Mainframe MQ Administrator / IBM MQ Mainframe Administrator

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

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is seeking an IBM MQ Administrator to manage installation, upgrades, maintenance and troubleshooting of MQ environments in our Manila delivery centers.

You will design MQ architecture patterns, define queues and channels, monitor queue processing, and coordinate with mainframe or other product teams. Strong knowledge of MQ utilities and 24x7 on-call support is required.

Qualifications

• Experience in IBM MQ administration, including installation, upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Ability to design MQ architecture patterns and define objects like queues and channels.
• Knowledge of monitoring and alerting for MQ processing and global queue health.
• Familiarity with MQ utilities for message handling and archival tasks.
• Understanding of MQ in mainframe contexts (z/OS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF, COBOL) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Install, upgrade, maintain and troubleshoot IBM MQ environments.
• Administer, alert setup and monitor the MQ message flow using MQ tools.
• Design MQ architecture patterns per application requirements.
• Define MQ objects: queues, channels, processes, topics, etc.
• Execute MQ utilities for queue messages management (backup, delete).
• Maintain pagesets and bufferpools to match application growth.
• Handle MQ queue sharing and clustering for queue managers.
• Perform health checks and dead-letter queue automation.
• Coordinate MQ interfaces with other products (CICS, DB2, IMS) and third-party servers.
• Monitor MQ online and analyze CPU usage via SMF statistics.
• Support MQ knowledge on MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms.
• Nice to have knowledge of zOS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF and COBOL.
• Coordinate with IBM and ISV vendors for incidents, downloads and escalations.
• Provide 24x7 after-hours on-call support for supported MQ products.

Skills

MQ administration

MQ clustering

SMF analysis

MQ monitoring

Tools

MQ Explorer

Omegamon for MQ

TEPS

MQSeries

MQClients

Mainframe z/OS

JCL

VSAM

ISPF

COBOL

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