SRE Lead with IBM MQ & Kafka

Job DescriptionWe are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer SRE Lead Messaging Services to drive platform reliability observability and operational excellence across IBM MQ and Kafka environmentsThis role combinesProduction engineering and reliability leadership for messaging platformsPlatform security resilience engineering and vulnerability remediationOwnership of largescale distributed messaging runtimesKey responsibilities includeLeading reliability engineering for highscale messaging platforms supporting tens of thousands of runtimes and highvolume message throughputDriving EOL remediation patching and stabilization across MQ queue managers and Kafka clustersImplementing SRE best practiceso SLIs SLOs focused on message delivery latency and availabilityo Incident management escalation and postmortem cultureEnhancing observability and monitoring for messaging flows queue depths lag and throughputDesigning proactive fault detection and autoremediation strategies eg DLQ handling backlog mitigation failover recoveryBuilding resilient messaging platforms capable of supporting realtime eventdriven workloadsSupporting global production messaging environments with oncall rotation and escalation ownershipPartnering with engineering application and security teams to ensure reliability scalability and secure message transportPrimary Required SkillsStrong experience in Site Reliability Engineering Production EngineeringHandson expertise witho IBM MQ queue managers clustering channels DLQ managemento Kafka Confluent platform topics brokers partitions consumer groupso Largescale distributed messaging systems and runtime managementDeep understanding ofo System reliability scalability and high availability designo Messaging reliability patterns guaranteed delivery retry handling replay orderingo Incident management root cause analysis and problem managementExperience witho Observability tools Dynatrace Splunk Prometheus Grafana for messaging platformso Event and anomaly detection in highvolume systemsStrong scriptingautomation skillso Shell Python PowerShellExperience managing LinuxUnix and Windows production environmentsKnowledge ofo Eventdriven architecture and messagingbased integration patternsUnderstanding ofo Messaging platform security TLS certificates channel auth encryptiono Vulnerability remediation and risk mitigation in production systemsExcellent troubleshooting skills in highpressure realtime environments eg message backlog latency spikes connection failuresDesired SkillsExperience implementing SRE frameworks SLIs SLOs error budgets specifically for messaging workloadsFamiliarity witho Kubernetes containerized messaging platformsExperience witho Kafka ecosystem components Schema Registry Connect Streamso IBM MQ advanced features Native HA clusteringExposure too AIdriven operations AIOps anomaly detection or automated remediationo Largescale messaging modernization or migration programsMessaging or middleware certifications IBM MQ Kafka or equivalentExperience in regulated environments eg financial services