MQ Administrator

SOFT's client located in Remote is looking for a MQ Administrator for a long term contract assignment.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with NIS and broadly apply your MQ engineering skills across various NIS technology solution efforts, as well as build your skills in other areas by being exposed to various aspects from inception through design, build, and deployment. You will be a jack-of-all-trades working cross-functionally with Architects, Engineers, Business Analysts, and Service Managers across multiple teams in a rapidly evolving environment completing design documentation, consulting with other engineers and architects, completing network and server build requests, installing and configuring software, etc.

Candidate Profile
To be successful in this role, you must be an organized self-starter with stellar leadership and communication skills who can work independently, building relationships and driving technical solutions from inception to completion. This position requires the candidate to have strong MQ architect/integration experience and the candidate must be technically savvy, with a proven ability to work well in a highly dynamic environment and maintain a strong relationship with our customers and partners.

This is an Integration Engineer/MQ Engineer role requiring deep, advanced knowledge of IBM MQ and IBM MFT
Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC Terraform, packer etc.) is required
Experience in Cloud infrastructure and DevOps is required

Technical Qualifications
Candidates need 5-10 years of recent and related experience as an MQ Engineer/Integration Engineer from Design through the Implementation of technical solutions
Strongly prefer recent, demonstrable experience with automated build and system configuration tools such as Terraform, Packer, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes, etc. Experience with Terraform is strongly preferred
Experience with common AWS services such as S3, EC2, ASG, ELB, SFTP, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc.
AWS Certification and/or experience utilizing AWS services in a production environment is preferred
Strong knowledge of high-availability, load-balancing, and failover configurations across application, infrastructure, and platform components
Understanding of security design for enterprise software systems
Proven ability to write clear and concise technical documents, including design documents, specifications, and technology roadmaps
Preference for proven ability to design, implement, and manage secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure environments
Experience with source code management tools such as GIT, SVN, etc.
Proven depth of knowledge and experience with Python scripting language
Experience with a variety of other programming languages such as JSON, YAML, Boto3, etc.
Familiarity with the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and test automation within CI/CD is a plus

Required Skills
Ability to coordinate and work with diverse groups of subject matter experts
Demonstrated initiative and self-motivation
Ability to work effectively independently or in a team environment
Strong analytical, collaboration, leadership, critical thinking, multitasking, and time management skills
Customer/people-focused orientation that drives and informs engagement with partners, leadership, and peers
Ability to influence successfully in a highly matrix or virtual organization
Demonstrates independent thinking and decision-making abilities
Ability to quickly receive and process information
Judgment to escalate risk-based decisions appropriately

Preferred Skills
Working knowledge of other technology solutions/products such as MQ Salesforce Bridge, Grafana
Experience with Agile and DevOps in a cloud environment
Practical experience and knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture, Microservices, and API
Expertise in Application Server and Web Server architecture in a large enterprise environment
Experience with both internally-facing integrations as well as externally-facing solutions

Education
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field; or equivalent work experience

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