Senior MQ Engineer

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills * Robust IBM MQ Administration - strong hands‑on experience in installing, configuring, maintaining, and supporting IBM MQ environments. * MQ Clustering - solid understanding and practical experience with cluster setup, load distribution, and high‑availability configurations. * MQ Security - knowledge of SSL/TLS, CHLAUTH rules, OAM permissions, and secure messaging best practices. * MQ Monitoring - experience monitoring queue depths, channels, listeners, events, and integrating with enterprise monitoring tools. * Troubleshooting - strong analytical skills to diagnose and resolve MQ issues, performance problems, and integration failures. * Automation - ability to create scripts (Shell / PowerShell / Python) to automate MQ administration tasks. * Good to have TIBCO Admin Knowledge - helpful for hybrid middleware environments or cross‑platform messaging support. * Basic Java Knowledge - useful for understanding JMS applications, message flow, and supporting application integration teams. * Roles & Responsibilities Responsibilities: * Administer, configure, and maintain IBM MQ environments across multiple platforms, ensuring reliable and secure message‑based communication for enterprise applications. * Design, implement, and manage MQ clustering, security configurations, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR) setups, ensuring robust failover, continuity, and compliance with enterprise standards. * Troubleshoot MQ‑related issues, including channel failures, message accumulation, connectivity errors, and performance bottlenecks, while performing detailed root cause analysis (RCA) and documenting findings. * Perform MQ performance tuning and capacity planning, analyzing message throughput, queue depths, system utilization, and growth trends to optimize system stability and scalability. * Continuously monitor MQ channels, queues, listeners, brokers, and overall system health, leveraging monitoring tools and creating dashboards or alerts to ensure proactive issue identification. * Collaborate closely with application development and integration teams, providing guidance on MQ patterns, connectivity, security, message flows, and best practices for new or existing applications. * Develop, enhance, and maintain MQ automation scripts (Shell, PowerShell, Python, or others) for deployment, monitoring, and administrative operations to reduce manual effort and improve consistency. * Leverage working knowledge of TIBCO EMS and basic Java concepts to support hybrid environments, assist application teams, and troubleshoot cross‑platform messaging integrations where applicable. Requirements: * 8+ years of hands‑on experience as an IBM MQ Administrator. * Strong expertise in IBM MQ setup, configuration, administratio n, clustering, security, monitoring, and troubleshooting. * Good to have TIBCO EMS administration experience. * Basic working knowledge of Java for debugging integration issues and understanding message‑driven applications. * Experience with scripting for automation (Shell / PowerShell / Python). * Understanding of enterprise messaging concepts, HA/DR setups, and MQ performance tuning. * Exposure to databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL (good to have for integration workflows). * Experience using Git for version control. * Strong understanding of performance optimization for messaging systems (queue depth, throughput, latency, capacity planning). Salary Range: $100,000 to $120,000 per year

Created: 2026-04-02