Job Description

Key Responsibilities

MQ Architecture & Engineering

• Lead the design, deployment, configuration, and optimization of IBM MQ and other messaging platforms.
• Architect end-to-end messaging solutions for high availability, scalability, performance, and security.
• Define standards, patterns, and governance for enterprise messaging and integration.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex MQ issues across distributed environments.

Messaging Infrastructure Management

• Manage MQ clusters, queue managers, channels, listeners, topics, pub/sub, and distributed queues.
• Configure MQ security including SSL/TLS, certificates, authentication, and authorization.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and proactive alerting for all MQ components.
• Oversee capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization.

Integration & Distributed Systems

• Work with application and integration teams to ensure reliable and scalable messaging patterns.
• Support application teams with MQ API usage, message formats, and integration best practices.
• Lead integration efforts across legacy systems, microservices, cloud platforms, and APIs.
• Evaluate and implement modern messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or cloud-native messaging tools.

Cloud & Automation

• Design and implement MQ solutions on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) including containerized MQ.
• Automate MQ deployments using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Helm, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Enable MQ-as-a-Service and self-service provisioning models for application teams.

Reliability, Security & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with enterprise security policies, encryption standards, and access control.
• Implement DR, HA strategies, replication, and failover for messaging systems.
• Conduct audits, hardening, and vulnerability remediation for MQ environments.
• Support operational excellence through runbooks, SOPs, and incident response processes.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead MQ engineering teams, assign tasks, review deliverables, and ensure project success.
• Provide technical direction, mentorship, and training to junior engineers.
• Collaborate with architects, DevOps, cloud, security, and application teams.
• Participate in architecture review boards and influence messaging roadmap.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10 14+ years of experience in enterprise messaging and middleware engineering.
• Deep hands-on expertise with IBM MQ in distributed and/or mainframe environments.
• Strong knowledge of:
• MQ configuration, channels, cluster management
• Message routing, pub/sub, MQSC scripting
• MQ installation, upgrades, patching
• MQ security (SSL/TLS, certs, CHLAUTH)
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, BMC, or MQ Explorer.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, firewalls, load balancers, TLS, and security.
• Hands-on experience with cloud MQ services or containerized MQ deployments.
• Experience with automation and CI/CD processes.

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