Senior Middleware Specialist

Do you want to be a part of a skilled team of application specialists who design, offer, advice and maintain solutions for some of the largest companies in Denmark?

Now you have your chance to seek the challenging role as Senior Operations Consultant with special focus on middleware products, such as IBM MQ, WebLogic, Tomcat and WebSphere including related products and tools. The role is based in Applications Infrastructure Services team in NNIT, which also provides services within a wide range of other types of applications, ranging from basic monitoring-based operations to full-stack platform management and consultancy.

Responsibilities

You will be part of a team handling daily operations, consultancy/advisory, standardization and optimization of middleware-related solutions for a wide variety of customers. This team is a so-called “extended team”, meaning that you’ll be part of an application’s entire lifecycle into the company – from the bid or pre-sales process, through to the advisory phase, conception in collaboration with the customer, build phase, hand-over to operations and subsequent operations and continuous maintenance. The team consists of approximately 70 employees across Denmark, Czechia and China, whom range from operations-oriented generalists to deep specialists within various middleware and adjacent technology areas.

Among specific tasks are:

• Participating in projects, such as transitions of new customers, migrations between platforms and upgrades of existing systems
• Advising customers on the roadmaps for their solutions and act as a trusted advisor
• Having a central role in identifying internal organizational gaps, participating in service development and pre-sales
• Taking part of daily operations with handling of incidents and change requests
• Optimizing, consolidating and automating our processes through Continuous Operations Improvement

Qualifications

• You have deep experience working with projects and operations of middleware products, preferably IBM MQ and at least one of the above-mentioned application server products.
• You have a good business mindset and are used to working directly with customers, using your deep technological skills as well as understanding of consultancy IT services.
• You understand the necessity of testing and automation, which is key to working in this line of business.
• You’re comfortable in being a primary stakeholder and representative for your department in projects or otherwise facing our various customers.
• You thrive in a team setting and naturally ensure internal alignment and distribution of knowledge to optimize our deliveries.
• You’re fully fluent in English and preferably very accustomed to working in a global organization.

Employee benefits

• competitive compensation
• 5 weeks of vacations/year
• 5 sick days/year
• Flexible working hours
• Cafeteria flexible spending account (12,000 CZK/year)
• Meal vouchers in the amount of 100 CZK per work day (55 CZK is covered by NNIT)
• Fully covered MultiSport card enabling free entry to sport facilities in Czech Republic
• Free breakfasts on Fridays and monthly Friday Bars (free beer and snacks)
• Free fruits and vegetables on Mondays and Wednesdays
• Wide selection of tea and coffee for free
• Height adjustable tables, relax zones with Xbox, PlayStation and ping pong
• Czech and Danish language lessons
• Annual flu vaccination for free
• Relocation package tailed according to your needs