Job Title: Middleware Specialist – Level 3
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: 2 years

Project background information:

This role will provide application sustainment and other support for the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP). The OINP is the largest provincial nominee program in Canada. The federal government allocates nomination annually to each province, approves provincial nominee program streams, and grants permanent residence to those nominated. The OINP is jointly administered with the federal government in accordance with the Canada Ontario Immigration Agreement (COIA).

Deliverables:

Monthly performance status reports (where applicable)

All deliverables that the consultant worked on during the past month are included
Progress and specific accomplishments again the deliverable are described
The status of the consultant's deliverable compared to the project baseline will be examined

Monthly deliverables

Review technical designs
Revise technical designs based on review
Develop automation scripts based on technical designs
Implement and promote to user test environments
Implement and promote production environments
Complete documentation for knowledge transfer
Provide support for the development of integration and data migration requirements
Provide support to the Q&A phase of the project
Provide stabilization support after the project go-live date

Deliverables according to the project timeline

Complete knowledge transfer to Ministry staff through documentations and walk-through sessions

Required skill set:

Minimum 10 years experience in WebLogic V12, WebSphere V9, Informatica V10 configuration, customization, and upgrading
Minimum five years of experience in DevOps toolsets in Azure Cloud, including but not limited to Docker, Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Pipelines, and OpenShift
Working knowledge and experience in GIT, including branching and merging strategies (e.g. git-flow), collaborating via pull request, and practicing GitOps
Working knowledge and experience of designing and implementing infrastructure as code-build automation using Terraform and immutable infrastructure with Ansible and Packer
Minimum 10 years experience in systems, data communications, and telecommunication technologing including experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux V7+, UNIX Solaris V10, and Mainframe IMS COnnect, system software, and system tools
Working knowledge and experience of implementing instances/applications, performance tuning, storage/capacity management, database migration/upgrade, and Backup/Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies
Working knowledge and experience with clustering Load Balancers and Firewall configuration both on-site and in Azure Cloud
Experience with technologies (i.e. J2EE and Java) and web technologies (Node.js, Azure Functions, Severless, Pub/Sub event driven systems, Azure App Gateway)
Experience with Informatics Power Centre tools, Designer, Workflow Manager, and Workflow
Experience on application monitoring and support
Highly skilled analysis and problem-solving skills