Lead Systems Programmer

Fidelity Investments Inc.; Bengaluru; In loco; INR 3.500.000 - 5.500.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Fidelity Investments seeks a Lead Systems Programmer skilled in Mainframe MQ and WebSphere Application Server (WAS) administration to support mission-critical applications on z/OS.

The role centers on WAS administration, migration, performance optimization, security implementation, and platform modernization, while also maintaining the IBM MQ infrastructure across mainframe and distributed platforms. 24x7 support is included.

Competenze

• Hands-on WAS administration for z/OS across enterprise environments.
• IBM MQ on z/OS administration and integration.
• Queue Sharing Group architecture and administration.
• Security, performance optimization, and platform modernization initiatives.
• Operate MQ infrastructure with disaster recovery and resilience in mind.

Mansioni

• Maintain WAS for z/OS platform stability, security, and performance.
• Support MQ infrastructure on Mainframe and distributed platforms.
• Provide 24x7 MQ z/OS support and incident management.
• Collaborate with application, z/OS, network, and MQ teams during incidents.
• Contribute to modernization initiatives leveraging MQ as an enterprise integration backbone.

Conoscenze

WAS administration

MQ administration

z/OS knowledge

Scripting for deployments

CA Sysview

MQ clusters

Queue Manager admin

Queue Sharing Groups

Incident resolution

Automation

Formazione

Graduate

Strumenti

MQ for z/OS

CICS

DB2

z/OS

CA SYSVIEW

Descrizione del lavoro

Job Description:

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 at Fidelity. Those services might include but are not necessarily limited to:

• 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
• Application Hosting & Deployment Excellence
• 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 Compute Grid augmentation into Cell
• Compute Grid configuration and operational support
• Working knowledge of ZFS administration
• Proficiency in Scripting for deployments
• Working knowledge of ZRES build and configuration
• undefined 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 incident 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.

z/OS Integration Knowledge Application Deployment & Support IBM MQ Queue Manager administration on z/OS.

Understanding of Queue Sharing Group architecture.

Shared Queue administration.Coupling Facility concepts.

Shared Queue recovery procedures.

Group Queue Manager administration.

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

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

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.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• 7-8 years of IT experience
• Graduate

Location : Chennai

Shift timings: 1:00 pm - 10:00pm

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