Middleware Engineer III - Websphere MQ Series / Solace Administrator
Lenmar Consulting Inc · Jersey City, NJ · 1 mo ago
On-siteInformation Technology$90/hrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Provide 24/7 and (when necessary) weekend support for systems involved in the architecture.
- Function as IBM Websphere MQ administrator.
- Create and configure Queue Managers, channels, queues, and other MQ objects.
- Perform the backup and restore of Queue Managers and related objects.
- Recover damaged MQ installations and/or Queue Managers.
- Upgrade and patch MQ environments on Windows and Linux.
- Implement custom MQ security solutions using channel exists or SSL.
- Set up SSL communications between MQ servers and MQ clients to MQ servers.
- Install and configure MQ Clients on Windows and UNIX platforms.
- Function as Solace Messaging Engineer.
- Installation, upgrade and patching of Solace Appliances.
- Administration of Solace Appliances.
- Configuring Redundancy and Fault tolerance of Solace Infrastructure.
- Interface with Application teams in troubleshooting complex, cross-platform issues related to Solace communication.
- Identify operational and infrastructure risks within the environment and work with the application development teams and APS to make corrections and mitigate risks.
- Ensure optimal resilience of deployed systems and meet all disaster recovery and compliance requirements dictated by the business.
- Configure monitoring for Solace Appliances.
- Developing Python and Ansible playbooks to automate the Messaging Infrastructure.
Requirements
- Strong Knowledge and experience with IBM MQ and Solace Installation/Configuration and Setup.
- Working knowledge of setting up Redundancy and fault tolerance between Solace Appliances.
- Knowledge on setting up SSL for Solace and IBM MQ.
- Strong Knowledge and experience with MQ processes, triggers, channels and clustering.
- Exposure to monitoring tools such as Nastel.
- Knowledge on Kafka.
- Strong Knowledge and experience with PowerShell scripting.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft O/S, SUN Solaris, and Linux.
- Working knowledge and experience with Python and Bash scripting.
- Willingness to adapt to the changes constantly introduced by the Bank's dynamic environment.
- Considered a plus: Knowledge and experience with other flavors of web application servers (Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, Weblogic).
- Knowledge and experience with other flavors of web servers (Apache Web, IIS).
- Good understanding of Load Balancers (LTM).
- Good understanding of DNS and GTMs.