Senior Middleware Engineer — MQ & Solace Specialist

Lenmar Consulting Inc; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 117,096,000 - 130,872,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenmar Consulting Inc. seeks a Middleware Engineer for a leading financial company in Jersey City.

The role offers a hybrid work arrangement with on-call support for critical messaging systems based on IBM MQ and Solace. You will install, configure, patch, backup, and recover MQ environments on Windows and Linux, manage queue managers, channels, SSL, and Solace appliances, and collaborate with application teams to troubleshoot complex issues.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of IBM MQ and Solace installation/configuration.
• Experience configuring redundancy and fault tolerance between Solace appliances.
• Knowledge of SSL setup for Solace and IBM MQ.
• Knowledge of MQ processes, triggers, channels and clustering.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Nastel.
• Knowledge of Kafka.
• Strong PowerShell scripting experience.
• Working knowledge of Windows, UNIX-like, and Linux systems (Solaris).
• Python and Bash scripting experience.
• Ability to comply with bank policies and adapt to a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24/7 and weekend support for mission-critical messaging systems.
• Install MQ environments on Windows and Linux; administer IBM MQ globally.
• Create and configure Queue Managers, channels, queues, and other MQ objects.
• Backup and restore Queue Managers and related objects; recover MQ installations.
• Upgrade and patch MQ environments on Windows and Linux.
• Implement SSL for MQ communications.
• Install and configure MQ Clients on Windows and UNIX.
• Function as Solace Messaging Engineer; install, upgrade, patch Solace Appliances.
• Administer Solace Appliances; configure redundancy and fault tolerance.
• Configure Solace bridging between remote Solace Appliances; support MQTT, REST, AMQP protocols.
• Use Solace CLI to configure solace objects; enable SSL for Solace communications.
• Interface with application teams to troubleshoot cross-platform issues.
• Identify operational risks and mitigate with dev/APS teams.
• Ensure resilience and DR/compliance for messaging infrastructure.
• Configure monitoring for Solace Appliances.
• Develop Python and Ansible playbooks to automate the Messaging Infrastructure.

Skills

IBM MQ

Solace MQ

MQ Clustering

SSL/TLS

Python scripting

PowerShell

Bash scripting

Linux

Windows

Solaris

Ansible

Kafka

Nastel Monitoring

Tools

Apache Tomcat

JBoss

WebLogic

Apache Web Server

IIS

LTM

DNS

GTMs

Job description

Lenmar Consulting Inc. seeks a Middleware Engineer for a leading financial company in Jersey City.

The role offers a hybrid work arrangement with on-call support for critical messaging systems based on IBM MQ and Solace. You will install, configure, patch, backup, and recover MQ environments on Windows and Linux, manage queue managers, channels, SSL, and Solace appliances, and collaborate with application teams to troubleshoot complex issues.