Senior Integration Platform Engineer

Description and Requirements
The team you will join:
Integration Platform Engineering team facilitates and supports essential integration technologies, including IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, App Connect Enterprise (ACE), IBM Message Queue (IMQ), API Connect, and App Connect Professional, to empower MetLife's innovative business solutions.
The Opportunity:
The Senior Integration Platform Engineer research new technologies to enhance middleware integration, aiming to improve cost effectiveness and flexibility. This role involves designing and implementing complex global integration solutions enabling workload mobility. This is an exciting opportunity to join us onboard, leading solutions and technologies.
Success in this role requires a highly motivated individual with a visionary approach to technology and ambitious desire to elevate Developer experience. The Senior Integration Platform Engineer is tasked with promoting and utilizing automation to design and support configuration management, orchestration, and maintenance of the integration platforms. Collaboration with application developers, architects, and engineers is crucial in an environment where every contribution is respected, and every perspective is valued.
How You'll help US Build a Confident Future (Key Responsibilities)

• Lead configuring and designing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Creating and implementing self-service automations.
• Coordinate Integration Platforms upgrades & fix packs installations.
• Oversee platforms vulnerability remediation.
• Develop solutions to onboard new applications including automations to reduce manual tasks.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of direct technical experience in infrastructure architecture
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Design and implementation best practices and hands-on administrative experience with IBM MQ (Message Queue) or ACE (App Connect Enterprise).
• 3+ years' developing solutions to automate configuration management, orchestration, and maintenance of infrastructure platforms.
• 2+ years' experience in the planning, implementation, support, and management of Cloud solutions and technologies.
• Accomplished, highly motivated, and results-driven, able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability or prior experience to influence in a technical leadership capacity, ability to think strategically, and effectively communicate solutions to various levels of management.
• Ample experience with scripting and automation.
• Experience with DevOps processes and key components.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.

Preferred Skills

• Hands on experience with two or all the following preferred: Cloud Paks for Integration, MQ, App Connect Enterprise, API Connect platforms.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science preferred.
• Experience with open-source integration technologies is a plus.
• Experience with modern technologies such as OpenShift, Ansible, Cloud/Azure.
• Knowledge of operating systems (Linux, AIX, zLinux, iSeries, Windows).
• Hands-on experience designing, configuring, and implementing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and automation scripts (Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Perl, Python, Java, Chef, Ansible).

Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
The expected salary range for this position is $95,000 - $130,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law ("protected characteristics").
If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
$95,000 - $130,000
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