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Job Description Insight Global is hiring 2 Mainframe MQ Support Engineer for our infrastructure services client. This role will be providing system support for MQ for an end client. This is a remote contract working CST hours and on-call rotation. We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy: Skills and Requirements u2022 At least 5 years of experience in IBM mainframe MQ support. u2022u2003Experience with MQ on z/OS; creating and maintaining QMGRs and objects (queues, channels, etc.) u2022 Understanding of how applications work with MQ (APIu2019s). u2022 Application development experience (preferred). u2022 MF Operations experience (preferred). u2022 Basic knowledge of containers and IBM CP4I (preferred). u2022 Proficiency with z/OS, ISPF, JCL, SDSF, JES, PDSE, VSAM, and related utilities. u2022 Understanding of/experience with SMP/E DB2, CICS, IMS, Network/TCPIP, MF Automations - OPS/MVS, as they relate to MQ. u2022 Experience with MQ Monitoring solutions for real-time and historical perspectives on status, trouble shooting, tuning, and trending. u2022 Experience with MQ dashboarding tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Ironstream/Splunk). u2022 Experience with IBM SMF data for statistical analysis. u2022 Experience with MQ alerting implications and configurations; thresholds, traps, flows and notifications, including auto-ticketing. u2022 Experience with Automations for MQ operations, syslog messages, and other functionality. u2022 Experience with Capexpry implementations to prevent orphaned/stale messages where appropriate. u2022 Experience with Queue Streaming, an MQ feature used to replicate messages to a specified secondary queue as must duplicate, or best effort. u2022 Experience with change, incident, problem, request, configuration item, event, and oncall management. u2022 Experience with MQ PLM, upgrades, maintenance, testing, implementations, integration. u2022 Experience with Queue Sharing Groups (QSGs), Coupling facilities, Coupling Facility Structures (CFStructs), Shared Message Data Sets (SMDS), SCM (flash memory); shared queueing. u2022 Experience with various MQ connectivity methods; Batch, MQ clustering, point to point channels, direct client connections via SVRCONN channels, batch, MQ triggering to CICS/IMS/zOS, IMS Bridge (OTMA), and MQIPT TCPIP/ HTTPS protocol conversion connections between MQ external/ core. u2022 Experience with MQ logging, active logs, archive logs, dual logging, zHyperwrite, logload/checkpointing frequency u2022 Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills are required for teamwork and collaboration. u2022 Excellent problem-solving skills. u2022 Experience working with IBM software and other 3rd party vendor support for PLM, documentation, and technical support/troubleshooting. u2022 Support Disaster Recovery exercises as required. u2022 Create and maintain technical and procedural documentation for the team and others as required. u2022 Design, create and maintain messaging flows with diagrams, as required. u2022 Work well with teammates, other teams, and management. u2022 Provide excellent and timely customer service. u2022 Experience with MQ on IBMi (preferred). u2022 Experience with/knowledge of MQ and MQIPT on Distributed platforms (preferred). u2022 Experience with IBMi Integrated File Systems, Jobs, Libs, Logs (preferred). u2022 Experience with IBMi IASP/Mimix replication for high availability Role Swaps (preferred). u2022 Experience with IBMi DB2 Mirror configurations for redundancy (preferred). u2022 Experience with IBMi MQ menus, commands, and administration (preferred). u2022 Experience with IBMi MQ environment variables (preferred). u2022 Experience with IBMi automation controls (preferred). u2022 Experience with IBMi FISMA enclave (preferred)