MQ Administrator - Middleware System

Job description for the MQ admin.

- Have very good understanding of DevOps and MQ/middleware space.

- Ability to function independently and deliver in a fast paced environment

- Understanding or MQ/RDQM deployment and to implement HA and resilient MQ cluster

- Expert level understanding of AWS and different services offered by AWS

- Standing up and administer on premise/MQ cluster

- Provide expertise on MQ platform.

- Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions.

- Create topics/queues, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts and has good knowledge of best practices.

- Upgrade and manage the platform at keep version upto date and current.

- Provide administration and operations of the MQ platform like provisioning SSL configurations.

- Use automation tools like provisioning using Docker, Jenkins and GitLab, ansible

- Ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.

- Involve in design and capacity review meetings to provide suggestion in MQ usage.

- Solid knowledge of monitoring tools and fine tuning alerts on Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana ,Splunk, datadog.

- Setting up security on MQ.

- Providing naming conventions, Backup & Recovery and problem determination strategies for the projects.

- Monitor, prevent and troubleshoot security related issues.

- Provide strategic vision in engineering solutions that touch the messaging queue aspect of the infrastructure

- Automation savvy with expert skills in scripting to automate routine jobs

- Excellent at establishing best practices and standards that can be scaled at enterprise level

QUALIFICATIONS :

- 5-8 years demonstrated proficiency and experience in design, implementation, monitoring, and troubleshooting MQ messaging infrastructure.

- Hands on experience on recovery in MQ.

- 5 or more years of experience in developing/customizing messaging related monitoring tools/utilities.

- Overall 5+ Years of experience in Middleware & System Engineering - MQ on Unix/Linux/Solaris .

- Good programming knowledge/experience with one or more languages (ex. Java, node.js, python, shell)

- Considerable experience in implementing key/trust store management.

- Support 24-7 Model and be available to support rotational on-call work ( including Saturday/Sunday )

- Competent working in one or more environments highly integrated with an operating system.

- Experience implementing and administering/managing technical solutions in major, large-scale system implementations.

- High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy.

- Ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities

- Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback to improve performance

- Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.

- Proven leadership abilities including effective knowledge sharing, conflict resolution, facilitation of open discussions, fairness and displaying appropriate levels of assertiveness.

- Ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately for all levels and audiences.

- Willingness to learn new technologies/tool and train your peers.

- Proven track record to automate.