The Mainframe MQ Engineer is responsible for supporting IBM MQ environments on z Systems and IBMi platforms. This role involves maintaining messaging infrastructure, troubleshooting MQ issues, supporting application integrations, and ensuring system availability and performance.
Positions: 02
Location: USA
Responsibilities:
- Provide support for IBM MQ environments on z/OS and IBMi platforms.
- Create and maintain Queue Managers and MQ objects such as queues and channels.
- Support application integrations using MQ APIs.
- Troubleshoot production messaging issues and provide solutions.
- Monitor MQ environments for performance, availability, and reliability.
- Support MQ upgrades, patching, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
- Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
- Design and maintain messaging flows and architecture diagrams.
- Participate in on-call rotations and support incident resolution.
- Support disaster recovery exercises and ensure system readiness.
Technical Skills:
- Hands-on experience with IBM MQ support.
- Experience with MQ on z/OS including queue manager configuration.
- Experience with MQ on IBMi environments (preferred).
- Knowledge of MQIPT and distributed MQ environments.
- Understanding of application integration using MQ APIs.
- Experience with z/OS tools including ISPF, JCL, SDSF, JES, PDSE, and VSAM.
- Experience with SMP/E, DB2, CICS, IMS, and TCP/IP networking concepts.
- Experience with MQ monitoring and performance tools.
- Experience with MQ dashboard tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or Ironstream.
- Experience analyzing SMF data for system statistics.
Additional Skills:
- Experience with MQ alerting, automation, and monitoring configurations.
- Knowledge of MQ clustering and point-to-point messaging.
- Experience with MQ triggering to CICS, IMS, or z/OS systems.
- Experience with shared queue groups, coupling facilities, and SMDS.
- Experience with MQ logging including active and archive logs.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work with vendor support teams for troubleshooting.
- Ability to use AI tools to analyze system data and recommend improvements.
- Ability to use M365 Copilot for meeting summaries and communication.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with IBMi commands, menus, and automation tools.
- Experience with IBMi Integrated File Systems, jobs, logs, and libraries.
- Experience with IBMi high availability solutions such as Mimix replication.
- Experience supporting secure government environments such as FISMA.
