Mainframe MQ Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Chennai seeks an IBM MQ Administrator with 5–8 years of hands-on experience to install, upgrade, configure, and troubleshoot MQ environments.

You will design MQ architecture, define queues and channels, monitor performance, and ensure 24x7 support across distributed platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience in IBM MQ product installation, upgrades, maintenance, configurations, and troubleshooting.
• Design the MQ architecture pattern for message processing per requirements.
• Define MQ objects: queues, channel, process definition, topics, etc.
• Knowledge of MQ queue sharing, clustering, and health checks.
• 24x7 after-hours on-call support as required.
• 15 years of full-time education.

Responsibilities

• Maintain MQ environment with health checks and monitoring.
• Coordinate with IBM and ISV vendors for ticketing and downloads.
• Provide on-call support as required for supported products.

Skills

MQ Administration

MQ Architecture Design

MQ Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Queue & Channel Management

CICS/DB2/IMS integrations

Education

15 years of full-time education

Tools

MQ Explorer

Omegamon for MQ

TEPS

Job description

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Experience Range: 5 – 8 YrsWhat we are looking forMust Have

• Experience in IBM MQ product installation, upgrades, maintenance, configurations and troubleshooting.
• Expertise in administrating, alert setup and monitoring the message process using tools like MQ explorer, Omegamon for MQ and TEPS.
• Design the MQ architecture pattern for the message processing flow as per the new application requirement
• Defining the MQ objects queues, channel, process definition, Topic, etc .
• Skilled at executing IBM MQ utilities to handle the MQ queue messages(backup, deleting a particular records etc..)
• Maintain and adopt the new pagesets & bufferpool according to the application growth in MQ
• Knowledge on the MQ queue sharing and MQ clustering to handle the queue managers and its components.
• Strong knowledge on MQ queue manager creation/migration and daily health check and dead letter queue process automation
• Good understanding of messaging interfaces and connections to the IBM other products (such as CICS, DB2, IMS..) and third party application servers.
• Perform MQ online monitoring, investigate MQ CPU usage using SMF statistics analyze
• Nice to have knowledge with MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms.
• Nice to have knowledge Mainrame zOS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF and COBOL.
• IBM and ISV Vendor Coordination for Ticketing Incidents/Problems, SW downloads, Escalations
• Provide 24x7 after hours on-call support as required for products supported by the team
• 15 years of full-time education