Lead Middleware Platform Engineer (contract)

We are looking for a Lead Middleware Platform Engineer to lead the design, implementation, automation, and operationalization of a next-generation data and RDF platform for a global financial institution.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience building and managing enterprise platforms, driving production readiness, implementing infrastructure automation, and supporting highly regulated environments.

This role will play a critical part in designing and deploying middleware capabilities, enabling observability, resiliency, security, and platform scalability across multiple environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead platform architecture and implementation activities for RDF and middleware platforms.
• Design and implement automation for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and support.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, and development teams to onboard platforms.
• Drive observability, logging, monitoring, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Develop production runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, and support models.
• Support production readiness reviews and go-live activities.
• Collaborate with third-party vendors on configuration and optimization activities.
• Mentor engineering teams on platform best practices.
  
  

Required Skills

• 10+ years of platform engineering, middleware engineering or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Strong Linux administration experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift or similar container platforms.
• Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• Strong scripting skills using Python, Shell, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production environments.
• Strong understanding of security and resiliency principles.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• RDF Triple Store experience.
• Graph database technologies.
• Financial Services or Banking domain experience.
• Cloud platform exposure.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• Successfully delivers production-ready platform environments.
• Establishes automation-first operational practices.
• Implements observability and resiliency standards.
• Enables development teams through stable platform services.
  
  

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $37.67/hour - $58.86/hour. Our offered benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.