Job Title: RabbitMQ Platform Engineering Specialist
City: Austin
State/Province: Texas
Posting Start Date: 5/4/26
Job Description:
Job DescriptionJob Summary: The RabbitMQ Platform engineering specialist will be responsible for managing and optimizing platform maintenance activities, ensuring changes are rightly deployed to production. This role requires a strong understanding of platform management principles, pub-sub architecture, managing the deployments, monitoring, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities:- Design, deploy, configure, and manage VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ clusters across development and production environments.
- Administer RabbitMQ clusters including nodes, virtual hots (vhosts), exchanges, queues, bindings, policies and user permissions, Dead Letter Exchanges (DLX), TTL, Message Priority and lazy queues.
- Implement and manage RabbitMQ cluster High Availability(HA) configuration across the data centers along with classic Mirrored Queues and Quorum Queues.
- Configure and manage TLS/mTLS for RabbitMQ client and Inter-node communication using certificates.
- Design and implement Shovel and Federation plugins for cross-clusters message routing and disaster recovery.
- Manage RabbitMQ plugins lifecycle including Shovel, Federation, Consistent Hash Exchange, RMQPS.
- Perform the capacity planning for message throughput, queue depth, memory and disk utilization.
- Conduct the performance tuning of RabbitMQ nodes including memory watermarks, disk alarms, prefetch counts, and flow control settings.
- Manage RabbitMQ upgrades and patching with zero or minimal downtime using rolling upgrade strategies.
- Grafana tool : Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, or Tanzu Observability ( WaveFront) for RabbitMQ metrics including queue depth, consumer count, message publish / deliver rates, memory, and node health.
- Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs for RabbitMQ platform availability , latency, and throughput.
- Integrate RabbitMQ logs into centralized logging platforms such as Splunk and build operational dashboards and queries.
- ON-CALL Support for platform level incidents and escalations.
Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in Platform maintenance or a related role.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Preferred Qualifications:- Any Cloud certification good to have
- Knowledge of governance and compliance standards.
Mandatory Skills: RabbitMQ.
Experience: 5-8 Years.
The expected compensation for this role ranges from $60,000 to $135,000 .
Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro's standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.
Applicants are advised that employment in some roles may be conditioned on successful completion of a post-offer drug screening, subject to applicable state law.
