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Motion Recruitment Partners Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Middleware Integration in Charlotte, North Carolina
Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Middleware Integration
Charlotte, North Carolina
Hybrid
Contract
$53.56/hr - $60.35/hr
Outstanding contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer – Middleware Integration in Charlotte, NC, Irving, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Des Moines, IA, Minneapolis, MN or Iselin, NJ (hybrid).
Our client is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Middleware Integration to join the Enterprise Middleware Integration team. This team enables the development of critical products that support the Technology organization’s transformation initiatives. The role is responsible for building, engineering, and evangelizing Middleware, Streaming, and Messaging products across the enterprise.
Contract Duration: 12+ Months
Required Skills & Experience
8+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience (or equivalent combination of experience, education, training, or military service)
4+ years of hands-on, large-scale experience with Integration Middleware, including:
IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ)
IBM Message Broker / ACE / IIB
Kafka
Solace
IBM MQ Administration, including:
Build, installation, configuration, patching, compliance, and troubleshooting
MQ Queue Manager configuration and MQ Cluster troubleshooting
Creation and maintenance of MQ objects (Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Topics)
Strong experience supporting Middleware production environments on Linux and Windows
Experience with MQ monitoring tools (e.g., IR360)
Desired Skills & Experience
Experience supporting large, enterprise-scale environments
Experience with IBM MQ Appliance
Knowledge of compliance and risk management requirements
Experience supporting key risk initiatives
IBM MQ experience on Mainframe/Midrange platforms (z/OS, zLinux, AIX)
Familiarity with Incident Management systems (ServiceNow preferred)
Experience monitoring alerts, batch failures, and ServiceNow queues
Experience with Ansible, UDeploy, and deployment automation tools
Strong troubleshooting experience across job failures and batch processing
Linux administration fundamentals and shell commands
Basic networking knowledge, including load balancers (F5, AVI)
Understanding of network topology
Experience troubleshooting basic Java application server issues
What You Will Be Doing
Lead and implement complex infrastructure and middleware upgrades
Analyze business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements
Design, code, test, debug, and document solutions using Agile development practices
Lead and contribute to high-level technical initiatives spanning both technology and business
Design, develop, test, and document complex infrastructure systems and solutions
Create and maintain technical documentation, operational policies, and procedures
Utilize monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Splunk) to support application and operations teams
Contribute to testing across business, application, and infrastructure layers
Direct daily risk and control processes with a focus on compliance, policies, and procedures
Develop long-term remediation strategies to resolve recurring issues
Collaborate with peers, leadership, and cross-functional teams to resolve issues and achieve objectives
Handle outage calls, triage issues efficiently, and drive resolution
You will receive the following benefits:
Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
Vision Benefits
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
Hospital Indemnity Insurance
401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
Paid Sick Time Leave
Legal and Identity Protection Plans
Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
529 College Saver Plan
Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.
Specialization:
- System Administration