IIB and MQ Platform Engineer

Improve the lives of others while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Job Description - IIB and MQ Platform Engineer (2380958)

IIB and MQ Platform Engineer - 2380958

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale.

Join us to start
Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office for a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy integration services usingIBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)
• Provide support during testing phases and troubleshoot IBM Integration Bus (IIB) issues with upstream and downstream teams
• Develop and maintain
  
  Grafanaand
  
  Splunkdashboards for telemetry, operational analysis, and status reporting
• Build applications to support MQ system management and enhance productivity using
  
  Python,Java,React,Go,Docker, andGitHub Actions
• Implement proactive monitoring solutions that alert symptoms rather than outages, leveraging
  
  GitHub Actions,Ansible,Prometheus,Grafana, and Splunk
• Demonstrate strong expertise inGitHub ActionsandHCC Kubernetes
• Understand IBM MQconfigurations, including local, remote, and cluster queues, processes, channels, SSL/TLS, ciphers, and firewall settings
• Configure and maintain REST APIs and MQ API setups to support application connectivity from cloud and on-premises environments
• Support infrastructure and PLM initiatives, includingDB2 andMySQLdatabases
• Diagnoses and troubleshoot complex production issues beyond the scope of application teams, ensuring timely resolution and system stability; experienced inon-call support for critical incidents
• Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline daily engineering workflows, automate routine operational tasks, and drive continuous process improvement
• Evaluate emerging technical trends and AI-assisted productivity tools to inform solution design, incident triage, and technical innovation

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear directions on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software engineering or systems engineering experience managing enterprise messaging and integration infrastructure
• 5+ yearsof expertise in designing and implementing IBM Integration Bus (IIB) andIBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) message flows using various nodes and formats, including XML,JSON,SOAP, and Kafka
• 3+ yearsof application development experience with
  
  Javaand
  
  Spring Boot frameworks
• 3+ yearsof hands-on development experience with
  
  Pythonand React
• 3+ yearsof practical experience with Ansible,Docker,Git Hub,Git Hub Actions,Kubernetes
• 2+ years of proficiency in implementing authentication and authorization for Python and Java applications using
  
  Ping Federate SSO,OIDC, LDAP, and managing secrets with
  
  Cyber Arkand Hashi Corp  Vault
• 2+ years of extensive experience withIBM MQ, including configuration and management of local, remote, and cluster queues, processes, channels,SSL/TLS, ciphers, and firewall settings
• 1+ yearsof experience with Grafana,Splunk,Prometheus,MySQL,…