, high-visibility aerospace and defense programs that have a direct impact on mission success.

You'll help shape engineering strategy, influence future business growth, develop the next generation of engineering talent, and work alongside some of the industry's most respected technical professionals.

If you're an experienced engineering leader looking for a role that combines technical depth, people leadership, business impact, and long-term career growth, we'd love to hear from you.

 

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