ImagineX is a tech company that deploys AI-assisted teams to build and secure mission-critical enterprise solutions with our clients – spanning software, data, and AI. Structured like a software company, not a traditional consultancy, we blend deep technical expertise with authentic values, achieving world-class satisfaction (NPS 91). Our dedicated teams specialize in software, data, and AI across the U.S. and LATAM, bridging the gap between boutique agility and enterprise scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operationalize messaging solutions using Amazon MQ (ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ) to support reliable communication between enterprise applications and services.
- Develop and maintain PHP-based integrations leveraging the STOMP protocol for message publishing, consumption, routing, and processing.
- Configure and manage Amazon MQ brokers across development, test, and production environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and operational stability.
- Monitor messaging infrastructure and proactively troubleshoot broker performance issues, message delivery failures, queue backlogs, dead-letter queues, and connectivity problems.
- Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, security, and platform teams to onboard new messaging workloads and establish integration standards.
- Support the full lifecycle of messaging solutions, including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, migration, and production support.
- Implement automation, observability, and CI/CD integration for messaging platforms, including monitoring, alerting, logging, and infrastructure provisioning.
- Strong hands-on experience with Amazon MQ and proven experience implementing STOMP-based messaging solutions in PHP applications
- Experience designing and supporting message-oriented middleware in enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub/sub architectures, queues, topics, and event-driven system design.
- Experience troubleshooting broker performance issues, message delivery failures, and high-volume messaging workloads.
- Familiarity with AWS services and cloud-native integration patterns.
- Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and operational support processes for messaging platforms.
- Experience with ActiveMQ Artemis, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, or other streaming/event platforms.
- Experience migrating legacy messaging solutions to Amazon MQ.
- Knowledge of enterprise security patterns, including TLS, certificate management, OAuth, and role-based access controls.
- Experience with Java, Python, or Node.js in addition to PHP.
- Exposure to microservices architectures and event-driven application modernization initiatives.
- Engineers who enjoy solving complex integration and messaging challenges at enterprise scale.
- Professionals who value reliability, operational excellence, and system observability.
- Builders who want to modernize enterprise application architectures through event-driven design.
- Team players who collaborate deeply across application, infrastructure, and security domains.
Skills Required
- Hands-on experience with Amazon MQ
- Proven experience implementing STOMP-based messaging solutions
- PHP-based integrations with message brokers
- Designing and supporting message-oriented middleware in enterprise environments
- Strong understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub/sub, queues, topics, and event-driven design
- Troubleshooting broker performance issues, message delivery failures, and high-volume messaging workloads
- Familiarity with AWS services and cloud-native integration patterns
- Implementing monitoring, observability, and operational support processes for messaging platforms
- Experience with ActiveMQ Artemis, RabbitMQ, or Apache Kafka
- Experience migrating legacy messaging solutions to Amazon MQ
- Knowledge of TLS, certificate management, OAuth, and role-based access controls
- Experience with Java, Python, or Node.js in addition to PHP
- Exposure to microservices architectures and event-driven modernization
What We Do
ImagineX Consulting is a cybersecurity-focused boutique technology consulting firm whose mission is to help our clients and consultant to #BeBetter. We specialize in Cybersecurity, Agile Software Engineering, DevOps and Cloud, Data Insights, and Technology Platform integration. Delivering technical solutions with pragmatic and iterative methods, our seasoned technology consultants deliver tangible value on our clients’ mission critical risk reduction initiatives. ImagineX Consulting is headquartered in Atlanta GA with offices in Washington DC, Raleigh, Denver, and New York. Our unique culture has received consecutive yearly recognition from Consulting Magazine and Atlanta Business Chronicle as being a best small firm to work for. We are a 2020 Atlanta Business Chronicle Top 50 Fastest Growing Private Company and a 2020 Inc5000 Award winner.
