Lead Systems Programmer

Recruise: Executive Search and Talent Advisory; Bengaluru; Vor Ort; INR 3.500.000 - 5.500.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Recruise: Executive Search and Talent Advisory invites a Lead Systems Programmer to own Mainframe MQ and WebSphere Application Server (WAS) administration on z/OS. The role emphasizes middleware engineering, migration, performance optimization, security, and platform modernization while supporting MQ infrastructure across mainframe and distributed environments.

You will engage in platform stability, automation, and end-to-end deployment, ensuring reliable messaging and enterprise integration.

Qualifikationen

• Must have deep hands-on IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) administration across z/OS environments.
• Strong experience with IBM MQ on z/OS (Mainframe) and middleware administration.
• Proven ability to support production environments, perform performance optimization, and implement security measures.

Aufgaben

• Maintain WAS on z/OS, ensure stability, security, performance and availability for business-critical apps.
• Contribute to middleware reliability and seamless delivery across development, test and production environments.
• Administer MQ for z/OS including QSGs and shared queues; prevent message loss and ensure disaster recovery readiness.
• Collaborate with application, z/OS, network and MQ teams during incidents and modernization projects.
• Provide 24x7 support for MQ z/OS and related products; participate in optimization and automation initiatives.

Kenntnisse

WAS z/OS administration

Application deployment

MQ for z/OS administration

Queue Sharing Group management

MQ monitoring (CA SYSVIEW)

Scripting for deployments

Tools

MQ panels

Sysplex environment

Jobbeschreibung

Job Title - Mainframe MQ & WebSphere Application Server (WAS) - Lead Systems Programmer

The Purpose of This Role

Provide technical and systems support to Mainframe MQ & WAS systems, with strong expertise in middleware administration, application hosting, integration, performance management, and production support. The ideal candidate should possess deep hands-on experience in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) administration across complex enterprise environments, along with a solid understanding of IBM MQ on z/OS (Mainframe).

The role will primarily focus on WAS administration, engineering, migration, performance optimization, security implementation, and platform modernization initiatives, while also supporting IBM MQ infrastructure on Mainframe and distributed platforms.

The Value You Deliver

The Mainframe MQ group provides a variety of services related to MQ & WAS on z/OS systems. Those services might include but are not necessarily limited to:

WebSphere Application Server (WAS) platform on z/OS

• Responsible in ensuring that the WebSphere Application Server for z/OS platform remains stable, secure, performant, and available for business-critical applications running on the Mainframe.
• Key contributor in maintaining middleware reliability and enabling seamless application delivery across development, test, and production environments.
• Platform Availability & Reliability
• Performance Optimization
• Incident Resolution & Problem Management
• Security & Compliance
• Operational Excellence & Automation
• Mainframe Integration & Enterprise Support by working with MQ, CICS, DB2, z/OS System Programming, and Application teams.
• Working knowledge of ComputeGrid augmentation into Cell
• ComputeGrid configuration and operational support
• Working knowledge of ZFS administration
• Proficiency in Scripting for deployments
• Working knowledge of ZRES build and configuration

IBM MQ for z/OS infrastructure

• Maintain stable operation of MQ Queue Managers and Queue Sharing Groups (QSGs).
• Prevent message loss, duplication, and delivery disruptions.
• Support business-critical transactions that depend on MQ messaging.
• Administer Queue Sharing Groups and Shared Queues for continuous service availability.
• Support disaster recovery, failover, and resilience testing activities.
• Ensure MQ infrastructure can recover quickly from failures without business impact.
• Diagnose and resolve MQ failures impacting business applications.
• Investigate channel outages, queue build-ups, triggering issues, and connectivity failures.
• Perform root cause analysis for recurring incidents.
• Collaborate with application, z/OS, network, and distributed MQ teams during critical incidents.
• Assist application teams in implementing reliable messaging solutions.
• Contribute to modernization initiatives leveraging MQ as an enterprise integration backbone
• As a MQ Systems programmer, install, maintain, and provide 24X7 support for MQ z/OS and other related products

The Skills that are Key to this role

Technical / Behavioral

• Core WAS for z/OS Administration
• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of WebSphere Application Server for z/OS.
• Understanding of WAS z/OS architecture
• Application deployment and lifecycle management.
• Application Deployment & Support
• Understanding of Queue Sharing Group architecture.
• Shared Queue administration.
• Coupling Facility concepts.
• Shared Queue recovery procedures.
• Queue and channel administration using MQ panels and commands.
• Work knowledge on MQ monitoring tool like CA sysview product.
• Working knowledge of MQ clusters/channels and experience in a sysplex environment.

The Skills that are Good To Have for this role

• Knowledge of Network Basics
• Good knowledge of Mainframe Operating System Components and tools
• Knowledge to Disaster Recovery methodologies

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

You would be able to contribute in maintaining stability of our end points by upkeeping infrastructure uptime through structured software, distribution and patch management mechanism thereby helping associates to perform their day to day tasks seamlessly.