Contract Role – Mainframe MQ / zMQ Engineer/Consultant- Edinburgh/Leeds/Manchester/Hybrid – 06 months

Role Overview:
* Job Title: Mainframe MQ / zMQ Engineer/Consultant
* Location: Edinburgh/Leeds/Manchester/Hybrid
* Contract Type: Contract
* Duration: 06 months
* Sector: Banking

We deliver complex technical support and project delivery (including incident and problem resolution) for systems and processes in IBM MQ environments on zOS.
The MQ team require a resource to support the MQ estate on zSeries Mainframe. Delivering complex technical support and project delivery (including focus on incident and problem resolution) for systems and processes in IBM Mainframe MQ team. The MQ resource is required to work on critical systems and important projects associated with the Bank’s strategy across all business divisions such as Digital, Payments, Retail and Insurance, as well as technology and process service improvements. – this includes out of hours deployments and migrations.

You’ll also:
* Provide support of complex environments to tight timescales.
* 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.
* Deliver change through RTL and into production under change governance independently
* Ensure processes and procedures are strictly adhered too.
* Perform change / support activities out of business hours.
* Working with IT Security to ensure the security of the MQ product
* Maintain service stability and optimisation.

Your Experience
* IBM Message Queue v9.x administration zOS
* IBM Message Queue Clustering experience
* Operational experience on zOS pannels + MQ explorer
* Experience with TLS
* Experience of supporting and troubleshooting on-line systems.
* Diagnostic skills and an ability to analyse technical information from multiple sources, allowing the provision of highly effective solutions in complex environments (desirable).

Please feel free to contact myself – Daisy Nguyen at Gibbs Consulting/Atrium UK for a confidential chat to know more details about the role.

Please also note: Due to the volume of applications received for positions, it will not be possible to respond to all applications and only applicants who are considered suitable for interview will be contacted.