IBM MQ Administrator – IBM MQ v9.x / Linux
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 6 Months Contract | Hybrid
End Client: Leading Enterprise Client
About the Role
Our consulting client is seeking an experienced IBM MQ Administrator to provide administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operational support for IBM MQ v9.x in a Linux-based environment. The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience managing MQ objects, supporting messaging infrastructure, resolving incidents, and ensuring reliable connectivity across application environments.
Responsibilities
- Perform IBM MQ (v9.x) administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operational support in a Linux-based environment.
- Create and modify MQ objects, including Queue Managers, Channels, Topics, and Queues.
- Configure WebSphere MQ Queue Managers, Channels, Topics, and Queues.
- Monitor and maintain Queue Managers, Queues, Topics, Channels, and Listeners.
- Create MQ objects on local and remote MQ servers.
- Enable triggering on MQ Queues.
- Configure and implement Distributed Queuing in Client/Server environments.
- Install and configure the latest versions of IBM MQ.
- Configure and monitor MQ Listeners, Channel Initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files, Dead Letter Queues, and Clustering setups.
- Monitor IBM MQ using MQ Explorer and configure MQ Explorer Monitoring tools.
- Participate in MQ Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises.
- Use shell (batch) scripting for repetitive tasks and schedulers.
- Understand basic networking requirements to establish MQ connectivity.
- Manage security settings and different types of certificates at Queue Manager and channel levels, including installing new certificates and renewing existing certificates.
- Understand different types of logging in WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and MQ.
- Work with project teams on new application connections, analyzing and preparing the best-fitting messaging solutions.
- Demonstrate strong communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
Required Skills / What You Bring
- Hands-on experience administering IBM MQ v9.x in a Linux-based environment.
- Strong knowledge of MQ objects, including Queue Managers, Channels, Topics, and Queues.
- Experience with incident management, troubleshooting, and operational support.
- Experience configuring and monitoring MQ Listeners, Channel Initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files, Dead Letter Queues, and Clustering setups.
- Knowledge of Distributed Queuing in Client/Server environments.
- Experience with shell (batch) scripting and schedulers.
- Understanding of MQ connectivity, networking, security settings, and certificate installation and renewal.
- Experience with MQ monitoring tools, including MQ Explorer.
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
Beneficial Knowledge
- IBM MQ Appliances
- IBM MQ IPT
- ServiceNow: Incident management, CR submission, tasks management, and closing
- Dynatrace monitoring
- Kafka technology
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