Senior Azure Messaging Platform Engineer

Overview

Join a leading organization at the forefront of innovation, where your expertise will directly contribute to building and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers seamless operations. As a valued partner with Aquent, you’ll be part of a team dedicated to excellence and impact, shaping the future of real-time, business-critical environments.

Are you ready to be a pivotal force in shaping the future of mission-critical systems? We are seeking an exceptional engineer to dive deep into advanced messaging technologies, geo-replication strategies, and robust automation frameworks. This is a hands-on opportunity where your work will directly enhance system reliability, performance, and scalability, making a tangible difference to our operational backbone. You will be instrumental in designing, building, and supporting highly available, enterprise messaging solutions from initial concept to successful production implementation, driving innovation and ensuring seamless, real-time operations.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, and support premium messaging solutions.
• Implement geo-replication and multi-region resiliency strategies to ensure continuous availability.
• Develop and enhance infrastructure-as-code scripts and reusable components for efficient deployment and management.
• Design and execute high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR), failover, failback, and resiliency testing to validate system robustness.
• Automate deployments and operational processes using scripting languages to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Support and optimize messaging queues, topics, subscriptions, dead-letter queues (DLQs), message replay, retries, duplicate handling, and message ordering.
• Develop comprehensive DR runbooks, documentation, monitoring, alerts, and operational procedures.
• Troubleshoot production messaging, integration, performance, and reliability issues to maintain system health.
• Identify opportunities to improve cloud cost management, automation, and overall operational efficiency.

What You’ll Bring (Must-Have)

• 7+ years of experience in cloud, platform, middleware, integration, or enterprise messaging engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with a leading cloud platform, specifically Azure, and its messaging services.
• Proven experience implementing geo-replication or comparable multi-region messaging solutions.
• Advanced infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Hands-on experience with High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Recovery Time Objective/Recovery Point Objective (RTO/RPO), failover/failback, and DR testing.
• Strong understanding of enterprise messaging and distributed/event-driven systems.
• Automation/scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, and/or a cloud command-line interface.
• Experience supporting business-critical production environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and technical problem-solving skills.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with high-volume, real-time transactional environments.
• Experience developing DR runbooks and automated/self-healing processes.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.