Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer

Dell Technologies • Round Rock, TX

8d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

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

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Develop automation using AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and intelligent automation to reduce manual operational effort and accelerate service delivery.
• 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

Benefits

• Your life. Your health. Supported by your benefits. You can explore the overall benefits experience that awaits you as a Dell Technologies team member — right now at MyWellatDell.com

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed