Senior Kafka and TIBCO Administrator

Allstate

2d

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Kafka and TIBCO Administrator with strong production support, troubleshooting, and team lead experience to own and support mission-critical integration platforms built on Confluent Kafka and TIBCO BusinessWorks, EMS, and Java. The role requires deep hands-on expertise, incident leadership, and mentoring of L1/L2 teams

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Confluent Kafka and TIBCO Administration / Production Support
• Strong hands-on expertise in: Confluent Kafka 7.X TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW 5.x / BW 6.x) TIBCO EMS TIBCO Admin / RV / Hawk
• Strong Java & JVM fundamentals
• Thread dumps (jstack), heap dumps (jmap), GC analysis
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments
• Proven experience in L3 support and incident management
• Team lead / mentoring experience in 24×7 production environments
• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Nice To Haves

• Core Java Experience will be added advantage

Responsibilities

• Act as SME for TIBCO Admin, Hawk, RV, BW, EMS, and related middleware platforms
• Lead resolution of P1/P2 production incidents and conduct detailed RCA
• Installation, Administration, and support of TIBCO BW (5.x), EMS, Admin / RV/ Hawk
• Perform JVM, performance, and capacity tuning (Flow Limit, MaxJobs, heap, GC)
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving messaging, transactions, threading, and memory
• Lead incident bridges, ensure clear communication, and drive closure
• Mentor and guide L1/L2 support teams, review escalations and RCA quality
• Define and improve operational processes, runbooks, and monitoring
• Coordinate with application, infrastructure, security, and vendor (TIBCO) teams
• Monitoring tools (Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)
• Strong hands‑on experience with Apache Kafka (administration & operations).
• Experience managing Kafka in both on‑prem and cloud environments.
• Solid expertise in Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, ELK, etc.).
• Good understanding of Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex Kafka and infrastructure issues

What This Job Offers

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