IBM Cloud Middleware Administrator

About the Role

Ejada is seeking an IBM Cloud Middleware Administrator to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves administering, maintaining, securing, and optimizing the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration platform and its core components. The administrator will ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and reliability of enterprise integration services.

Role Purpose

The primary purpose of this position is to manage middleware platforms, messaging systems, API management solutions, event streaming services, and containerized workloads running on Red Hat OpenShift. The role is critical for maintaining robust integration services across various environments within the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) platform across development, testing, and production environments.
• Manage and maintain IBM MQ infrastructure, including queue managers, channels, clustering, failover configurations, and high-availability environments.
• Administer IBM API Connect (APIC) components such as API gateways, developer portals, management services, and analytics environments.
• Manage IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) integration servers, message flows, deployments, and runtime environments.
• Administer IBM DataPower Gateway environments, including security policies, API routing, load balancing, SSL configuration, and performance optimization.
• Manage IBM Event Streams (Kafka) environments, covering topics, partitions, consumer groups, retention policies, and event-driven workloads.
• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot CP4I workloads running on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).
• Perform installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, backup, and recovery activities across the integration platform.
• Conduct capacity planning, performance monitoring, tuning, and optimization activities.
• Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions for proactive incident detection and resolution.
• Support CI/CD pipeline integrations and automation initiatives to enhance deployment efficiency and operational stability.
• Troubleshoot middleware, integration, messaging, and container platform issues, performing root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, DevOps, security, and business teams on enterprise integration initiatives.
• Develop and maintain operational procedures, runbooks, technical documentation, and disaster recovery plans.
• Ensure platform compliance with security standards, operational policies, and enterprise architecture guidelines.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in middleware administration.
• Demonstrated expertise in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) and its components.
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) is essential.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role requires collaboration with various technical and business teams to support enterprise integration efforts.