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Position details
The Senior Middleware Operations & SRE Engineer is responsible for the strategic engineering, operational management, and continuous improvement of the Bank's middleware platforms across the APAC region. The role provides technical leadership for enterprise middleware technologies, ensuring secure, resilient, scalable, and highly available platforms that support critical business applications and services.
The incumbent will drive platform standardization, automation, operational excellence, and service reliability while ensuring compliance with MUFG's technology, cybersecurity, risk, and regulatory requirements. Working closely with application teams, infrastructure engineering, security, architecture, and regional technology stakeholders, the role will lead the design, implementation, and support of modern middleware platforms, including containerized and cloud-enabled environments.
Key Responsibilities
1. Middleware Platform Engineering & Architecture
Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise middleware platforms, including:
Design secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performing middleware solutions supporting critical banking services.
Develop and maintain architecture documentation, technical standards, operational procedures, and knowledge repositories.
Support modernization initiatives including containerization, cloud adoption, platform automation, and infrastructure transformation programs.
2. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence
Drive SRE practices focused on platform reliability, observability, availability, and service resiliency.
3. Middleware Operations & Service Management
Manage day-to-day operations of middleware platforms across Development, UAT, DR, and Production environments.
Oversee middleware deployments, upgrades, migrations, capacity expansion, and platform refresh activities.
Partner with application support, infrastructure, network, database, and security teams to resolve complex technical issues.
4. Performance Engineering & Capacity Management
5. Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance
Support vulnerability management, remediation activities, penetration testing, and security assessments.
6. Platform Automation & DevOps
7. Stakeholder Management & Project Delivery
Collaborate with enterprise architects, application owners, project managers, and business stakeholders to deliver technology solutions.
Provide technical guidance during project planning, design reviews, risk assessments, and implementation activities.
Prepare management reports, platform health dashboards, risk updates, and performance metrics for leadership review.
8. Leadership & People Development
Job Requirements:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Extensive experience as a Middleware Engineer and/or Architect.
10+ years of experience in middleware technologies, with a focus on JBoss, WebSphere Application Server and Message Queuing (MQ) systems such as IBM WMQ, ActiveMQ, or similar platforms.
Expert-level experience with WAS, including installation, configuration, tuning, and troubleshooting.
Extensive experience with Message Queue technologies (e.g., IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ) and integration with enterprise applications.
Strong understanding of middleware security, including SSL/TLS, encryption, authentication, and authorization best practices.
In-depth knowledge of middleware technologies and enterprise architecture principles.
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) for middleware deployment and management is added advantage.
Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Shell, Python) for automation.
Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines for automated middleware deployment and monitoring.
Familiarity with operating systems, both Linux and Windows, and networking concepts.
Strong troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose complex issues related to performance, connectivity, and security.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Proven leadership and project management abilities.
Ability to architect and design middleware solutions.
This role operates in the Singapore Timezone.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.
