Senior Azure Messaging Platform Engineer

Aquent; SeaTac (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Subsidized health, vision, and dental

Paid sick leave

Retirement plan with matching

Free online training (Aquent Gymnasium

Job summary

Aquent Talent is seeking an exceptional engineer to design, build, and support highly available, mission-critical enterprise messaging solutions in the cloud. You’ll work hands-on across geo-replication, multi-region resiliency, and automation to strengthen our real-time messaging backbone.

You will contribute from initial design concepts through production deployment, tuning performance, reliability, and cost management while collaborating with global teams and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud/enterprise messaging engineering experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with a leading cloud platform and its messaging services.
• Experience implementing geo-replication or multi-region messaging solutions.
• Advanced infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Hands-on experience with High Availability, Disaster Recovery and DR testing.
• Strong understanding of enterprise messaging and distributed systems.
• Automation/scripting with Python, PowerShell, or cloud CLI.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support premium messaging solutions.
• Implement geo‑replication and multi‑region resiliency strategies.
• Develop and enhance infrastructure‑as‑code scripts and reusable components.
• Design and execute HA/DR, failover, failback, and resiliency testing.
• Automate deployments and operational processes using scripting languages.
• Support messaging queues, topics, subscriptions, DLQs, replay and retry logic.
• Develop DR runbooks, documentation, monitoring, and alerts.
• Troubleshoot production messaging, integration, performance, and reliability issues.
• Identify opportunities to improve cloud cost management, automation, and efficiency.

Skills

Cloud messaging

Geo-replication

Infrastructure as Code

HA/DR testing

Python / PowerShell

Troubleshooting

Automation scripting

Cloud CLI

Tools

Terraform

Cloud CLI

Job description

Join a leading organization at the forefront of innovation, where your expertise will directly contribute to building and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers seamless operations. As a valued partner with Aquent, you’ll be part of a team dedicated to excellence and impact.

We are seeking an exceptional engineer to take on a pivotal role in designing, building, and supporting highly available, mission-critical enterprise messaging solutions. This is a hands‑on opportunity where you will dive deep into advanced messaging technologies, geo‑replication strategies, and robust automation frameworks. You will be instrumental in shaping the future of our real‑time, business‑critical messaging environments, contributing from initial design concepts through to successful production implementation. Your work will directly enhance system reliability, performance, and scalability, making a tangible difference to our operational backbone.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support premium messaging solutions.
• Implement geo‑replication and multi‑region resiliency strategies.
• Develop and enhance infrastructure‑as‑code scripts and reusable components.
• Design and execute high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR), failover, failback, and resiliency testing.
• Automate deployments and operational processes using scripting languages.
• Support messaging queues, topics, subscriptions, dead‑letter queues (DLQs), message replay, retries, duplicate handling, and message ordering.
• Develop DR runbooks, comprehensive documentation, monitoring, alerts, and operational procedures.
• Troubleshoot production messaging, integration, performance, and reliability issues.
• Identify opportunities to improve cloud cost management, automation, and operational efficiency.

Must‑Have Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud, platform, middleware, integration, or enterprise messaging engineering experience.
• Deep hands‑on experience with a leading cloud platform and its messaging services.
• Experience implementing geo‑replication or comparable multi‑region messaging solutions.
• Advanced infrastructure‑as‑code experience – required.
• Hands‑on experience with High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Recovery Time Objective/Recovery Point Objective (RTO/RPO), failover/failback, and DR testing.
• Strong understanding of enterprise messaging and distributed/event‑driven systems.
• Automation/scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, and/or a cloud command‑line interface.
• Experience supporting business‑critical production environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and technical problem‑solving skills.

Nice‑to‑Have Qualifications

• Experience with high‑volume, real‑time transactional environments.
• Experience developing DR runbooks and automated/self‑healing processes.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! Aquent is an equal‑opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment‑one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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