Site Reliability Engineer Lead

Akkodis is seeking a SRE Lead for a Contract w2 job with a client in Plano, TX.. Ideally seeking a SRE lead to drive reliability, observability, and operational excellence across large-scale IBM MQ and Kafka platforms.

Rate Range: $70/hour to $73/hour; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Leading reliability engineering for high-scale messaging platforms supporting tens of thousands of runtimes and high-volume message throughput
• Driving EOL remediation, patching, and stabilization across MQ queue managers and Kafka clusters
• Implementing SRE best practices:
• SLIs / SLOs focused on message delivery, latency, and availability
• Incident management, escalation, and postmortem culture
• Enhancing observability and monitoring for messaging flows, queue depths, lag, and throughput
• Designing proactive fault detection and auto-remediation strategies (e.g., DLQ handling, backlog mitigation, failover recovery)
• Building resilient messaging platforms capable of supporting real-time, event-driven workloads
• Supporting global production messaging environments with on-call rotation and escalation ownership
• Partnering with engineering, application, and security teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and secure message transport

Desired Qualifications:

• IBM MQ (queue managers, clustering, channels, DLQ management)
• Kafka / Confluent platform (topics, brokers, partitions, consumer groups)
• Large-scale distributed messaging systems and runtime management
• Deep understanding of: System reliability, scalability, and high availability design
• Messaging reliability patterns (guaranteed delivery, retry handling, replay, ordering)
• Incident management, root cause analysis, and problem management
• Experience with: Observability tools (Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana) for messaging platforms
• Event and anomaly detection in high-volume systems
• Strong scripting/automation skills: Shell, Python, PowerShell
• Experience managing Linux/Unix and Windows production environments
• Knowledge of: Event-driven architecture and messaging-based integration patterns
• Understanding of Messaging platform security (TLS, certificates, channel auth, encryption)
• Vulnerability remediation and risk mitigation in production systems
• Excellent troubleshooting skills in high-pressure, real-time environments (e.g., message backlog, latency spikes, connection failures
• Experience implementing SRE frameworks (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets) specifically for messaging workloads
• Familiarity with: Kubernetes / containerized messaging platforms
• Experience with: Kafka ecosystem components (Schema Registry, Connect, Streams)
• IBM MQ advanced features (Native HA, clustering)
• Exposure to: AI-driven operations (AIOps), anomaly detection, or automated remediation
• Large-scale messaging modernization or migration programs
• Messaging or middleware certifications (IBM MQ, Kafka, or equivalent)
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g., financial services)

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected].

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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