MWO Messaging MQ-Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer for Middleware Messaging Operations team.

• Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure to provide solutions for business applications
• Participate in various projects intended to continually improve or upgrade the infrastructure
• Evaluate internal and external software solutions which could be leveraged to meet target state architecture goals
• Review and analyse high impact outages to ensure the proper processes and procedures are in place to avoid problems in the future
• Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure solutions through collaborative efforts with the team and third-party vendors
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices
• Make decisions in technical designs, implementation plans and identify project risks and resource requirements
• Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success
• Recommend courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness and achieve results
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Interact with customer and vendor

• MQ Appliance
  • 5+ years of Experience on IBM MQ Hardware Appliance and IBM MQ Distributed maintaining huge Distributed Clusters
  • 5+ years of Experience in IBM MQ on different clustering techniques like RHCS, TSAMP, VCS etc.
  • 5+ years of Experience on IBM MQ Hardware Appliance High Availability Clustering and Data Replication setup across multiple DCs.
  • Experience on IBM MQ on zLinux, Linux, AIX OS flavors.
  • Expertise on Handling the Large-scale migrations from MQ on On-prem/Cloud to MQ Hardware Appliance
  • Expertise in handling the MQ hardware Appliance support, High Availability Clustering, Backup/Restore Procedures
  • Design and establish procedures to build Appliances on Multi DC with replication and define an endtoend automation strategy (tooling, ownership, and delivery timelines)
  • Advise on MQ Hardware Appliance with capacity modelling and appliance sizing guidance to enable accurate footprint and cost planning.
  • Help build/mature the MQ Hardware Appliance in terms of monitoring and alerting solution, including baseline thresholds and automated alerts, as a Day1 operational requirement.
  • Define and enforce a formal operational readiness framework on MQ Hardware Appliance encompassing security, compliance, access control, monitoring, observability, architecture, and support models before any production onboarding.
  • Ability to interact with all levels of an organization, including leadership.
  • Strong team or technical leadership experience Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Provide assistance in Problem determination and resolution at L2/L3 level
  • Design new services, tools, and monitoring to be implemented at Enterprise level
  • Performing DR/BCP tests, retro on the activities and maintaining BCP documents
  • Experience working with Vendors on Product Troubleshooting
  • Establishing and documenting production run books and guidelines for Admin and Support operations
  • Creating, configuring, and maintaining MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Topics

• Kafka (Confluent)
  • Hands-on experience on Confluent Kafka platform setup, Topics, partitions, clients, Kafka Streams
  • Experience with Kafka Connect workers and connectors (Source and Sink)
  • Ability to troubleshoot Authentication and Authorization issues.
  • Protect the Kafka cluster with ingress connections and tune the Quotas, Request Percentages
  • Experience in setting Confluent platform with MRC and SBK
  • Expertise planning, defining the strategy for the migration approaches.
  • Help build/mature the Kafka (Confluent platform) in terms of monitoring and alerting solution, including baseline thresholds and automated alerts, as a Day1 operational requirement.

• Solace
  • Hands on experience in setting up the Solace platform for both Active/Active and Active/Passive
  • Hands on experience on Solace Object creation (VPN, User/Client/ACL Profiles through CLI and SolAdmin)
  • Setup best practices, technical guidelines, standards and developer productivity tools
  • Help build/mature the Solace Hardware Appliance in terms of monitoring and alerting solutions, including baseline thresholds and automated alerts, as a Day1 operational requirement.