Senior Middleware Engineer / IBM MQ & Kafka Administrator

Job Title: Senior Middleware Engineer / IBM MQ & Kafka Administrator Location: Remote Duration - 9 Months

Job Summary We are looking for a highly experienced Middleware Engineer with strong expertise in IBM MQ, IBM ACE/IIB, Apache Kafka, and WebSphere Application Server . The ideal candidate will be responsible for administering enterprise messaging platforms, supporting production environments, performing migrations, ensuring high availability, and optimizing middleware infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments. Required Skills 15 years of experience in IBM MQ Administration Strong experience with IBM ACE / IIB / Message Broker 5 years of Apache Kafka & Confluent Platform administration Experience with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Hands-on experience with MQ clustering, RDQM, Multi-instance Queue Managers Strong knowledge of SSL/TLS, OAM, SASL_SSL, ACL Security Experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker, Debezium Linux/AIX administration Experience with GCP/OpenShift/Kubernetes Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Tivoli Scripting using Shell, Python, MQSC Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL databases Strong troubleshooting and RCA skills Experience supporting 24x7 Production environments Responsibilities Install, configure, administer and upgrade IBM MQ, Kafka and ACE/IIB environments. Manage Queue Managers, Clusters, Channels, Topics, Brokers and Message Flows. Configure high availability, disaster recovery and performance tuning. Perform middleware migrations including MQ, Kafka and ACE upgrades. Administer Kafka clusters, brokers, consumer groups, connectors and Schema Registry. Configure SSL/TLS security, user authentication and access controls. Monitor middleware infrastructure using Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk. Troubleshoot production issues, perform RCA and resolve critical incidents. Support application onboarding, deployment and middleware integration. Automate administration tasks using Shell/Python scripts. Collaborate with development, infrastructure and application teams during deployments. Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures. Participate in 24x7 on-call production support. Preferred Skills IBM MQ Certifications Experience with RabbitMQ, DataPower Experience migrating MQ to Kafka Kubernetes/GKE/OpenShift exposure Banking, Retail or Manufacturing domain experience Nice to Have Java development knowledge CI/CD exposure Cloud-native messaging architecture Flexera licensing management Pay rate: 80-80 USD per Hour Job type: Contract Division: eTeam Inc (US) Category: eTeam United States Reference: 26-63773 Duration: 9 Months