LEAD or MANAGER - Middleware - Kafka​/MQ Messaging Implementation​/Support

Manager, Software Engineering - Kafka / MQ Middleware Implementation

Location:

Hybrid - Coppell, TX - 3 days a week

This is managing over Kafka and MQ

The ideal candidate will come up through either Kafka or MQ or both and then got into leadership or is a manager and wants to manage and strategize

If they have a combination of Kafka and MQ they will come out of a financial company 9 out of 10 times

There are 6 people in the group, 3 do Kafka and 3 do MQ

It is 60% cloud, 40% on prem

There are 10 products in the group

Also need to know Jira and scrum master

It’s a combination of engineering and production support, so they will be 24/7 production support

Must have excellent communication skills - and must be managing people

SALARY: $136K - $170K PLUS 15% BONUS

Multiple operating system platforms windows unix linux mainframe J2EE application servers automation scripting Jenkins ansible message oriented middleware Web Sphere Web Logic MQ Apigee etc. don’t have to have all of the middleware scripting and coding network technologies CICD tools cloud native AWS support microservices SFTP SSL/TLS PKI infrastructure management

Drive the implementation and ongoing support of Middleware messaging team technologies in production and non-production environments.

• [Required] Systems administration and change management practices.
• [Required] J2EE application services
• [Required] Message-oriented middleware.
• [Required] Internet / Web based technologies.
• [Required] ITLT Best Practices
• [Required] Scripting and coding.
• [Required] Network technologies
• [Required] CI/CD tools.
• [Required] Cloud native applications.
• [Required] Technologies used to support microservices.
• [Required] File transfer protocols including SFTP.
• [Required] Encryption technologies (SSL/TLS, PKI Infrastructure management)
• [Required] Security controls as applied to software technologies.

• At least 7 years of relevant experience including people management experience