ACE (IIB) & MQ Administrator

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities

• The ACE (IIB) & MQ Administrator will be part of a team that provides implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of our client ‘s ACE & MQ environments.
• The administrator will be responsible for collaborating with members of our Technical Delivery Teams and Architecture teams to support and improve the delivery of managed services.
• This is a critical infrastructure role on business-critical services that require team support 24×7 365. A support model is in place to cover the 24×7 requirement across administrators with shared standby and overtime responsibilities.
• The administrator will be responsible for:
• The build, deployment, support, and performance of systems
• Maintaining compliance to avoid data loss and unauthorized access

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science
• 8+ years of relevant experience on MQ infrastructure administration
• Master level IBM ACE architecture, administration, performance and tuning
• Experience in integration between IBM ACE and SAP
• Experience in queue manager configuration and load balancing, security management (OAM), performance and tuning
• Experience in HA clusters for MQ
• Experience in Managed File Transfers (MFT)
• Experience with MQ in AIX, Red Hat Linux (RHEL) and Windows servers
• Experience installing, patching, and upgrading MQ and IBM ACE
• Configuration, deployments and vulnerability remediation in multi-tier environments with firewalls, load balancers, and high availability solutions
• Knowledge and ability to design and improve organizational IT structures in order to improve the business operation support
• Experience with management of SSL, TLS, data encryption and certificates
• Experience in working with global teams, with people from several locations
• Coordination with external groups to acquire new strategies where they can achieve business goals
• Tests and develops infrastructure capability for newly developed projects and presents a support service for these areas
• Mentoring and leadership for a team of less experienced ACE/MQ administrators
• Be able to solve complex problems and have real experience in installation, configuration, high availability, root cause analysis, performance tuning and security & compliance activities
• Autonomy to work without supervision, targeting to achieve agreed-upon goals and with an innovative mindset
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• Provide assistance through different communication channels, such as ticketing system, remote session and email
• Send first response for all your incoming cases, validating their business impact and priority, adhering to the corresponding SLAs, and aligning the expectations about next steps and communication
• Analyse, research and document your troubleshooting advances on all your assigned cases and service requests
• Act as a key contributor in the creation of squad documentation
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Ability and experience to support a 24×7 environment including standby and overtime activities

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Master’s degree in software engineering
• Red Hat, zLinux, AIX and Windows Administration experience
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies
• Familiarity with productivity tools such as Jira, Slack and Service Now