Senior Azure Messaging Platform Engineer (Multi-Region, HA/DR)

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

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.