Lead Systems Programmer

Overview

Lead Systems Programmer providing technical and systems support for Mainframe MQ and WebSphere Application Server (WAS) systems, with a primary focus on WAS administration, engineering, migration, performance optimization, security implementation, platform modernization, and production support.

What you'll do

• Ensure the WebSphere Application Server for z/OS platform remains stable, secure, performant, and available for business-critical applications.
• Maintain middleware reliability and enable application delivery across development, test, and production environments.
• Host and deploy applications and manage application deployment lifecycles.
• Optimize performance and resolve incidents and problems.
• Support security, compliance, operational excellence, and automation activities.
• Work with MQ, CICS, DB2, z/OS System Programming, and Application teams on mainframe integration and enterprise support.
• Support Compute Grid augmentation into Cell Compute Grid configuration and operations.
• Administer ZFS.
• Write scripts for deployments.
• Build and configure ZRES.
• Maintain stable operation of MQ Queue Managers and Queue Sharing Groups (QSGs).
• Prevent message loss, duplication, and delivery disruptions.
• Support business-critical transactions that depend on MQ messaging.
• Administer Queue Sharing Groups and Shared Queues for continuous service availability.
• Support disaster recovery, failover, and resilience testing activities.
• Diagnose and resolve MQ failures impacting business applications.
• Investigate channel outages, queue build-ups, triggering issues, and connectivity failures.
• Perform root cause analysis for recurring incidents.
• Collaborate with application, z/OS, network, and distributed MQ teams during critical incidents.
• Assist application teams in implementing reliable messaging solutions.
• Contribute to modernization initiatives leveraging MQ as an enterprise integration backbone.
• Install, maintain, and provide 24X7 support for MQ z/OS and other related products.
• Maintain infrastructure uptime through structured software, distribution, and patch management mechanisms.

What you'll need

• 7-8 years of IT experience.
• Graduate.
• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of WebSphere Application Server for z/OS.
• Understanding of WAS z/OS architecture.
• IBM MQ Queue Manager administration on z/OS.
• Understanding of Queue Sharing Group architecture.
• Shared Queue administration.
• Coupling Facility concepts.
• Shared Queue recovery procedures.
• Group Queue Manager administration.
• Queue and channel administration using MQ panels and commands.
• Work knowledge of an MQ monitoring tool such as the CA Sysview product.
• Working knowledge of MQ clusters/channels and experience in a sysplex environment.

Nice to have

• Vendor coordination.
• Knowledge of network basics.
• Good knowledge of mainframe operating system components and tools.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery methodologies.

Details

• Location stated in the job description: Chennai.
• Working hours: 1:00 pm - 10:00 pm.
• 24X7 support is required for MQ z/OS and other related products.
• Category: Information Technology.