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Candidates must have a minimum of 4 years experience working with IBM MQ/MQ Appliance, and must have a strong understanding of MQ installation and configuration, administration, and support tasks. In addition, candidate must have a minimum of 2 years consulting experience. Excellent communication skills are a must. 50%+ national travel is required. Candidate must have a solid track record of working on strong teams contributing to medium to large-scale engagements.
Qualifications:
- At least four years of versatile experience with IBM MQ/MQ Appliance as detailed below:
- Highly effective time management and organizational skills, and Independence with project assignments.
- Strong understanding of diverse technical environments and platforms.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience with the following technical areas:
- 4+ years of experience with IBM MQ and/or MQ Appliance
- Strong understanding of MQ high availability options
- Strong understanding of MQ Security concepts and setting up security
- Hands on experience with Installing and configuring IBM MQ on Linux and/or Windows platforms
- Hands on experience with Configuring client connections, securing MQ objects
- Hands on experience with configuring IBM MQ in a multi-instance fashion, and a clustered fashion
- Experience with MQ upgrade/migration a plus
- Hands on experience with setting up client connections/ server connections / distributed queuing
- Hands on experience with scripting language/ developing automated scripts for MQ configuration
- MQ Appliance experience is a nice to have
- Configuring MQ Appliance in a ‘HA pair’ mode a nice to have
- Experience w/ installing firmware upgrades to MQ Appliance a nice to have
- Experience with all firmware levels up to the current firmware
- Administration experience with IIB/ACE is a plus
- Hands on development experience with IIB and/or ACE is a plus