Mainframe MQ Engineer

Intone Inc

Phoenix (AZ)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 160,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Intone Inc in Phoenix seeks an experienced Mainframe IBM MQ Engineer to oversee IBM MQ on z/OS, ensuring highly available, secure MQ infrastructure in a critical production environment.

Responsibilities include installation, configuration, monitoring, tuning, problem determination, and DR planning, with collaboration across CICS, IMS, RACF, and network teams. On-call support is required for critical issues.

Qualifications

Strong hands-on experience with IBM MQ for z/OS.
Strong knowledge of Queue Managers.
Strong knowledge of Local and Remote Queues.
Strong knowledge of Transmission Queues.
Strong knowledge of MQ Channels.
Strong knowledge of Channel Initiators.
Strong knowledge of Listeners.
Strong knowledge of Dead Letter Queues.
Strong knowledge of Distributed Queuing.
Strong knowledge of MQ Clustering.
Strong knowledge of MQ security.
Strong knowledge of MQ logging and recovery.
Strong knowledge of MQ monitoring and troubleshooting.
Strong experience with z/OS.
Experience with JCL.
Good understanding of TCP/IP and network connectivity.
Experience with MQ problem determination and production support.
Experience supporting high-volume, business-critical mainframe environments.
Understanding of change, incident, and problem management processes.

Responsibilities

Install, configure, administer, and support IBM MQ for z/OS environments.
Configure and maintain MQ queue managers, queues, channels, listeners, transmission queues, and other MQ objects.
Perform day-to-day administration and monitoring of MQ environments.
Configure and support distributed queuing and communication between queue managers.
Configure, administer, and troubleshoot IBM MQ clusters.
Monitor queue depths, channel status, queue manager availability, message flow, and overall MQ health.
Troubleshoot production problems including channel failures and message delivery issues.
Perform problem determination and root cause analysis for MQ incidents.
Support MQ recovery, restart, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management.
Support high-availability and disaster-recovery for MQ environments.
Configure and support MQ connectivity with mainframe applications, including CICS and IMS.
Partner with RACF/security teams to implement MQ security.
Support channel authentication, TLS, and MQ access controls.
Analyze MQ performance and implement tuning recommendations.
Develop and maintain JCL, procedures, automation, and technical documentation.
Participate in production changes, incidents, and problem management.
Provide on-call and after-hours support for critical issues.

Skills

IBM MQ for z/OS

MQ queue managers

MQ channels

MQ security

MQ clustering

MQ monitoring & troubleshooting

z/OS

JCL

TCP/IP networking

Production support

Tools

JCL

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Mainframe IBM MQ Engineer to support highly available, business-critical mainframe environments in Phoenix, Arizona on a 12+ month contract basis. The successful candidate will be responsible for the administration, configuration, monitoring, performance, security, maintenance, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management of IBM MQ infrastructure on z/OS, working closely with application, CICS, IMS, network, security, operations, and other mainframe infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

Install, configure, administer, and support IBM MQ for z/OS environments.
Configure and maintain MQ queue managers, queues, channels, listeners, transmission queues, and other MQ objects.
Perform day-to-day administration and monitoring of MQ environments.
Configure and support distributed queuing and communication between queue managers.
Configure, administer, and troubleshoot IBM MQ clusters.
Monitor queue depths, channel status, queue manager availability, message flow, and overall MQ infrastructure health.
Troubleshoot production problems including channel failures, queue manager issues, message delivery problems, messages remaining on queues, connectivity issues, security/authorization failures, and application-to-MQ connectivity issues.
Perform problem determination and root cause analysis for MQ-related production incidents.
Support MQ recovery and restart activities.
Support MQ upgrades, migrations, maintenance, patching, and lifecycle management.
Support high-availability and disaster-recovery requirements for MQ environments.
Configure and support MQ connectivity with mainframe applications, including CICS and IMS.
Partner with RACF/security teams to implement and maintain MQ security.
Support channel authentication, connection authentication, TLS, and MQ access controls.
Analyze MQ performance and implement tuning recommendations.
Develop and maintain JCL, operational procedures, automation, and technical documentation.
Participate in production changes, implementations, incident management, and problem management.
Provide on-call and after-hours support for critical production issues when required.