Messaging Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, coordinate, design and implement projects involving the various Messaging Technology products and various RTO requirements
• Provide Level 3 Operations Support for Messaging Services team, troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
• Understand existing deployments, usage of Messaging Technology products and assist in infrastructure migration, version upgrade projects, patching and currency.
• Work closely with Application Support teams to understand their usage of Messaging products and plan/document the necessary changes required for Application migrations and identify any current gaps in implementation
• Automation of application failovers, site switches and DR failovers

Requirements

• Sound understanding and working experience with messaging software (TIBCO EMS/RV, IBM MQ, Confluent Kafka etc.)
• Strong understanding of networks (TCP, UDP, Multicast etc.).
• Understanding of monitoring software (Tivoli, ITRS, etc.) and various monitoring situations.
• Experience with any programming language (C/C++, .NET, Java/J2EE, Python etc.)
• Understanding of Network protocols, multicast communications.
• Good Shell/Python/Perl scripting and UNIX command line skills.
• Critical problem solving skills and ability to automate repeating tasks.
• Understanding of low latency trading systems and payments systems.

Desired

• Knowledge in the design, build and implementation of Kafka based event streaming systems
• System engineering knowledge is a plus e.g. VMWare, SAN, Linux, Red Hat Clustering, Data Replication technologies