Automation Engineer

Bank of America; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an MQ Automation Engineer for a leading financial services client. This individual will join the enterprise messaging engineering team responsible for IBM MQ platform engineering, certification, and automation initiatives.

The ideal candidate brings strong infrastructure automation expertise with Terraform and Ansible combined with hands‑on MQ administration experience. This role is heavily focused on automating MQ deployments and patching processes across thousands of

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of infrastructure/software engineering experience.
• Experience building and maintaining infrastructure automation at enterprise scale.
• Experience with MQ configuration, patching, maintenance, upgrades, and automation.
• Linux/UNIX administration and shell scripting experience.
• Experience supporting environments across VMs, physical servers, containers, and cloud platforms.
• Public and private cloud experience.
• Strong troubleshooting and platform support skills.

Responsibilities

• Automate IBM MQ deployments, patching, and platform management processes.
• Support thousands of MQ environments across diverse infrastructure platforms.
• Develop and enhance Terraform and Ansible automation solutions.
• Certify, test, and validate MQ platform releases before production deployment.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to improve deployment efficiency.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and optimize operational processes.
• Ensure deployment consistency across cloud, container, VM, and physical server environments.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Automation tooling

MQ administration

Linux/UNIX scripting

Cloud platform experience

Troubleshooting

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

IBM MQ

Dynatrace

Job description

Location: Hybrid (Minimum 3 days onsite) - Plano, TX OR Charlotte, NC OR Jersey City, NJ

Process: 1 and done ONSITE interview – technical and behavioral

Must Haves:

• 7-10+ years of infrastructure/software engineering experience
• Experience building and maintaining infrastructure automation at enterprise scale
• Experience with MQ configuration, patching, maintenance, upgrades, and automation
• Linux/UNIX administration and shell scripting experience
• Experience supporting environments across VMs, physical servers, containers, and cloud platforms
• Public and private cloud experience
• Strong troubleshooting and platform support skills

Plusses:

• Messaging technologies (IIB, Tibco, Kafka, etc.)
• Dynatrace or AppDynamics monitoring tools
• Ping Access and certificate management
• Java/J2EE experience
• Agile methodology experience

Day to Day:

Insight Global is seeking an MQ Automation Engineer for a leading financial services client. This individual will join the enterprise messaging engineering team responsible for IBM MQ platform engineering, certification, and automation initiatives. The ideal candidate brings strong infrastructure automation expertise with Terraform and Ansible combined with hands‑on MQ administration experience. This role is heavily focused on automating MQ deployments and patching processes across thousands of environments, making it an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving large-scale infrastructure challenges within a complex enterprise environment.

Day-to-Day:

• Automate IBM MQ deployments, patching, and platform management processes
• Support thousands of MQ environments across diverse infrastructure platforms
• Develop and enhance Terraform and Ansible automation solutions
• Certify, test, and validate MQ platform releases before production deployment
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to improve deployment efficiency
• Troubleshoot platform issues and optimize operational processes
• Ensure deployment consistency across cloud, container, VM, and physical server environments