IBM MQ Infrastructure Engineer

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business
• Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design and test solutions
• Contribute to the testing of business, application and technical infrastructure requirements
• Drive solutions to reduce recovery
• Review and analyze solutions for cloud security, secrets management and key rotations
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices
• Design complex system upgrades
• Resolve troublesome trends as they develop
• Develop a long range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring
• Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of hands-on experience at scale on Middleware Messaging environments (IBM MQ, IBM Message Broker (ACE/IIB), KAFKA, Solace) Administration performing activities build, installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting, deploys, configuring, patching and compliance
• 4+ experience in Middleware Production Support in Linux and/or Mainframe platforms
• Ability to interact with all levels of an organization, including leadership
• Strong team or technical leadership experience Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience in configuring MQ Queue Managers and troubleshooting issues involving MQ Clusters
• Creating, configuring, and maintaining MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Topics
• Good understanding of MQ monitoring tools like IR360
• Hands on experience on IBM ACE/IIB
• Experience with Kafka Connect - worker and connectors (Source and Sink).
• Ability to troubleshoot Authentication and Authorization issues
• Experience SSL certificate management
• Experience in using Ansible jobs