Senior Solace & IBM MQ Middleware Engineer

Role: Senior Solace & IBM MQ Middleware Engineer

Location: Irving, TX

Type: Fulltime

Job description:

1. Administer, support, and maintain Solace PubSub+ and IBM MQ messaging platforms across enterprise production and non-production environments.
2. Build, configure, deploy, and manage messaging infrastructure including brokers, queues, topics, VPNs, clients, and messaging services.
3. Provide L3 production support for business-critical messaging services and participate in 24×7 operational support coverage.
4. Troubleshoot and resolve messaging issues including queue build-up, message latency, connectivity failures, throughput bottlenecks, and application integration problems.
5. Support platform automation, deployment, and operational efficiency initiatives using Jenkins, Git, Python, Shell scripting, and CI/CD pipelines.
6. Perform infrastructure lifecycle management including installation, patching, upgrades, configuration management, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
7. Support containerized and cloud-hosted deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and Linux-based environments.
8. Implement proactive monitoring and observability using AppDynamics, Elastic Search, and enterprise monitoring platforms to ensure service reliability.
9. Manage messaging security including TLS/SSL configuration, certificate lifecycle management, authentication, authorization, and secrets management.
10. Partner with application, network, infrastructure, database, and cybersecurity teams to drive continuous improvement, resiliency, compliance, and operational excellence across messaging services.