Responsible for the monitoring, maintenance, and customisation of MQ systems.
Responsible for evaluation, installation, and migration of new versions of MQ software
Analyze and tune MQ performance
Perform MQ problem analysis and provide technical assistance
Develop process and procedures related to MQ’s security, administration, recovery, chargeback, and automation.
Work with application teams to implement messaging solutions to support Enterprise Messaging architecture.
Create and provide daily status reports to the Systems Integration team.
Requirements
Experience (3 or more years) in administration, maintenance, and integration including Installation and Configuration of IBM WebSphere MQ version 7 and higher.
Application coding experience with IBM MQ (JCL, Cobol, JAVA, JAVA/JMS, C/C++); including debugging.
Experience with IBM WebSphere CICS adapter.
Experience with IBM WebSphere MQI for connecting to MQ objects
Experience with message security architecture
Ability to administer queue managers and associated MQ objects such as queues (local, remote, alias & model), process definitions, channels, listeners)
Workstation skills include Windows OS, MS Word, Excel and Remote Administration.
Ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of the company, customer, and user organizations, both verbally and in writing.
Must be willing to take part in 24/7 on-call rotation.
Ability to travel overnight as needed to other company offices.
Ability to multi-task effectively on a variety of projects, tasks, and assignments.
Take charge attitude and take ownership of providing a solution end to end.
Experience working with different technical divisions such as mainframe, distributed systems & networks.