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Middleware/Messaging Engineer

Open Systems Technologies
Jersey, NJ Contractor
POSTED ON 5/29/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/27/2026

A financial firm is looking for a Middleware/Messaging Engineer to join their team in Jersey City, NJ.


Pay: $85-89/hr

US Citizens/GC Holders Only; No Visa Sponsorship

Must be local; No Relocation


Responsibilities:

  • Provide 24/7 and weekend support for systems involved in the architecture
  • Function as an IBM Websphere MQ administrator; Install MQ environments on Windows and Linux
  • Create and configure Queue Managers, channels, queues, and other MQ objects
  • Perform the backup and restore of Queue Managers and related objects; Recover damaged MQ installations and/or Queue Managers
  • Upgrade and patch MQ environments on Windows and Linux
  • Implement custom MQ security solutions using channel exists or SSL; Set up SSL communications between MQ servers and MQ clients to MQ servers
  • Install and configure MQ Clients on Windows and UNIX platforms
  • Function as Solace Messaging Engineer
  • Installation, upgrade and patching of Solace Appliances; Administration of Solace Appliances
  • Configuring Redundancy and Fault tolerance of Solace Infrastructure
  • Experience in configuring Solace bridging between Remote Solace Appliances
  • Experience in configuring different protocols with Solace appliance – MQTT, REST, AMQP
  • Experience in using Solace CLI to configure different solace objects
  • In-depth knowledge of Solace Queue and Topics
  • Enabling SSL for Solace communications
  • Interface with Application teams in troubleshooting complex, cross-platform issues related to Solace communication
  • Identify operational and infrastructure risks within the environment and work with the application development teams and Client to make corrections and mitigate risks
  • Ensure optimal resilience of deployed systems and meet all disaster recovery and compliance requirements dictated by the business
  • Configuring monitoring for Solace Appliances
  • Developing Python and Ansible playbooks to automate the Messaging Infrastructure


Qualifications:

Required

  • Strong Knowledge and experience with IBM MQ and Solace Installation/Configuration and Setup
  • Working knowledge of setting up Redundancy and fault tolerance between Solace Appliances
  • Knowledge on setting up SSL for Solace and IBM MQ
  • Strong Knowledge and experience with MQ processes, triggers, channels and clustering
  • Exposure to monitoring tools, such as Nastel
  • Knowledge on Kafka
  • Strong knowledge and experience with PowerShell scripting
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft O/S, SUN Solaris, and Linux
  • Working knowledge and experience with Python and Bash scripting

Preferred

  • Knowledge and experience with other flavors of web application servers (Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, Weblogic)
  • Knowledge and experience with other flavors of web servers (Apache Web, IIS)
  • Good understanding of Load Balancers (LTM)
  • Good understanding of DNS and GTMs

Salary : $85 - $89

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