Middleware consultant

 Main Responsibility

Administration & configuration of middleware products like IBM MQ, IIB V10, and IBM Data Power & API Connect.

• Troubleshoot & Performance tuning in all the above technologies.
• Good understanding of the ITIL process.
• Production, non-production support & Release Deployments.

Detailed Tasks

• Administration & configuration of middleware products like IBM MQ, IIB V10, and IBM DataPower Gateway SOA appliances (ESB).
• Good in DataPower administration and setup.
• Act as a single point of contact for Project Managers were allocated as a representative of the EAI/ESB Projects team.
• Provide a guaranteed 2nd and 3rd level support service for all MQ/IIB & DataPower-related incidents in the event of failure or other subsystem-related problems
• Management of the variety of test infrastructure the team builds and supports to ensure that it continues to provide a high level of service, including awareness and adherence to effective risk management.
• Apply technical knowledge to resolve a range of incidents/problems within a project context promptly to reduce delays to projects.
• Provide out-of-hours on-call cover to support the MQ/IIB environment and deliver projects when required.
• Undertake and deliver technical change and/or support, for relevant platforms, activities, and processes relating to the area of specialist knowledge for Technology, either in the local region or globally.
• Implemented the clustering of queue managers to achieve workload balancing and reduce system administration
• Creation of Broker and its Components on AIX, LINUX, and Windows environments.
• Creating Execution groups and Broker Topologies.
• Created MQ Queues and Channels required for the Application
• Good knowledge of MQ clustering & Distributed queueing.
• Good knowledge of MQ client & server communication.
• Analyze FFDC & Trace files.
• Configure MQ TLS/SSL setup for security.
• Configure channel authentication between Client and MQ queue manager.
• Tuned up the performance of the MQ and the applications
• Troubleshoot problems and errors in IIB 10 & ACE v11 software and applications.
• Deployment of domain object artifacts (WSDL files, Certificates/Keys, XSLT, etc.)
• Installation and configuration of new DataPower Appliances
• Creating and testing all DataPower services (Application Firewall, Multi-Protocol Gateway, Web Service Proxy, etc.)
• Experience in configuring & creating components of Data Power appliance such as Web Service Proxy, Multi-Protocol Gateway, and XML Firewall.
• Plan
• Implementation of Firmware Upgrades
• Trouble-shooting DataPower domain application issues (Probe and PCAP analysis)
• Trouble-shooting DataPower (interface, static routes) network communication issues