SRE Platform Engineer Lead - Enterprise Integrations

Company

Qualcomm Incorporated

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Engineering

This role requires full-time onsite work in San Diego, CA (5 days per week).

This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.

Looking for a SRE Platform Lead resource to implement and support Enterprise integrations solutions using Boomi and Confluent platforms. This is a hands-on SRE individual contributor role combining platform engineering + SRE + integration/event streaming expertise.

• Strong, hands‑on experience with Boomi Enterprise & Agent Studio (development and administration)
• Strong, hands‑on experience with Confluent / Kafka:
  • Confluent Cloud and/or Confluent Platform operations and administration
  • topics/partitions, consumer groups, connector ops, schema governance, RBAC/ACLs, cluster health/capacity planning, cluster linking/mirroring
• Experience deploying/operating platforms on AWS including EKS/Kubernetes, IAM, networking, and security controls.
• 7+ years of experience of SRE Platform Engineering or Application Administration having configured and maintained enterprise‑level applications.
• 5+ years using critical thinking to debug complex technical issues independently and drive the resolution working with internal teams then documenting Incident, Request and Change/Release management process using JIRA and Service Now.
• Good understanding of software testing tools such as Selenium, JMeter, Junit, PyTest.
• Deep expertise in observability using Datadog (APM/logs/metrics, dashboards, alerting, SLOs).
• Proven success building Dev Sec Ops  automation: CI/CD, IaC, security controls, secrets management, automated validation/testing.
• Strong scripting/automation skills (Python/Bash/Power Shell or similar) and comfort building internal tools/utilities.

• Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging patterns (Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, TIBCO EMS), and platform governance.
• Experience modernizing EDI/Rosetta Net and large B2B partner ecosystems.
• Familiarity with Informatica Cloud, TIBCO, Oracle SOA, or Sterling MFT migration strategies.
• Experience building self‑service platforms and developer portals (APIs/events/templates).
• Knowledge of AWS Well-Architected principles and security/compliance controls (PII, retention, auditability).
• Relevant certifications:
  Kubernetes/AWS, Confluent, Boomi (nice to have, not required).
• Experience in Java full stack development with Spring & Spring Boot.

SRE lead will join an existing team with 24/7 operations team in India and will be working as Tier-3 on-call support on weekdays/weekends to support Critical Enterprise integrations. Other duties include:

• Working closely with vendor to determine the software roadmaps and lead technical discussions to align with business requirements/SLOs.
• Ensure high quality documentation that will include detailed implementation architectures, backup+recovery procedures, user+developer guides, custom procedures/scripts, testing or validation processes and how-to manuals.

• Administer and operate Boomi (Atoms/Molecules, environments, deployments, runtime management, upgrades, monitoring, governance).
• Develop AI assisted templates or workflows using Boomi Agent Studio.
• Administer and operate Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform on EKS:
  • Kafka cluster operations, capacity planning, partitioning strategy, consumer group health, topic lifecycle management
  • RBAC/ACLs, encryption, audit logging, schema governance, connector operations
• Build and maintain operational standards for event streaming + iPaaS platforms (backup/restore, DR, HA, upgrades, patching).
• Own availability, latency, performance, and cost outcomes for Boomi and Confluent platforms.
• Define and operationalize SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, runbooks, escalation paths, and on-call readiness for integration and event streaming platforms.
• Lead incident response, problem management, postmortems, and continuous improvement to reduce MTTR/MTBF and improve reliability.

• Build and standardize CI/CD pipelines for integration and streaming artifacts…