Job Description

  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