Middleware Specialist

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happy lives. How is this possible?
Thanks to the dynamism of our almost 8,000 employees! They join forces every day to
achieve excellent results. They are driven by solidarity and want to move forward together.
Their efforts are acknowledged, in that they are provided with numerous opportunities to
develop and grow in their jobs. All this in a workplace that places value on the balance
between work and private life. But you don't have to take our word for it. Just ask anyone
who works here!
Did you know?
Belgium’s health care is one of the best in Europe. Everyone who lives and/or works in
Belgium is obliged to join a health insurance fund. In exchange for paying your social
security contributions, you are insured against risks in case of illness, accidents,
hospitalisation,….
With our 600 ICT colleagues, we work together every day to provide the best service to our
4.5 million members and our almost 8,000 employees.
What We Are Looking For
You will take on the responsibility of product owner for one or more middleware platforms. As a
DevOps Middleware engineer, you will help automate the infrastructure platforms so that
customers can create infrastructure platforms via self-service. The application platforms are made
available to CM's internal users. You will maintain close contact with platform users (developers
and business) to meet their needs, including continuous delivery, continuous deployment, and
infrastructure as code. You must be willing to work in a 24/7 on-call system (once every 6 weeks).
Proactive monitoring is carried out via monitoring, change management, capacity management,
lifecycle management, and service level management. You will participate in projects and are
strongly motivated by exploring new technologies. Examples include:
 Transition to microservices via the Redhat Openshift Container platform
 Support for No-SQL databases
 Troubleshooting via centrally available log files and system metrics
Projects can be both business-oriented (deployment of applications to pre-production and
production environments) and technically oriented (technical upgrades, new technologies, etc.).
The middleware team is part of the Infrastructure Services (IS) department. LCM's infrastructure
environment includes the following products:
 VMware, Redhat Openshift Container Platform, HPE Superdome2
 HPE Unix, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows
 Oracle DB, MS SQL Server, MongoDB
 MS AD, Oracle OID/OAM
 Oracle Weblogic, TomEE, Springboot

 SAG Webmethods, Oracle SOA, Pivotal RabbitMQ
You will have the opportunity to follow training courses as needed.

 You are solution-oriented and enjoy working in a team
 You hold a bachelor's degree in computer science and preferably have two years of relevant
middleware experience
 You have at least a theoretical knowledge of the requirements for building a cloud-ready
application
 Knowledge and experience with one or more of the following technologies is a significant
advantage:
o Oracle SOA Suite
o Software AG WebMethods Suite
o Pivotal RabbitMQ
o Oracle Cloud Control
o Oracle OID/OAM
o Oracle Siebel
o TomEE
o Springboot
 You are motivated by a DevOps culture and new technology
 You are familiar with version control, build automation, deploy automation, monitoring,
and self-healing
 Knowledge and experience with one or more tools is an advantage: Gitlab, Jenkins, Maven,
Nexus, AWX, Ansible, Python/Jython, Linux shell, ELK, InfluxDB, Telegraph, etc.
 You demonstrate great curiosity and are open-minded to exploring out-of-the-box
technology
 You work flexibly within a self-organizing agile middleware team, but you can also function
well across team boundaries. You adapt easily to a new environment with ever-changing
demands.
 You are willing to work in a 24/7 on-call system (once every 6 weeks)

A permanent contract within an organization where work-life balance is a reality, with up to 4
days homeworking per week or working from one of our regional offices. Working at CM
means working in a professional environment and exciting sector with a wide variety of
projects. The informal spirit will likely appeal to you.
Within a driven team, you have the opportunity to achieve your ambitions. We invest in
personal development and offer opportunities to new talent.
You can, count on an attractive salary in line with your experience, meal vouchers,
hospitalization and group insurance, flexible working hours, ...