MQ Admin

Conduent State Healthcare, LLC

1d•$90,000 - $103,000

About The Position

Through our dedicated associates, Conduent delivers mission-critical services and solutions on behalf of Fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments - creating exceptional outcomes for our clients and the millions of people who count on them. You have an opportunity to personally thrive, make a difference and be part of a culture where individuality is noticed and valued every day. Job Description: The Integration group provides technological support to the mainframe, midrange and server community. The team is responsible for assisting employees and customers with the Integration of data between various platforms using vendor and in-house software including IBM MQ. Candidate will work standard daytime hours 8 am ET – 5 pm ET weekdays and provide on-call support on weekends and off hours. Excellent communication skills in English both oral and written are a must due to the constant interaction with customers. U.S. based onshore required for this position. Travel may be required for training and disaster recovery. Will serve as an IBM MQ Administrator Responsible for the monitoring, maintenance, and customisation of MQ systems. Responsible for evaluation, installation, and migration of new versions of MQ software Analyze and tune MQ performance Perform MQ problem analysis and provide technical assistance Develop process and procedures related to MQ’s security, administration, recovery, chargeback, and automation. Work with application teams to implement messaging solutions to support Enterprise Messaging architecture. Create and provide daily status reports to the Systems Integration team.

Requirements

Experience (3 or more years) in administration, maintenance, and integration including Installation and Configuration of IBM WebSphere MQ version 7 and higher.
Application coding experience with IBM MQ (JCL, Cobol, JAVA, JAVA/JMS, C/C++); including debugging.
Experience with IBM WebSphere CICS adapter.
Experience with IBM WebSphere MQI for connecting to MQ objects
Experience with message security architecture
Ability to administer queue managers and associated MQ objects such as queues (local, remote, alias & model), process definitions, channels, listeners)
Workstation skills include Windows OS, MS Word, Excel and Remote Administration.
Ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of the company, customer, and user organisations, both verbally and in writing.
Must be willing to take part in 24/7 on-call rotation.
Ability to travel overnight as needed to other company offices.
Ability to multi-task effectively on a variety of projects, tasks, and assignments.
Take charge attitude and take ownership of providing a solution end to end.
Experience working with different technical divisions such as mainframe, distributed systems & networks.

Nice To Haves

WebSphere MQ Certified Specialist
WebSphere MQ versions 9.x/8.x troubleshooting & support
General administration knowledge of various UNIX, Linux and Windows Operating systems. Experience with shell scripting/Perl a plus.
Practical experience working in a Microsoft Azure environment
XML, C/C++ programming experience
JAVA and JAVA/JMS programming experience
z/OS COBOL programming (building trigger monitors, alerts, & processing dead letter queues)

Responsibilities

Monitoring, maintenance, and customisation of MQ systems.
Evaluation, installation, and migration of new versions of MQ software
Analyze and tune MQ performance
Perform MQ problem analysis and provide technical assistance
Develop process and procedures related to MQ’s security, administration, recovery, chargeback, and automation.
Work with application teams to implement messaging solutions to support Enterprise Messaging architecture.
Create and provide daily status reports to the Systems Integration team.