Platform Services Middleware Engineer (IBM MQ, Confluent Kafka, OpenShift)

Raleigh, WV - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role Summary

Seeking a hands-on engineer to design build and support enterprise messaging platforms with a focus on IBM MQ Confluent Kafka deployed in AWS and OpenShift. This role emphasizes DevOps practices CI/CD automation and scripting-driven deployments. Ansible Automation Platform experience is a plus.

Key Responsibilities

Build and maintain IBM MQ (queue managers channels clustering security) and Confluent Kafka (brokers topics ACLs Connect Schema Registry).

Deploy and manage Kafka and MQ on OpenShift (OCP) and/or AWS; containerization and operator-based deployments.

Automate platform provisioning and configuration using CI/CD pipelines scripting (Bash/Python) and Ansible playbooks.

Ensure security (TLS/mTLS SASL/OAUTH) high availability and disaster recovery for messaging platforms.

Implement monitoring/alerting and troubleshoot performance issues.

Collaborate with application teams on event-driven architecture and best practices.

Required Skills

IBM MQ and Confluent Kafka build and operational experience in production environments.

Strong DevOps background: CI/CD pipelines GitOps workflows.

Proficiency in Linux Bash/Python scripting and automation tools.

Experience with OpenShift (OCP) deployments and containerized middleware.

Knowledge of AWS services for hosting and integrating messaging platforms.

Security protocols: TLS/mTLS SASL/OAUTH; observability stacks.

Preferred Skills

Ansible Automation Platform playbook development.

Event-driven architecture patterns and governance.

Disaster recovery and multi-region Kafka replication strategies.

Role Summary Seeking a hands-on engineer to design build and support enterprise messaging platforms with a focus on IBM MQ Confluent Kafka deployed in AWS and OpenShift. This role emphasizes DevOps practices CI/CD automation and scripting-driven deployments. Ansible Automation Platform experience is...