Mainframe MQ System Administrator

Job Description:

• We are looking for strong individual having experience with MQ System Administration
• Primary duties are to deliver best service availability efficiency and resilience underpinned by the architectural principle of cloned infrastructure system configurations and applications

Key Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintenance of MQ Infrastructure running on z OS platform
• Designing MQ message flows in collaboration with Development teams configuring and delivering MQ environments best in class
• Define maintain and monitor Queue Managers MQ Objects channels and queues on Mainframe
• Perform problem diagnostics and resolution
• Contribute to root cause investigation
• Work with the IBM support in opening the PMR s and resolving them on need basis
• Perform peer review of change events assessing impacts and risks
• Develop and improve MQ health check processes and methods striving for improvement to both systems and the environment
• Handling MQ compliance security
• Provide on call support 24 7 for MQ infrastructure

Technical Requirements:

• 6 years of working experience as Mainframe MQ administration in data sharing environments
• Good experience in installing configuring and maintaining an IBM MQ running on z OS and its associated components using SMP E
• Working experience on Cluster queue Managers Queue sharing groups MQ utilities and Traces
• Knowledge about MQ channel encryption and MQ security
• Experience with setting up new channels for external partners
• Experience guiding and supporting Application developers to develop messaging flows
• Capable of planning for and supporting Disaster recovery exercises
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to work both as individual and as a team member with other subject matter experts
• Knowledge about RACF system and definition of MQ profiles to support overall MQ security and compliance requirement

Additional Responsibilities:

• Knowledge on advanced massage security
• Application Programming experience using IBM MQ

Preferred Skills:

Technology->Mainframe Technologies->MQSeries on Mainframe