Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Middleware Integration

About the role

A well-known Financial Services Company is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Middleware Integration to join their Enterprise Middleware Integration team. This team supports the Technology organization’s transformation initiatives by enabling the development of critical products.

Responsibilities

• Lead and implement complex infrastructure and middleware upgrades
• Analyze business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements
• Design, code, test, debug, and document solutions using Agile development practices
• Lead and contribute to high-level technical initiatives spanning both technology and business
• Design, develop, test, and document complex infrastructure systems and solutions
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational policies, and procedures
• Utilize monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Splunk) to support application and operations teams
• Contribute to testing across business, application, and infrastructure layers
• Direct daily risk and control processes with a focus on compliance, policies, and procedures
• Develop long-term remediation strategies to resolve recurring issues
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and cross-functional teams to resolve issues and achieve objectives
• Handle outage calls, triage issues efficiently, and drive resolution

Requirements

• 7+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience (or equivalent combination of experience, education, training, or military service)
• 4+ years of hands-on, large-scale experience with Integration Middleware, including: IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ), IBM Message Broker / ACE / IIB, Kafka, Solace, IBM MQ Administration, including: Build, installation, configuration, patching, compliance, and troubleshooting, MQ Queue Manager configuration and MQ Cluster troubleshooting, Creation and maintenance of MQ objects (Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Topics)
• Strong expertise in IBM MQ ecosystems, systems administration, automation, incident management, and cross-functional collaboration
• Strong experience supporting enterprise-level, highly available, mission-critical environments
• Experience with MQ monitoring tools (e.g., IR360)

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience supporting large, enterprise-scale environments
• Experience with IBM MQ Appliance
• Knowledge of compliance and risk management requirements
• Experience supporting key risk initiatives
• IBM MQ experience on Mainframe/Midrange platforms (z/OS, zLinux, AIX)
• Familiarity with Incident Management systems (ServiceNow preferred)
• Experience monitoring alerts, batch failures, and ServiceNow queues
• Experience with Ansible, UDeploy, and deployment automation tools
• Strong troubleshooting experience across job failures and batch processing
• Linux administration fundamentals and shell commands
• Basic networking knowledge, including load balancers (F5, AVI)
• Understanding of network topology
• Experience troubleshooting basic Java application server issues

Benefits

Hybrid schedule: Either Sunday - Thursday (Fri and Sat off) OR Tuesday - Saturday (Sun and Mon off)

Pay

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Schedule

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