Connect Direct - MFT

Job Description Connect Direct-JD

Location-Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore

Key responsibilities

Platform engineering & SME ownership

● Act as the technical SME for IBM Connect:Direct (CD) across build, run, and change.

● Lead installations, configurations, upgrades, patching, migrations, and platform enhancements .

● Maintain platform standards: configuration baselines, naming conventions, certificate/key management approach, and operational runbooks.

● Drive capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilience improvements.

Operations, incident/problem management

● Provide L2/L3 support for production issues: triage, root cause analysis, and permanent fixes.

● Troubleshoot end-to-end MFT flows including process definitions, scheduling, connectivity, authentication, encryption, and partner onboarding.

● Improve monitoring/alerting and reduce repeat incidents through automation and problem management.

Automation & DevOps enablement

● Build and maintain automation using Ansible, Jenkins, and GitHub (CI/CD for configuration, deployments, and repeatable changes).

● Develop and maintain Bash/Python scripts for operational tasks (log parsing, housekeeping, certificate checks, health checks, reporting).

Observability & performance

● Implement and enhance monitoring using Splunk (dashboards, alerts, correlation searches) and AppDynamics (application performance insights where relevant).

● Monitoring system healthiness (availability, transfer success rate, latency, queue depth, error rates).

Infrastructure, network & security collaboration

● Partner with network/infrastructure/security teams on firewall rules, routing, DNS, load balancers, TLS/certificates, vulnerability remediation, and access controls.

● Ensure secure configuration aligned to enterprise security expectations (encryption in transit/at rest, least privilege, audit logging).

Cross-platform support

● Provide support across Linux and Windows Server environments, including service/process management, troubleshooting, and patch coordination.

Required skills & experience

● ~8 years of hands-on experience in enterprise middleware / managed file transfer / platform engineering.

● Strong experience with IBM Connect:Direct:

Installation, configuration, upgrades/patching, process configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning.

● Strong Linux administration skills:

Service/process management, file permissions, networking basics, log analysis, troubleshooting.

● Scripting skills in Bash and/or Python for automation and operational tooling.

● Experience with Ansible, Jenkins, and GitHub in a DevOps delivery model.

● Working knowledge of Splunk (search, dashboards, alerting) and AppDynamics (usage for diagnostics/monitoring).

● Solid understanding of networking and security concepts (TLS, certificates, ports, firewalls, authentication/authorisation).

● Experience supporting Windows Server environments.

Qualifications

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

● Relevant IBM product certifications are a plus (Connect:Direct).

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