Mainframe MQ Support

Job Description

Insight Global is hiring 2 Mainframe MQ Support Engineer for our infrastructure services client. This role will be providing system support for MQ for an end client. This is a remote contract working CST hours and on-call rotation.

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Skills and Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in IBM mainframe MQ support.

• Experience with MQ on z/OS; creating and maintaining QMGRs and objects (queues, channels, etc.)

• Understanding of how applications work with MQ (API’s).

• Application development experience (preferred).

• MF Operations experience (preferred).

• Basic knowledge of containers and IBM CP4I (preferred).

• Proficiency with z/OS, ISPF, JCL, SDSF, JES, PDSE, VSAM, and related utilities.

• Understanding of/experience with SMP/E DB2, CICS, IMS, Network/TCPIP, MF Automations - OPS/MVS, as they relate to MQ.

• Experience with MQ Monitoring solutions for real-time and historical perspectives on status, trouble shooting, tuning, and trending.

• Experience with MQ dashboarding tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Ironstream/Splunk).

• Experience with IBM SMF data for statistical analysis.

• Experience with MQ alerting implications and configurations; thresholds, traps, flows and notifications, including auto-ticketing.

• Experience with Automations for MQ operations, syslog messages, and other functionality.

• Experience with Capexpry implementations to prevent orphaned/stale messages where appropriate.

• Experience with Queue Streaming, an MQ feature used to replicate messages to a specified secondary queue as must duplicate, or best effort.

• Experience with change, incident, problem, request, configuration item, event, and oncall management.

• Experience with MQ PLM, upgrades, maintenance, testing, implementations, integration.

• Experience with Queue Sharing Groups (QSGs), Coupling facilities, Coupling Facility Structures (CFStructs), Shared Message Data Sets (SMDS), SCM (flash memory); shared queueing.

• Experience with various MQ connectivity methods; Batch, MQ clustering, point to point channels, direct client connections via SVRCONN channels, batch, MQ triggering to CICS/IMS/zOS, IMS Bridge (OTMA), and MQIPT TCPIP/ HTTPS protocol conversion connections between MQ external/ core.

• Experience with MQ logging, active logs, archive logs, dual logging, zHyperwrite, logload/checkpointing frequency

• Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills are required for teamwork and collaboration.

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Experience working with IBM software and other 3rd party vendor support for PLM, documentation, and technical support/troubleshooting.

• Support Disaster Recovery exercises as required.

• Create and maintain technical and procedural documentation for the team and others as required.

• Design, create and maintain messaging flows with diagrams, as required.

• Work well with teammates, other teams, and management.

• Provide excellent and timely customer service. • Experience with MQ on IBMi (preferred).

• Experience with/knowledge of MQ and MQIPT on Distributed platforms (preferred).

• Experience with IBMi Integrated File Systems, Jobs, Libs, Logs (preferred).

• Experience with IBMi IASP/Mimix replication for high availability Role Swaps (preferred).

• Experience with IBMi DB2 Mirror configurations for redundancy (preferred).

• Experience with IBMi MQ menus, commands, and administration (preferred).

• Experience with IBMi MQ environment variables (preferred).

• Experience with IBMi automation controls (preferred).

• Experience with IBMi FISMA enclave (preferred)