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Description Primary Objective: * Perform technical administration and support for large scale enterprise wide ESB solutions, IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and IBM MQ software across distributed platforms and day to day operations. * Supporting Sys Description Primary Objective: Perform technical administration and support for large scale enterprise wide ESB solutions, IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and IBM MQ software across distributed platforms and day to day operations. Supporting System Performance Monitoring to ensure middleware systems & all monitored production systems are under the team's preview and responsibilities to ensure monitored systems operating in optimum level and meeting agreed SLA / OLA. Key Responsibilities: EAI Operational Operate and follow operational standards, MQ policies & procedures when performing day to day tasks. Deploy and support of middleware components like WMQ/WMB including application development cycles to implement, configure debug app. problems as they relate to MQ. Perform Websphere MQ base installation, configuration and tuning e.g. maximum message buffer pools page sets Define MQ objects including queues and channels Configure security enhancement (authorization, authentication, SSL, etc) Administration of MQ application queues & WMQ Logging Monitoring of WMQ resources utilization Perform regular housekeeping, maintenance and performance tuning Stop/start WMQ/IIB services. Backup & restore of WMQ objects definition Perform MQ support & Problem Determination Perform connectivity testing from client applications to WMQ, and distributed communication. MQ version upgrade/patches Participate in Disaster Recovery Exercise Perform MQ performance monitoring/tuning and optimization /capacity planning. Participation in project work and implementation WMQ High Availability/failover test for new integrated system implementation Create and maintain up-to-date MQ documentation (installation & configuration, security, user and operation guides) and DR documentation for all MQ integrated systems System Performance Monitoring Support Performance Monitoring tools and collaboration with other parties to resolve application performance issues and restore acceptable customer experience usage of the application. Review and generate monthly reporting for System Performance Monitoring. Drive continual improvement into monitoring /measurement/ alerting practices and tools within the infrastructure team Train other operations and IT associates on the monitoring tools usability Requirements Requirements: Diploma - Computer Science, Information Technology or Computer Engineering. Certifications in Systems (Oracle Solaris, IBM AIX, HP- UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, CentOS & etc. Middleware(JBoss/MQ/IIB) Systems Administration & management, Virtual Infrastructure, ITIL foundation as well as Systems Management - Performance & Capacity Management systems and etc. 3-5 years' experience in supporting and operating in IT infrastructure environment Basic technical knowledge of System Architecture, System and Application performance. Technical experience with at least one of the major middleware solutions, preferably MQ/IIB, JBoss EAP/EWS Strong Production experience in managing and administrating middleware in a clustered load balanced environment for mission critical systems Strong knowledge of Solaris, AIX and Linux operating system environments Technical knowledge of System Architecture, System and Application performance, various IT technology and architecture Proficiency in performance monitoring and tools e.g. Dynatrace, OpManager, Nagios & IBM APM Able to work independently as well as in collaboration with a team strong team player. Excellent interpersonal, communication and relationship building skills Benefits Dental, Education support, Miscellaneous allowance, Medical, Loans, Sports (e.g. Gym), Parking, Vision, Regular hours, Mondays - Fridays, Casual Business Wear, Performance Based Rewards