Middleware Messaging Engineer

Overview :

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a company who is a provider of banking and financial services. The company operates through two divisions, Retail Banking and Services, and Corporate and Institutional Banking.

Position : Middleware Messaging Engineer

Location : Jersey City, NJ, 07310

Duration : 12 Months

Job Type : Temporary Assignment

Work Type : Onsite

Shift : 8 : 00am to 5 : 00pm

Job Description :

Provide 24 / 7 and (when necessary) weekend support for systems involved in the architecture.

Function as IBM Websphere MQ administrator. Install MQ environments on Windows and Linux.

Create and configure Queue Managers, channels, queues, and other MQ objects.

Perform the backup and restore of Queue Managers and related objects. Recover damaged MQ installations and / or Queue Managers.

Upgrade and patch MQ environments on Windows and Linux.

Implement custom MQ security solutions using channel exists or SSL. Set up SSL communications between MQ servers and MQ clients to MQ servers.

Install and configure MQ Clients on Windows and UNIX platforms

Function as Solace Messaging Engineer.

Installation, upgrade and patching of Solae Appliances.

Administration of Solace Appliances.

Configuring Redundancy and Fault tolerance of Solace Infrastructure.

Experience in configuring Solace bridging between Remote Solace Appliances.

Experience in configuring different protocols with Solace appliance MQTT, REST, AMQP.

Experience in using Solace CLI to configure different solace objects.

In-depth knowledge of Solace Queue and Topics.

Enabling SSL for Solace communications.

Interface with Application teams in troubleshooting complex, cross-platform issues related to Solace communication.

Identify operational and infrastructure risks within the environment and work with the application development teams and APS to make corrections and mitigate risks.

Ensure optimal resilience of deployed systems and meet all disaster recovery and compliance requirements dictated by the business.

Configuring monitoring for Solace Appliances.

Developing Python and Ansible playbooks to automate the Messaging Infrastructure.

Position Requirements :

Strong Knowledge and experience with IBM MQ and Solace Installation / Configuration and Setup.

Working knowledge of setting up Redundancy and fault tolerance between Solace Appliances.

Knowledge on setting up SSL for Solace and IBM MQ.

Strong Knowledge and experience with MQ processes, triggers, channels and clustering.

Exposure to monitoring tools such as Nastel

Knowledge on Kafka

Strong knowledge and experience with PowerShell scripting.

Working knowledge of Microsoft O / S, SUN Solaris, and Linux.

Working knowledge and experience with Python and Bash scripting.

Will be required to comply fully with the bank's general policies on attendance, compliance and professional conduct.

Willingness to adapt to the changes constantly introduced by the Bank's dynamic environment.

Considered a plus :

Knowledge and experience with other flavors of web application servers (Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, Weblogic)

Knowledge and experience with other flavors of web servers (Apache Web, IIS)

Good understanding of Load Balancers (LTM)

Good understanding of DNS and GTMs

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.