Job Title:  Senior Consultant | Middleware | Bengaluru | Engineering

Your potential, unleashed.

India’s impact on the global economy has increased at an exponential rate and Deloitte presents an opportunity to unleash and realize your potential amongst cutting edge leaders, and organizations shaping the future of the region, and indeed, the world beyond.

At Deloitte, your whole self to work, every day. Combine that with our drive to propel with purpose and you have the perfect playground to collaborate, innovate, grow, and make an impact that matters.

The team

The Deloitte South Asia strategic growth team serves as a central pillar driving growth and transformation within DSA, spanning several business lines and various technology functions.  We are established as a centralized team collaborating across consulting, implementation, and operation to maintain and enhance client value offerings and services. We innovate conventional approaches, leveraging Deloitte technology, differentiated domain expertise, intellectual property, talent, and capacity to embed continuous advantage and deliver enhanced business value.

In this team, our focus is on catering to the unique needs and preferences of clients in the South Asia region. Your role within this dynamic team is essential for establishing networks and relationships across the client stakeholder ecosystem and ensuring service fulfillment. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with other Deloitte leadership and stakeholders dedicated to the client. Your contributions will involve nurturing new and existing relationships, supporting presales life cycles, and playing a pivotal role in driving the success of DSA business growth for the specific client.

You will be part of a global organization that is making a measurable impact that matters every day.

Your work profile

We are seeking a Middleware Engineer to operate, secure, and optimize enterprise application and integration platforms running in a Software‑Defined Data Center (SDDC). You will manage Java application servers (WebSphere/WebLogic/JBoss EAP/Tomcat), messaging platforms (IBM MQ/RabbitMQ/Kafka), and web gateways (NGINX/Apache HTTP/IIS) on VMware vSphere with integrations across vSAN/SAN/NAS storage and NSX‑T networking. The role emphasizes availability, performance, automation, patching, and strong change/incident management.

Key Responsibilities

1) Middleware Platform Operations

• Install, configure, and administer WebSphere/WebLogic/JBoss EAP/Tomcat (profiles/domains, JVM tuning, JDBC/JMS, datasources, connection pools, thread pools).
• Operate web servers & gateways (NGINX/Apache HTTP/IIS: vhosts, reverse proxy, WAF rules, TLS offload).
• Administer messaging platforms (IBM MQ queue managers/channels, RabbitMQ clusters/vhosts/policies, or Kafka brokers/topics/ACLs) and manage durable messaging, HA, and consumer lag.
• Execute patching/upgrades (fix packs, CPUs/PSUs), plugin updates, and compatibility validations.

2) Deployments & Release Enablement

• Support CI/CD releases (Jenkins/GitLab/Azure DevOps), artifact promotion, env configs, and rollout/rollback strategies (blue‑green/canary where applicable).
• Maintain environment parity across DEV/TEST/PROD; manage config-as-code and secrets safely.

3) HA/DR & Resilience

• Configure and validate clustering, session replication, sticky sessions, and load balancing (F5/NSX‑T LB/Nginx).
• Own backup/restore and DR runbooks for middleware configs, keystores, and runtime state; participate in DR drills and ensure RPO/RTO objectives.

4) Security, Certificates & Compliance

• Implement TLS/mTLS, certificate/keystore (JKS/P12) lifecycle, ciphers/protocols, and service‑to‑service auth (OAuth2/OIDC/Kerberos/LDAP/AD).
• Enforce RBAC/least privilege, harden admin consoles, and integrate with SIEM for audit trails.
• Remediate vulnerabilities (CVEs), align to CIS/organizational benchmarks, and maintain patch compliance.

5) SDDC / Virtualization Alignment

• Operate workloads on VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter (templates, snapshots best practices, vMotion/storage vMotion, resource reservations).
• Collaborate on storage (vSAN/SAN/NAS: IOPS/latency, mount strategies) and network (NSX‑T segments, DFW rules, micro‑segmentation, LB policies).
• Participate in capacity planning and performance tuning (JVM heap/GC, file descriptors, IO, thread pools).

6) Automation & Observability

• Automate routine tasks with Ansible, Shell/Python, and PowerCLI/Terraform where applicable.
• Implement and tune monitoring/alerting (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Splunk, vROps, vendor tools); publish SLOs/SLIs and dashboards.
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, CMDB/inventory, architecture diagrams, and knowledge articles.

7) Operations Excellence

• Provide L2/L3 support; lead incident/problem/change management (ITIL), RCAs, and preventive actions.
• Partner closely with app, DB, security, network, storage, and virtualization teams; participate in on‑call rotations.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5–8 years in middleware/platform operations within enterprise environments.
• Strong hands‑on with at least one app server stack: IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, JBoss EAP, or Apache Tomcat.
• Web gateways: NGINX/Apache HTTP/IIS (reverse proxy, TLS, rewriting, headers, caching).
• Messaging/integration (at least one): IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, or Kafka (setup, HA, security, monitoring).
• JVM performance tuning (heap/GC, thread pools, connection pools), SSL/TLS & certificate lifecycle, LDAP/AD integration.
• Experience operating on VMware vSphere; understanding of NSX‑T basics and vSAN/SAN/NAS storage considerations.
• Automation & scripting: Ansible, Bash, Python (Groovy/PowerShell a plus); Git and CI/CD familiarity.
• Monitoring/logging with Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Splunk, and vendor consoles; strong troubleshooting skills (logs, thread/heap dumps, JFR).
• Solid grasp of ITIL processes and enterprise change control.

Educational qualifications

Bachelor’s degree

Location and way of working

Base location: Bangalore

Your role as a leader

We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.

In addition to living our purpose, leaders across our organization must strive to be:

Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation

Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose

Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity

Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future

Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders

Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions

Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen

Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities

Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization

Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities

Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for

the success of engagement(s)

Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience

Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision

Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems

Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte

Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive. 

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