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About Cognizant
Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.
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Listed pay typically runs
$100,000–$135,000
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The Senior Middleware Engineer joins the team to design, administer, and optimize enterprise middleware platforms supporting critical business applications. The role involves architecting, installing, and configuring environments including IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM MQ, Apache HTTP Server, and Apache Tomcat. Daily responsibilities include performing application deployments, server patching, environment migrations, and complex troubleshooting across development, testing, and production platforms. The engineer will utilize Datadog for monitoring and observability while managing incident and change activities via ServiceNow following ITIL processes. Key technical requirements include Linux administration, shell scripting for automation, and expertise in clustering, load balancing, and high-availability solutions. This position focuses on maintaining middleware architecture standards, conducting root cause analysis, and performing capacity planning to ensure the reliability and performance of mission-critical enterprise systems.