Senior IBM MQ Midrange Engineer

Senior IBM MQ Midrange Engineer

Extelligence is an intelligent partner that goes the extra mile. We provide customized information management solutions for major industries. Our team in Prague and Bucharest is working with international companies, transforming, and adding value to their business on a daily basis. We are growing quickly, and we are interested to bring more talented individuals into our team.

Responsibilities

  • Adhering to SLAs
  • Mentoring / Training /Grooming Team Members
  • Handling tickets/requests
  • Perform root cause analysis
  • Troubleshooting technical issues
  • Defining processes and ensuring that the processes are adhered to
  • Oversees and is responsible for the successful completion of Installation, configuration, and migration
  • Ensure maximum uptime according to the SLA
  • Understanding of Multi-geo support environment
  • Responsible for building/maintaining a test environment
  • Responsible for strategizing a backup plan and test plan for a failure scenario
  • Improves and maintains customer and employee satisfaction
  • Suggests new technologies and design changes
  • Monitoring and maintaining SLA requirements by the team members
  • Planning Backup/Restoration Strategy for 24×7 operation support
  • Suggesting patches/upgrades to maintain the security level
  • Testing / Auditing/processes as required from time to time
  • Identify Skill gaps and plan for training/knowledge updating

Technical Requirements

  • Experts level knowledge of IBM MQ in design, installation, fix pack upgrade, migration, and configuration
  • Experts level knowledge of MQ horizontal/vertical Clustering
  • Implementing WMQ Clustering like RDQM, Uniform Cluster and Configuration of Multi-Instance (Workload Failover & DR) in MQ
  • Planning and implementing maintenance activities, SSL certificate renewals, OS patching and MQ patching.
  • Experienced in MQ migration from 8.x to 9.x in Linux, Windows, AIX environments.
  • Configuration of WMQ for new Application Sites.
  • Experienced in MQ hardening parameters and making system compliance assessments and detecting security vulnerabilities and resolving
  • Execution of scripts for Queue Manager and Queues.
  • Configuring production servers and creating required WMQ objects
  • Reporting project status and updates to clients on weekly basis.
  • Administering the queue managers that run MQ 8.x and 9.x on Linux, windows AIX systems.
  • Working with MQ triggering and clustering.
  • Onboarding new environment in Monitoring tool like ITM, TSOM , Splunk etc
  • Complete maintenance and support.
  • Monitoring and administration.
  • Regular Health checks of the environment.

Qualifications

  • B Tech, B.E, Degree Certificate
  • Certification requirements: IBM Midrange MQ certification would be an advantage

Bonus Points

  • Experience with Infrastructure Automation like a shell script, Ansible, JSON, Powershell or using other comparable tools

Working with Extelligence:

  • We take care of the important things that matter to contractors, for example, we guarantee on-time payment for your work. You will never have to chase us for payment.
  • We always seek to have long term relationships with our team and we always seek to offer opportunities to extend cooperation beyond the first contract or project.
  • Extelligence is a multicultural team, we have more than 15 different nationalities working with us.
  • We also organize events to bring our team together including team building activities and social events.
Job Type: Contract
Job Location: Poland

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