SRE Platform Engineer Lead - Enterprise Integrations

Company:
Qualcomm Incorporated

Job Area:
Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Engineering

General Summary:

Looking for a SRE Platform Lead resource to implement and support Enterprise integrations solutions using Boomi and Confluent platforms. This is a hands-on SRE individual contributor role combining platform engineering + SRE + integration/event streaming expertise.

MUST Have skills:

• Strong, hands-on experience with Boomi Enterprise & Agent Studio (development and administration)
• Strong, hands-on experience with Confluent / Kafka:
  
  • Confluent Cloud and/or Confluent Platform operations and administration
  • topics/partitions, consumer groups, connector ops, schema governance, RBAC/ACLs, cluster health/capacity planning, cluster linking/mirroring
• Experience deploying/operating platforms on AWS including EKS/Kubernetes, IAM, networking, and security controls.
• 7+ years of experience of SRE Platform Engineering or Application Administration having configured and maintained enterprise-level applications.
• 5+ years using critical thinking to debug complex technical issues independently and drive the resolution working with internal teams then documenting Incident, Request and Change/Release management process using JIRA and ServiceNow
• Good understanding of software testing tools such as Selenium, JMeter, Junit, PyTest
• Deep expertise in observability using Datadog (APM/logs/metrics, dashboards, alerting, SLOs).
• Proven success building DevSecOps automation: CI/CD, IaC, security controls, secrets management, automated validation/testing.
• Strong scripting/automation skills (Python/Bash/PowerShell or similar) and comfort building internal tools/utilities.

Other preferred skills:

• Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging patterns (Kafka, RabbitMQ, TIBCO EMS), and platform governance.
• Experience modernizing EDI/RosettaNet and large B2B partner ecosystems.
• Familiarity with Informatica Cloud, TIBCO, Oracle SOA, or Sterling MFT migration strategies.
• Experience building self-service platforms and developer portals (APIs/events/templates).
• Knowledge of AWS Well-Architected principles and security/compliance controls (PII, retention, auditability).
• Relevant certifications: Kubernetes/AWS, Confluent, Boomi (nice to have, not required).
• Experience in Java full stack development with Spring & Spring Boot

Operating Model:

SRE lead will join an existing team with 24/7 operations team in India and will be working as Tier-3 on-call support on weekdays/weekends to support Critical Enterprise integrations. Other duties include:

• Working closely with vendor to determine the software roadmaps and lead technical discussions to align with business requirements/SLOs.
• Ensure high quality documentation that will include detailed implementation architectures, backup+recovery procedures, user+developer guides, custom procedures/scripts, testing or validation processes and how-to manuals.

Boomi + Confluent Platform Enablement (Hands-On)

• Administer and operate Boomi (Atoms/Molecules, environments, deployments, runtime management, upgrades, monitoring, governance).
• Develop AI assisted templates or workflows using Boomi Agent Studio
• Administer and operate Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform on EKS:
  • Kafka cluster operations, capacity planning, partitioning strategy, consumer group health, topic lifecycle management
  • RBAC/ACLs, encryption, audit logging, schema governance, connector operations
• Build and maintain operational standards for event streaming + iPaaS platforms (backup/restore, DR, HA, upgrades, patching).
• Own availability, latency, performance, and cost outcomes for Boomi and Confluent platforms.
• Define and operationalize SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, runbooks, escalation paths, and on-call readiness for integration and event streaming platforms.
• Lead incident response, problem management, postmortems, and continuous improvement to reduce MTTR/MTBF and improve reliability.

DevSecOps Enablement

• Build and standardize CI/CD pipelines for integration and streaming artifacts (Boomi deployments, Kafka/Confluent resources, connectors, schemas).
• Implement policy-as-code, secrets management, automated testing, and release governance aligned with DevSecOps best practices.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for platform provisioning (environments, topics, ACLs, schemas, connectors, monitoring).
• Eliminate manual operations by scripting and automation across Boomi/Confluent (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Create reusable operational utilities to standardize onboarding, provisioning, access requests, schema changes, connector management, and deployment workflows.
• Measure and reduce operational toil through automation and platform guardrails.

Observability + AIOps (Datadog)

• Implement end-to-end observability using Datadog:
  • Metrics/logs/traces, dashboards, service maps, alerts, anomaly detection
  • Correlation across integrations, Kafka pipelines, and infrastructure
• Enable AIOps workflows (noise reduction, alert tuning, automated remediation hooks, intelligent incident routing).

Self-Service + Developer/Business Enablement

• Build a self-service portal and "golden path" templates to enable teams to onboard integrations/events quickly with security compliance.
• Establish an Event Marketplace approach (catalog, discovery, ownership metadata, governance workflows) to support ML/AI patterns and reuse.

Modernization Support (Legacy Target State)

• Support migration and modernization patterns from:
  • TIBCO BWCE, Oracle SOA Boomi + event-driven APIs/events
  • EDI/RosettaNet (TIBCO B2B) modern B2B patterns and managed onboarding
  • IBM Sterling MFT automated file/event hybrid patterns and governance
  • Informatica Cloud jobs modern integration/event/ELT patterns where appropriate

Minimum Qualifications:
7+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree.
OR
9+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor's degree.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$141,600.00 - $212,400.00

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