MTA is seeking a Specialist Platform Engineer to design, develop, optimize, and maintain middleware solutions to ensure seamless integration, scalability, and performance across enterprise systems.
Requirements
- Experience with legacy middleware (Tomcat, ColdFusion, IBM WebSphere, Oracle Fusion)
- Knowledge of edge computing middleware
- Familiarity with AI/ML model serving
- Experience contributing to open-source middleware projects.
- Experience with API gateways, message brokers, service meshes
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, podman and Terraform/Ansible.
- Data Structures and Algorithms (Thorough Knowledge/Fully Proficient)
Responsibilities
- Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
- Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns, and methodology.
- Develops and executes test plans and test cases; implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks.
- Develops acceptance criteria related to functional and non-functional requirements, business processes, features, user stories and business rules.
- Selects appropriate tools and techniques to evaluate user experiences of systems, products, services, or devices, and validates that security, usability and accessibility requirements have been met.
- Develops, configures, and maintains tools to identify, track, log and maintain accurate, complete, and current system information; develops and maintains associated operational documentation.
- Maintains application support processes and uses application management software tools to investigate issues, prioritize and diagnose incidents, collect performance statistics, and create reports.
Other
- This position is eligible for telework which is currently two days per week.
- May need to work outside of normal work hours (i.e., evenings and weekends)
- Travel may be required to other MTA locations or external sites
- Pursuant to the New York State Public Officers Law & the MTA Code of Ethics, all employees who hold a policymaking position must file an Annual Statement of Financial Disclosure (FDS) with the NYS Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government (the “Commission”).
- MTA and its subsidiary and affiliated agencies are Equal Opportunity Employers, including with respect to veteran status and individuals with disabilities.
