EKXEL - IBM MQ platform Specialist

Are you looking for a challenging opportunity and want to take advantage of a great job to give new inpulse to your career? This offer is for you. In order to support one of our clients, a large and famous European Public Institution in Luxembourg, we are looking for an IBM MQ platform Specialist. 

EKXEL IT Services, is a European leader in IT engineering, high-tech consulting and IT services. We offer a unique blend of expertise and support major European groups with international vocation to implement and succeed in their project to transform and modernize their information systems.

Your role: main objectives:

You will play a critical role in the administration and maintenance of enterprise-grade middleware platforms, including IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) and IBM MQ. 

Your Tasks:

• Monitor the health, performance, and availability of ESB infrastructure and proactively resolve issues

• Provide support and maintenance for IBM ACE, IBM Transformation Extender (ITX), IBM MQ Series, and WSO2 Micro-integrator on Linux OS

• Perform middleware patching and upgrades

• Participate in failover and disaster recovery testing

• Automate manual processes using Ansible and Azure DevOps pipelines

• Conduct root-cause analysis and resolve production issues related to ESB services

• Document integration solutions, configuration, and deployment procedures

• Create user guides and technical documentation for developers and platform engineers

• Coordinate issue resolution with middleware provider support teams

Your Qualifications:  

• Strong experience with IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) and IBM MQ

• Proficiency in troubleshooting and investigation tools (e.g. Bash, Python), and API/web service testing tools (e.g. SOAP UI, Postman)

• Familiarity with DevOps tools such as Git, Jira, Azure DevOps, and log management tools like Splunk or ELK

• Programming knowledge in Java

• Also appreciated:

• Experience with IBM Transformation Extender (ITX)

• Familiarity with SWIFT message formats (MT/MX)

• Skills in data transformation using ACE, XSLT, or eSQL

• Experience in developing message flows (MQ, SFTP, SOAP, REST) using IBM ACE

• Understanding of authentication and authorization protocols

• Working knowledge of SQL

Our offer:

A particularly attractive salary package, with many additional benefits, to attract the best of you. A professional and stimulating work environment in the field of telecommunications. Multiple career opportunities within a changing group, advanced training in new technologies, rich and recognized expertise.

Your application will be treated with confidentiality. We would be very happy to organize a first appointment to talk to you about this opportunity and consider your next career development. Send us your CV