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We’re a team of experts optimizing the performance and integrity of IT infrastructure and ensuring consistency and synchronization across all infrastructure components. In addition to supporting new and existing applications, we work with other IT groups and business units to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.\nJoin us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer on our Dell IT team in Round Rock, Texas.\nWhat you’ll achieve\nThe Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer provides middleware messaging engineering, administration and system support for new and existing production RabbitMQ and Kafka environments, including performance of the following tasks:\nSoftware installation, patch installation, upgrades, object definition, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, automation implementation and backup and recovery.\nWork independently on day-to-day monitoring and operations of cloud and legacy applications. You will be required to develop automation using AI-assisted engineering practices. Identify opportunities to leverage AI and intelligent automation to reduce manual operational effort and accelerate service delivery.\nYou will:\nDesign, build and support enterprise large-scale distributed Messaging platforms, including software installation, patch installation, upgrading software, disaster, recovery planning, backup and recovery\nLeverage AI-powered development and operational tools to accelerate troubleshooting, documentation, automation, and incident resolution\n\nIdentify and implement best practices to support a highly available platform\nImplement and enforce security practices for enterprise messaging platforms\nProvide Operational support for platform issues to application development teams\nAddress performance and scalability challenges posed by new or changing Kafka producers and consumers\nWork in an agile global team setting \nEssential Requirements\n6 to 12 years of experience in middleware Kafka messaging, application platforms management and distributed architecture/solutions\nStrong proven experience in managing RabbitMQ and Kafka for large-scale enterprise distributed systems\nExperience with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace \nDeep and extensive knowledge in configuration, troubleshooting, optimization of Kafka / RabbitMQ\nProficiency with Python, shell scripts, & configuration management tools, preferably Ansible \nPractical experience using AI-powered development and engineering tools and solutions to improve development and operational productivity\nDesirable Requirements\nExperience in applying Generative AI /Agentic AI to infrastructure operations, platform engineering, or software development workflows\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted observability, incident management, operational analytics, or intelligent automation solutions\nProven expertise in Kubernetes Container Orchestration and Docker Containers\nExperience in messaging / streaming platforms like IBM MQ, Active MQ, Apache Flink etc.\nCompensation\nDell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $123,200 to $169,400\nBenefits and Perks of Working at Dell Technologies\nYour life. Your health. Supported by your benefits. You can explore the overall benefits experience that awaits you as a Dell Technologies team member - right now at MyWellatDell.com","description_format":"text","description_chars":3694,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Enterprise Storage Systems","Servers & Data Center Hardware","Laptops"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-07T23:09:37Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-09-22T05:34:00Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-09-23T21:56:14Z"}],"liveness":{"score":8,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.242,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":24,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":169400,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dell-technologies-messaging-and-streaming-platform-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dell-technologies-messaging-and-streaming-platform-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-26T00:33:32Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":490,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4510,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-27T00:00:00Z"}}}