MQSeries.net :: View topic - Application/MQ Support Engineer/Jersey City, NJ $120-130K

MQ_Man · Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:34 am Post subject:

Our client, a large trading firm, is seeking an experienced Application/MQ Support Engineer for thier Jersey City office location. They offer excellent benefits and very competitive salaries.

Support Electronic trading systems with responsibility for handling problems and queries regarding the functions of the application, as well as upgrading the system from integration and QA through to user acceptance and production. IBM MQSeries system administration, and integration with Microsoft Windows and Application environments.

Key areas of responsibility
 Deploy and support complex in-house & 3rd party applications
 Proactively manage business critical real-time trading systems in order to identify issues and potential problem areas
 Interact with various internal IT support functions, Development, Quality Assurance, Operations and external 3rd party vendors to troubleshoot and resolve problems
 Actively identify incidents and as necessary manage the incident resolution process to provide service recovery and manage client communications and expectations in respect to incident resolution
 Ensure compliance with departmental policies (i.e. change management, IT security standards, release management, incident management)
 Work with all parties to provide services to agreed SLAâ€™s.
 Work through Annual Disaster Recovery testing and BCP planning
 Provide technical assistance to application development and application support staff, work hand in hand with Microsoft Windows system administrators, and with network engineers, and interact with system/application vendors.
 Perform routine and in-depth MQSeries system administration functions.

Qualifications / Experience
 Strong experience and a good working knowledge of real time trading systems
 Excellent problem solving, planning and analytical skills.
 Extensive experience of managing client queries and problems
 Strong communications skills with a demonstrable ability to interact and influence at all levels within the organization as well as with clients
 Excellent documentation skills
 Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft Windows Server and Workstation (Windows Server 2000/2003 preferably)
 Knowledge of working in a Citrix Environment
 Strong scripting skills. (PERL, etc)
 Experience of RDBMS methodology and SQL scripting
 Understanding of MS SQL Server
 Demonstrable experience of managing, owning and delivering high quality projects to objectives and within time scales
 Good working knowledge of application integration and testing
 Java
 Visual C++ debugging skills
 SQL DB Administration/DB Performance experience
 4+ year of IBM MQSeries experience.

Personal Qualities
 Ability to work under pressure and delivery under tight deadlines
 Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
 Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities
 Ability to manage multiple ongoing workstreams simultaneously
 Hands-on approach with ability to deliver to commitments
 Strong customer service focus with a desire to delivery a high quality service
 Team player
 A desire to learn and improve skills and knowledge
 Energetic, enthusiastic and flexible