Mainframe MQ Administrator

Description :

Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency) :

Must-Have :

- Experience in IBM MQ product installation, upgrades, maintenance, configurations and troubleshooting.

- Expertise in administrating, alert setup and monitoring the message process using tools like MQ explorer, Omegamon for MQ and TEPS.

- Design the MQ architecture pattern for the message processing flow as per the new application requirement

- Defining the MQ objects queues, channel, process definition, Topic, etc .

- Skilled at executing IBM MQ utilities to handle the MQ queue messages(backup, deleting a particular records etc..)

Good-to-Have

- Good understanding of messaging interfaces and connections to the IBM other products (such as CICS, DB2, IMS..) and third party application servers.

- Perform MQ online monitoring, investigate MQ CPU usage using SMF statistics analyze

- Nice to have knowledge with MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms.

- Nice to have knowledge Mainrame zOS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF and COBOL.

- IBM and ISV Vendor Coordination for Ticketing Incidents/Problems, SW downloads, Escalations