Required Skills/Must Have:
• This is an MQ Architect/Integration Engineer role requiring deep,
advanced knowledge of IBM MQ and IBM MFT
• Experience in Cloud infrastructure and DevOps is preferred but
experienced MQ candidates will be considered without deep Cloud and
DevOps experience.
• Candidates need 5-10 years of recent and related experience as an MQ
Architect/Integration Engineer from Design through the Implementation of technical solutions
• Requires expertise in Application Server and Web Server architecture
in a large enterprise environment
• Strong knowledge of high-availability, load-balancing and failover
configurations across application, infrastructure, and platform
components
• Understanding of security design for enterprise software systems
• Proven ability to write clear and concise technical documents
including design documents, specifications and technology roadmaps
• Strongly prefer recent, demonstrable experience with automated build
and system configuration tools such as Terraform, Packer, Chef, Puppet,
Ansible, Kubernetes, etc. Experience with Terraform is strongly
preferred. Experience with common AWS services such as S3, EC2, ASG,
ELB, SFTP, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc.
• AWS Certification and/or experience utilizing AWS services in a
production environment is preferred
• Preference for proven ability to design, implement and manage secure,
scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure environments
• 5+ years Unix/Linux administration experience
• Experience with source code management tools such as GIT, SVN, etc.
• Proven depth of knowledge and experience with Python scripting
language
• Experience with a variety of other programming languages such as JSON,
YAML, Boto3, etc. Required Skills
• Ability to coordinate and work with diverse groups of subject matter
experts
• Demonstrated initiative and self-motivation
• Ability to work effectively independently or in a team environment
• Strong analytical, collaboration, leadership, critical thinking,
multitasking, and time management skills
• Customer/people-focused orientation that drives and informs engagement
with partners, leadership and peers
• Ability to influence successfully in a highly matrix or virtual
organization
• Demonstrates independent thinking and decision-making abilities
• Ability to quickly receive and process information
• Judgment to escalate risk-based decisions appropriately
• Working knowledge of other technology solutions such as IBM IIB,
MuleSoft, Messaging brokers, File Transfer, IBM Sterling File Gateway,
IBM Connect:Direct, IBM Sterling Proxy, etc.
• Familiarity with the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and test
automation within CI/CD is a plus
• Experience with agile and DevOps in a cloud environment
• Practical experience and knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture,
Microservices and API Management
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and
Configuration as Code (CAC)
• Experience with both internally to the organization facing
integrations as well as externally facing solutions
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other
related field or equivalent work experience