Hiring,
Greetings from Modern Agile Technologies.
Position: Mainframe MQ Engineer
Location:Candidates must be on site 3 days /week in the Phoenix, AZ metro area. Other approved locations are Chandler, AZ, / Plano, TX / Charlotte, NC / / Jersey City, NJ
Type: Contract (W2 Only)
The Role:
We are seeking an experienced Mainframe IBM MQ Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in IBM MQ for z/OS to support highly available, business-critical mainframe environments.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the administration, configuration, monitoring, performance, security, maintenance, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management of IBM MQ infrastructure on z/OS. The engineer will work closely with application, CICS, IMS, network, security, operations, and other mainframe infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities:
- Install, configure, administer, and support IBM MQ for z/OS environments.
- Configure and maintain MQ queue managers, queues, channels, listeners, transmission queues, and other MQ objects.
- Perform day-to-day administration and monitoring of MQ environments.
- Configure and support distributed queuing and communication between queue managers. IBM identifies communication between queue managers and distributed queuing as part of MQ for z/OS configuration.
- Configure, administer, and troubleshoot IBM MQ clusters.
- Monitor queue depths, channel status, queue manager availability, message flow, and overall MQ infrastructure health.
- Troubleshoot production problems including:
- Channel failures
- Queue manager problems
- Message delivery issues
- Messages remaining on queues
- Connectivity problems
- Security/authorization failures
- Application-to-MQ connectivity issues
- Perform problem determination and root cause analysis for MQ-related production incidents.
- Support MQ recovery and restart activities.
- Support MQ upgrades, migrations, maintenance, patching, and lifecycle management.
- Support high-availability and disaster-recovery requirements for MQ environments.
- Configure and support MQ connectivity with mainframe applications, including CICS and IMS. IBM documents dedicated MQ adapters/bridges for interaction with both CICS and IMS.
- Partner with RACF/security teams to implement and maintain MQ security.
- Support channel authentication, connection authentication, TLS, and MQ access controls, where applicable. IBM documents channel authentication, TLS, security exits, and RACF access considerations for MQ for z/OS.
- Analyze MQ performance and implement tuning recommendations.
- Develop and maintain JCL, operational procedures, automation, and technical documentation.
- Participate in production changes, implementations, incident management, and problem management.
- Provide on-call and after-hours support for critical production issues when required.
Required Qualifications:
- Strong hands-on experience with IBM MQ for z/OS
- Strong knowledge of:
§ Queue Managers
§ Local and Remote Queues
§ Transmission Queues
§ MQ Channels
§ Channel Initiators
§ Listeners
§ Dead Letter Queues
§ Distributed Queuing
§ MQ Clustering
§ MQ security
§ MQ logging and recovery
§ MQ monitoring and troubleshooting
- Strong experience with z/OS
- Experience with JCL
- Good understanding of TCP/IP and network connectivity
- Experience with MQ problem determination and production support.
- Experience supporting high-volume, business-critical mainframe environments.
- Understanding of change, incident, and problem management processes.
Preferred Experience:
- CICS / MQ integration
- IMS / MQ integration
- RACF
- TCP/IP
- REXX
- TSO/ISPF
- SDSF
- SMP/E
- Sysplex environments
- MQ Queue Sharing Groups
- Automation/monitoring tools
- Enterprise scheduling tools such as CA7 or TWS
- Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
- Performance monitoring and capacity management
- Managed File Transfer (MFT)
