Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer

The ability to drive human progress through technology relies on robust and reliable IT infrastructure – and that’s what our IT Infrastructure team provides to our customers. We’re a team of experts optimizing the performance and integrity of IT infrastructure and ensuring consistency and synchronization across all infrastructure components. In addition to supporting new and existing applications, we work with other IT groups and business units to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer on our Dell IT team in Round Rock, Texas.

What you’ll achieve

The Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer provides middleware messaging engineering, administration and system support for new and existing production RabbitMQ and Kafka environments, including performance of the following tasks:

Software installation, patch installation, upgrades, object definition, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, automation implementation and backup and recovery.

Work independently on day-to-day monitoring and operations of cloud and legacy applications. You will be required to develop automation using AI-assisted engineering practices. Identify opportunities to leverage AI and intelligent automation to reduce manual operational effort and accelerate service delivery.

You will:

Design, build and support enterprise large-scale distributed Messaging platforms, including software installation, patch installation, upgrading software, disaster, recovery planning, backup and recovery
Leverage AI-powered development and operational tools to accelerate troubleshooting, documentation, automation, and incident resolution
Identify and implement best practices to support a highly available platform
Implement and enforce security practices for enterprise messaging platforms
Provide Operational support for platform issues to application development teams
Address performance and scalability challenges posed by new or changing Kafka producers and consumers
Work in an agile global team setting

Essential Requirements

6 to 12 years of experience in middleware Kafka messaging, application platforms management and distributed architecture/solutions
Strong proven experience in managing RabbitMQ and Kafka for large-scale enterprise distributed systems
Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace
Deep and extensive knowledge in configuration, troubleshooting, optimization of Kafka / RabbitMQ
Proficiency with Python, shell scripts, & configuration management tools, preferably Ansible
Practical experience using AI-powered development and engineering tools and solutions to improve development and operational productivity

Desirable Requirements

Experience in applying Generative AI /Agentic AI to infrastructure operations, platform engineering, or software development workflows
Familiarity with AI-assisted observability, incident management, operational analytics, or intelligent automation solutions
Proven expertise in Kubernetes Container Orchestration and Docker Containers
Experience in messaging / streaming platforms like IBM MQ, Active MQ, Apache Flink etc.

Compensation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $123,200 to $169,400

Benefits and Perks of Working at Dell Technologies

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