Mainframe MQ Admin

eamware Solutions is seeking a skilled Mainframe MQ Admin to manage and maintain our critical IBM MQ messaging infrastructure on the mainframe. This role is crucial for ensuring smooth and reliable communication between mainframe applications, ensuring seamless operations, and contributing significantly to business objectives through expert analysis, development of configurations, implementation of solutions, and troubleshooting within the Mainframe MQ Administration domain.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• MQ System Administration : Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain IBM MQ Queue Managers, queues, channels, listeners, and other MQ objects on z / OS mainframe systems.
• Performance Tuning : Monitor MQ system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimization strategies to ensure high throughput and low latency for message processing.
• Troubleshooting & Support : Perform in-depth analysis, debugging, and resolution of complex MQ-related issues, including message flow problems, connectivity errors, and resource contention. Provide timely support for production incidents.
• Security Management : Implement and manage MQ security, including channel authentication, SSL / TLS configurations, object authority management, and integration with mainframe security systems (e.g., RACF).
• Backup & Recovery : Design, implement, and manage robust backup and recovery procedures for MQ objects and logs to ensure data integrity and business continuity.
• Monitoring & Alerting : Configure and manage MQ monitoring tools and alerting systems to proactively detect and respond to potential issues.
• Message Flow Management : Manage message queues, handle undelivered messages, and ensure efficient message routing and delivery between applications.
• Problem & Change Management : Adhere to established ITIL-based processes for incident, problem, and change management related to MQ environments.
• Documentation : Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for MQ configurations, procedures, troubleshooting guides, and system diagrams.
• Collaboration : Work closely with application development teams, system programmers, and other infrastructure teams to support application deployments and integrate new solutions with MQ.

Preferred Candidate Profile :

Skills Required

JCL Administration, Vsam, Change Management, Security Management, Performance Tuning