IBM MQ Administrator
- ON, Canada
- Ontario, Canada, Canada
$60 CAD / hour · Contract
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Original job description
Job Title: Senior IBM MQ Administrator
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months contract with possibility of extension
Pay Rate: 60/hour CAD on Inc.
Job Summary
The following responsibilities are expected to be performed by the MQ Administrator (Linux based environment)
- Solid knowledge of IBM MQ (v9.x) administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operational support.
- Create and modify MQ objects such as Queue Managers, Channels, Topics, and Queues.
- Configuring WebSphere MQ Queue Managers, Channels, Topics and Queues.
- Monitoring and maintaining 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 configured latest versions of IBM MQ.
- Configure and monitor MQ Listeners, Channel Initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files, Dead Letter Queues, and Clustering setups.
- Monitor MQ using MQ Explorer and configured MQ Explorer Monitoring tool.
- Participate in MQ DR exercises.
- Use shell (batch) scripting for repetitive tasks, schedulers.
- Understanding basic networking requirements to establish MQ connectivity
- Understanding security settings, different type certificates on Queue manager, channel levels. Be able to install new and renew existing certificates.
- Understanding different types of logging in WAS and MQ
- Working with project teams on new application connections, analyzing and preparing best fitting messaging solutions.
- Good communication skills & well versed with group work, strong problem solving with documentation
Beneficial knowledge:
- IBM MQ Appliances
- IBM MQ IPT
- ServiceNow: Incident management, CR submission, tasks management and closing.
- Dynatrace monitoring
- Knowledge of Kafka technology
Required Skills:
BM MQ (v9.x) administration
MQ objects
Incident management
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Responsibilities
Administer, install, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot IBM MQ in a Linux environment, including queue managers, queues, channels, listeners, certificates, logging, and clustering. Support application connectivity and disaster recovery exercises, automate repetitive tasks with shell scripts, and manage incidents and related ServiceNow workflows.
Requirements
Requires solid IBM MQ 9.x administration experience, including MQ object configuration, distributed queuing, monitoring, security, certificates, and operational troubleshooting. The role also calls for Linux and shell scripting knowledge, basic networking understanding, strong communication and problem-solving skills, and documentation; knowledge of MQ appliances, ServiceNow, Dynatrace, and Kafka is beneficial.
Skills
- IBM MQ Administration
- IBM MQ 9.x
- Linux
- Queue Managers
- Channels
- Topics
- Queues
- Distributed Queuing
- MQ Monitoring
- Shell Scripting
- Networking
- Certificates
- Incident Management
- ServiceNow
- Dynatrace
- Kafka
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
Keywords
- IBM MQ
- IBM MQ 9.x
- Linux
- Queue Managers
- Channels
- Topics
- Queues
- Listeners
- Channel Initiators
- Trigger Monitors
- Distributed Queuing
- MQ Clustering
- Dead Letter Queues
- MQ Explorer
- MQ Monitoring
- MQ Logging
- WebSphere MQ
- Shell Scripting
- Schedulers
- Networking
- Certificates
- Disaster Recovery
- ServiceNow
- Incident Management
- Dynatrace
- Kafka
- Application Connectivity
- MQ Appliances