IBM MQ Administration

Hybrid in Plano, TX, US • Posted 8 hours ago • Updated 8 hours ago
Contract W2
12 Months
50% Travel Required
Hybrid
$50 - $60/hr
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Skills

  • ibm mq

Summary

Job Overview
We are looking for an experienced Messaging Middleware Administrator with strong hands-on expertise in IBM MQ and Confluent Kafka administration. The ideal candidate will have experience managing enterprise messaging platforms, production environments, monitoring, security, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and high-availability solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Administer, configure, install, upgrade, and maintain IBM MQ environments across distributed platforms.
  • Manage IBM MQ Queue Managers, queues, channels, listeners, clusters, and related messaging components.
  • Perform IBM MQ installation, upgrades, patching, configuration, and production support.
  • Administer Confluent Kafka environments, including installation, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
  • Support Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, consumer groups, replication, and cluster health.
  • Configure and manage SSL/TLS certificates and security for messaging platforms.
  • Troubleshoot messaging failures, connectivity issues, queue/channel problems, Kafka cluster issues, and performance bottlenecks.
  • Support IBM IIS (IBM Integration Server) and other enterprise messaging/integration middleware platforms.
  • Monitor middleware platforms using Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Perform performance tuning, capacity planning, and proactive monitoring of messaging infrastructure.
  • Implement and support high availability, reliability, and disaster recovery solutions.
  • Develop automation and scripting solutions to simplify administration and operational activities.
  • Provide test and production environment support and participate in deployment and release activities.
  • Perform incident management, problem management, root cause analysis (RCA), and issue resolution.
  • Work with application, infrastructure, DevOps, and development teams to resolve critical production issues.
  • Maintain operational documentation, configuration standards, and support procedures.

Required Skills

  • Strong hands-on experience with IBM MQ Administration.
  • Experience with Confluent Kafka Administration.
  • Strong knowledge of IBM MQ clustering and distributed messaging systems.
  • Experience with IBM MQ installation, configuration, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with Kafka installation, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
  • Knowledge of SSL/TLS certificate management and middleware security.
  • Experience with IBM IIS / Integration Server.
  • Hands-on experience with Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Strong knowledge of production support, incident management, RCA, and problem management.
  • Experience with automation and scripting.
  • Knowledge of performance tuning, capacity planning, high availability, and reliability engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting large-scale enterprise messaging environments.
  • Knowledge of Linux/Unix administration.
  • Experience with cloud or containerized middleware environments.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
  • Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
  • Ability to work in 24x7 production support / on-call environments when required.
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  • Dice Id: 91141690
  • Position Id: 9097010
  • Posted 8 hours ago
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