IBM MQ Infra Admin

Carnation Infotech; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Carnation Infotech Pvt Ltd. seeks a seasoned DevOps engineer skilled in IBM MQ, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Ansible, GitOps, and secure automation. The role focuses on end-to-end automation, containerized deployments, and reliable disaster recovery with CRR/DR concepts.

Based in Hyderabad, it offers hands-on engineering, collaboration across teams, and a strong emphasis on security and tooling standardization. You will implement MQ queue management, private registries, vaults, and CI/CD pipelines

Qualifications

• Must have strong IBM MQ expertise and HA concepts.
• Experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes day-2 operations (namespaces, RBAC, Secrets).
• Proficiency in Ansible, AAP, and automation tooling for CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid GitOps practice using ArgoCD and Kustomize.
• Experience with Vault KV/Apps and certificate lifecycle management.

Skills

IBM MQ

NativeHA on containers

MQ Operator

Ansible

AAP

OpenShift/Kubernetes day-2

Namespaces & RBAC

GitOps

ArgoCD

Kustomize

Vault

Certificate lifecycle

Git

Shell

Python

Automation tooling

End-to-end troubleshooting

Tools

IBM MQ

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

Must Have Skills:

• 1. Strong IBM MQ (queue managers, HA concepts, channels, security, MQSC).
• 2. NativeHA on containers is a major plus. IBM MQ Operator airgap/mirror, private registry, Multi-region CRR / DR role management.
• 3. Production Ansible + AAP (job templates, credentials, surveys, execution model)
• 4. OpenShift/Kubernetes day-2: namespaces, SA/RBAC, Secrets, Jobs, operators, Routes
• 5. GitOps with ArgoCD and Kustomize
• 6. Vault (KV, AppRole, K8s auth) and enterprise certificate lifecycle (Venafi or similar CLM)
• 7. Comfortable with Git, shell, and Python for automation tooling
• 8. End-to-end troubleshooting across automation Git cluster MQ secrets

Nice to have:

• 1. Vault Enterprise namespaces/zones, Auth policies
• 2. Splunk / Prometheus / OpenTelemetry for middleware
• 3. LDAP/AD integration patterns on OpenShift
• 4. IBM ACE, Kafka/Strimzi, MQIPT, RDQM, channel exits
• 5. Mentoring and standards ownership across teams