Staff Engineer II at Western Alliance Bank in Phoenix, AZ

Job Title: Staff Engineer II

Location: Block 23

What you'll do: The Staff Engineer II – Middleware Platforms is responsible for the engineering, support, and maintenance of enterprise middleware technologies supporting business-critical applications. This role provides hands-on support for IBM MQ as a Service, manages end-of-life (EOL) middleware platforms, and supports a diverse portfolio including Tomcat, Apache HTTPD, NGINX, ActiveMQ, IIS, .NET middleware, and Azure Service Bus. The role partners with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Application Development, and Operations teams to ensure middleware platforms are secure, stable, compliant, and production-ready. .

• Provide engineering support for IBM MQ as a Service

• Support web, application server, messaging, and integration middleware platforms

• Participate in incident management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis

• Perform middleware maintenance, patching, upgrades, and operational support

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to support solution design and production readiness

• Support remediation and lifecycle management of end-of-life (EOL) middleware platforms

• Manage middleware vulnerabilities and support IT risk exception processes

• Interface with audit, risk, and compliance teams to meet regulatory requirements

• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures

What you'll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

• 5–8+ years of middleware or platform engineering experience

• Hands-on experience with IBM MQ

• Hands-on experience with enterprise middleware technologies, including Tomcat; Apache, NGINX, ActiveMQ, IIS and .NET & Azure Service Bus

• Experience supporting production systems, preferably in regulated environments

• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and documentation skills

• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries

• Experience with cloud or hybrid middleware architecture

• Experience supporting modernization or platform transformation initiatives

Benefits you’ll love: We offer all the important things you'd want — like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands — Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank — that remain part of the company’s heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, a Western Alliance Bank Company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

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