Description

Role: Middleware Engineer (IBM MQ & Kafka – Development & Support)

Overview

We are looking for a Middleware Engineer with strong expertise in IBM MQ and Apache Kafka to support and enhance enterprise messaging platforms. The role involves development, integration, production support, and performance optimization for real-time and asynchronous messaging systems.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Messaging Platform Management

- Administer and support:
- IBM MQ (Queue Managers, Channels, Queues)
- Apache Kafka (Topics, Brokers, Partitions, Clusters)

- Configure and manage message routing, transformation, and integration flows
- Handle queue/topic setup, retention policies, and message persistence

Development & Integration

- Develop and maintain message producers/consumers using MQ and Kafka
- Build integration solutions using:
- Java / Spring Boot / Kafka Streams / MQ APIs

- Implement event-driven and asynchronous architectures
- Design and manage data streaming pipelines

Production Support

- Provide L2/L3 support for messaging platforms and integrations
- Monitor queue depth, lag, consumer health, and throughput
- Perform incident management, RCA, and problem resolution
- Ensure high availability, failover, and disaster recovery readiness

Performance & Optimization

- Optimize:
- Message throughput and latency
- Kafka partitioning and consumer groups
- MQ queue performance and channel configurations

- Conduct capacity planning and scaling strategies

Automation & DevOps

- Build automation scripts using:
- Shell / Python / Ansible

- Integrate messaging platforms with:





- CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins)

- Support infrastructure automation and configuration management

Security & Compliance

- Manage:
- MQ security (SSL/TLS, authentication, authorization)
- Kafka security (SASL, ACLs, encryption)

- Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards

Collaboration

- Work with:
- Application teams, DevOps, and infrastructure teams

- Support application onboarding onto MQ/Kafka platforms

Participate in release management and deployments

Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience

Core Technical Skills

- Strong hands-on experience in:
- IBM MQ Administration & Development
- Apache Kafka (cluster setup, topic management, troubleshooting)

- Expertise in:

- Messaging patterns (Pub/Sub, Point-to-Point, Event Streaming)

Development Skills

- Experience with:
- Kafka Streams / Kafka Connect
- IBM MQ APIs

Support & Monitoring

- Monitoring tools:
- Dynatrace / Splunk / Prometheus / Grafana

- DevOps & Automation
- Knowledge of:

- CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
- Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes – valuable to have)

- - Cloud Exposure (Preferred)
- Experience with:

- Azure Event Hubs / AWS MSK (Kafka equivalents)
- Hybrid or cloud-native messaging architectures

- - Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities
- Proactive operational mindset
- Effective communication with cross-functional teams
- Ability to work in high-pressure production environments

Experience

- 10+ years in Middleware / Messaging platforms
- Experience in BFSI domain (preferred)

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