Job Description

Job Summary: The RabbitMQ Platform engineering specialist will be responsible for managing and optimizing platform maintenance activities, ensuring changes are rightly deployed to production. This role requires a strong understanding of platform management principles, pub-sub architecture, managing the deployments, monitoring, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ clusters across development and production environments.
• Administer RabbitMQ clusters including nodes, virtual hots (vhosts), exchanges, queues, bindings, policies and user permissions, Dead Letter Exchanges (DLX), TTL, Message Priority and lazy queues.
• Implement and manage RabbitMQ cluster High Availability(HA) configuration across the data centers along with classic Mirrored Queues and Quorum Queues.
• Configure and manage TLS/mTLS for RabbitMQ client and Inter-node communication using certificates.
• Design and implement Shovel and Federation plugins for cross-clusters message routing and disaster recovery.
• Manage RabbitMQ plugins lifecycle including Shovel, Federation, Consistent Hash Exchange, RMQPS.
• Perform the capacity planning for message throughput, queue depth, memory and disk utilization.
• Conduct the performance tuning of RabbitMQ nodes including memory watermarks, disk alarms, prefetch counts, and flow control settings.
• Manage RabbitMQ upgrades and patching with zero or minimal downtime using rolling upgrade strategies.
• Grafana tool : Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana,  or Tanzu Observability ( WaveFront) for RabbitMQ metrics including queue depth, consumer count, message publish / deliver rates, memory, and node health.
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs for RabbitMQ platform availability , latency, and throughput.
• Integrate RabbitMQ logs into centralized logging platforms such as Splunk and build operational dashboards and queries. 
• ON-CALL Support for platform level incidents and escalations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in Platform maintenance or a related role.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Any Cloud certification good to have
• Knowledge of governance and compliance standards.