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RQ11176 - Sr. Middleware Specialist 9-month contract (180 business days) - possible extension ONSITE 5 days - 87 Sir William Hearst Ave., Toronto, Ontario M3M 0B4 Security Level: CRJMC Must-haves: · Monitoring Azure resources for right-sizing to provide financial recommendations for cloud services · Experience with development frameworks and technologies such as Agile and DevOps · Linux Server and hosting services · Supporting Microsoft Windows Server 2019+ · creating and using CI/CD Pipelines · experience in Scripting (PowerShell and VBS) Nice-to-have: · Experience in performing infrastructure support in the OPS The Labour and Transportation I&IT Cluster (LTC) Operations Maintenance and Support Branch (OMSB) is responsible for hosting, maintaining and supporting systems on behalf of its ministry clients, Ministry of Transportation (MTO) and Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development (MLITSD). These hosted systems vary in terms of criticality (mission critical, business critical and business support applications) and the intended audience ? systems may be accessed internally by ministry staff, externally by broader public-sector users, or directly by the public. The Operations team provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) hosting to clients leveraging Microsoft Azure. In addition to this, the Operations team provides hosting support services for clients leveraging a variety of Microsoft 365 technologies such as SharePoint Online, Dynamics Online, PowerApps and similar technologies. Support is also provided to clients leveraging enterprise SaaS platforms such as Salesforce. The team also provides support within the cluster for teams to leverage Azure DevOps to maintain code and develop automated build and deployment pipelines. In order to meet the demands of its clients, the OMSB Operations team through the Labour and Transportation I&IT Cluster is looking to hire consultants with expertise in delivering, monitoring and supporting systems on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 and enterprise SaaS platforms. The intended consultant will have expertise applying stringent government security standards and performance targets to hosted systems to ensure government data is protected and operates reliably. The Middleware Specialists will complete the following activities: Contribute to ongoing project activities: • Contribute to the technical design of the hosting environment • Define migration strategies • Build and deploy systems to Azure new environment • Execute the migration of individual application solutions and re-platform as needed Application publishing to the Internet and Intranet via web proxies: · Using Azure native publication tools such as Azure Application Gateway in multiple environments. • Defining requirements, designing and deploying solutions when requirements from clients may not be straightforward or complete • Use different network proxies to public applications (i.e. F5, Azure Application Gateway) • Solutions integration and deployment • Utilizing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) • Configure Azure networking via Azure VNets, Networks Security Groups (NSGs) and other Azure-native networking constructs to ensure systems are built to specifications. Applying knowledge of how physical networking infrastructure interacts with Azure and solutions hosted on it will also be performed • Design, build, deploy and manage security access controls and policies using Ent