MQ Administrator

MQ Administrator

Exp. Range: 10 to 12 Years

What does a successful Advisor, System Engineer (Distributed MQ) do?

The MQ Engineer will, in collaboration with a multidisciplinary delivery team, be responsible for the deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, automating and maintenance of critical Distributed MQ Infrastructure.

What you will do:

• Lead troubleshooting calls and drives to root cause resolution; makes recommendations for long-term resolution of problems across the enterprise.
• Lead complex initiatives and issues within the MQ functional technical area as well as cross functional areas.
• Work closely with the application development organization and other functional IT areas to determine best practices, tuning, problem resolution and root cause analysis in the MQ & Middleware space.
• Deploy, upgrade and manage infrastructures for the MQ environment.
• Provide technical consulting on the use & integration of the MQ & Middleware system utilities, tools, and applications.
• Platform automation.

What you will need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years administering and architecture of IBM MQ environments, including deployment, upgrades, configurations, setup, performance tuning.
• Strong MQ troubleshooting stills are a must with the ability to drive to root cause.
• Experience with IBM MQ appliances.
• Experience with Kafka steaming.
• Understanding network topologies, common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP) and experience with configuring network interfaces.
• Hands-on experience with multiple MQ topologies like clustering, multi queue manager instances etc.
• Hands-on experience in configuring SSL.
• Strong working understanding of different operating systems like Linux, Windows and AIX.
• Hands on experience with Shell, Perl and python etc scripting to automate platform, upgrades and day to day activities.
• Experienced in runtime, build and deployment technologies and state-of-the-art project tools: CI/CD, GIT, Maven, Eclipse, JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience working with monitoring tools like ITCAM, log management tools like Splunk.
• A self-starter with strong communication and collaborative skills.
• Experience working with large dynamic MQ environments.
• 24X7 Production support is required.
• Experience with audit requirements for PII, and PCI.
• Familiarity with using a ticketing system to document and track work status.

What would be great to have:

• Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation
• Certifications AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes