MQ Admin

Job Description

One of Insight Globa’s top financial clients is modernizing several enterprise applications and expanding their Messaging team. They are seeking a Junior MQ Administrator to support, maintain, and grow their IBM MQ distributed environment across Linux/Unix and Windows platforms.

What You’ll Do (Day to Day Responsibilities)

MQ Platform Support & Operations

• Support the installation, configuration, maintenance, and performance tuning of IBM MQ queue managers across distributed environments (Linux/Unix & Windows).

• Monitor daily MQ operations including channels, queues (QR, QL, TQ), queue managers, backup/restore activities, and message flows.

• Troubleshoot common issues such as channels down, queue backups, service restarts, connectivity failures, and security configuration issues.

• Diagnose system and MQ problems including dump analysis, root cause investigation, and remediation.

Environment Ownership & Growth

• Learn and support the existing MQ environment—understanding why configurations exist, how systems interact, and how messaging flows between distributed and mainframe components.

• Once ramped, take ownership of managing and supporting the environment independently.

• Assist in creating new channels, queues, MQ objects, and testing configurations for upcoming development projects.

Security & Encryption

• Work with MQ certificates, encryption configurations, and secure channel setups.

• Handle FSAR related security requirements and work with vendor provided encryption certificates.

• Manage MQ user/group permissions and authorization setups.

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Work with developers (distributed and mainframe) to implement MQ changes, support deployments, and resolve message flow issues.

• Interact with external vendors as MQ channels often communicate across partner interfaces.

• Participate in Disaster Recovery exercises for global data centers.

Automation & System Processes

• Assist with shell scripting (Bash, Linux/Unix scripts, Python, Perl, Awk) to automate MQ operations.

• Support operational processes like queue manager recycles, IPL automation, and dump processing.

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Skills and Requirements

• 2–3 years hands on experience supporting IBM MQ on Linux/Unix and/or MQ Appliance.

• Solid understanding of:

o Queue Remote (QR), Local (QL), Transmission (TQ), channels, listeners, and message flows.

o MQ security configuration, including certificate handling and encryption.

o MQ user/group management and permissioning.

o MQ backup, restoration, troubleshooting, and platform diagnostics.

• Experience supporting development teams with MQ implementations.

• Strong Linux and Windows system fundamentals.

• Working knowledge of Bash and shell scripting (Python, Perl, Awk strongly preferred).

• Solid networking fundamentals (ports, firewalls, routing, connectivity).

• Willingness to work in an on-call environment on a rotating schedule Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with mainframe/zOS MQ

• Exposure to MQ clusters and queue sharing groups.

• FTP and file transfer protocol experience.