Senior Middleware Administrator
Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with local and national workplace recognition in multiple categories! Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated Team Members who share a drive to succeed as professionals and together as a company. A great product, amazing people and our stable financial history have made us one of the largest used car finance companies nationally.
Our Engineering and Analytics Team Members utilize the latest technology to develop, monitor, and maintain complex practices that help optimize our success. Our Team Members value being challenged, are encouraged to express their ideas, and have the flexibility to enjoy work life balance. We build intrinsic value by partnering with all functions of our business to support their success and make strategic business decisions. We focus on professional development and continuous improvement while enjoying a casual work environment and Great Place to Work culture!
As a Senior Middleware Administrator, you will join an established team of strong, teamwork-oriented professionals who believe in learning and growing together to serve the business. You will maintain the production and development application servers that support Credit Acceptance systems. You will partner with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and implement features and code. You will also monitor and tune systems and processes to achieve optimal application performance, stability, and security.
Outcomes and Activities:
Middleware Administration
- This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required. However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member
- Architects, builds, and maintains all aspects of enterprise midtier systems.
- Supports more junior staff, peers, and customers in the development of their skills.
- Leads coordination with cross-functional application teams to define, estimate, and implement requirements for new system development.
- Implements and updates midtier systems and application packages in all environments.
- Defines and adheres to standards, procedures, and methodologies for effective operation, performance, security, and recovery of all enterprise midtier systems.
- Leads remediation efforts for midtier and application outages or issues in all environments, including efforts to minimize or prevent future issues.
- Execute continuous capacity monitoring to provide forward-looking recommendations.
- Develops, tests, executes, and acts as team lead for backup and Disaster Recovery procedures.
- Develops and maintains documentation related to midtier systems and projects.
Other
- Participates in 24/7 on-call rotation schedule.
Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.
- Impact Analysis: Understand the rationale behind and how changes impact the enterprise and/or applications and across the technical ecosystem.
- Solution Design: Ability to translate high level requirements to create and implement designs that meet the needs of the customer, are technically sound, maintainable, and cost effective. Ability to identify missing or ambiguous requirements. Ability to design at both high and low levels of abstraction, understand complex requirements and translate into understandable solutions. Ability to accurately estimate based on requirements.
- Technical Domain: Have an understanding of the technical domain, including the application architecture, design and data of the application they support and systems to which it interfaces.
- Testing Techniques: Understand the range of testing techniques available well enough to select the most effective test procedures.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum 7 years of experience with middleware administration
- Strong experience with application performance tuning, high-availability, backups, and recovery
Preferred Experience:
- 7 years of application server experience, preferably Oracle WebLogic and Tomcat.
- 1 year experience working with Kubernetes, docker, or other container-based technologies
- Strong knowledge with UNIX/Linux environments and commands
- Knowledge in writing and maintaining shell scripts
- Strong knowledge of application development concepts and practices
- Experience administering messaging systems, such as Apache Active Message Queuing (AMQ)
- Experience with application performance management & monitoring tools, such as Dynatrace
- Experience using Ansible to automate repetitive work
- Experience with application lifecycle automation tools such as Jenkins, Maven, and XLDeploy
Targeted Total Compensation: $145,125 - $216,938. Total compensation is comprised of a competitive base salary and an annual variable compensation package.
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Benefits
Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match, adoption assistance, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work
Our Company Values:
To be successful in this role, Team Members need to be:
- Positive by maintaining resiliency and focusing on solutions
- Respectful by collaborating and actively listening
- Insightful by cultivating innovation, accumulating business and role specific knowledge, demonstrating self-awareness and making quality decisions
- Direct by effectively communicating and conveying courage
- Earnest by taking accountability, applying feedback and effectively planning and priority setting
Expectations:
- Remain compliant with our policies processes and legal guidelines
- All other duties as assigned
- Attendance as required by department
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Required degrees must have been earned at institutions of Higher Education which are accredited by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or equivalent.
Credit Acceptance is dedicated to providing a safe and inclusive working environment for all. As part of our Culture of Compliance, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and value our culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of the person’s age, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, criminal history, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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