Mainframe MQ Engineer

Job Details • At least 5 years of experience in IBM MQ support. • Hands on experience with MQ on z/OS; creating and maintaining QMGRs and objects (queues, channels, etc.) • Experience with MQ on IBMi (preferred). • Experience with/knowledge of MQ and MQIPT on Distributed platforms (preferred). • Understanding of how applications work with MQ (API's). • Application development experience (preferred). • MF Operations experience (preferred). • Basic knowledge of containers and IBM CP4I (preferred). • Proficiency with z/OS, ISPF, JCL, SDSF, JES, PDSE, VSAM, and related utilities. • Understanding of/experience with SMP/E DB2, CICS, IMS, Network/TCPIP, MF Automations - OPS/MVS, as they relate to MQ. • Experience with MQ Monitoring solutions for real-time and historical perspectives on status, trouble shooting, tuning, and trending. • Experience with MQ dashboarding tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Ironstream/Splunk). • Experience with IBM SMF data for statistical analysis. • Experience with change, incident, problem, request, configuration item, event, and oncall management. • Experience with MQ PLM, upgrades, maintenance, testing, implementations, integration. • Experience with Queue Sharing Groups (QSGs), Coupling facilities, Coupling Facility Structures (CFStructs), Shared Message Data Sets (SMDS), SCM (flash memory); shared queueing.