Delton Solutions

Job Title: IBM MQ & Solace SRE Engineer

Work Location: Phoenix, AZ (No remote, fully onsite)

Skill: IBM MQ and Solace

Experience: 6–12 Years

Location: Phoenix / Hybrid / Offshore

Role Summary

·       Seeking an experienced IBM MQ & Solace Engineer to support mission-critical messaging platforms within the SRE organization. Responsible for platform reliability, availability, automation, monitoring, incident management, and service improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

·       Administer and support IBM MQ and Solace environments (Prod/UAT/DR).

·       Manage Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Clusters, Topics, VPNs, and Event Mesh.

·       Perform troubleshooting, RCA, capacity planning, patching, upgrades, and DR testing.

·       Drive SRE practices including SLO/SLI monitoring, automation, and operational excellence.

·       Support major incidents, problem management, and 24x7 production operations.

·       Develop automation scripts and improve platform observability.

Required Skills

·       IBM MQ: Queue Managers, Clustering, Pub/Sub, SSL/TLS, HA/DR, MQ Appliance.

·       Solace PubSub+: Message VPNs, Topics, Queues, Event Mesh, HA/DR, JMS/AMQP/MQTT.

·       Monitoring: Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace/AppDynamics, ELK.

·       Scripting: Python, Shell, Ansible.

·       Platforms: Linux/Unix, Kubernetes/OpenShift (preferred).

·       Strong experience in Production Support, Incident Management, and Problem Management.

Preferred

·       Financial Services domain experience.

·       Exposure to Kafka, DataPower, Apigee, API Management, and Event-Driven Architectures.

·       Knowledge of ITIL and SRE best practices