Basic qualification: 3 to 7 years of dedicated experience as an MQ Administrator Strong working knowledge of IBM MQ v8.x/v9.x Strong understanding of IBM MQ architecture, clustering, and high-availability setup Proficiency in scripting for automation Solid understanding of messaging protocols(MQTT, AMQP) and formats(JSON, XML) Technical Skills: Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) on Linux, AIX, and Windows platforms. Administer and manage MQ objects (queues, topics, channels, listeners) Implement and manage MQ security including SSL/TLS, user access control, and auditing Monitor and troubleshoot MQ issues, ensuring high availability and performance Plan and perform MQ version upgrades, patches, and migrations Roles and Responsibilities: Minimum 3 to 5 years related experience as IBM MQ Administrator for distributed platforms. Must be familiar with Linux and MQ commands plus must have depth knowledge of MQ filesystems. Candidate must keep or improve stability and reliability of MQ environments and proactively react to grow/risks/issues. Keep the MQ current version maintain the most possible uptime. Must engineer, build, deploy and manage large scale enterprise solutions for our messaging environment. Experience with architecture, installing MQ on distributing platforms, patching, upgrading, configuring, and administering queue mangers and define MQ objects, triggering, and basic distributing messaging, creating different Queue Manager including Alias/Local/Remote, Cluster Queue Manager and configuring MQ Client. Understanding of IBM MQ recovery, restart activities and events for monitoring. Familiar with different MQ utilities including the dead-letter queue utility and problem determination. Consults with end users, leadership, vendors, and technicians to assess system and non-functional requirements. Proficient in IBM MQ version 9.0 Understanding the concepts of Queues, Queue Managers & MQ messages Understand and differentiate between an IBM MQ queue manager and IBM MQ client. Understand to determine the cause of undelivered messages using a reliable methodology and to troubleshoot common problems. Understanding on how to create and change queues and place and retrieve messages from a queue. Knowledge of how to define channel authentication and connection authentication records. In-depth knowledge of IBM MQ concepts, including message queues, topics and channels Experience with MQ administration tools & commands, IBM MQ Security Knowledge of monitoring and alerting, and use of performance monitoring tools Proficiency in troubleshooting and problem-solving techniques for messaging systems Experience working with MQ developer tools and APIs Working knowledge of operating systems like Linux/Unix Knowledge of TIBCO and Kafka preferred
