IBM MQ Administrator

Job title: IBM MQ Administrator
Location: AZ-US, CA-US, CO-US, GA-US, IL-US, KS-US, MD-US, MA-US, MN-US, MO-US, NY-US, NJ-US, NC-US, OH-US, OR-US, PA-US, SC-US, TX-US, UT-US, VA-US, WA-US, WV-US (Remote with travel/ Hybrid)
Duration: 12+ Months contract (with possible extension)

Qualifications:
5-10 years of MQ administration experience
Skills for MQ (Message Queue) Administrator Position

Technical Skills
Core MQ Knowledge

• IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) administration and configuration
• Queue manager creation, configuration, and management
• Channel setup and management (sender, receiver, server, client)
• Clustering and distributed queuing
• Message persistence and delivery guarantees
• Dead letter queue handling and poison message management

• Unix/Linux administration (AIX, Red Hat, SUSE)
• Windows Server administration
• Client scripting (bash, ksh, PowerShell)
• File system management and permissions

• TCP/IP networking fundamentals
• SSL/TLS certificate management
• Port configuration and firewall rules
• LDAP integration
• Authentication and authorization mechanisms
• Message encryption and security protocols
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting
• Performance monitoring and tuning
• Log analysis and debugging
• Queue depth monitoring
• Channel status monitoring
• Error handling and resolution
• Capacity planning

• Message brokers (IBM Integration Bus, Apache Kafka)
• Middleware platforms
• Database basics (for message persistence)
• Application servers (WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat)
• Cloud platforms (AWS MQ, Azure Service Bus)

• Problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Communication with development teams
• Documentation skills
• Time management and prioritization
• Team collaboration
• Incident management and on-call support
• Certifications (Beneficial)
• IBM Certified System Administrator - MQ