IBM MQ Administrator

Westfield Insurance; Westfield Center (OH); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company is seeking an IBM MQ Administrator to enhance middleware performance and ensure secure communication between IT systems. This mid-senior level position requires collaboration with IT teams and offers opportunities for professional growth within a respected firm. Responsibilities include trouble-shooting middleware platforms, collaborating with vendors, and ensuring compliance with security protocols.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in Middleware Technologies.
• Equivalent work experience is accepted.

Responsibilities

• Deploys and supports middleware products in hybrid environments.
• Troubleshoots issues across middleware platforms and environments.
• Engages in Disaster Recovery planning.

Skills

IBM MQ

IBM App Connect

IBM DataPower

SSL/TLS Management

Linux Navigation

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Job description

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Job Description

The Middleware Engineer, is a role working under moderate supervision, is responsible for the delivery, optimization, and scalability of middleware assets, services, and APIs. The role collaborates with various IT Teams to ensure successful and secure communication between various IT systems, application components, and vendors. The role requires an understanding of middleware infrastructures as well as supports XML and web services. The role optimizes the performance of integration environments by planning, testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and supporting various systems integrations.

Job Description

The Middleware Engineer, is a role working under moderate supervision, is responsible for the delivery, optimization, and scalability of middleware assets, services, and APIs. The role collaborates with various IT Teams to ensure successful and secure communication between various IT systems, application components, and vendors. The role requires an understanding of middleware infrastructures as well as supports XML and web services. The role optimizes the performance of integration environments by planning, testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and supporting various systems integrations.

Job Responsibilities

• Assesses, deploys, and supports middleware products that provide capabilities for advanced application business functionality and security, across a wide and varied portfolio of products in an enterprise hybrid environment.
• Develops solutions for middleware platforms by creating a standard framework or utilizing automation, where applicable, to efficiently reuse existing components and ensure consistent repeatability in deploying applications.
• Performs a variety of troubleshooting services across multiple middleware platforms in production and non-production environments.
• Executes middleware technology roadmap initiatives to ensure platform currency, stability and optimization and installs routine security related patches to mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Stays current with existing and emerging technologies, practices, trends and polices through research, industry events, networking, and other educational and information opportunities.
• Works with technology vendors and application development teams on implementing technical services, tools, and techniques.
• Monitors system services use, validating that performance levels experienced meet Service Level Agreements/Operating Level Agreements and recommends mitigation strategies if required.
• Collaborates with business units, and other technology teams to coordinate the implementation of middleware capabilities and components and ensures successful, seamless, and secure communication between various IT systems, application components, and vendors, both internal and external.
• Demonstrates personal accountability and ensures successful team outcomes by proactively identifying and mitigating delivery impediments, dependencies, and risks.
• Engages in Disaster Recovery planning.
• Participates in proof-of-concept studies to evaluate technology decisions.
  
  

Job Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in Middleware Technologies or a related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and/or commensurate work experience.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
  
  

Required Skills

• Proven experience in IBM MQ, IBM App Connect, IBM DataPower and related tools
• Proficiency in management of SSL/TLS certificates
• Understanding of Linux navigation and scripting
• Troubleshooting
  
  

Desired Skills

• Knowledge of Middleware platforms such as MuleSoft or Kafka
• Familiarity with log management technologies such as Graylog
• ReST and SOAP API’s utilizing OAuth 2.0 and SAML 2.0 security
• Understanding of build and deployment process ideally with tools such IBM UCD and Azure DevOps
• Insurance industry knowledge
  
  

Location

Hybrid defined as three (3) or more days per week in the office.

About Us

Founded in 1848, Westfield is a global leader in property and casualty insurance, delivering superior risk insights and innovative solutions to customers through a diverse portfolio of insurance products. Westfield underwrites commercial, personal, surety, and specialty lines of coverage through a network of leading independent agents and brokers in the United States and specialty products through Lloyd’s of London Syndicate 1200. As a mutual insurance company with more than 3,000 employees, Westfield has revenues in excess of $4 billion and more than $10 billion in assets.

Equal Opportunity Employer

United States: All applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

United Kingdom: Westfield is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Insurance

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