Manage application platform infrastructure focusing on integration technologies like IBM MQ, including planning, support, installations, monitoring, and optimizations. Coordinate with teams for upgrades and troubleshoot issues.
Description and Requirements
Position Summary:
The Shared Application Platform Engineering team is to provide the enterprise configuration and support for integration technologies such as IBM Middleware tools like MQ and ensure the platform stability and process improvement. Responsibilities include planning, support, and implementation of application platform infrastructure to include operational processes and procedures.
Job Responsibilities:
Education:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field
Experience:
Good to Have :
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Position Summary:
The Shared Application Platform Engineering team is to provide the enterprise configuration and support for integration technologies such as IBM Middleware tools like MQ and ensure the platform stability and process improvement. Responsibilities include planning, support, and implementation of application platform infrastructure to include operational processes and procedures.
Job Responsibilities:
- Handle MQ Admin BAU activities such as manage QMGRs & Objects/maintenance/patching/ configurations etc.
- Should have knowledge on SSL Certificate management, security vulnerabilities in MQ
- Scheduling and Monitoring MQ backups & performing housekeeping and daily health check
- Install & Configure IBM MQ
- Support Project for MQ upgrade or migrate to new version and apply Fixpack /Interim Fixpack , R efresh P ack/ I fix etc .
- Setting up new QMGRs and its object
- Investigate and Troubleshot issues in MQ
- Knowledge on Performance Tuning or optimizing of MQ
- Coordinate with Systems Administrators, UNIX, Network and DBAs, scheduling and implementing software patches & upgrades
- Support development/functional teams with performance tuning and troubleshooting issues & Co- ordinatr with IBM vendor
- Monitor and acknowledge Incidents/Change-Tickets/SRs/Problem-Tickets within SLA
- Working Knowledge on RCA's & SIP's & Automating tasks
- Provide Support for MQ DR activity
- Basic knowledge of shell scripting or Ansible to manage & create MQ admin related tasks for automation
- Good communication, written skills & interacting with Client & Stake holders
- Create knowledge base documents and SOPs for the Middleware support
- Handling Problem management calls and provide the RCA for the P1/P2 issues
- Good knowledge on IIB and/or APIC
- Basic knowledge on IBM-CP4I and/or OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).
Education:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field
Experience:
- 7+ years of total experience and at least 4+ years of experience in Middlware applications like MQ Admin BAU activities such as manage QMGRs & Objects/maintenance/patching/ configurations.
- Install & Configure IBM MQ
- Scheduling and Monitoring MQ backups & performing housekeeping and daily health check
- WebMethods
- WebSphere Message Broker (WMB)
- IBM Integration Bus (IIB)
- CP4I ACE
- MQ
- IBM API Connect v10
- App Connect Professional (Cast Iron)
- Linux / AIX
- SDLC
- SSL
Good to Have :
- Open Shift (Kubernettes)
- Ansible (Automation)
- Elastic
- Azure DevOps
- YAML/JSON
- Python and/or Powershell
- Agile SAFe for Teams
- DataPower
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Top Skills
Ansible
Azure Devops
Cp4I Ace
Elastic
Ibm Api Connect
Ibm Integration Bus
Ibm Middleware
Ibm Mq
JSON
Linux
Openshift
Powershell
Python
Shell Scripting
Webmethods
Websphere Message Broker
Yaml
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