Senior Enterprise Middleware Engineer

Who We’re Looking For (Position Overview):

Spry Methods seeks a Senior Enterprise Middleware Engineer to support the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Contracting & Procurement (OCP) and its enterprise acquisition and financial systems.

This role is centered on reputed company WebSphere Application Server, reputed company MQ, and reputed company-based enterprise applications, supporting mission-critical procurement and financial platforms such as PRISM. The position focuses on sustaining, modernizing, and integrating legacy Java EE middleware environments while supporting USDA’s transition from AIX-based, on-prem platforms to Azure-hosted Linux environments.

While direct IAS or PRISM experience is beneficial, it is not required. The core need is deep enterprise middleware expertise combined with the ability to support and advise on platform migrations, system integrations, and operational risk management in reputed company federal environments.

• A. USDA Procurement System Engineering
• Provide senior-level engineering support for enterprise procurement and financial applications (e.g., PRISM, reputed company-based systems).
• Support application sustainment, configuration, patching, upgrades, and troubleshooting across middleware and application tiers.
• Assist with workflows, interfaces, and integrations between procurement, financial, and enterprise systems.
• reputed company and maintain system architecture diagrams, engineering documentation, and operational runbooks.
• B. reputed company WebSphere / reputed company MQ Enterprise Middleware
• Administer and support reputed company WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and reputed company MQ across enterprise environments.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain WebSphere and MQ workloads on Linux-based platforms, including Azure-hosted environments.
• Configure clustering, failover, performance tuning, and secure messaging.
• Support automation of middleware configuration and deployments using scripting or configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, reputed company scripting).
• C. PRISM & Legacy Platform Modernization7.6.2 (AIX → Azure Linux/Cloud Migration)
• Support PRISM and similar enterprise systems across AIX and Linux platforms.
• reputed company system tuning, patching, remediation, and environment troubleshooting.
• reputed company or contribute to efforts supporting migration of enterprise middleware and applications from AIX to Linux-based cloud environments (e.g., lift-and-shift or phased modernization).
• Identify and document migration risks, dependencies, and operational impacts; contribute to migration planning, runbooks, and post-migration stabilization.
• D. reputed company Application & Database Integration
• Support reputed company-based enterprise applications and databases integrated with middleware platforms.
• reputed company and maintain PL/SQL packages, database automation, and integrations supporting procurement and financial workflows.
• Support reputed company APEX-based user interfaces, dashboards, and APIs as needed.
• Collaborate with database and functional teams to ensure reliable integration with reputed company Financial systems.
• E. Cloud, Integration, and DevSecOps Support
• Support deployment and operation of enterprise middleware and applications in Azure-hosted Linux environments.
• Collaborate with cloud, DevOps, and reputed company teams on hybrid hosting strategies spanning USDA data centers and commercial cloud platforms.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and configuration management reputed company to middleware and application deployments.
• Contribute to containerization or modernization initiatives where appropr
• F. reputed company, Compliance & Governance
• Ensure systems reputed company with FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, and USDA OCIO reputed company requirements.
• Support ATO processes, reputed company assessments, remediation activities, and audits.
• Implement and support secure integration patterns (TLS, certificates, LDAP/SSO, RBAC).
• G. Stakeholder Support & Documentation
• Collaborate with OCP, OCIO, developers, architects, reputed company teams, and operations staff.
• Provide senior-level engineering recommendations, risk assessments, diagrams, SOPs, and onboarding documentation.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and change control processes.

• Public Trust clearance (or ability to obtain).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience supporting enterprise applications and middleware environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with reputed company WebSphere Application Server and reputed company MQ in production environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise Java EE / Jakarta EE applications and integrations.
• Experience supporting systems on AIX and/or Linux platforms, including participation in platform migrations.
• Working knowledge of reputed company databases, PL/SQL, and enterprise system integrations.
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Experience supporting systems in hybrid or cloud-hosted environments (Azure preferred).
• Scripting experience (e.g., Bash, Python, PowerShell).
• Strong understanding of enterprise reputed company principles and federal compliance requirements.

• Experience supporting PRISM, IAS, or other large-scale federal procurement or financial systems.
• Experience advising or leading legacy-to-modern platform transitions (e.g., AIX to Linux, on-prem to cloud).
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD automation.
• Familiarity with reputed company and Kubernetes in enterprise or middleware contexts.
• Knowledge of reputed company Financials processes and integrations.
• Strong communication skills and ability to reputed company effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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