Senior Middleware Platform Engineer| Senior Manager

Job Description

Who we are looking for

As a Middleware Platform Engineer, you will be working in a fast paced environment in a team of highly skilled engineers responsible for leading platform engineering, design, and implementation of next generation messaging infrastructure. You will also be expected to assist and act as final level of support for the production services supported by the team.

What You Will Be Responsible For

As Messaging Engineer you will
• Design, Engineer Messaging Platforms across the enterprise.
• Write code to automate tasks ( request processing, product installations, health checks, proactive monitoring, alerting, reporting, predictive analytics )
• Create stubs for sender & receiver or producers & consumer applications for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms
• Design monitoring solutions for the platforms and baseline statistics reporting
• Work on Integration between Messaging platforms - for example MQ to Kafka connectors and Kafka to DB connectors
• Assist in the design and engineering of our Messaging platforms on a Public Cloud (Azure, AWS, Google, Confluent Cloud) using Ansible, Terraform, Python
• Perform optimization and tuning of Messaging Platforms including State Street’s Interchange Messaging platform, IBM MQ Series platform and Kafka platforms
• Strive to provide highly resilient Messaging systems using the latest high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) technology solutions
• Work on creating best practices, standards, Integration patterns and on-boarding process automation
• Ability to work with development teams to understand usage pattern and provide solutions
• Identify risks and remediate audit findings

What We Value

These skills will help you succeed in this role
• Ability to write robust, fault tolerant, well tested code
• C/C++ coding experience
• Experience with programming languages like Python, Ansible, Puppet, Shell
• Experience with use of Source Code Control System like GitHub
• Experience with IBM MQ Series platform on-prem or on a public cloud
• Experience with Confluent Kafka platform on-prem or on a public cloud
• Experience with Messaging products running on RHEL Linux or other Unix platform
• Experience with scripting and orchestration - Puppet / Ansible / Python / Terraform / Shell
• Some level of understanding of Kafka Messaging, IBM MQSeries, or another Messaging technology
• Experience with finding root cause for problems with applications using Kafka Messaging or another Messaging technology or with any software
• applications
• Experience with tuning software systems
• Experience with supporting software/applications

Education & Preferred Qualifications
• Experience of 14 to 16 years in Middleware, Programming & Messaging system
• Love of writing code/programming
• Some real life work experience / internship experience preferred but not required depending on candidate
• Computer science degree preferred
• Experience with high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions for middleware or other platforms