Mainframe - MQ - z Platform & IBMi EL5

Role: Mainframe - MQ - z Platform & IBMi EL5

Duration: Long term

Location: Remote

Job Description:

• MF MQ Support – zSystem and IBMi MQ Software Engineer

• At least 5 -6 years of experience in IBM MQ support.
• Hands on experience with MQ on z/OS; creating and maintaining QMGRs and objects (queues, channels, etc.)
• Experience with MQ on IBMi (preferred).
• Experience with/knowledge of MQ and MQIPT on Distributed platforms (preferred).
• Understanding of how applications work with MQ (API’s).
• Application development experience (preferred).
• MF Operations experience (preferred).
• Basic knowledge of containers and IBM CP4I (preferred).
• Proficiency with z/OS, ISPF, JCL, SDSF, JES, PDSE, VSAM, and related utilities.
• Understanding of/experience with SMP/E DB2, CICS, IMS, Network/TCPIP, MF Automations - OPS/MVS, as they relate to MQ.
• Experience with MQ Monitoring solutions for real-time and historical perspectives on status, trouble shooting, tuning, and trending.
• Experience with MQ dashboarding tools (PrometheGrafana, Ironstream/Splunk).
• Experience with IBM SMF data for statistical analysis.
• Experience with MQ alerting implications and configurations; thresholds, traps, flows and notifications, including auto-ticketing.
• Experience with Automations for MQ operations, syslog messages, and other functionality.
• Experience with Capexpry implementations to prevent orphaned/stale messages where appropriate.
• Experience with Queue Streaming, an MQ feature used to replicate messages to a specified secondary queue as must duplicate, or best effort.
• Experience with change, incident, problem, request, configuration item, event, and oncall management.
• Experience with MQ PLM, upgrades, maintenance, testing, implementations, integration.
• Experience with Queue Sharing Groups (QSGs), Coupling facilities, Coupling Facility Structures (CFStructs), Shared Message Data Sets (SMDS), SCM (flash memory); shared queueing.
• Experience with various MQ connectivity methods; Batch, MQ clustering, point to point channels, direct client connections via SVRCONN channels, batch, MQ triggering to CICS/IMS/zOS, IMS Bridge (OTMA), and MQIPT TCPIP/ HTTPS protocol conversion connections between MQ external/ core.
• Experience with MQ logging, active logs, archive logs, dual logging, zHyperwrite, logload/checkpointing frequency 
• Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills are required for teamwork and collaboration.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with IBM software and other 3rd party vendor support for PLM, documentation, and technical support/troubleshooting.  
• Support Disaster Recovery exercises as required.
• Create and maintain technical and procedural documentation for the team and others as required.
• Design, create and maintain messaging flows with diagrams, as required. 
• Work well with teammates, other teams, and management.
• Provide excellent and timely customer service.
• Participation in periodic oncall rotations for technical and warroom support.
• Experience with IBMi menus, help, commands (preferred).
• Experience with IBMi Integrated File Systems, Jobs, Libs, Logs (preferred).
• Experience with IBMi IASP/Mimix replication for high availability Role Swaps (preferred).
• Experience with IBMi DB2 Mirror configurations for redundancy (preferred).
• Experience with IBMi MQ menus, commands, and administration (preferred).
• Experience with IBMi MQ environment variables (preferred).
• Experience with IBMi automation controls (preferred).
• Experience with IBMi FISMA enclave (highly secured, isolated environment to support government clients as required). This would include MQ architecture and admin support on IBMi, MQIPT (on Distributed) for TCPIP/ HTTPS protocol conversions between core/FISMA MQ, SAW workbench access, related Firewall, SSL, F5 configurations.
• Experience implementing changes with documentation and approval during prescribed change windows.
• Ability to use AI tools to analyze data and provide recommendations and implement solutions.
• Ability to use M365 Copilot AI to recap meetings and draft emails
• Ability to stay educated in the role of AI for an IMS System Programmer