Responsibilities

• Seasoned Senior Messaging and Streaming Engineer to design, implement and maintain technologies, systems, and tools to advance out next-generation Messaging and Streaming Platforms based on Redhat AMQ 7, Kafka/RedPanda

General Duties

• Contribute to design, understanding the architectural tradeoffs including Scalability, Resiliency, High Availability, Storage, and Security Perform capacity planning and solution review related to the Messaging and Streaming environment.
• Adopt and promote modern automated “Self Service” paradigms
• Perform proof-of-concept work for new tools and components
• Turn proof-of-concept work into Production grade systems
• Provide end-user support to Dev teams and implement change requests
• Prioritize across various tasks, manage changes in daily workload
• Concisely document instructions, user guides, and policies in Confluence or in source control
• Guide fellow engineers on stack standards and efficient utilization

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven history of implementation, configuration, and support of a modern Messaging platform and their ecosystems (RH AMQ, ActiveMQ Artemis, IBM MQ, Solace)
• Proven history of implementation, configuration, and support of a modern Streaming platform and their ecosystems (Apache Kafka, RedPanda, Apache Pulsar)
• Ability to use programming languages (e.g. Python, PowerShell) to create production-grade APIs and integrations
• Working knowledge of the Linux environment
• Experience with GIT, CI, and CD
• Willingness to learn and adapt to innovative technologies
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills. Forward-thinking, self-starter, able to work independently
• University / College bachelor level (or equivalent) degree

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Kubernetes and Helm Knowledge
• Ansible / Configuration as a Code
• Willingness to learn and adapt to innovative technologies
• University / College bachelor level (or equivalent) degree

Beneficial Skills

• Configuration Management / Deployment tools such as Ansible, Octopus
• Experience with Cloud Providers (preferably Azure)
• GitOps, CI / CD mindset
• Networking knowledge