Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer. This is a 24 Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Atlanta, GA (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID:26-24575

Pay Range: $55- $65/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• The Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer provides middleware messaging engineering, administration, and system support for new and existing production RabbitMQ and Kafka environments, including performance of the following tasks:
• Software installation, patch installation, upgrades, object definition, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, automation implementation, and backup and recovery.
• Work independently on day-to-day monitoring and operations of cloud and legacy applications.
• You will be required to develop automation using AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and intelligent automation to reduce manual operational effort and accelerate service delivery.
• Design, build, and support enterprise large-scale distributed Messaging platforms, including software installation, patch installation, upgrading software, disaster recovery planning, backup, and recovery.
• Leverage AI-powered development and operational tools to accelerate troubleshooting, documentation, automation, and incident resolution.
• Identify and implement best practices to support a highly available platform
• Implement and enforce security practices for enterprise messaging platforms
• Provide Operational support for platform issues to application development teams
• Address performance and scalability challenges posed by new or changing Kafka producers and consumers.
• Work in an agile global team setting

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• 6 to 12 years of experience in middleware Kafka messaging, application platforms management, and distributed architecture/solutions
• Strong, proven experience in managing RabbitMQ and Kafka for large-scale enterprise distributed systems
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace
• Deep and extensive knowledge in configuration, troubleshooting, and optimization of Kafka/RabbitMQ
• Proficiency with Python, shell scripts, & configuration management tools, preferably Ansible
• Practical experience using AI-powered development and engineering tools and solutions to improve development and operational productivity.
• Experience in applying Generative AI /Agentic AI to infrastructure operations, platform engineering, or software development workflows.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted observability, incident management, operational analytics, or intelligent automation solutions.
• Proven expertise in Kubernetes Container Orchestration and Docker Containers.
• Experience in messaging/streaming platforms like IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, Apache Flink, etc.

Our client is a leading IT Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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