Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Middleware Integration

By myKelly | August 19, 2026

Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Middleware Integration

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Charlotte, NC, US

Information Technology

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$51.25 - $56.16

On-site

Other/Non Classified

Charlotte, NC, US

$51.25 - $56.16

Contract,

Other/Non Classified

On-site

Information Technology

Apply On Motion Recruitment Applied

Job details

Outstanding contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer – MQ Middleware Integration in Charlotte, NC, Irving, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Des Moines, IA, Minneapolis, MN or Iselin, NJ (hybrid).

Our client is seeking a 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
schedule: EITHER Sunday – Thursday (Fri and Sat off) OR Tuesday – Saturday (Sun and Mon off)

Required Skills & Experience

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience managing large-scale Middleware Messaging platforms such as:
    o IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ)
    o IBM Message Broker / ACE / IIB
    o Kafka -plus
    o Solace- plus
    • Strong experience supporting enterprise-level, highly available, mission-critical environments.
  • 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

  • Implement complex infrastructure and middleware upgrades
  • Analyze business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements
  • Design, code, test, debug, and document solutions using Agile development practices
  • 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
  • Collaborate with peers, leadership, and cross-functional teams to resolve issues and achieve objectives
  • Handle outage calls, triage issues efficiently, and drive resolution

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