Middleware Engineer Intern

Berkley Technology Services (BTS), a member company of W. R. Berkley Corporation, has facilities located in Des Moines, Iowa and Wilmington, Delaware, and global reach into UK/Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific region. BTS provides results-driven software applications, system connectivity, and world-class operational support across the enterprise. Offering an entrepreneurial and innovative culture, we encourage team members to think outside the box to deliver high-quality solutions. Additionally, we provide a competitive compensation and benefits package including a casual dress code and flexible work arrangements. BTS is constantly growing and expanding to meet the changing demands of one of the most successful insurance organizations in the world.

Responsibilities

As a Middleware Engineering Co-Op at Berkley Technology Services, you’ll gain direct exposure across various activities in support of the Middleware Engineering Team’s areas of responsibilities – Websphere Application Server, Liberty, Tomcat, Apache Web server, Business Rules, Enterprise Service Bus, MQ, Portal, BPM, Filenet, Quadient, and Ansible Automation. You will also have opportunities to work with other teams including both development and infrastructure teams. You would also work with Enterprise Content Management assisting with supporting our Imaging application and possibly some .Net programming for the critical software programs that we’ve built to support it.

Additionally, You Will

• Proactively support Middleware technologies.
• Assist with new environment build-outs for various applications
• Build and maintain automation workflows
• Patch and upgrade systems to reduce tech deficit
• Organize and implement initiatives related to vulnerability management to resolve issues for Apache, Java, Tomcat, and other application servers
• Assist in managing the configuration management database (CMDB) along with validating metrics coming from automation and monitoring tools
• Work on ServiceNow requests and incidents to learn what it is like to do Infrastructure-related support from day to day perspective, that usually will consist of working with many different application teams in BTS to help them with their JVM needs and associated platforms.

Qualifications

• At least two years of college or university coursework completed; preference is for some or a majority of that to relate to a technical discipline
• Desire and willingness to learn new things as you would be exposed to new technologies and ideas
• Good work ethic
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work with others
• Desire to work with a variety of different disciplines such as developers, engineers, etc.
• Basic Windows knowledge including use of MS Word, Excel, various Browsers, etc would be helpful. Will be exposed to Linux/Unix servers as well as Java based applications but previous knowledge not required.
• Some development experience is also helpful whether .Net, C++, Java, Python, Bash, Javascript but not required.