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.