Mainframe MQ Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services; Taguig; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking an IBM MQ Administrator in the Philippines to install, upgrade, configure, and troubleshoot IBM MQ environments. You will design MQ architecture for new applications, define queues, channels, and topics, and perform health checks and automation tasks, including dead-letter handling and clustering where needed.

The role requires hands-on experience with MQ tools such as MQ Explorer, Omegamon for MQ, and TEPS, and familiarity with MQSeries and MQClients on

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• Install, upgrade, maintain IBM MQ products.
• Configure and troubleshoot MQ queues and channels.
• Design MQ architecture for new applications.
• Define MQ objects: queues, channels, processes, and topics.
• Execute MQ utilities for queue management and backup tasks.
• Maintain pagesets and bufferpools to match application growth.
• Knowledge of MQ clustering and queue sharing for MQ managers.
• Health checks and migration tasks for MQ queue managers.
• Integrate MQ with other IBM products and third-party servers.
• Monitor MQ performance and analyze CPU usage.
• Knowledge of MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms a plus.
• Mainframe knowledge: z/OS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF, COBOL a plus.
• Coordinate with IBM & ISV vendors for incidents and downloads.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support as required.

Skills

MQ administration

MQ monitoring

Troubleshooting

Incident coordination

On-call support

Tools

MQ Explorer

Omegamon for MQ

TEPS

MQSeries

Job description

• 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