SRE Lead with IBM MQ & Kafka

Key Responsibilities

• Leading reliability engineering for high-scale messaging platforms supporting tens of thousands of runtimes and high-volume message throughput
• Driving EOL remediation, patching, and stabilization across IBM MQ queue managers and Kafka clusters
• Implementing SRE best practices, including SLIs, SLOs, incident management escalation, and postmortem culture
• Enhancing observability and monitoring for messaging flows, queue depths, lag, and throughput
• Designing proactive fault detection and autoremediation strategies, such as DLQ handling, backlog mitigation, and failover recovery
• Building resilient messaging platforms capable of supporting real-time event-driven workloads
• Supporting global production messaging environments with on-call rotation and escalation ownership
• Partnering with engineering, application, and security teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and secure message transport

Required Skills

• Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering and Production Engineering
• Hand-on expertise with IBM MQ queue managers, clustering, channels, DLQ management, and Kafka Confluent platform topics, brokers, partitions, consumer groups
• Deep understanding of system reliability, scalability, and high availability design, messaging reliability patterns, guaranteed delivery, retry handling, replay, ordering, incident management, root cause analysis, and problem management
• Experience with observability tools, such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, for messaging platforms, event and anomaly detection in high-volume systems, scripting, automation skills (Shell, Python, PowerShell)
• Knowledge of Linux, Unix, and Windows production environments, event-driven architecture, messaging-based integration patterns, messaging platform security, TLS certificates, channel auth, encryption, vulnerability remediation and risk mitigation in production systems, excellent troubleshooting skills in high-pressure, real-time environments, such as message backlog, latency spikes, connection failures

Desired Skills

• Experience implementing SRE frameworks, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets specifically for messaging workloads
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerized messaging platforms, Kafka ecosystem components (Schema Registry, Connect, Streams), IBM MQ advanced features, Native HA clustering
• Exposure to AIdriven operations, AIOps, anomaly detection, or automated remediation, large-scale messaging modernization or migration programs, messaging or middleware certifications (IBM MQ, Kafka or equivalent)

Benefits/Perks

• Comprehensive Medical Plan
• Covering Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term and Long-Term Disability Coverage
• 401(k) Plan with Company match
• Life Insurance
• Vacation Time, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Paid Paternity and Maternity Leave