IBMi MQ Series Infrastructure Engineer ll

About the role

This role is responsible for tool and service designs within a technical domain that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards, and policies. Key responsibilities include creating infrastructure tools and their integration as a service, facilitating deployment of technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks, and automation used during implementation. The role looks for opportunities to improve efficiency when implementing and maintaining tools/services and embraces a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Ensures production stability, performs BAU activities including 24x7 on-call support, and delivers on critical infrastructure projects and product upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Provides subject matter expertise and consulting services on a range of technologies and assists Technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers to ensure that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.
• Assists with translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies.
• Assists in the evaluation of reference models, blueprints, and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose.
• Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes.
• Conducts on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption.
• Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers.
• Contributes to the creation/selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains.
• Ensures production stability, performs BAU activities including 24x7 on-call support, and delivers on critical infrastructure projects and product upgrades.

Requirements

• Extensive IBMi MQ experience.
• At least 5-7 years of hands-on experience as an IBMi MQ administrator or engineer.
• AS/400 platform experience.
• Strong knowledge of installation and upgrades, configuration and administration of queue managers, queues, channels, listeners, and cluster management.
• Ability to perform root cause analysis, resolve complex issues, and handle high-severity incidents in production environments.
• Must be able to participate in on-call rotation, including some weekend and holiday work.

Qualifications

• IBM certified system administrator for MQ (desired).
• Experience in designing and architecting HA and DR solutions for MQ (desired).

Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Automation
• Production Support
• Risk Management
• Adaptability
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design

Schedule

1st shift (United States of America), 40 hours per week.