Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer

Dell GmbH; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 123,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies in Round Rock, Texas, is seeking a Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer to design, build and operate enterprise messaging platforms based on RabbitMQ and Kafka. You will help ensure reliability, scalability, and security in a global team.

You will drive automation with AI-powered tools, participate in incident response, and collaborate with development teams to optimize performance. This role requires deep middleware messaging expertise and modern observability practices.

Qualifications

• 6 to 12 years of middleware Kafka messaging, application platforms management and distributed architecture/solutions.
• Strong proven experience in managing RabbitMQ and Kafka for large-scale enterprise distributed systems.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace.
• Deep and extensive knowledge in configuration, troubleshooting, optimization of Kafka / RabbitMQ.
• Proficiency with Python, shell scripts, & configuration management tools, preferably Ansible.
• Practical experience using AI-powered development and engineering tools and solutions to improve development and operational productivity.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and support enterprise large-scale distributed Messaging platforms, including software installation, patch installation, upgrading software, disaster, recovery planning, backup and recovery
• Leverage AI-powered development and operational tools to accelerate troubleshooting, documentation, automation, and incident resolution
• Identify and implement best practices to support a highly available platform
• Implement and enforce security practices for enterprise messaging platforms
• Provide Operational support for platform issues to application development teams
• Address performance and scalability challenges posed by new or changing Kafka producers and consumers
• Work in an agile global team setting

Skills

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Python

Shell scripting

Ansible

AI tools

AI-powered automation

Distributed architecture

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Dynatrace

Kubernetes

Docker

IBM MQ

ActiveMQ

Apache Flink

Job description

Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer

The ability to drive human progress through technology relies on robust and reliable IT infrastructure – and that’s what our IT Infrastructure team provides to our customers. We’re a team of experts optimizing the performance and integrity of IT infrastructure and ensuring consistency and synchronization across all infrastructure components. In addition to supporting new and existing applications, we work with other IT groups and business units to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineeron our Dell IT team in Round Rock, Texas.

What you’ll achieve

The Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer provides middleware messaging engineering, administration and system support for new and existing production RabbitMQ and Kafka environments, including performance of the following tasks:

Software installation, patch installation, upgrades, object definition, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, automation implementation and backup and recovery.

Work independently on day-to-day monitoring and operations of cloud and legacy applications. You will be required to develop automation using AI-assisted engineering practices. Identify opportunities to leverage AI and intelligent automation to reduce manual operational effort and accelerate service delivery.

You will:

• Design, build and support enterprise large-scale distributed Messaging platforms, including software installation, patch installation, upgrading software, disaster, recovery planning, backup and recovery
• Leverage AI-powered development and operational tools to accelerate troubleshooting, documentation, automation, and incident resolution
• Identify and implement best practices to support a highly available platform
• Implement and enforce security practices for enterprise messaging platforms
• Provide Operational support for platform issues to application development teams
• Address performance and scalability challenges posed by new or changing Kafka producers and consumers
• Work in an agile global team setting

Essential Requirements

• 6 to 12 years of experience in middleware Kafka messaging, application platforms management and distributed architecture/solutions
• Strong proven experience in managing RabbitMQ and Kafka for large-scale enterprise distributed systems
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace
• Deep and extensive knowledge in configuration, troubleshooting, optimization of Kafka / RabbitMQ
• Proficiency with Python, shell scripts, & configuration management tools, preferably Ansible
• Practical experience using AI-powered development and engineering tools and solutions to improve development and operational productivity

Desirable Requirements

• Experience in applying Generative AI /Agentic AI to infrastructure operations, platform engineering, or software development workflows
• Familiarity with AI-assisted observability, incident management, operational analytics, or intelligent automation solutions
• Proven expertise in Kubernetes Container Orchestration and Docker Containers
• Experience in messaging / streaming platforms like IBM MQ, Active MQ, Apache Flink etc.

Compensation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $123,200 to $169,400

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