Mainframe Support – MQ Engineer

Dataconsol; United States; On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Dataconsol is seeking a Mainframe MQ Engineer to support IBM MQ environments on z Systems and IBMi, ensuring availability, performance, and reliable messaging for mission-critical applications.

You will create and maintain Queue Managers, assist with integrations via MQ APIs, monitor MQ health, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to upgrades, patches, and disaster recovery exercises.

Qualifications

• Hands-on IBM MQ support across mainframe environments.
• Experience configuring MQ on z/OS and IBMi platforms.
• Knowledge of MQIPT and distributed MQ environments.
• Familiarity with MQ APIs for application integration.
• Experience with z/OS tools and monitoring/logging ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Provide MQ support for IBM MQ on z/OS and IBMi.
• Create and maintain Queue Managers and MQ objects.
• Support MQ integrations using MQ APIs.
• Troubleshoot production MQ issues and provide solutions.
• Monitor MQ environments for performance and reliability.
• Assist with upgrades, patches, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain technical documentation and procedures.
• Design and maintain messaging flows and diagrams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident resolution.
• Support disaster recovery exercises and readiness.

Skills

IBM MQ expertise

MQ on z/OS

MQ on IBMi

MQIPT knowledge

MQ APIs integration

System monitoring

On-call support

Documentation

Vendor collaboration

AI tooling

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Ironstream

SMF data analysis

ISPF/JCL/SDSF

Job description

The Mainframe MQ Engineer is responsible for supporting IBM MQ environments on z Systems and IBMi platforms. This role involves maintaining messaging infrastructure, troubleshooting MQ issues, supporting application integrations, and ensuring system availability and performance.

Positions: 02

Location: USA

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for IBM MQ environments on z/OS and IBMi platforms.
• Create and maintain Queue Managers and MQ objects such as queues and channels.
• Support application integrations using MQ APIs.
• Troubleshoot production messaging issues and provide solutions.
• Monitor MQ environments for performance, availability, and reliability.
• Support MQ upgrades, patching, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Design and maintain messaging flows and architecture diagrams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and support incident resolution.
• Support disaster recovery exercises and ensure system readiness.

Technical Skills:

• Hands-on experience with IBM MQ support.
• Experience with MQ on z/OS including queue manager configuration.
• Experience with MQ on IBMi environments (preferred).
• Knowledge of MQIPT and distributed MQ environments.
• Understanding of application integration using MQ APIs.
• Experience with z/OS tools including ISPF, JCL, SDSF, JES, PDSE, and VSAM.
• Experience with SMP/E, DB2, CICS, IMS, and TCP/IP networking concepts.
• Experience with MQ monitoring and performance tools.
• Experience with MQ dashboard tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or Ironstream.
• Experience analyzing SMF data for system statistics.

Additional Skills:

• Experience with MQ alerting, automation, and monitoring configurations.
• Knowledge of MQ clustering and point-to-point messaging.
• Experience with MQ triggering to CICS, IMS, or z/OS systems.
• Experience with shared queue groups, coupling facilities, and SMDS.
• Experience with MQ logging including active and archive logs.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work with vendor support teams for troubleshooting.
• Ability to use AI tools to analyze system data and recommend improvements.
• Ability to use M365 Copilot for meeting summaries and communication.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with IBMi commands, menus, and automation tools.
• Experience with IBMi Integrated File Systems, jobs, logs, and libraries.
• Experience with IBMi high availability solutions such as Mimix replication.
• Experience supporting secure government environments such as FISMA.

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