Senior IBM MQ Administrator

IBM MQ Administrator – IBM MQ v9.x / Linux

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 6 Months Contract | Hybrid

End Client: Leading Enterprise Client

About the Role

Our consulting client is seeking an experienced IBM MQ Administrator to provide administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operational support for IBM MQ v9.x in a Linux-based environment. The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience managing MQ objects, supporting messaging infrastructure, resolving incidents, and ensuring reliable connectivity across application environments.

Responsibilities

• Perform IBM MQ (v9.x) administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operational support in a Linux-based environment.
• Create and modify MQ objects, including Queue Managers, Channels, Topics, and Queues.
• Configure WebSphere MQ Queue Managers, Channels, Topics, and Queues.
• Monitor and maintain Queue Managers, Queues, Topics, Channels, and Listeners.
• Create MQ objects on local and remote MQ servers.
• Enable triggering on MQ Queues.
• Configure and implement Distributed Queuing in Client/Server environments.
• Install and configure the latest versions of IBM MQ.
• Configure and monitor MQ Listeners, Channel Initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files, Dead Letter Queues, and Clustering setups.
• Monitor IBM MQ using MQ Explorer and configure MQ Explorer Monitoring tools.
• Participate in MQ Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises.
• Use shell (batch) scripting for repetitive tasks and schedulers.
• Understand basic networking requirements to establish MQ connectivity.
• Manage security settings and different types of certificates at Queue Manager and channel levels, including installing new certificates and renewing existing certificates.
• Understand different types of logging in WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and MQ.
• Work with project teams on new application connections, analyzing and preparing the best-fitting messaging solutions.
• Demonstrate strong communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and documentation skills.

Required Skills / What You Bring

• Hands-on experience administering IBM MQ v9.x in a Linux-based environment.
• Strong knowledge of MQ objects, including Queue Managers, Channels, Topics, and Queues.
• Experience with incident management, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Experience configuring and monitoring MQ Listeners, Channel Initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files, Dead Letter Queues, and Clustering setups.
• Knowledge of Distributed Queuing in Client/Server environments.
• Experience with shell (batch) scripting and schedulers.
• Understanding of MQ connectivity, networking, security settings, and certificate installation and renewal.
• Experience with MQ monitoring tools, including MQ Explorer.
• Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and documentation skills.

Beneficial Knowledge

• IBM MQ Appliances
• IBM MQ IPT
• ServiceNow: Incident management, CR submission, tasks management, and closing
• Dynatrace monitoring
• Kafka technology

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