Middleware Messaging Engineer

Title: Middleware Messaging Engineer

Location: Jersey City, NJ - Hybrid, 2X

Duration: 6-12+ Months

Manager notes:
- Good Linux System Engineer with knowledge on any messaging platform (MQ, Kafka, Solace ) or Web technologies(Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere)

- 5-10 yrs Production support experience

Responsibilities:

• Provide 24/7 and (when necessary) weekend support for systems involved in the architecture.
• Function as IBM Websphere MQ administrator. Install MQ environments on Windows and Linux.
• Create and configure Queue Managers, channels, queues, and other MQ objects.
• Perform the backup and restore of Queue Managers and related objects. Recover damaged MQ installations and/or Queue Managers.
• Upgrade and patch MQ environments on Windows and Linux.
• Implement custom MQ security solutions using channel exists or SSL. Set up SSL communications between MQ servers and MQ clients to MQ servers.
• Install and configure MQ Clients on Windows and UNIX platforms
• Function as Solace Messaging Engineer.
• Installation, upgrade and patching of Solae Appliances.
• Administration of Solace Appliances.
• Configuring Redundancy and Fault tolerance of Solace Infrastructure.
• Experience in configuring Solace bridging between Remote Solace Appliances.
• Experience in configuring different protocols with Solace appliance MQTT, REST, AMQP.
• Experience in using Solace CLI to configure different solace objects.
• In-depth knowledge of Solace Queue and Topics.
• Enabling SSL for Solace communications.
• Interface with Application teams in troubleshooting complex, cross-platform issues related to Solace communication.
• Identify operational and infrastructure risks within the environment and work with the application development teams and APS to make corrections and mitigate risks.
• Ensure optimal resilience of deployed systems and meet all disaster recovery and compliance requirements dictated by the business.
• Configuring monitoring for Solace Appliances.
• Developing Python and Ansible playbooks to automate the Messaging Infrastructure.

Position Requirements

• Strong Knowledge and experience with IBM MQ and Solace Installation/Configuration and Setup.
• Working knowledge of setting up Redundancy and fault tolerance between Solace Appliances.
• Knowledge on setting up SSL for Solace and IBM MQ.
• Strong Knowledge and experience with MQ processes, triggers, channels and clustering.
• Exposure to monitoring tools such as Nastel
• Knowledge on Kafka
• Strong knowledge and experience with PowerShell scripting.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft O/S, SUN Solaris, and Linux.
• Working knowledge and experience with Python and Bash scripting.
• Will be required to comply fully with the bank's general policies on attendance, compliance and professional conduct.
• Willingness to adapt to the changes constantly introduced by the Bank's dynamic environment.

Considered a plus

• Knowledge and experience with other flavors of web application servers (Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, Weblogic)
• Knowledge and experience with other flavors of web servers (Apache Web, IIS)
• Good understanding of Load Balancers (LTM)
• Good understanding of DNS and GTMs