RabbitMQ Platform Engineering Specialist

RabbitMQ Platform Engineering Specialist

City:
Austin, Texas

The RabbitMQ Platform engineering specialist will be responsible for managing and optimizing platform maintenance activities, ensuring changes are rightly deployed to production. This role requires a strong understanding of platform management principles, pub-sub architecture, managing the deployments, monitoring, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ clusters across development and production environments.
• Administer RabbitMQ clusters including nodes, virtual hosts (vhosts), exchanges, queues, bindings, policies and user permissions, Dead Letter Exchanges (DLX), TTL, Message Priority and lazy queues.
• Implement and manage RabbitMQ cluster High Availability (HA) configuration across the data centers along with classic Mirrored Queues and Quorum Queues.
• Configure and manage TLS/mTLS for RabbitMQ client and Inter-node communication using certificates.
• Design and implement Shovel and Federation plugins for cross-clusters message routing and disaster recovery.
• Manage RabbitMQ plugins lifecycle including Shovel, Federation, Consistent Hash Exchange, RMQPS.
• Perform capacity planning for message throughput, queue depth, memory and disk utilization.
• Conduct performance tuning of RabbitMQ nodes including memory watermarks, disk alarms, prefetch counts, and flow control settings.
• Manage RabbitMQ upgrades and patching with zero or minimal downtime using rolling upgrade strategies.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, or Tanzu Observability for RabbitMQ metrics including queue depth, consumer count, message publish/deliver rates, memory, and node health.
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs for RabbitMQ platform availability, latency, and throughput.
• Integrate RabbitMQ logs into centralized logging platforms such as Splunk and build operational dashboards and queries.
• On‑call support for platform level incidents and escalations.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in platform maintenance or a related role.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Any cloud certification is good to have.
• Knowledge of governance and compliance standards.

Compensation range: $60,000 to $135,000, depending on geographic location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Benefits include medical and dental, disability insurance, paid time off, and other leaves as per Wipro’s standard benefits package.

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