WebSphere MQ Admin - TechDigital
Princeton, NJ
About the Job
Primary skills - MQ administrations
Secondary skill – Kafka
Technologies involved
MQ 6, 7, 7.5, 8, 9, 9.2
MQ internal, external, and shared hubs.
Secondary skill – Kafka
Technologies involved
MQ 6, 7, 7.5, 8, 9, 9.2
MQ internal, external, and shared hubs.
- Experience with installation, maintenance, and support of WebSphere MQ on distributed platforms
- Installation of MQ with HA and Clustering using SAN/NAS/NFS storages with load balancing concept
- Provide MQ administrations support to multiple applications on different platforms in Hybrid Cloud Domain. Should be capable to collaborate with the current Infrastructure & middleware team.
- Modify/re-design configuration/applications to resolve identified issues.
- Manage, configure and monitor MQ Listeners, Command Servers, Channel initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files , RQD & Dead Letter Queues
- Setup of IBM Websphere MQ in a cluster environment for both load balancing and Failover.
- IBM Websphere MQ best practices for setup/monitoring as well as usage.
- Provide impact analysis of newer versions and provide upgrade paths and plan and upgrade servers with the appropriate versions and patches of IBM Websphere MQ
- Setup security (SSL, TLS, Encryption, Certificates etc.) on the Websphere MQ servers as well as the queues and applications that access Websphere MQ.
- Strong knowledge to create a message hub(external/internal) with endpoints and policies over MQTT.
- Should have knowledge on implementing MQ security using OAM and SSL
- Must be proficient in the writing/editing of UNIX shell scripts.
- Should have experience of the middleware technologies used along with MQ (for ex. WAS, JBoss etc)
- Handle Technical Escalations received from (SSL, TLS, Encryption, Certificates etc.)
- Create SOPs ensuring compliance to Service Level Agreements (SLA) and train internal teams
- Troubleshoot High Severity incidents & Provide RCA
- Collaborate with internal customers/leading MQ Series standup/migration projects for internal organizations and handling MQ/Custom client installations
- Knowledge of various Broker MQ objects such as Queues, Channels, Clustered Queues, etc.
- Vast knowledge on MQ Clustering, PUB/SUB, Exits, API, and Client access architectures
- Advantage having knowledge on configuration, troubleshooting, optimization of ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka brokers and RabbitMQ.
- Should have strong knowledge on MQ Backup and Recovery processes
- Should have strong knowledge on any of the MQ monitoring product like BMC True sight, Tivoli, IBM Infrared 360 , etc
- Participated in MQ Disaster Recovery exercise on various platforms/environments.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills with excellent understanding of system development methodologies, techniques and tools
- Demonstrated initiative to recommend process improvements and demonstrated creative thinking
- Experience implementing or overseeing the implementation of all MQ objects
- Strong interpersonal skills, as well as excellent communication skills, verbal and written to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Should have sound knowledge in ITIL processes incident management, change management, problem management and request management etc
- Ability to guide / mentor other Administrators and troubleshoot issues
- Providing 24 x 7 supports for all applications to ensure continuous availability.
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