Lead Infrastructure Engineer - MQ Series
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Job description
- Applies technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to projects of moderate scope
- Drives a workstream or project consisting of one or more infrastructure engineering technologies
- Works with other platforms to architect and implement changes required to resolve issues and modernize the organization and its technology processes
- Executes creative solutions for the design, development, and technical troubleshooting for problems of moderate complexity
- Strongly considers upstream/downstream data and systems or technical implications and advises on mitigation actions
- Operate and support IBM MQ environments across development, testing, and production, ensuring service availability, stability, and compliance with internal standards.
- Support resilience objectives via disaster recovery planning, sustained resilience coordination, and testing/validation activities. Apply reliability engineering practices: define and improve service health indicators, operational thresholds, and actionable alerting to reduce noise and improve time-to-detect/time-to-recover.
- Maintain clear operational runbooks, standards, and controls that enable consistent execution across a geographically distributed operations model.
- Reduce toil through automation, including scripted remediation, self-service operational workflows, and repeatable change execution (e.g., certificate lifecycle, configuration validation, routine health checks).
- Institutionalize post-incident learning: contribute to blameless reviews, ensure corrective actions are tracked to closure, and verify effectiveness through measurable outcome improvements.
- Provide technical guidance and responsive support to application teams integrating with MQ, including connection patterns, security constraints, and operational best practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise troubleshooting, resolving, and maintaining information technology services
- Deep knowledge of one or more areas of infrastructure engineering such as hardware, networking terminology, databases, storage engineering, deployment practices, integration, automation, scaling, resilience, or performance assessments
- Deep knowledge of one specific infrastructure technology and scripting languages (e.g., Scripting, Python, etc.)
- Drives to continue to develop technical and cross-functional knowledge outside of the product
- Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure and multiple cloud technologies with the ability to operate in and migrate across public and private clouds
- Experience executing on processes in scope of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework
- Demonstrated, hands-on experience operating middleware in enterprise production environments, including IBM MQ administration and incident response in secure environments.
- Strong problem determination skills, structured troubleshooting approach, and ability to perform under time pressure while maintaining operational discipline.
- Working knowledge of Unix and/or Windows system administration, including process, filesystem, certificate stores, and basic networking fundamentals relevant to MQ connectivity.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to coordinate across distributed teams and manage customer expectations.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Working knowledge in one or more general purpose programming languages preferred Python and/or Java and/or automation scripting
- Practical experience with public cloud
Benefits & conditions
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.