Sr MQ and Middleware Administrator

01 Oct 2024

Vacancy expired!

Job Summary
  • This Position Is Responsible For Collaborating With Solutions Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, And Infrastructure Service Management Teams In The Design And Build Of Infrastructure Solutions/Blueprints For Area Of Responsibility. Participating In The Design And Build Of Repeatable Patterns (Build-Kits) To Improve Deployment Times For Non-Prod And Prod Environments. Transitioning Knowledge To Infrastructure Operations.
  • Job Responsibilities include - As the health care industry continues to rapidly transform, our IT team conceives, develops and delivers impactful technology solutions to support access to quality, affordable health care for our members.
  • We are driven by our collective company purpose: To do everything in our power to stand with our members in sickness and in health®. Our IT team unleashes the power of this purpose through technology.
  • We come to work every day to make a difference, and we deliver the highest quality and best solutions to our members.

Job Purpose:
  • This position is responsible for Collaborating with Solutions Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, and Infrastructure Service Management teams in the design and build of infrastructure solutions/blueprints for area of responsibility; participating in the design and build of repeatable patterns (build-kits) to improve deployment times for non-prod and prod environments; transitioning knowledge to Infrastructure Operations.
  • Work with mid and upper level management team under minimal supervision, as a senior level WebSphere/MQ Administrator, implement manage, and monitor multiple WebSphere environments.

Job Responsibilities will include the following:
  • Design and installation of IBM MQ and/or WebSphere Application Server, deploying enterprise applications, installation and configuration of new platform, configuring or modifying platform, proactively monitoring the health of environment, configuring and managing the security of the platform.
  • Job will also entail monitoring, optimizing, tuning and troubleshooting MQ and/or WebSphere applications.
  • The successful candidate will be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in MQ and its related components. The candidate will be a self-motivated individual who works well with groups and independently with minimal supervision to achieve stated goals and project tasks.
  • The candidate must have a high level of motivation in learning new technologies and software products and reviewing these technologies for enhancements to the current middleware environment.

Required Job Qualifications:
  • Bachelors Degree and 4 years in Information Technology or relevant experience OR Technical Certification and/or College Courses and 6 year Information Technology experience OR 8 years Information Technology experience.
  • Infrastructure Automation (such ansible tool preferred)
  • Operations Management and IT standards, procedures, and policies
  • Experts level knowledge of IBM MQ in design, installation, fixpack upgrade, migration, and configuration
  • Experts level knowledge with MQ horizontal/vertical Clustering
  • Ability to simplify & standardize complex concepts / processes
  • Understanding of business priorities (e.g., vision), trends (e.g., industry knowledge) and markets (e.g., existing/ planned)
  • Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills are required; teamwork and collaboration
  • Problem solving / analytical skills, tools and techniques with experience in troubleshooting MQ issues as well as other complex MQ and WebSphere performance issues
  • Knowledge with Dynatrace
  • Ability to create long and short term plan and prioritize tasks and make trade-off decisions
  • Ability to drive cross functional executions and manage project schedule
  • Adaptability and ability to introduce / manage change with ServiceNow and Jira
  • Basic knowledge with container and IBM CP4I preferred
  • Basic understanding of AIX/RedHat/Windows administration and including basic shell scripting

Preferred Job Qualifications:
  • Bachelors Degree (Computer Science, MIS, or related degrees)

  • ID: #46142217
  • State: Illinois Chicago 60290 Chicago USA
  • City: Chicago
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-10-01
  • Deadline: 2022-11-28
  • Category: Et cetera