Infrastructure Specialist zMQ

End Date Wednesday 16 September 2026 Salary Range £48,987 - £54,430 We support flexible working –  for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

JOB TITLE:

Infrastructure Specialist zMQ SALARY: £48,987 – £54,430 LOCATION(S):
Edinburgh, Manchester, or Leeds

HOURS:

Full-time – 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN:
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh, Manchester or Leeds office.

About this opportunity This is an exciting time to join our z/OS MQ team. We're at a pivotal point in our transformation, evolving from a traditional infrastructure function into a forward-thinking engineering team focused on automation, simplification, service excellence and innovation. We're looking for passionate, creative individuals with good MQ expertise who want to contribute to the future evolution of messaging on the mainframe.

In this role, you'll provide specialised technical support across critical mainframe environments while contributing to the ongoing development and improvement of our MQ platform. You'll help maintain, modernise and evolve our services in line with Group standards, as well as supporting the adoption of modern engineering practices, Dev Ops principles and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities. You'll help connect and integrate MQ with a range of modern technologies while ensuring our customers continue to receive resilient, secure and reliable services.

Additionally, you'll provide technical expertise for incident and problem resolution within complex environments, including participation in out-of-hours support and delivery activities when required.

• Provide technical expertise and support for complex MQ environments operating to demanding service levels.
• Contribute to the development of the z/OS MQ roadmap and support the evolution of our platform and engineering capabilities.
• Work closely with stakeholders and customers to support the delivery of the technology roadmap, ensuring service and customer outcomes remain at the heart of everything we do.
• Support and contribute to modern engineering practices, including automation, Dev Ops and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate across middleware, infrastructure and engineering teams to explore and implement innovative solutions, integrating mainframe technologies with emerging platforms and capabilities.
• Support standardisation, simplification and operational excellence while ensuring processes and controls are adhered to.

You’ll be joining a team responsible for one of the Group's most critical messaging platforms, supporting services that underpin a wide range of business and customer outcomes. You'll have the opportunity to work with experienced engineers, develop your technical expertise, contribute to platform modernisation initiatives and help shape the future of MQ on z/OS as we continue our engineering transformation. This is a great opportunity for someone with good MQ technical skills who enjoys solving complex problems, working collaboratively and contributing to the continuous improvement of a critical enterprise platform.

• Good knowledge of MQ infrastructure on z/OS.
• Experience of MQ system performance tuning, diagnosis and problem resolution.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting business-critical online systems.
• Experience working with Transport Layer Security (TLS).
• An interest in automation, innovation and the evolution of mainframe technologies.
• It would be great if you also had Experience or a keen interest in Dev Ops practices, automation and modern engineering approaches.
• An interest in AI and emerging technologies, and how they can be applied to improve engineering effectiveness and customer outcomes.
• Strong diagnostic skills and the ability to analyse technical information from multiple sources, providing effective solutions in complex environments.

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