Senior Azure Messaging Platform Engineer

Skill; SeaTac (WA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Online training

Retirement plan with match

Job summary

Aquent Talent is seeking an experienced engineer to design, build, and support high-availability enterprise messaging solutions. You will own geo-replication, multi-region resiliency, and automation frameworks for real-time, mission-critical environments.

Join a hands-on team delivering robust automation, scalable messaging architectures, and reliable disaster recovery testing across cloud platforms.

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 multi-region messaging solutions.
• Advanced infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Hands-on experience with HA, DR, RTO/RPO, failover/failback, and DR testing.

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 testing, failover/failback, and resiliency testing.
• Automate deployments and operational processes using scripting languages.
• Support messaging queues, topics, subscriptions, DLQs, and message replay/retries.

Skills

Cloud messaging

Geo-replication

IaC

HA/DR

Python scripting

Troubleshooting

Tools

Python

PowerShell

CLI

Job description

Overview

Placement Type: Temporary

Salary: $74.48-82.76 Hourly

up to $82.76/hr

Start Date: Sep 14, 2026

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.

What You'll Do

• 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.

What You'll Bring (Must-Have)

• 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.
• 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.

Bonus Points For

• 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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