Messaging & Streaming Platform Engineer

Overview

Job purpose

• 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

Responsibilities

General Duties

 

• 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
• This role includes out of office hours support rota

Qualifications

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 and Helm Knowledge
• Ansible / Configuration as a Code
• Willingness to learn and adopt to innovative technologies

Beneficial Skills

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

Employment Type: FULL_TIME