Senior Kafka & RabbitMQ SRE

Position: Senior Messaging Platform SRE (Kafka & RabbitMQ)

We are seeking a Senior Messaging Platform SRE to own the reliability scalability and operational excellence of enterprise messaging and event-streaming platforms including Confluent Kafka and RabbitMQ running on AWS and the Confluent Platform. This role is focused on platform operations SRE practices and infrastructure engineering-ensuring these platforms meet strict SLAs/SLOs for availability latency durability and security. The engineer will be part of the Operations team and will be a single point of contact for Kafka and Rabbit MQ issues.

Qualifications:

• 8 years of experience in SRE Platform Engineering or Infrastructure Operations.
• 3 years operating Confluent Kafka in production at scale.
• 2 years operating RabbitMQ in high-availability distributed environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS-based deployments (MSK EC2 EBS ALB/NLB IAM).
• Deep knowledge of Kafka internals (brokers partitions ISR replication rebalancing).
• Strong operational understanding of RabbitMQ internals (clustering mirroring/quorum queues flow control).
• Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS) for platform workloads and supporting microservices.
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform and Helm.
• Advanced experience with monitoring alerting and logging platforms (Splunk Prometheus Grafana ELK).

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end reliability of Kafka and RabbitMQ platforms including uptime performance capacity and fault tolerance.
• Define and track SLOs and operational KPIs for messaging platforms.
• Lead incident response root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident reviews for Kafka and RabbitMQ outages.
• Operate and maintain Confluent Kafka and RabbitMQ clusters.
• Standardize operational runbooks for cluster lifecycle management broker/node failures rebalancing and disaster recovery.
• Act as the primary escalation point for Kafka and RabbitMQ production issues.
• Mentor junior engineers and influence platform-wide SRE best practices.
• Partner with architecture security and application teams to evolve the messaging platform roadmap.

Brandon Consulting Associates Inc. is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and has been in business for 29years.