Solugenix · 20 hours ago
Senior Messaging Platform SRE (Kafka & RabbitMQ)
Irvine, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$65/hr - $70/hr
8+ years expSolugenix is a leader in IT services, delivering cutting-edge technology solutions. They are seeking a Senior Messaging Platform SRE to own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of enterprise messaging and event-streaming platforms, including Confluent Kafka and RabbitMQ, focusing on platform operations and SRE practices.
ConsultingHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyStaffing Agency
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end reliability of Kafka and RabbitMQ platforms, including uptime, performance, capacity, and fault tolerance
Define and track SLOs, and operational KPIs for messaging platforms
Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews for Kafka and RabbitMQ outages
Operate and maintain Confluent Kafka, and RabbitMQ clusters
Standardize operational runbooks for cluster lifecycle management, broker/node failures, rebalancing, and disaster recovery
Act as the primary escalation point for Kafka and RabbitMQ production issues
Mentor junior engineers and influence platform-wide SRE best practices
Partner with architecture, security, and application teams to evolve the messaging platform roadmap
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Operations
3+ years operating Confluent Kafka in production at scale
2+ years operating RabbitMQ in high-availability, distributed environments
Strong hands-on experience with AWS-based deployments (MSK, EC2, EBS, ALB/NLB, IAM)
Deep knowledge of Kafka internals (brokers, partitions, ISR, replication, rebalancing)
Strong operational understanding of RabbitMQ internals (clustering, mirroring/quorum queues, flow control)
Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS) for platform workloads and supporting microservices
Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform and Helm
Advanced experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging platforms (Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
Company
Solugenix
Solugenix is a leading IT services and staffing firm providing IT service management, support center services and more.
1001-5000 employees
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Late StageLeadership Team
Shashi Jasthi
President and CEO
Steve Booze
VP of Global Capability & Brand
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