Infrastructure Specialist zMQ

In this role you will deliver expert support for mainframe MQ environments, including decommissioning and bug fixes, and contribute to migrations and service delivery within established standards. You will partner with stakeholders to shape strategy across the mainframe development and test estate and help drive the technology roadmap. The position includes out-of-hours support and incident resolution to maintain critical systems. This opportunity offers a chance to influence large-scale infrastructure within a values-led, inclusive culture.

• Generous pension contribution up to 15%
• Annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Discounted shopping benefits
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

• Provide support for complex environments to tight timescales
• Help drive the strategy and design across the mainframe development and test estate
• Work closely with key stakeholders, drive and deliver against the technology roadmap
• Enforce standardisation and assist with improvement initiatives in the team
• Work collaboratively across the wider Middleware teams to develop, promote, and implement process initiatives
• Ensure processes and procedures are strictly adhered to

• Extensive knowledge of MQ infrastructure on zOS
• Strong experience of MQ system performance tuning and diagnosis
• Experience of supporting and troubleshooting critical on-line systems
• Experience with Transport Layer Security (TLS)

• Diagnostic skills and ability to analyse technical information from multiple sources
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Collaborative mindset and stakeholder management
• MQ on zOS
• MQ performance tuning and diagnosis
• Incident and problem resolution for critical online systems