Senior Middleware & Messaging Infrastructure Engineer

Motion Recruitment; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer – MQ Middleware Integration to join the Enterprise Middleware Integration team. The role involves building, engineering, and evangelizing Middleware, Streaming, and Messaging products across the enterprise, with hybrid work options across multiple locations.

Responsibilities include designing, implementing complex middleware upgrades, and ensuring high availability in a large financial services environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience managing large-scale Middleware Messaging platforms.
• Experience with IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) and IBM Message Broker / ACE / IIB.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka and Solace messaging technologies.
• Strong background in supporting enterprise-level, highly available environments.
• Experience with IBM MQ on Mainframe/Midrange platforms (z/OS, zLinux, AIX).
• Familiarity with incident management systems (ServiceNow preferred).
• Experience monitoring alerts, batch failures and ServiceNow queues.
• Proficiency with Ansible and UDeploy for deployment automation.
• Basic Linux administration and shell scripting knowledge.
• Understanding of network topology and load balancers (F5, AVI).
• Experience troubleshooting Java application server issues.

Responsibilities

• Implement complex infrastructure and middleware upgrades.
• Analyze business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements.
• Design, code, test, debug, and document solutions using Agile practices.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Utilize monitoring tools (Grafana, Splunk) to support operations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and meet objectives.
• Handle outage calls, triage issues, and drive resolutions.

Skills

IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ)

IBM Message Broker / ACE / IIB

Kafka

Solace

Linux administration

Shell scripting

Networking basics

Java application server issues

Incident Management (ServiceNow)

Ansible

UDeploy

Monitoring: Grafana

Monitoring: Splunk

Tools

IBM MQ

IBM MQ appliances

Kafka

Solace

Ansible

UDeploy

Grafana

Splunk

ServiceNow

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer – MQ Middleware Integration to join the Enterprise Middleware Integration team. The role involves building, engineering, and evangelizing Middleware, Streaming, and Messaging products across the enterprise, with hybrid work options across multiple locations.

Responsibilities include designing, implementing complex middleware upgrades, and ensuring high availability in a large financial services environment.