Mainframe MQ Admin

• Experience in IBM MQ product installation, upgrades, maintenance, configurations and troubleshooting. 

• Expertise in administrating, alert setup and monitoring the message process using tools like MQ explorer, Omegamon for MQ and TEPS.

• Design the MQ architecture pattern for the message processing flow as per the new application requirement 

• Defining the MQ objects queues, channel, process definition, Topic, etc . 

• Skilled at executing IBM MQ utilities to handle the MQ queue messages(backup, deleting a particular records etc..)  

• Maintain and adopt the new pagesets & bufferpool according to the application growth in MQ 

• Knowledge on the MQ queue sharing and MQ clustering to handle the queue managers and its components. 

• Strong knowledge on MQ queue manager creation/migration and daily health check and dead letter queue process automation

• Good understanding of messaging interfaces and connections to the IBM other products (such as CICS, DB2, IMS..) and third party application servers. 

• Perform MQ online monitoring, investigate MQ CPU usage using SMF statistics analyze

• Nice to have knowledge with MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms.

• Nice to have knowledge Mainrame zOS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF and COBOL.

• IBM and ISV Vendor Coordination for Ticketing Incidents/Problems, SW downloads, Escalations

• Provide 24x7 after hours on-call support as required for products supported by the tea