Senior Middleware Infra Engineer: IBM MQ, Kafka & RabbitMQ

Madison-Davis, LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Madison-Davis, LLC in New York seeks a Middleware Infrastructure Engineer to own enterprise messaging platforms such as IBM MQ, Apache Kafka, and RabbitMQ. You will ensure reliability, availability, security, performance, and recoverability across production and non-production environments.

The role emphasizes broad platform ownership, upgrades, automation, and DR planning, requiring strong Linux/Unix administration and incident-management skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years enterprise middleware or messaging-infrastructure experience
• Strong hands-on IBM MQ administration and troubleshooting
• Working knowledge of Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ
• Experience designing high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions
• Strong Linux/Unix administration skills
• Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, load balancing, certificates, and TLS
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms
• Scripting or infrastructure-automation experience
• Strong production-support, incident-management, and root-cause-analysis skills
• Ability to independently troubleshoot complex distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, maintain, and improve IBM MQ, Kafka, and RabbitMQ environments
• Own middleware availability, disaster recovery, failover, monitoring, and operational readiness
• Configure IBM MQ queue managers, queues, channels, clusters, security, certificates, and routing
• Troubleshoot complex messaging, application-integration, connectivity, and performance issues
• Lead platform upgrades, patching, capacity planning, lifecycle management, and vulnerability remediation
• Develop automation for deployment, monitoring, configuration, and recurring operational activities
• Partner with application, network, security, infrastructure, DevOps, and production-support teams
• Support business-critical integrations with external financial institutions and market-infrastructure providers

Skills

Distributed systems

Middleware engineering

Troubleshooting

Linux/Unix admin

Scripting/automation

Incident management

Tools

IBM MQ

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Madison-Davis, LLC in New York seeks a Middleware Infrastructure Engineer to own enterprise messaging platforms such as IBM MQ, Apache Kafka, and RabbitMQ. You will ensure reliability, availability, security, performance, and recoverability across production and non-production environments.

The role emphasizes broad platform ownership, upgrades, automation, and DR planning, requiring strong Linux/Unix administration and incident-management skills.