Websphere MQ Specialist

Company Description

Ask IT Consulting Inc, backed by a $500 million Microtek group company, provides an industry leading blend of technology, business consulting, and outsourcing services. Ask IT is a minority-owned enterprise; it has been founded on providing the highest quality possible and on the devotion to customer satisfaction. ASK IT consulting is an equal opportunity employer, which is a global staffing, consulting and technology solutions company, offering industry-specific solutions to fortune 500 clients and worldwide corporations.  

Job Description

Complete Description: 

DOC requires the services of a Websphere MQ Product Specialist staff augmentation consultant to assist with review and analysis of the current Websphere MQ implementation at DOC and determine the best method to update, upgrade and redesign of the Websphere MQ implementation at DOC. DOC also has small implementation of Microsoft MQ (MS MQ) and candidate possessing technical working knowledge of MS MQ will be preferable. 

Specific Duties:

1. Review current Websphere MQ configuration and application design & document both. This includes both DOC and PBPP’s server and mainframe (z/VSE) implementations.

2. Analyze MQ/application configuration/usage and identify issues for resolution. This includes an upgrade path to be able to retire the current WIN 2003 servers.  

3. Determine whether or not the latest release of Websphere MQ Series and MS MQ can work with IBM’s VSE WebSphere MQ and provide solutions to handle backward and/or forward compatibility

4. Modify/re-design configuration/applications to resolve identified issues. 

5. Manage, configure and monitor MQ Listeners, Command Servers, Channel initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files & Dead Letter Queues.

6. Train staff on MQ server build/configuration & monitoring – to include application level monitoring to catch and resolve potential data loss issues 

7. Setup of IBM Websphere MQ in a cluster environment for both load balancing and Failover. 

8. Train staff on using IBM Websphere MQ best practices for setup/monitoring as well as usage.

9. Participate and provide valuable inputs during architectural discussions and JAD sessions in usage of IBM Websphere MQ within the DOC and PBPP environment

10. Provide impact analysis of newer versions and provide upgrade paths and plan and upgrade servers with the appropriate versions and patches of IBM Websphere MQ

11. Setup security on the Websphere MQ servers as well as the queues and applications that access Websphere MQ. 

12. Help and engage software developers/architects to trouble shoot issues and provide solutions in different environments.

In order to analyze the application usage of the server queues/triggers, message processing, error handling, etc., the candidate must also possess ASP.NET, VB.NET, VB6, Classic ASP, and SQL Server knowledge.

Qualifications

Skill:

IBM WebsphereMQ Server (version 5.3.0 – 8.0) Required    

IBM Websphere MQ z/VSE 3.0.0 Required    

MS SQL Server 2012 Required    

VB.NET Required    

ASP.NET Required    

Classic ASP VB 6.0 Required    

MS MQ Highly desired      

Additional Information

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