Senior Mainframe System Programmer MQ

 

At Ensono, our purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation. 

Developing impactful solutions is something we do together at Ensono because Ideas Start Here. Great things happen when many voices are heard, and people are supported to run with their ideas. On our teams, you will be backed by leaders with a passion for our business. This is a place where your ideas can Do Great Things. 

We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. 

Adventure starts here. Here you will be a part of a team that encourages you to master your craft, ask tomorrow’s questions today, and chart your path. Our Associates focus on client impact with curiosity and a feeling of relentless commitment. 

 

About the role and what you will be doing:

 

• Provide premium MQ system programming support and services to Ensono mainframe clients.  

• The successful candidate will perform mainframe MQ software – system administration tasks and tuning to support our customers’ MQ environments. The individual will need to work with vendor personnel to achieve timely solutions of MQ related problems. Work on full spectrum of MQ Systems Programming activities including MQ administration 

• Collaborates with other teams to ensure MQ systems are properly integrated with other mainframe and distributed systems. 

 

Responsibilities: 

• Ensure MQ region reliability  

• Expertise in administrating, alert setup and monitoring the message process using tools like MQ explorer, Omegamon for MQ, Sysview, etc. Perform MQ system problem analysis and resolution  

• Define and Manage MQ objects. 

• Skilled at executing IBM MQ utilities to handle the MQ queue messages(backup, deleting a particular records etc..) 

• Define and Maintain the pagesets & bufferpool according to the application growth in MQ 

• Able to capture dump with trace to vendor and identify root cause and recommend appropriate solutions  

• Knowledge on the MQ queue sharing and MQ clustering to handle the queue managers and its components. 

• Expertise in daily health check and dead letter queue process automation 

• Maintain MQ DR Plans. Support Disaster Recovery Tests  

• Maintain MQ SOPs, Runbooks and other documentation. 

• Good understanding of messaging interfaces and connections to the IBM other products (such as CICS, DB2, IMS..) and third party application servers. 

• Perform MQ online monitoring, investigate MQ CPU usage using SMF statistics analyze 

• Provide 24×7 after hours on-call support as required for products supported by the team 

• Self-motivated and able to work independently.  

• Demonstrated ability to respond quickly and effectively to support requests from multiple clients  

• Must be able to multi-task and work under short deadlines and in high pressure situations. 
   

Good to have skills:    

• Knowledge with MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms 

• Knowledge Mainrame zOS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF and REXX 

• Familiarity with CICS connections  

• IBM and ISV Vendor Coordination for Ticketing Incidents/Problems, SW downloads, Escalations 

• Knowledge of external security (RACF & CA-Top Secret) as related to MQ 

 

 

What we offer: 

 

• A membership & belonging to a global team doing something great
• An opportunity to work with the newest technologies and modern architecture
• A room for further growth and gaining expertise in the area you are interested in
• An opportunity to influence the architecture and design of what’s next
• A modern business agility education 

 

Benefits: 

 

We believe that great work deserves great rewards. In return for your ideas, commitment and ambition, we’ll give you a very competitive base salary and a range of benefits as soon as you join. On top of your highly competitive base salary, we offer: 

• Flexible and remote work opportunities
• Performance bonus
• Training and development programs
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Community outreach and mentoring opportunities
• Learning platforms
• My Benefit system
• Wellness Platform support from Virgin Pulse
• Associate equity program
• Life insurance
• Lunch card
• Study leave
• One paid day off for charity events
• Sabbatical  
• Extended parental leave  
• Rental or co-financing of office equipment
• Referral bonus program