Location: 100% Remote - Continental US
Preferred Time Zones: EST, CST, MTN
Rate Type: W2 ONLY
Compensation: Upto $75 per hr
Length: 1 to 3 years
We are looking for a hands-on MQ Middleware Administrator to work on a team responsible for designing, provisioning, and managing enterprise-level systems used by both internal and external customers. The ideal candidate will have a strong and proven track record of success in a similar role.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as subject matter expert on IBM MQ/IIB/ACE/MQ MFT/MuleSoft, includes technical assistance to application developers on Middleware related problems
- Understand technology vision and strategic direction of business needs
- Production support 24/7 for a week, at least once a month
- Assess and make recommendations of best-practice solutions and/or new middleware and web technologies that will enhance the capabilities of the existing infrastructure.
- Participate product roadmaps in alignment with other middleware/cloud products and business roadmaps
- Participate in designing integrated solutions with design patterns, blueprints, guidelines, and standard methodologies for products
- Assist in developing architecture and design conceptual solutions by incorporating cloud native and 3rd party vendor products
- Participate in research and perform POCs (proofs of concept) with emerging technologies and adopt industry best practices, in the middleware space, for cloud migration and hybrid solutions
- Successfully troubleshoot production issues application developers can't resolve; may include writing build and deployment scripts
- Demonstrate automation as Infrastructure as code (IaC) to increase build efficiency in the cloud
- Support both rehydration and HA along with emerging processes and technologies
- Assist the development of validation and certification processes through automation tools
- Monitoring - monitor middleware performance and availability
- Demonstrate collaboration on projects and initiatives as a team member
Qualifications:
- Key Skill: MQ, EMSS, ESB
- Demonstrates analytical and problem-solving skills
- Subject matter expertise in IBM Middleware products like MQ/IIB/ACE/MQ MFT and MuleSoft
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience; advance degree preferred
- 3+ years in design/support of MQ/IIB/ACE Middleware solutions
- Experience in cloud specific solutions related to middleware
- Hands on experience in one or more languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript
- Experience with other AWS middleware solutions including various compute and storage offerings
- Strong background in observability, networking, performance, and scalability.
- Experience with leveraging CI/CD pipelines and GitLab is a plus
- Hands on experience in Terraform, Python, Ansible and OS shell scripts including automation tools is a plus
- Must be familiar with Agile methodologies and able to work in an Agile manner
- Must have a very strong application development background
- Microservices experience is a plus
- Cloud Certification is a plus
- Containerized platform experience is a plus
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience is a plus
Note:
- No 3rd party vendors or candidates
- US Citizenship Required