First IT Solutions 

5 to 8 years of experience required in the installation, configuration, performance & tuning, maintenance, and upgrading of IBM Integration Bus, WebSphere MQ and DataPower Technologies. 

Care and feeding of the queue managers and broker instances in all environments 

Installation, retirement, and recovery of new queue managers and broker instances 

Routine administration functions including moves/adds/changes to queues 

Performance tuning and configuration changes to MQ and IIB installations 

Deployments of workflows to IIB 

Aid developers in application troubleshooting for apps that connect to these platforms 

Administration of users and alerts in IR360 

Responding to all emails, tickets, and customer requests coming into our admin mailbox, through our change management system, service catalog, etc. 

5+ Websphere Application Server Administration 

2 years experience on IIB 9.0 IBM Integration Bus or Message Broker 

2 years experience on MQ 7.5 IBM WebSphere MQ 

Experience in Data Power security components 

Solid Java Coding Skills 

Hands-on experience in: IBM Websphere Message Broker, IBM MQ, ESQL 

 Ideally experience with message mapping / transformation and other MQ based STP interfaces 

Excellent Verbal, Written communications skills required. 

Bachelor's or Higher degree is Preferred

Job Status: Full Time 

Eligibility: EAD GC or GC or US Citizens

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