General Duties :

- Contribute in design, understanding the architectural trade-offs 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 Linux environment

- Experience with GIT, CI and CD

- Willingness to learn and adopt 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 Knowledge

- Ansible / Configuration as a Code

Beneficial Skills :

- Configuration Management / Deployment tools such as Ansible, Octopus

- Experience with Cloud Providers (preferably Azure)

- GitOps, CI / CD mindset

- Networking knowledge