Mainframe MQ Support – MQ System Programmer
Artech LLC
Remote, NY(remote)
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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Application Programming Interface (API), Automation, Customer Support/Service, Data Analysis, Data Sets, Disaster Recovery, Event Management, FISMA - Federal Information Security Management Act, File Systems, Flash Memory, High Availability, IBM CICS (Customer Information Control System), IBM DB2, IBM MVS Operating System, IBM Mainframe, IBM Product Family, IBM System/Spool Display and Search Facility (SDSF), IBM TSO/ISPF, IBM z-OS Operating System, IP Multimedia System (IMS), Identify Issues, Interpersonal Skills, JCL (Job Control Language), Mainframe Computer, Messaging Middleware, On Call, Organizational Skills, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Product Lifecycle Management, Replication and Remote Mirroring, Reporting Dashboards, Splunk, Statistics, Support Documentation, Surface Mount Technology, Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) Computing, System Integration (SI), Systems/Internals Programming, TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), Team Player, Technical Support, Technical Writing, Time Management
LOCATION
Remote, NY
POSTED
13 days ago
Location: Remote
Duration: 6-12 months
Job Description:
| Mainframe MQ Support – MQ System Programmer Requirements and responsibilities: |
| • At least 5 years of experience in IBM mainframe MQ support. |
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| • Understanding of how applications work with MQ (API’s). |
| • Application development experience (preferred). |
| • MF Operations experience (preferred). |
| • Basic knowledge of containers and IBM CP4I (preferred). |
| • Proficiency with z/OS, ISPF, JCL, SDSF, JES, PDSE, VSAM, and related utilities. |
| • Understanding of/experience with SMP/E DB2, CICS, IMS, Network/TCPIP, MF Automations - OPS/MVS, as they relate to MQ. |
| • Experience with MQ Monitoring solutions for real-time and historical perspectives on status, trouble shooting, tuning, and trending. |
| • Experience with MQ dashboarding tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Ironstream/Splunk). |
| • Experience with IBM SMF data for statistical analysis. |
| • Experience with MQ alerting implications and configurations; thresholds, traps, flows and notifications, including auto-ticketing. |
| • Experience with Automations for MQ operations, syslog messages, and other functionality. |
| • Experience with Capexpry implementations to prevent orphaned/stale messages where appropriate. |
| • Experience with Queue Streaming, an MQ feature used to replicate messages to a specified secondary queue as must duplicate, or best effort. |
| • Experience with change, incident, problem, request, configuration item, event, and oncall management. |
| • Experience with MQ PLM, upgrades, maintenance, testing, implementations, integration. |
| • Experience with Queue Sharing Groups (QSGs), Coupling facilities, Coupling Facility Structures (CFStructs), Shared Message Data Sets (SMDS), SCM (flash memory); shared queueing. |
| • Experience with various MQ connectivity methods; Batch, MQ clustering, point to point channels, direct client connections via SVRCONN channels, batch, MQ triggering to CICS/IMS/zOS, IMS Bridge (OTMA), and MQIPT TCPIP/ HTTPS protocol conversion connections between MQ external/ core. |
| • Experience with MQ logging, active logs, archive logs, dual logging, zHyperwrite, logload/checkpointing frequency |
| • Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills are required for teamwork and collaboration. |
| • Excellent problem-solving skills. |
| • Experience working with IBM software and other 3rd party vendor support for PLM, documentation, and technical support/troubleshooting. |
| • Support Disaster Recovery exercises as required. |
| • Create and maintain technical and procedural documentation for the team and others as required. |
| • Design, create and maintain messaging flows with diagrams, as required. |
| • Work well with teammates, other teams, and management. |
| • Provide excellent and timely customer service. Preferred Experience: |
| • Experience with MQ on IBMi (preferred). |
| • Experience with/knowledge of MQ and MQIPT on Distributed platforms (preferred). |
| • Experience with IBMi Integrated File Systems, Jobs, Libs, Logs (preferred). |
| • Experience with IBMi IASP/Mimix replication for high availability Role Swaps (preferred). |
| • Experience with IBMi DB2 Mirror configurations for redundancy (preferred). |
| • Experience with IBMi MQ menus, commands, and administration (preferred). |
| • Experience with IBMi MQ environment variables (preferred). |
| • Experience with IBMi automation controls (preferred). |
| • Experience with IBMi FISMA enclave (preferred) |
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