Description

You will manage and maintain IBM MQ infrastructure within a mainframe environment.

Responsibilities

• Design MQ architecture patterns and define objects including queues, channels, process definitions, and topics.
• Execute IBM MQ utilities for message handling, backups, and record management.
• Manage MQ installation, upgrades, maintenance, and configuration.
• Monitor message processing and CPU usage using MQ Explorer, OmegaMon for MQ, TEPS, and SMF statistics.
• Automate daily health checks and dead letter queue processes.
• Coordinate with IBM and ISV vendors for incident ticket resolution and software escalations.
• Provide 24x7 after-hours on-call support as required.

Required Skills

• 12+ years of experience in IBM MQ administration.
• Expertise in MQ clustering and queue sharing.
• Proficiency in managing pagesets and bufferpools for application growth.
• Strong knowledge of MQ connections to CICS, DB2, and IMS.
• Experience with MQ queue manager creation and migration.
• Ability to work with IBM MQ product installation and troubleshooting.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent graduate level education.

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms.
• Experience with Mainframe z/OS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF, and COBOL.

Key Skills

Education

Any Gradute