MQ Consultant
Location: 100% remote
Visa - Only US Citizens
Must Haves:
· 5-10 years of recent and related experience as an MQ Architect/Integration Engineer from Design through the Implementation of technical solutions
· Deep, advanced knowledge of IBM MQ and IBM MFT
· Experience in Cloud infrastructure and DevOps; MQ candidates will be considered without deep Cloud and DevOps experience
· Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC – Terraform, packer etc.)
· Recent, demonstrable experience with automated build and system configuration tools such as Terraform, Packer, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes, etc.
· Experience with common AWS services such as S3, EC2, ASG, ELB, SFTP, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc.
· Experience with source code management tools such as GIT, SVN, etc.
· 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 depth of knowledge and experience with Python scripting language
· Experience with a variety of other programming languages such as JSON, YAML, Boto3, etc.
Job description:
To be successful in this role, you must be an organized self-starter with stellar leadership and communication skills who can work independently, building relationships and driving technical solutions from inception to completion. This position requires the candidate to have strong MQ architect/integration experience and the candidate must be technically savvy, with a proven ability to work well in a highly dynamic environment and maintain a strong relationship with our customers and partners.
· This is an Integration Engineer/MQ Architect role requiring deep, advanced knowledge of IBM MQ and IBM MFT
· Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC – Terraform, packer etc.) is required
· Experience in Cloud infrastructure and DevOps is required
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
· Must be a U.S. Citizen
Preferred Skills
· Working knowledge of other technology solutions/products such as MQ Salesforce Bridge, Grafana
· Experience with Agile and DevOps in a cloud environment
· Practical experience and knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture, Microservices, and API
· Expertise in Application Server and Web Server architecture in a large enterprise environment
· Experience with both internally-facing integrations as well as externally-facing solutions
Education
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field; or equivalent work experience
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $102,140.54 - $140,000.00 per year
Experience level:
Application Question(s):
- Note: For this requirement, we need only US Citizens
What's your visa status and current location?
Experience:
- MQ Architect/Integration Engineer: 10 years (Required)
- IBM MQ and IBM MFT: 5 years (Required)
- Cloud infrastructure and DevOps: 2 years (Required)
- IaC – Terraform, packer etc.): 3 years (Required)
- Packer, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes, etc.: 2 years (Required)
- AWS services - S3, EC2, ASG, ELB, SFTP, CloudFormation etc: 2 years (Required)
- GIT, SVN,: 2 years (Required)
- security design for enterprise software systems: 2 years (Required)
- Python scripting language: 2 years (Required)
- JSON, YAML, Boto3, etc.: 2 years (Required)
- MQ Salesforce Bridge, Grafana: 2 years (Preferred)
Work Location: Remote