Middleware Infastructure Engineer

Work Schedule:

Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite per Week- CA (San Jose or Irvine area)

Employment Type:

Full-time

Compensation: $140,000 – $180,000 per year

We are seeking an experienced Middleware Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement,

operate, and support the firm’s enterprise messaging and middleware platforms, including IBM

MQ, RabbitMQ, and Apache Kafka, that support communications between internal trading,

clearing, settlement, risk, and back-office systems, as well as external financial market

infrastructures and service providers.

This role plays a key part in strategic integration initiatives involving organizations and platforms

such as DTCC, OCC, FIS Loanet, clearing partners, and other financial institutions, establishing

scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient middleware services with comprehensive high-

availability and disaster-recovery solutions.

This is a hands‑on infrastructure and production operations role requiring strong technical

ownership, disciplined change management, and the ability to support business‑critical systems

in a regulated financial‑services environment. Core mandate: own the reliability, security,

scalability, and recoverability of the firm’s messaging infrastructure across production, disaster

recovery, UAT, and development environments.

• Design, deploy, configure, administer, and maintain enterprise middleware platforms, primarily IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, and Apache Kafka.
• Serve as the subject‑matter expert and technical owner for middleware infrastructure across production, disaster‑recovery, UAT, and development environments.
• Design and implement highly available and fault‑tolerant messaging architectures that meet business continuity, recovery‑time, and recovery‑point objectives.
• Develop and maintain disaster‑recovery strategies, replication designs, failover procedures, and regular DR testing plans for middleware platforms.
• Lead IBM MQ infrastructure design and connectivity for integrations with DTCC, OCC, FIS Loanet, clearing firms, financial institutions, and other external service providers.
• Configure and manage queue managers, queues, channels, topics, clusters, listeners, message routing, security policies, certificates, and access controls.
• Monitor middleware performance, message throughput, queue depth, consumer lag, connectivity, storage utilization, and overall platform health, with automated monitoring and alerting for operational exceptions.
• Troubleshoot complex messaging, connectivity, performance, authentication, and application‑integration issues across distributed environments.
• Perform middleware capacity planning, performance tuning, patching, version upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management.
• Develop automation for deployment, configuration management, monitoring, recovery, and routine operational activities.
• Partner with application development, database, network, cybersecurity, SRE, Dev Ops, trade support, and business teams to deliver end‑to‑end integration solutions.
• Participate in architecture reviews and provide technical guidance on messaging patterns, reliability, scalability, message persistence, ordering, and delivery guarantees.
• Define and enforce middleware infrastructure standards, naming conventions, security requirements, logging practices, and operational controls.
• Prepare and maintain architecture diagrams, technical specifications, configuration documentation, operating procedures, recovery runbooks, and support playbooks.
• Support change‑management, incident‑management, problem‑management, and root‑cause‑analysis processes.
• Participate in production releases, scheduled maintenance, disaster‑recovery exercises, and critical system integration testing.
• Provide production support and…