Ibm Mq & Confluent Kafka Admin - Director - Infrastructure Production

Profile Description We re looking for a skilled IBM MQ Confluent Kafka Admin with minimum 7 years of experience to join our team Enterprise Technology Enterprise Technology Services ETS delivers shared technology services for Morgan Stanley supporting all business applications and end users ETS provides capabilities for all stages of Morgan Stanley s software development lifecycle enabling productive coding functional and integration testing application releases and ongoing monitoring and support for over 3 000 production applications ETS also delivers all workplace technologies desktop mobile voice video productivity intranet internet in integrated configurations that boost the personal productivity of employees Application and end user functions are delivered on a scalable secure and reliable infrastructure composed of seamlessly integrated datacenter network compute cloud storage and database functions Enterprise Computing EC Enterprise Computing is a department of Core Infrastructure that provides a collection of products and services that make up the Morgan Stanley core compute infrastructure hosting platforms and supporting application services Solutions are delivered across the infrastructure stack from foundational hardware platforms storage server operating systems and virtualization up through the hosting of common web database middleware and reporting services Infrastructure Production Management Reliability Engineering This is a Director position that maintains the stability and reliability of the organization s infrastructure systems ensuring optimal performance and availability to support business operations Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services known for mobilizing capital to help governments corporations institutions and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals At Morgan Stanley India we support the Firm s global businesses with critical presence across Institutional Securities Wealth Management and Investment management as well as in the Firm s infrastructure functions of Technology Operations Finance Risk Management Legal and Corporate Enterprise Services Morgan Stanley has been rooted in India since 1993 with campuses in both Mumbai and Bengaluru We empower our multi-faceted and talented teams to advance their careers and make a global impact on the business For those who show passion and grit in their work there s ample chance to move across the businesses for those who show passion and grit in their work Interested in joining a team that s eager to create innovate and make an impact on the world Read on What you ll do in the role About the Role We are seeking a skilled and motivated Site Reliability Engineer SRE with expertise in supporting and managing MQ and Kafka systems The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Unix systems administration experience with Kubernetes preferred and a passion for maintaining high availability performance and reliability in distributed systems Key Responsibilities Manage and Support MQ Kafka Systems Monitor maintain and troubleshoot IBM MQ and Kafka clusters to ensure optimal performance and reliability Handle incident management including root cause analysis and post-mortem reviews Automation and Scripting Develop and maintain automation scripts to streamline operational processes deployment pipelines and monitoring solutions using tools like Ansible Python and or shell scrips or similar Monitoring and Alerting Implement and manage monitoring tools e g Prometheus Grafana to track the health and performance of MQ Kafka and related systems Create and manage alerting mechanisms to proactively identify and resolve issues Performance Tuning and Optimization Continuously monitor system performance identifying and resolving bottlenecks Implement best practices for scaling Kafka and MQ clusters Collaboration and Support Work closely with application development DevOps and other engineering teams to support new and existing applications Documentation Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation for system configurations procedures and troubleshooting guides What you ll bring to the role Required Skills Experience 7 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar role with hands-on experience in supporting MQ e g IBM MQ and Confluent Kafka IBM MQ Administration Installation Configuration Proficiency in installing and configuring IBM MQ Queue Management Creating configuring and managing queues channels listeners and other MQ objects Security Configuration Implementing SSL TLS access control lists ACLs and MQ object security Troubleshooting MQ Performance related issues Confluent Kafka Administration Installation Configuration Proficiency in installing and configuring Kafka brokers Zookeeper Kafka Connect and Schema Registry on various platforms Cluster Management Skills in managing Kafka clusters including adding removing brokers partitioning and replication strategies Kafka Broker .