Senior Lead – Mainframe System Programmer – MQ

🕒 May 22

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Kyndryl

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2021

🏢 Enterprise

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

Enterprise • Cybersecurity • SaaS

Kyndryl is a leading IT infrastructure services provider, serving thousands of enterprise customers worldwide. The company specializes in designing, building, managing, and modernizing complex, mission-critical information systems. Kyndryl offers a range of services including IT consulting, cloud services, cybersecurity, data and AI solutions, and digital workplace transformation. With a strong focus on innovation, partnerships, and co-creation, Kyndryl helps businesses tackle IT complexity and drive operational excellence. The company operates across various industries such as automotive, healthcare, banking, and more, providing expertise and solutions to address industry-specific challenges. Kyndryl's global network and strategic alliances empower enterprises to adapt to the evolving technology landscape, ensuring their essential systems are reliable and efficient.

📋 Description

• Responsible for the installation, implementation, performance, testing and integrity of a large IBM MQ implementation using SMPE • Work with Development, Operations, and other technical teams on new and existing MQ project implementations • Maintain IBM MQ system options for optimum performance and availability • Maintain and improve MQ operational procedures, standards, and documentation • Ensure adherence to security policies (RACF/SAF integration) and compliance standards • Implement and maintain automation for MQ operations (e.g., queue manager recycle, health checks, alerting) • Administer MQ Queue Managers, including configuration, tuning, and performance optimization • Participate in Disaster Recovery planning and execution, ensuring MQ readiness across data centers • Monitor MQ system performance, availability, and capacity, taking proactive measures to prevent issues • Ability to provide global on-call support • Work with internal and external clients in implementing MQ solutions and problem resolution • Providing dump analysis and problem determination of root causes related to system problems and outages • Troubleshoot Infrastructure and Application issues related to MQ • Evaluate and recommend changes to current and future system software requirements to meet the organization's needs • Ensure documentation of all related operational processes and procedures

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ Years of experience as a Mainframe MQ System Programmer • Expertise in MQ for z/OS installation and upgrades (ShopzSeries, SMP/E) • Strong troubleshooting skills using MQ command line and monitoring tools • Experience with MQ Explorer, Tivoli, Omegamon, SYSVIEW, BMC MainView, MQATTACH, ICC • Familiarity with MQ clustering and distributed integration • Knowledge of security configurations, workload management, and automation scripting • Install, configure, and maintain WMQ and associated system software • Experience with Queue Sharing Groups (QSG) and Coupling Facility • Monitor system performance & availability, implementing necessary tuning • Perform system backups, recovery, and troubleshooting for MQ issues • Knowledge of JCL, and z/OS utilities • Understanding of MQ security (RACF/SAF) • Develop automation scripts for monitoring, alerting, and issue resolution • Ensure security compliance and implement security best practices for MQ • Design clustering and workload balancing for high availability • Support on-call rotations for extended-hour coverage

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment • Professional development opportunities • Be Well programs supporting financial, mental, physical, and social health