Job Title: IBM MQ & Solace SRE Engineer
Location: Phoenix, AZ (Onsite)
Long term Contract

Job Description: Seeking an experienced IBM MQ & Solace Engineer to support mission-critical messaging platforms within the SRE organization. Responsible for platform reliability, availability, automation, monitoring, incident management, and service improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities:

Administer and support IBM MQ and Solace environments (Prod/UAT/DR).
Manage Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Clusters, Topics, VPNs, and Event Mesh.
Perform troubleshooting, RCA, capacity planning, patching, upgrades, and DR testing.
Drive SRE practices including SLO/SLI monitoring, automation, and operational excellence.
Support major incidents, problem management, and 24x7 production operations.
Develop automation scripts and improve platform observability.

Required Skills:

IBM MQ: Queue Managers, Clustering, Pub/Sub, SSL/TLS, HA/DR, MQ Appliance.
Solace PubSub+: Message VPNs, Topics, Queues, Event Mesh, HA/DR, JMS/AMQP/MQTT.
Monitoring: Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace/AppDynamics, ELK.
Scripting: Python, Shell, Ansible.
Platforms: Linux/Unix, Kubernetes/OpenShift (preferred).
Strong experience in Production Support, Incident Management, and Problem Management.

Preferred Skills:

Financial Services domain experience.
Exposure to Kafka, DataPower, Apigee, API Management, and Event-Driven Architectures.
Knowledge of ITIL and SRE best practices.

IBM MQ & Solace SRE Engineer-Phoenix, AZ (Onsite)

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