Mainframe WAS
Bangalore, Karnataka, India Full-time BFSI Senior
IBM MQ for z/OS infrastructure
- Maintain stable operation of MQ Queue Managers and Queue Sharing Groups (QSGs).
- Prevent message loss, duplication, and delivery disruptions.
- Support business-critical transactions that depend on MQ messaging.
- Administer Queue Sharing Groups and Shared Queues for continuous service availability.
- Support disaster recovery, failover, and resilience testing activities.
- Ensure MQ infrastructure can recover quickly from failures without business impact.
- Diagnose and resolve MQ failures impacting business applications.
- Investigate channel outages, queue build-ups, triggering issues, and connectivity failures.
- Perform root cause analysis for recurring incidents.
- Collaborate with application, z/OS, network, and distributed MQ teams during critical incidents.
- Assist application teams in implementing reliable messaging solutions.
- Contribute to modernization initiatives leveraging MQ as an enterprise integration backbone
- As a MQ Systems programmer, install, maintain, and provide 24X7 support for MQ z/OS and other related products
The Skills that are Key to this role
Technical / Behavioral
- Core WAS for z/OS Administration
- Installation, configuration, and maintenance of WebSphere Application Server for z/OS.
- Understanding of WAS z/OS architecture
- Application deployment and lifecycle management.
- z/OS Integration Knowledge
- Application Deployment & Support
- IBM MQ Queue Manager administration on z/OS.
- Understanding of Queue Sharing Group architecture.
- Shared Queue administration.
- Coupling Facility concepts.
- Shared Queue recovery procedures.
- Group Queue Manager administration.
- Queue and channel administration using MQ panels and commands.
- Work knowledge on MQ monitoring tool like CA sysview product.
- Working knowledge of MQ clusters/channels and experience in a sysplex environment.
The Skills that are Good To Have for this role
- Vendor coordination
- Knowledge of Network Basics
- Good knowledge of Mainframe Operating System Components and tools
- Knowledge to Disaster Recovery methodologies
How Your Work Impacts the Organization
You would be able to contribute in maintaining stability of our end points by upkeeping infrastructure uptime through structured software, distribution and patch management mechanism thereby helping associates to perform their day to day tasks seamlessly.
The Expertise We’re Looking For
- 5 - 7 years of IT experience
- Graduate
-- Any experience on advanced analytics models/ tools/ use cases will be an added advantage