Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Job Summary Responsibilities

• Lead or participate in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business
• Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design and test solutions
• Contribute to the testing of business, application and technical infrastructure requirements
• Drive solutions to reduce recovery
• Review and analyze solutions for cloud security, secrets management and key rotations
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices
• Design complex system upgrades
• Resolve troublesome trends as they develop
• Develop a long range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring
• Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications

• 4+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience managing large-scale Middleware environments, including Solace appliances or Brokers.
• Strong hands-on experience with Solace PubSub+ appliances.
• Expertise in handling larger Application Migrations on Solace Appliances.
• Expertise in firmware upgrades, patching, and maintenance lifecycle.
• Solid experience with TLS/SSL certificate management (CSR creation, renewal, rotation, trust store updates).
• Ability to troubleshoot hardware alerts, including Fan/temperature, Disk/SSD, NIC and redundancy issues, HA failovers.
• Experience coordinating vendor support (Solace TAC) including RMA, part replacement, and RCA.
• Strong operational knowledge of VPN creation, Queue / Topic Endpoint creation, ACL profiles, client profiles, quotas.
• Skills in performance tuning/window tuning for high throughput and low latency.
• Experience using CLI, SolAdmin, SEMP API, and monitoring dashboards.
• Strong L3 troubleshooting skills for production platforms.
• Understanding of HA/DR architecture in Solace.
• Knowledge of replay, transaction settings, and advanced Solace features.

Job Expectations

• Experience implementing DMR (Dynamic Message Routing) or event mesh.
• Automation/scripting (Python, Bash, Ansible).
• Experience with other messaging platforms (Kafka, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ).
• Cloud exposure (AWS/Azure/GCP) with Solace PubSub+ Cloud.
• Networking concepts: BGP, routing, multicast, certificates at enterprise scale.
• Experience managing capacity planning and throughput optimization.
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
• Solace certification (SSC or architecture).
• Experience supporting an enterprise-level environment.
• Thorough understanding compliance standards and risk management practices for systems within the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance) sector.
• Provide implementation support for key risk initiatives.
• ITIL v4 Certification.
• Enterprise Middleware team enables development of products to enable the Technology organization to achieve transformation. The function is positioned to build, engineer, and evangelize Middleware, Messaging and Streaming products for the Technology organization.
• Outline and implement product support, maintenance, enhancements.
• Contribute to the analysis of business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements.
• Involvement in Design, test, debug, and document programs using Agile development practices.
• Lead or participate in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business.
• Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design, and test solutions.
• Generate documentation, operational policies, and procedures, as well as documentation.
• Employ monitoring tools, such as Grafana, APPD, SiteScope for business applications and operations teams.
• Contribute to the testing of business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements.
• Direct daily Risk and Control flow of Compliance, focusing on policies and procedures.
• Develop a long-range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring.
• Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures, and work standards to ensure success.
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
• MQ Appliance
• 4+ years of Experience on IBM MQ Hardware Appliance and IBM MQ Distributed maintaining huge Distributed Clusters
• 4+ years of Experience in IBM MQ on different clustering techniques like RHCS, TSAMP, VCS etc.
• 4+ years of Experience on IBM MQ Hardware Appliance High Availability Clustering and Data Replication setup across multiple DCs.
• Experience on IBM MQ on zLinux, Linux, AIX OS flavors.
• Expertise on Handling the Large-scale migrations from MQ on On-prem/Cloud to MQ Hardware Appliance
• Expertise in handling the MQ hardware Appliance support, High Availability Clustering, Backup/Restore Procedures
• Establishing and documenting production run books and guidelines for Admin and Support operations
• Creating, configuring, and maintaining MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Topics
• Kafka (Confluent)
• 4+ years of Hands-on experience on Confluent Kafka platform setup, Topics, partitions, clients, Kafka Streams
• Experience with Kafka Connect workers and connectors (Source and Sink)
• Ability to troubleshoot Authentication and Authorization issues.
• Protect the Kafka cluster with ingress connections and tune the Quotas, Request Percentages
• Experience in setting Confluent platform with MRC and SBK
• Expertise planning, defining the strategy for the migration approaches.
• Help build/mature the Kafka (Confluent platform) in terms of monitoring and alerting solution, including baseline thresholds and automated alerts, as a Day1 operational requirement.
• Expertise in setting up confluent platforms including KRAFT, Brokers, Schema registry, Rest proxy, Kafka Connect, KsqlDB, Cluster Linking.
• Experience in deploying and operating Kafka on OpenShift (OCP) with Confluent Operator.
• Expertise in provisioning Topics, ACLs, Idempotent Producers, Consumers