IBM MQ Migration & Automation Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: IBM MQ Migration & Automation Engineer (Remote)
• Initial contract: 6 months
• Workload: full-time (1 FTE / 3/4 FTE)
• Compensation: hourly billing, attractive rate based on skills

Description

Seeking a highly experienced IBM MQ infrastructure engineer to design, install, configure, integrate, troubleshoot, and optimize IBM MQ environments across z/OS (mainframe), Linux, and Windows Server. You will serve as a technical subject-matter expert, independently evaluating requirements and implementing the necessary MQ configuration changes for applications, integrations, migrations, and infrastructure updates. The role also includes diagnosing complex issues in connectivity, security, configuration, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, update, maintain, and remove IBM MQ and fix issues in z/OS, Linux, and Windows Server environments.
• Design and configure IBM MQ setups including queue managers; local, remote, alias, model, and transmission queues; send/receive channels; requester/server channels; clustered environments; listening/connectivity components; MQ clustering; undelivered message queues; message persistence; and MQ logging.
• Configure and troubleshoot MQ connectivity between environments running on different platforms.
• Analyze application and infrastructure requirements and translate them into IBM MQ configurations.
• Independently implement configuration changes required for new applications, integrations, migrations, or infrastructure modifications.
• Configure and troubleshoot IBM MQ security: channel authentication, connection authentication, TLS and certificates, user/group permissions, MQ permissions, and enterprise security mechanism integration when applicable.
• Investigate and resolve complex incidents involving channel failures, queue manager availability, message delivery, queue build-up, connectivity, authentication/authorization, certificate/TLS issues, and performance or capacity problems.
• Support IBM MQ updates, migrations, platform migrations, and infrastructure modernization initiatives.
• Review existing MQ environments and recommend improvements in resilience, security, performance, monitoring, and operational stability.

Requirements

• Extensive practical experience in IBM MQ installation and administration.
• Experience configuring and administering a Queue Manager.
• Experience with MQ channels and listener modules.
• Experience with MQ clustering and distributed queues.
• Knowledge of MQ security and authorization.
• Experience configuring TLS and certificates.
• Experience with message persistence and recovery.
• Experience with MQ logging and processing undelivered messages.
• Very good command of English.

Benefits

• International project; initial 6-month contract.
• Support from an experienced team.
• Opportunities for growth and challenging work.
• Full-time role (1 FTE / 3/4 FTE).
• Hourly settlement and an attractive rate matching your competencies.