Lead SRE Professional – IBM MQ, Solace Technology

• Configure, administer, upgrade, and maintain IBM MQ infrastructure across Linux, Windows, UNIX, AIX, and related enterprise platforms
• Create and manage queue managers, queues, channels, listeners, clusters, and other MQ objects across environments
• Configure and manage Solace Pub Sub+ Event Brokers, message VPNs, queues, topics, ACLs, client profiles, and messaging services
• Support event-driven architecture, asynchronous integrations, publish/subscribe messaging, high availability, replication, and failover mechanisms
• Implement and maintain messaging security controls including SSL/TLS, authentication, authorization, encryption, LDAP integration, and access governance
• Monitor queue depth, channel status, broker performance, message flows, system health, logs, and platform alerts
• Troubleshoot production issues related to MQ/Solace connectivity, message latency, message delivery failures, authentication, authorization, certificates, and application integration
• Lead incident response, join outage bridges, perform triage, document updates, coordinate service restoration, and drive root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Perform capacity planning, patching, disaster recovery testing, environment readiness checks, and production readiness reviews
• Work with application and engineering teams to optimize message flows, resolve integration issues, validate configuration, and ensure reliable communication between services
• Support change management by reviewing planned changes, assessing risks, coordinating implementation windows, and ensuring proper production validation
• Create and maintain configuration documentation, runbooks, SOPs, implementation notes, troubleshooting guides, and operational knowledge articles
• Lead shift support activities, mentor junior resources, manage backup plans, coordinate leaves, and ensure smooth onsite/offshore delivery coverage
• Handle stakeholder communication, scribe outage calls, respond to client and business queries, and provide timely operational status updates
• Identify automation and continuous improvement opportunities across messaging operations, monitoring, deployment, and support processes

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent from an accredited institution, or three years of progressive specialty experience in lieu of each year of education
• At least 4 years of relevant Information Technology experience
• Hands-on exposure to IBM MQ, Solace Pub Sub+, middleware administration, production support, or infrastructure operations
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10/7.x, Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows Server 2012 R2/2016, UNIX, IBM Servers, AIX 7, Red Hat Open Shift/ECP, and enterprise infrastructure environments
• IBM MQ Administration v8/v9+ and Solace Pub Sub+ Administration
• Knowledge of queue managers, queues, channels, listeners, MQ clusters, message VPNs, topics, ACLs, client profiles, messaging services, publish/subscribe architecture, JMS, AMQP, MQTT, and REST messaging APIs
• UNIX shell scripting, configuration management, log analysis, and operational automation
• SSL/TLS certificate handling, authentication, authorization, encryption, and access control management
• Experience with Service Now, Splunk Enterprise/ITSI/Forwarder, Dynatrace One Agent, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, App Dynamics, Wireshark, SOAP UI, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, XLR pipeline, Ansible, Maven, NGINX, Apache Web Server, F5, AppViewX, HP Site Scope, CA Wily Introscope, IBM Web Sphere Application Server, VMware vCenter, and enterprise monitoring/middleware tools
• Knowledge of Agile methodology, change management, and SDLC
• Ability to travel within the United States
• Preferred: at least 5 years of relevant experience and IBM MQ Administrator, Solace Certified Administrator, Red Hat Linux, or cloud certifications

Demonstrates expertise in IBM MQ and Solace Pub Sub+ administration, including configuration, management, and troubleshooting of messaging infrastructure across various platforms. Proficient in implementing messaging security controls and optimizing event-driven architecture for high availability and performance.

• IBM MQ Administration
• Solace Pub Sub+ Administration
• Middleware Administration
• UNIX Shell Scripting
• SSL/TLS Certificate Handling

• IBM MQ
• Solace Pub Sub+
• Queue Managers
• Message VPNs
• JMS
• AMQP
• MQTT
• REST Messaging APIs
• Operational Automation
• Change Management

• Incident Response
• Stakeholder Communication
• Mentoring
• Problem Solving
• Team…