Mainframe MQ Engineer

Role: Mainframe MQ Engineer Locations: New York City, NY (Hybrid Onsite) Duration: 12+ Months Contract

Note: Candidate needs to be in the office 5 Days every week. Local or candidates from Nearby states only.

What you ll do in the role:
The Mainframe MQ Systems Programmer is responsible for all phases of MQ engineering and MQ operation functions.
The candidate must be comfortable working with MQ in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex environment (multi-queue managers, high volume, large number of applications) and must be able to support application developers in the use of MQ in batch and CICS environments.
Individual will also interface with the distributed MQ engineering and operations teams.
The MQ engineer should have strong analytical, organizational and communication skills.
Periodic on-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the MQ environment and to resolve issues.

Call Notes:
MQ System Programmer role (This is purely infrastructure and System side) Not on application side
Must be coming from Mainframe environment
Looking for IBM MQ Mainframe experience
MQ Engineering (Queue Manager, Data Sharing)
Performance & Maintenance of MQ
Good Scripting experience
Validation
JCL
Use sort to filter out the data
Support MQ support time
MQ initial set-up
Making changes into Infrastructure
Handle issues in production
Make sure application is working as per the SLA
Production support in MQ system
On-call support
MQ changes Deployment
Handling MQ infrastructure
Performance Tuining
Reporting on MQ
Java Kafka Connectors
Should be able to offload work of a person (Within-in 3 weeks)