Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dealer Tire is a family-owned, international distributor of tires and parts established in 1918 in Cleveland, OH. As an Integration Platform Reliability Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing and supporting the integration platforms used for business operations, ensuring their stability, reliability, and security.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain platform documentation, training materials and systems documentation
- Work with infrastructure engineers to maintain the stability and reliability of the integration platforms
- Monitor the performance and availability of the integration platforms, recommend, and implement remediations to issues
- Follow Dealer Tire and affiliate policies regarding change control and incident management
- Keep integration platform toolsets patched and up to date according to the appropriate policies
- Assist Integration Specialists with platform inter-operability issues
- Work with infrastructure teams to support the infrastructure roadmap
- Work with Enterprise Information Security to maintain the appropriate security posture based upon policy and contract requirements
- Assist in designing and implementing the Integration roadmap
- Recommend, design, develop and implement small and medium scale automations
- Help in the development of junior team members
- Work closely with functional groups to assure project tasks are completed accurately, timely and with quality
- Document project tasks for scope boundaries, high-level requirements, and other aspects as needed
- Work with functional staff to develop training materials for Information Technology systems
- Document high-level and detailed business requirements related to required platform capabilities
- Communicate business requirements to the Information Technology staff
- Collaborate on Information Technology projects with various functional areas and staff to clarify business requirements, answer questions and resolve problems throughout projects and on-going support
- Collaborate with team members on the development and on-going use of audits and controls to monitor the daily transmission and collection of EDI/Integration files
- Assist users and Integration Specialists in the review of business requirements
- Coordinate work with various functional staff to develop user acceptance test objectives, test plans and test scripts to verify and ensure that business requirements are achieved
- Perform system tests and user acceptance tests of Information Technology system changes as agreed with various functional staff in test plans
- Maintain technical analysis documents, technical designs, test scripts and test results to verify Integration Platform requirements are understood and addressed completely, correctly, and consistently
- Execute unit and integrated system test reviews as appropriate with Information Technology staff
- Apply established mechanisms for tracking business requirements throughout the life of Information Technology projects. Use mechanisms to verify all requirements have been addressed completely, correctly, and consistently
- Work with various functional and IT staff to apply established change management procedures for Information Technology projects to control scope
- Facilitate documentation and approval of requirements changes of either a business or technical nature, during Information Technology projects, using change management procedures
- Perform production implementations, some of which may require after hour activities to complete
- Timely and accurate time and status reporting
- Adherence to security policies
- Learn and leverage knowledge to develop mappings on tools utilized by the team
- Other Duties as Assigned
Skills
- 3-5 Years experience of maintaining an EDI / Integration platform such as Axway B2Bi Express, Mulesoft, Sterling Integration Suite or similar software (cloud or on premise), including upgrades and applying patches
- Experience with scripting languages and techniques (Python, *nix shell, Powershell)
- Operator level experience with either RedHat or SUSE Enterprise Linux
- Operator level experience with Windows Server
- Understanding of networking concepts such as routing, DMZ's and the functionality of common network appliances such as firewalls and load balancers
- Demonstratable troubleshooting skills involving networking, server and application concepts
- Knowledge of common file/data exchange protocols (FTP, SFTP, REST, web services)
- Knowledge of XML and JSON file types
- Demonstration of developing improved processes
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Facilitation and negotiation skills
- Willingness to learn new skills
- Ability to manage in a fast-paced environment to meet business needs/deadlines and adhere to project schedule with minimal supervision
- Knowledge of one or more of the following Axway products (B2Bi Express, Transfer CFT, Sentinel, API Manager/Amplify)
- Understanding of various file types and usage (X12, EDIFACT, flat files)
- EDI/Integration translations and implementation background
- EDI document background: 810, 850, 856, 210, 214
- Knowledge of EDI Specific Communication Methods (Odette FTP, AS2)
- Experience in automation of tasks and automation tools
- Basic knowledge of containerization
- Basic understanding of cloud computing concepts (AWS or Azure preferred)
- Working knowledge of Jira and Confluence
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k match (50% on the dollar up to 7% of employee contribution)
Company Overview
Dealer Tire helps auto manufacturers and dealers grow their tire and light maintenance business. It is a sub-organization of Lindsay Goldberg. It was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://dealertire.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Dealer Tire has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 2 in 2023, 2 in 2022, 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.