Tibco Engineer

The ideal candidate will be responsible for supporting and maintaining middleware infrastructure, monitoring environments, troubleshooting production issues, and assisting with migration initiatives including AVN to Splunk and Dynatrace implementations. Troubleshoot and resolve complex messaging issues involving message delivery, queues/topics, producer/consumer connectivity, authentication and authorization, performance, storage, networking, application integrations, and high availability/failover scenarios.

Job Title: Tibco Engineer
Location: Dallas, TX | Pittsburgh, PA | Memphis, TN Onsite
Duration: 6 Months of Contract

Top Required Skills:
TIBCO EMS/AMS
ActiveMQ
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Splunk & Dynatrace

Job Summary:
We are seeking a skilled Middleware Support Engineer with hands-on experience in Tibco AMS, ActiveMQ, Red Hat Linux, and enterprise monitoring tools. The ideal candidate will be responsible for supporting and maintaining middleware infrastructure, monitoring environments, troubleshooting production issues, and assisting with migration initiatives including AVN to Splunk and Dynatrace implementations.

Key Responsibilities:
Install, deploy, configure, administer, and support TIBCO EMS, Kafka, or other messaging platforms, including brokers/servers, queues, topics, services, users, permissions, and related messaging components.
Perform lifecycle management, upgrades, patching, and maintenance of TIBCO EMS, Kafka, and other messaging platforms to maintain platform stability, security, and supported product versions.
Monitor the health, availability, capacity, and performance of messaging platforms using enterprise monitoring and observability solutions.
Track and analyze message throughput, queue/topic metrics, response times, resource utilization, and infrastructure performance to proactively identify bottlenecks and capacity requirements.
Tune messaging-platform configurations to optimize performance, memory utilization, threading, connections, persistence/storage, and overall resource utilization.
Configure and manage high availability, load balancing, clustering, replication, and failover mechanisms as applicable to messaging platforms.
Implement and manage RBAC, authentication, authorization, TLS/encryption, secure communication, and vulnerability management across messaging environments.
Ensure messaging platforms are configured according to organizational security standards, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements.
Develop, maintain, and validate disaster recovery and business continuity procedures aligned with organizational RTO/RPO requirements.
Install, configure, migrate, and support messaging systems and middleware products across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Participate in on-premises-to-cloud and infrastructure migration initiatives, including discovery, dependency analysis, migration planning, testing, cutover, validation, and post-migration support.
Identify and validate messaging-platform dependencies, including directory services, databases, storage, networking, monitoring systems, security services, and application integrations.
Coordinate with application teams on messaging-flow migration, connectivity validation, producer/consumer testing, and production cutover activities.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex messaging issues involving message delivery, queues/topics, producer/consumer connectivity, authentication and authorization, performance, storage, networking, application integrations, and high availability/failover scenarios.
Develop and maintain automation for messaging-platform provisioning, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational validation.
Maintain operational documentation, including SOPs, runbooks, KEDB articles, capacity plans, performance reports, architecture/configuration documentation, and troubleshooting procedures.
Participate in incident, problem, and change management, including root-cause analysis, remediation planning, change-record reviews, implementation validation, and preventive actions.
Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, storage, database, security, cloud, and vendor teams to support messaging implementations, migrations, upgrades, and production issues.
Drive continuous improvements in messaging architecture, automation, observability, security, reliability, performance, capacity management, and operational governance.

Required Skills:
Strong hands-on experience with Tibco EMS/AMS administration and support.
Experience with ActiveMQ messaging platforms.
Good knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration.
Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk and Dynatrace.
Familiarity with AVN monitoring migration activities.
Experience using ServiceNow ticketing and ITSM processes.
Knowledge of middleware architecture, messaging queues, and enterprise integration concepts.
Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.