Mainframe MQ Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking a Mainframe MQ Administrator to join the team in India. The role requires 5-8 years of hands-on experience with IBM MQ across installation, upgrades, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

You will design MQ architectures, configure queues, channels, topics, and perform health checks, monitoring, and on-call support to ensure reliable message processing across related systems.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of mainframe MQ experience.
• Expertise in monitoring and alert setup for MQ using MQ Explorer, Omegamon for MQ and TEPS.
• Design MQ architecture patterns for message processing flows per requirements.
• Define MQ objects: queues, channels, processes, and topics.
• Perform MQ utilities for queue messages (backup, delete records).

Responsibilities

• Manage IBM MQ installations, upgrades and maintenance.
• Monitor MQ health and performance; set up alerts and dashboards.
• Design scalable MQ architectures for new applications.
• Configure queues, channels, and topics per specs.
• Coordinate MQ-related incidents and support 24x7 on-call as needed.

Skills

IBM MQ

MQ Monitoring

MQ Architecture

JCL

COBOL

Tools

MQ Explorer

Omegamon for MQ

TEPS

VSAM

ISPF

Job description

Role: Mainframe MQ Administrator

Location: Chennai/Bangalore/Hyderabad

Exp: 5-8 Years

JD - Mainframe MQ Admin

• 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