Messaging Engineer

About the Role We're looking for a Messaging Engineer to design, build, and maintain the real-time messaging infrastructure that connects factory-floor automation systems, MES, and enterprise IT platforms—enabling low-latency, reliable data streaming from shop-floor equipment to cloud/data centre applications. Key Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage distributed message brokers (Apache Kafka clusters or MQTT-based systems)

• Design message topics/channels and data schemas for consistent event structure (equipment status, test results, alarms)

• Optimise messaging pipelines for low latency, high reliability, and zero data loss/duplication

• Implement monitoring and alerting (throughput, lag, error rates) and troubleshoot pipeline issues

• Collaborate with developers to integrate applications with the messaging layer and tune producer/consumer performance

Must-Have Skills

• Hands-on production experience with Apache Kafka (preferred) or similar (RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Apache Pulsar) — topic design, partitioning, replication, broker config

• Real-time pub/sub pipeline design (Kafka Connect or MQTT clients)

• Strong programming in Java/Scala or Python

• Understanding of messaging internals — clustering, retention, consumer groups, offset management