Carley Shaw

Mainframe MQ Engineer

• Ongoing contract  (Client maintains right to hire after 3 months though rarely exercises this right)
• Location: New York City, NY (HYBRID) Working from office from start date!!! 
• C2C Pay Rate: $70/HR

Required Skills & Qualifications: • At least 4+ years' relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role. •Defining IBM MQ resources (channels, queues, etc) • Knowledge of MQ Data Sharing in a large Sysplex environment • Understanding of High Availability concepts • Perform MQ software maintenance. • Ability to perform problem determination as well as interface with IBM Support • Knowledgeable in MQ Performance & Tuning as well as MQ Monitoring • Support performance and capacity planning including the development of performance and trending reports. • Familiar with Disaster Recovery procedures & tests • Support in-house developed tools including wrapper for the MQI, enhanced CICS trigger monitor, • and channel security exits. • Knowledge of Sysview for MQ, CA-Neumics Analyzer • Understanding of zOS functions such as: APF, Link list, LPA, VSAM • Familiar with Java, Kafka and MQ Confluent Connectors in the Mainframe environment • Ability to develop internal tools via JCL, REXX, etc. • Excellent oral/written communication skills Skills desired: • Familiarity with CICS TS V6.1 • SMP/E knowledge • Knowledge of external security (RACF & CA-Top Secret) as related to MQ• Prior Application programming experience to support application development teams • Knowledge of Cobol from an application point of view   Key Responsibilities: • The Mainframe MQ Systems Programmer is responsible for all phases of MQ engineering and MQ operation functions. • The candidate must be comfortable working with MQ in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex environment (multi-queue managers, high volume, large number of applications) and must be able to support application developers in the use of MQ in batch and CICS environments. • Individual will also interface with the distributed MQ engineering and operations teams. • The MQ engineer should have strong analytical, organizational and communication skills. • Periodic on-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the MQ environment and to resolve issues.