Hire talent
Conntal publishes a role page only where a practitioner at Ace8, AceMQ or Duczer East can vet it. Each page carries the production scenario we put to candidates, the technologies we screen on, and the engineer who owns the rubric.
IBM MQScreened by practitioners
Ace8 and AceMQ engineers, not recruiters
130+
AceMQ enterprise clients across 26+ countries
Contract, C2H or direct
onshore, nearshore or offshore
Engineers who run the clusters, pipelines and cloud estates.
Conntal places senior DevOps engineers who have run production platforms, not just pipelines. Every candidate is screened by a practitioner at Ace8 or AceMQ on a real incident scenario before you see them. Available contract, contract-to-hire or direct placement, onshore, nearshore or offshore.
A site reliability engineer keeps production trustworthy: error budgets, on-call, capacity, and the incident response that follows when those fail. Conntal places senior SREs screened on real incidents by Ace8 and AceMQ practitioners who run enterprise platforms in production themselves.
Conntal places Kubernetes engineers who have upgraded and operated production clusters, not just written manifests. Every candidate is screened by a platform practitioner at Ace8 or AceMQ on a real upgrade scenario before you see them. Available as Kubernetes staff augmentation, contract-to-hire or direct hire, onshore, nearshore or offshore.
Conntal places cloud engineers who understand what their architecture costs and how it fails, not just how to provision it. Every candidate is screened by an Ace8 or AceMQ practitioner on a real AWS, Azure or Google Cloud scenario before you see them. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, onshore, nearshore or offshore.
Screened by AceMQ, who run these brokers for regulated enterprises.
Conntal places Apache Kafka engineers who have run production clusters, not just produced to a topic. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner who operates Kafka and Confluent estates for enterprise clients, using a real consumer-group incident. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, onshore, nearshore or offshore.
Conntal places RabbitMQ engineers screened by AceMQ, a commercial RabbitMQ partner that runs RabbitMQ for regulated enterprises. Every candidate is tested on a real 3.13-to-4.x upgrade scenario covering quorum queues, feature flags and Khepri before you see them. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, onshore, nearshore or offshore.
Conntal places Apache Pulsar engineers who understand subscription semantics and BookKeeper, not just producing to a topic. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner who supports production Pulsar, using a real ordering scenario. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, onshore, nearshore or offshore.
Conntal places IBM MQ administrators and developers for support and migration work. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner on a real channel security incident covering CHLAUTH and TLS, and migration candidates on the move to RabbitMQ or Kafka. Contract, contract-to-hire or direct.
Conntal places middleware engineers for ActiveMQ and Artemis, TIBCO and enterprise service buses — platforms with shrinking talent pools and long production lives. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner on a real broker incident. IBM MQ has its own page and screen. Contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire.
Conntal places senior Java developers who can read a thread dump and a GC log, not just build features: Spring, Apache Tomcat and VMware GemFire on messaging and caching platforms. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner on a real production stall before you see them. Contract, contract-to-hire or direct.
Lakehouse, warehouse and pipeline engineers for production data.
Conntal places senior data engineers for platform work, not dashboard work: Cloudera CDP estates, Databricks and Snowflake builds, and streaming pipelines on Kafka. Candidates are screened by a Duczer East or AceMQ practitioner on a real migration or lineage problem before you see a CV.
Conntal places Cloudera CDP administrators and engineers for upgrade and run work, including clusters still on 7.1.7, which left Cloudera support in August 2025. Every candidate is screened on a real upgrade scenario by a Duczer East practitioner who runs Cloudera in production. Contract, contract-to-hire or direct.
Conntal places Databricks engineers who keep Delta Lake tables fast and DBU spend under control, not just notebook authors. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ data-platform practitioner on a real table-maintenance scenario before you see them. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire for builds, Hadoop migrations and cost work.
Conntal places Snowflake developers who manage cost and performance, not just write SQL. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ data-platform practitioner on a real warehouse-cost scenario before you see them. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire for builds, migrations and cost remediation, onshore, nearshore or offshore.
Conntal places Apache Spark engineers who can read the Spark UI and fix a slow job, not just submit one. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner who supports production Spark, using a real data-skew scenario. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire on Databricks, EMR, Dataproc or on-premises Hadoop.
Conntal places Apache Airflow engineers who can explain why tasks are not running, not just write DAGs. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner who supports production Airflow, using a real scheduling incident. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, including Astronomer, MWAA and Cloud Composer estates.
Conntal places Apache Flink engineers who understand state, checkpoints and backpressure in production stream processing. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner who supports production Flink, using a real checkpoint-failure scenario. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, typically alongside Kafka.
Conntal places Apache NiFi engineers who design flows that hold up under load and can explain what back pressure is telling them. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner who supports production NiFi, using a real congestion scenario. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, including NiFi 2.x upgrades and Cloudera estates.
Operators for the stores that cannot lose a write.
Conntal places Redis and Valkey engineers who understand memory, eviction and persistence in production, not just caching. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner who supports enterprise Redis estates, using a real memory incident. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, including Redis-to-Valkey migrations.
Conntal places PostgreSQL DBAs and engineers who can explain why a database is slowing down, not just add indexes. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner who supports production PostgreSQL, using a real bloat and vacuum scenario. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, for operations, upgrades and Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migrations.
Conntal places MongoDB developers and NoSQL engineers who understand replica-set failover and write concern, not just document modelling. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner who supports production MongoDB, using a real failover scenario. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, onshore, nearshore or offshore.
Conntal places Apache Cassandra engineers who understand repair, tombstones and consistency, not just CQL. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner who supports production Cassandra, using a real data-resurrection scenario. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, including ScyllaDB and Amazon Keyspaces.
Conntal places Elasticsearch and OpenSearch engineers who have recovered red clusters and planned multi-version upgrades, not just written queries. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ practitioner who supports production search estates, using a real shard-allocation incident. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, onshore, nearshore or offshore.
Integration platform and API gateway engineers.
Conntal places WSO2 developers and engineers for API Manager, Micro Integrator and Identity Server, with the upgrade experience the current support dates demand. Every candidate is screened by a practitioner on a real version-migration scenario before you see them. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire.
Conntal places Boomi developers who design integrations that survive volume and failure, not just drag shapes onto a canvas. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ integration practitioner on a real runtime scenario before you see them. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire for builds, remediation and platform migrations.
Conntal places API gateway engineers for Kong and Apigee who understand distributed rate limiting, authentication and gateway migrations. Every candidate is screened by an AceMQ integration practitioner on a real gateway scenario before you see them. Available on contract, contract-to-hire or direct hire, including Apigee Edge to Apigee X migrations.
ServiceNow ITOM and enterprise architecture, scoped honestly.
Conntal places ServiceNow developers for IT Operations Management work: Discovery, Service Mapping, Event Management and CMDB health. Candidates are screened by Duczer East practitioners who remediate enterprise CMDBs. This is our stated scope — we do not claim an ITSM or app-development bench we have not built.
Scoped bench — see the page for what we do and do not staff.
Conntal places enterprise architects who have carried a decision through delivery rather than stopping at the diagram. Candidates are screened by Ace8 practitioners on a real estate decision with real constraints — cost, residency, existing debt — and on whether they can say no to their own preferred architecture.
Also vetted
The messaging and streaming bench is where Conntal is deepest, and it spans every role above. The technology page carries the product-level detail: what senior looks like on each platform and what we screen on.
Engagement
A vetted engineer embedded in your team for a defined term.
Hourly, billed against an approved SOW. Most common for migrations, upgrades and capacity surges where the work has an end date.
Contract staffingWork together first, convert when it is obviously working.
A defined conversion window and a pre-agreed fee, so the decision to hire is a business decision rather than a negotiation.
Contract-to-hire staffingA permanent hire, screened to the same standard.
One-time fee against first-year base. Used where the role is a long-term platform owner rather than project capacity.
Direct placement staffingSend the requirement — or the job description you are not happy with — and an engineer who runs this technology will tell you what is missing before we source anyone.
