MQ Automation Engineer (Chef Cookbook Development)

MQ Automation Engineer (Chef Cookbook Development)

Location: Dallas TX

Visa: Non-Sponsership visa only

W2 role

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Automation Engineer with strong Chef expertise to design develop and maintain Chef cookbooks for IBM MQ build and configuration management. This role is critical in driving Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) adoption standardizing MQ deployments and enabling automated repeatable and compliant messaging platform provisioning across hybrid and cloud environments.

The ideal candidate combines strong MQ platform knowledge with Chef-based automation and has experience delivering end-to-end lifecycle automation for queue managers infrastructure configuration and operational tooling.

Key Responsibilities

Design develop and maintain Chef cookbooks to automate:

o IBM MQ installation upgrade and patching

o Queue manager creation and configuration

o MQ object deployment (queues channels listeners)

Build idempotent Chef roles and recipes ensuring consistent and repeatable deployments across environments

Ensure configuration parity across Dev QA and Prod environments through Chef deployments

Integrate Chef cookbooks into CI/CD pipelines for automated MQ provisioning and updates

Version test and promote cookbooks through controlled environments

Develop and execute unit integration and kitchen/inspec tests for cookbooks

Validate automation against performance resiliency and compliance requirements

Ensure deployments are repeatable and eliminate manual configuration drift

Provide L3 support for automation-related issues in MQ environments

Contribute to standards best practices and automation frameworks

Required Qualifications

Strong hands-on experience with Chef (cookbooks recipes roles environments)

5 years of experience in configuration management / IaC automation

Working knowledge of IBM MQ administration:

o Queue managers channels clustering

o MQ configuration ( logging security)

Experience with Linux/Unix environments

Familiarity with:

o CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins Git-based workflows)

o Version control systems (Bitbucket/Git)