IBM MQ & IBM ACE Developer Best Buy

Top Skills that are a MUST have - IBM MQ and IBM ACE Scripting techs (ansible terraform etc) Kafka experience (general is fine - Rabbit MQ is fine too)

This position is someone who has experience in IBM MQ and IBM Ace - helping application teams with integrations - being on call as needed if there are any issues - try to triage / fix as needed. End to end responsibility of IBM MQ and IBM Ace as a platform - starting with infrastructure and ending with triage / support and everything in between. Must have Rabbit MQ and Kafka experience. Expert in IBM MQ is required as well. Terraform / Ansible experience is a must as they manage their environments using scripts.

Project Description:

• Data Transport Team provides Middleware / Integration services to most of the application teams within Client.
• This role requires the resource to work on the Intake requests that would be submitted by multiple projects for creating the Integrations between apps .
• Along with it this role will be supporting the existing technology infrastructure /platforms or in some cases installing & setting up new ones as part of the Data Transport team that are used to provide the services to the app clients.

Position Summary/Job Description:

• Perform engineering tasks related to installation monitoring testing configuration migration maintenance and troubleshooting of infrastructure & technology platform such as IBM MQ & IBM ACE primarily
• Experience on any of these like Informatica Power Center & Data Quality Kafka RabbitMQ AWS Glue AWS SQS/SNS AWS MSK Amazon MQ (Active MQ and RabbitMQ) etc. will be a plus.
• Install and configure these large-scale systems On-Prem and / or on Cloud (AWS) across distributed OS platforms like RedHat Linux Amazon Linux etc. following standardized and automated process using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Work with infrastructure provisioning tools such as Chef Ansible Terraform Vagrant and Test-Kitchen.
• Provide input into infrastructure architecture designs.
• Create integrations for the messaging services for the application teams and support them through their testing and production implementation.
• Leverage Agile development methodologies.
• Ensure that the technologies and architecture are up-to-date stable and
• compliant meeting enterprise and security standards.
• Utilize industry standard technologies & methods to ensure the integrity & recoverability like backup & recovery clustering security patch management enterprise monitoring & performance tuning.
• Proactively monitor and report performance and utilization of assigned
• technologies.
• Troubleshoot software and/or hardware issues & failures independently.
• Resolve alerts and perform remediation activities.
• Participate in a rotating on call schedule.
• Collaboratively working with other members of the team.

Skills Overview:

• IBM MQ & IBM ACE : 5 - 7 years
• infrastructure provisioning tools such as Chef or Ansible or Terraform : 1 -2
• AWS SQS/SNS : 1 - 2 years
• AWS Amazon MQ ( Active MQ or Rabbit MQ) : 1 2 years
• Kafka ( Self Managed or Cloud native) : 0 - 2 Years
• RabbitMQ (Self Managed) : 0 2 years
• Informatica Power Center & Data Quality Infrastructure & Technology administration: 0-2 years