Description

Required Skills

• 15 years of experience in IBM MQ Administration
• Strong experience with IBM ACE / IIB / Message Broker
• 5 years of Apache Kafka & Confluent Platform administration
• Experience with WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
• Hands-on experience with MQ clustering, RDQM, Multi-instance Queue Managers
• Strong knowledge of SSL/TLS, OAM, SASL_SSL, ACL Security
• Experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker, Debezium
• Linux/AIX administration
• Experience with GCP/OpenShift/Kubernetes
• Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Tivoli
• Scripting using Shell, Python, MQSC
• Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL databases
• Strong troubleshooting and RCA skills
• Experience supporting 24x7 Production environments

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer and upgrade IBM MQ, Kafka and ACE/IIB environments.
• Manage Queue Managers, Clusters, Channels, Topics, Brokers and Message Flows.
• Configure high availability, disaster recovery and performance tuning.
• Perform middleware migrations including MQ, Kafka and ACE upgrades.
• Administer Kafka clusters, brokers, consumer groups, connectors and Schema Registry.
• Configure SSL/TLS security, user authentication and access controls.
• Monitor middleware infrastructure using Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform RCA and resolve critical incidents.
• Support application onboarding, deployment and middleware integration.
• Automate administration tasks using Shell/Python scripts.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure and application teams during deployments.
• Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call production support.

Preferred Skills

• IBM MQ Certifications
• Experience with RabbitMQ, DataPower
• Experience migrating MQ to Kafka
• Kubernetes/GKE/OpenShift exposure
• Banking, Retail or Manufacturing domain experience

Nice to Have

• Java development knowledge
• CI/CD exposure
• Cloud-native messaging architecture
• Flexera licensing management

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree